Mrs Hobbes
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 26, 2008
Hi Everyone!
Oh my gosh I am so excited - I have dreamed of being a Disney bride for the longest time and I can not quite believe that I am here now about to start a planning journal for our 10 year vow renewal!
Dreams really do come true
I am a completely OCD planner, so you can expect this vow renewal to be planned to within an inch of its life!
So lets get to it - heres the back story
The Bride
My name is Emma, I live in the UK and I've been obsessed with Disney for as long as I can remember. I grew up loving the films as we all did but when I finally made it to Disney World in the year 2000 I was hooked. Disney holds such a special place in our hearts so being able to make Disney part of our love story and our marriage vows means so much.
The Groom
My wonderful hubby is Glenn and Im lucky that he loves Disney just as much as I do. Not just the going but he loves planning every detail of our trips with me it is something special we can share together.
This is us on vacation last year with our youngest daughter unfortunately my stepdaughter wasn't able to join us on this trip
About Us
So we've been together 14 years now and we'll have been married for 9 years this September.
We met over the internet in the year 2000 - we'd both just separated from our previous spouses and I think fate brought us together. I was using ICQ, an old chat program like MSN - you'd often get random chat messages pop up but I wasn't interested in chatting to guys online, I'd just left my marriage so I would just click ignore and go back to chatting to my friends. But one night a message popped up from a Hobbes (you'll se the connection here to my username
) the username made stopped me from instantly hitting the ignore button. Hobbes was the name of a character form a cartoon strip my dad used to read to me when I was little from his daily newspaper. Just seeing that particular user name made me say hi - see fate was playing its part 
We didn't chat on the net for months and years like some do, luckily we lived in the same town. Glenn had been searching for girls in his area
so we chatted on the phone a few times. We hit it off instantly and chatted like old friends for hours. It was almost a week when Glenn said we should meet - it was nerve wracking but we went for it and the rest is history!
I think having been married before we just both knew what had been wrong before and recognised quickly that this just felt right. We are lucky we found each other. We’d both been married very young before and neither of us had been married very long so we were still in our early 20s when we met. I feel very lucky for the fact that we still had a lifetime ahead of us.
Glenn had a daughter form his previous marriage but I’d not had any children. His sweet little girl had just turned three when I met him; a difficult time for her being so young and having her mum and dad separated but she accepted me and it wasn't long before she would call me mummy Emma. Fortunately to this day we have maintained a good relationship and although she grew out of calling me mum we still get along great.
So to cut our 14 year history short for you as I don't want to send you to sleep! Glenn moved in with me and then we brought our first home together and had a child together, our beautiful daughter. Having a mortgage and two daughters, we dreamt of getting married but it we couldn't justify the money having so many other commitments. I changed my name by deed poll so we could all have the same family name and although I planned a few dream weddings over the years. That's all they were dreams.
Our Wedding
Then my 30th birthday rolled around, sooner than I’d hoped! But my mum and dad offered to pay for me to have a birthday party and we decided that if they were able to pay for an evening party with a buffet. then we could have a small intimate ceremony for our closest family and friends during the day.
So we tied the knot on 9th September 2005, on my 30th birthday at an idyllic little thatched cottage with just 35 guests. It was a wonderful day and although a small event it was everything I could've dreamed.
Roll forward 10 years
So why a vow renewal and why now?
We’ll be in Disney from August 18th 2015, cruising on the Disney Dream August 28th and then back to Disney until September 4th. We hope to stay at Beach Club before the cruise and then return to Bay Lake Tower. We’re DVC members so we have to see how the availability works out but if we cant get these at our 7month booking window we’ll be staying at our home resort of Animal Kingdom so whatever happens we’ll be staying somewhere amazing!
We had always planned a special vacation for August/ September 2015. Our eldest daughter will have turned 18 and graduated high school in the July. Our youngest daughter will turn 13 in the August and then we will have been married ten years and I’ll be celebrating (or maybe commiserating!) my 40th birthday as well. They all seemed like amazing reasons to celebrate in Disney and we decided to add our first Disney Cruise to our vacation to make it extra special. We had talked about renewing our vows at one of the resorts but we decided that the money would be better spent on a cruise for us all to enjoy together or so I thought!
Until yesterday when I got swept off my feet! My amazing hubby had paid off the cruise balance earlier in the week but little did I know that at the same time he had enquired about wedding availability and booked a vow renewal for onboard the ship! He had initially thought about keeping it a complete surprise but knowing how much planning is a big part of things for us and we love planing together he decided to tell me. I am so thrilled that he did because now I get to spend the next 13months looking forward to being a Disney bride and planning our vow renewal.
He is just the most incredibly sweet guy I am so lucky to have him!
I’m excited to share our journey with you and I have some plans in place already so I’ll be back later to share our ideas so far.
Oh my gosh I am so excited - I have dreamed of being a Disney bride for the longest time and I can not quite believe that I am here now about to start a planning journal for our 10 year vow renewal!
Dreams really do come true
I am a completely OCD planner, so you can expect this vow renewal to be planned to within an inch of its life!
So lets get to it - heres the back story
The Bride
My name is Emma, I live in the UK and I've been obsessed with Disney for as long as I can remember. I grew up loving the films as we all did but when I finally made it to Disney World in the year 2000 I was hooked. Disney holds such a special place in our hearts so being able to make Disney part of our love story and our marriage vows means so much.
The Groom
My wonderful hubby is Glenn and Im lucky that he loves Disney just as much as I do. Not just the going but he loves planning every detail of our trips with me it is something special we can share together.
This is us on vacation last year with our youngest daughter unfortunately my stepdaughter wasn't able to join us on this trip
About Us
So we've been together 14 years now and we'll have been married for 9 years this September.
We met over the internet in the year 2000 - we'd both just separated from our previous spouses and I think fate brought us together. I was using ICQ, an old chat program like MSN - you'd often get random chat messages pop up but I wasn't interested in chatting to guys online, I'd just left my marriage so I would just click ignore and go back to chatting to my friends. But one night a message popped up from a Hobbes (you'll se the connection here to my username
) the username made stopped me from instantly hitting the ignore button. Hobbes was the name of a character form a cartoon strip my dad used to read to me when I was little from his daily newspaper. Just seeing that particular user name made me say hi - see fate was playing its part We didn't chat on the net for months and years like some do, luckily we lived in the same town. Glenn had been searching for girls in his area
so we chatted on the phone a few times. We hit it off instantly and chatted like old friends for hours. It was almost a week when Glenn said we should meet - it was nerve wracking but we went for it and the rest is history!I think having been married before we just both knew what had been wrong before and recognised quickly that this just felt right. We are lucky we found each other. We’d both been married very young before and neither of us had been married very long so we were still in our early 20s when we met. I feel very lucky for the fact that we still had a lifetime ahead of us.
Glenn had a daughter form his previous marriage but I’d not had any children. His sweet little girl had just turned three when I met him; a difficult time for her being so young and having her mum and dad separated but she accepted me and it wasn't long before she would call me mummy Emma. Fortunately to this day we have maintained a good relationship and although she grew out of calling me mum we still get along great.
So to cut our 14 year history short for you as I don't want to send you to sleep! Glenn moved in with me and then we brought our first home together and had a child together, our beautiful daughter. Having a mortgage and two daughters, we dreamt of getting married but it we couldn't justify the money having so many other commitments. I changed my name by deed poll so we could all have the same family name and although I planned a few dream weddings over the years. That's all they were dreams.
Our Wedding
Then my 30th birthday rolled around, sooner than I’d hoped! But my mum and dad offered to pay for me to have a birthday party and we decided that if they were able to pay for an evening party with a buffet. then we could have a small intimate ceremony for our closest family and friends during the day.
So we tied the knot on 9th September 2005, on my 30th birthday at an idyllic little thatched cottage with just 35 guests. It was a wonderful day and although a small event it was everything I could've dreamed.
Roll forward 10 years
So why a vow renewal and why now?
We’ll be in Disney from August 18th 2015, cruising on the Disney Dream August 28th and then back to Disney until September 4th. We hope to stay at Beach Club before the cruise and then return to Bay Lake Tower. We’re DVC members so we have to see how the availability works out but if we cant get these at our 7month booking window we’ll be staying at our home resort of Animal Kingdom so whatever happens we’ll be staying somewhere amazing!
We had always planned a special vacation for August/ September 2015. Our eldest daughter will have turned 18 and graduated high school in the July. Our youngest daughter will turn 13 in the August and then we will have been married ten years and I’ll be celebrating (or maybe commiserating!) my 40th birthday as well. They all seemed like amazing reasons to celebrate in Disney and we decided to add our first Disney Cruise to our vacation to make it extra special. We had talked about renewing our vows at one of the resorts but we decided that the money would be better spent on a cruise for us all to enjoy together or so I thought!
Until yesterday when I got swept off my feet! My amazing hubby had paid off the cruise balance earlier in the week but little did I know that at the same time he had enquired about wedding availability and booked a vow renewal for onboard the ship! He had initially thought about keeping it a complete surprise but knowing how much planning is a big part of things for us and we love planing together he decided to tell me. I am so thrilled that he did because now I get to spend the next 13months looking forward to being a Disney bride and planning our vow renewal.
He is just the most incredibly sweet guy I am so lucky to have him!
I’m excited to share our journey with you and I have some plans in place already so I’ll be back later to share our ideas so far.
You are going to have an amazing time I love 
and the 1950's hint will go nicely with that and the cruise feel! Are you thinking of a short 50's styled dress or a long dress? I am very excited to see more of your plans!
