Skip3key
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Oct 9, 2012
So excited to start this planning journal! We are Angie and Eva, and we are now planning our Wishes Wedding (well, technically its a "Commitment Ceremony")! Its all so very exciting and overwhelming at the same time. I really never thought that we would actually be able to get married in our lifetime, and now the dream is coming true.
About us, we have actually been together 22 years this past April. Angie is a family practice physician, and Eva is an artist (mostly works with glass) with a BA in Psychology. We live with our 4 dogs in San Antonio, Texas, and Angie's mom lives in our guest house.
Angie is Italian and most of her family hails from around the Detroit, Michigan area (Go Tigers!), and Eva is of German decent, and she has a very small area that is mostly local here.
We absolutely love Disney, and this past December 2012, we actually bought into the Disney Vacation Club, which we are going to use for the first time this October for the Food & Wine festival, and am staying at the Boardwalk Villas!
Our plans:
OK, have edited this thread as we have gone back to our original plan, to have the event in October 2014, over the weekend before Columbus day - Great weather (not too hot), Food and Wine Festival, low crowds, MNNSHP... so many good bonuses to this time of year!
We would like to incorporate both our heritages in the event, so we are trying to decide between Ceremony in Germany or Italy, reception in either California Grill or Living Seas, and dessert party in the World Showcase- preferably Italy... we wanted the Dessert Party in Italy on the Isola West (wedding party expected to have about 40-50 guests as of now)... however, after making contact with the Disney Fairytale Weddings office, we have discovered that the Isola West is not available for use during Food & Wine at all, and the Isola is only available Mon-Thursday during F&W. However, the minimum number or people for a dessert Party on the Isola is 100. So we are trying to arrange to have the dessert party in the UK.
Another snag is that none of the pavilions are available to have a dessert party on fridays and saturdays during the F&W, so at the moment we are trying to decide between dessert/welcome party on Thursday with ceremony and brunch reception on Friday, or entire event on Sunday. I already posed this question in another post on the boards, and the response really favored the Sunday all in a day celebration... so we are leaning that way (although it will cut into my football time, I guess I will deal....or TIVO)....
Wedding Party Size: Right now 51 have told us they want to come
Hotel Blocks: Animal Kingdom Lodge, Port Orleans, Pop century (wanted Art of Animation but it is not available for the block)
As an aside, several of our family are military or ex-military and asked us to inquire about using Shades of Green, but we were told that since Disney doesn't own this resort, it cannot be used for the room block, and rooms here cannot count towards your room number minimums.)
We have not yet been formally assigned a wedding planner yet, but have been exchanging emails with one of the planners named Joe who has scheduled us to have out site visit when we area there for food and wine in October! So exciting!
About us, we have actually been together 22 years this past April. Angie is a family practice physician, and Eva is an artist (mostly works with glass) with a BA in Psychology. We live with our 4 dogs in San Antonio, Texas, and Angie's mom lives in our guest house.
Angie is Italian and most of her family hails from around the Detroit, Michigan area (Go Tigers!), and Eva is of German decent, and she has a very small area that is mostly local here.
We absolutely love Disney, and this past December 2012, we actually bought into the Disney Vacation Club, which we are going to use for the first time this October for the Food & Wine festival, and am staying at the Boardwalk Villas!
Our plans:
OK, have edited this thread as we have gone back to our original plan, to have the event in October 2014, over the weekend before Columbus day - Great weather (not too hot), Food and Wine Festival, low crowds, MNNSHP... so many good bonuses to this time of year!
We would like to incorporate both our heritages in the event, so we are trying to decide between Ceremony in Germany or Italy, reception in either California Grill or Living Seas, and dessert party in the World Showcase- preferably Italy... we wanted the Dessert Party in Italy on the Isola West (wedding party expected to have about 40-50 guests as of now)... however, after making contact with the Disney Fairytale Weddings office, we have discovered that the Isola West is not available for use during Food & Wine at all, and the Isola is only available Mon-Thursday during F&W. However, the minimum number or people for a dessert Party on the Isola is 100. So we are trying to arrange to have the dessert party in the UK.
Another snag is that none of the pavilions are available to have a dessert party on fridays and saturdays during the F&W, so at the moment we are trying to decide between dessert/welcome party on Thursday with ceremony and brunch reception on Friday, or entire event on Sunday. I already posed this question in another post on the boards, and the response really favored the Sunday all in a day celebration... so we are leaning that way (although it will cut into my football time, I guess I will deal....or TIVO)....
Wedding Party Size: Right now 51 have told us they want to come
Hotel Blocks: Animal Kingdom Lodge, Port Orleans, Pop century (wanted Art of Animation but it is not available for the block)
As an aside, several of our family are military or ex-military and asked us to inquire about using Shades of Green, but we were told that since Disney doesn't own this resort, it cannot be used for the room block, and rooms here cannot count towards your room number minimums.)
We have not yet been formally assigned a wedding planner yet, but have been exchanging emails with one of the planners named Joe who has scheduled us to have out site visit when we area there for food and wine in October! So exciting!