FizzingWhizzbee
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Mar 13, 2012
I am writing this to tell prospective Disney brides why I decided against a DFTW.
I understand that there are many veteran brides who may not agree with my analysis, but I would have liked to have this information earlier on.
These are some of the reasons:
To have a character come to your wedding for less than 30 minutes (it's timed from when they leave and re-enter the dressing room) costs 900 dollars, not including tax or service charge. (UPDATE: 4/4/12, I was informed that there is no tax or service charge on character visits)
There are multiple minimum prices to abide by. For example, you have to spend at least 12,000 (not including tax and a 21% service charge) on the event. And, you have to spend at least 100pp (not including tax and a 21% service charge) for brunch.
There is no way that my guests are going to eat 100 dollars worth of brunch food. But instead of being able to allocate the funds as I see fit, I have to spend 100 dollars on food that won't be eaten.
Also, you cannot take leftover food with you. I believe that is because Disney knows fully well that they won't be providing 100 dollars worth of food per person, this is just a way for them to get more money and provide less.
If you want an outside band, you have to pay Disney 1,550 dollars for "technical support". As most bands just need an outlet, this is an unreasonable charge.
The room block. This whole thing was a huge pain. In my opinion they should just offer a room discount for guests of a wedding.
Also, my wedding coordinator acted like Disney was doing us a huge favor by letting us have our wedding there, and I didn't feel the same way. Every question was answered in a vague way, or I was told that my wedding planner would discuss it further. I wanted facts before I signed away 2,000 dollars.
This is all I can think of for now, but my entire perception is that Disney is money grubbing on the weddings.
What is unfortunate is that we love Disney, that's why we wanted to get married there. We probably would have gone back for many anniversaries. Not to mention, we would have brought about 100 guests to Disney, many who had never been. Disney could get many customers out of this, but instead they basically talked us out of this.
I know there is a high demand for Disney weddings, and maybe that's why they didn't feel the need to cater to us.
I can't imagine that I'm the only one who has changed my mind, and it seems like Disney may be losing money over this attitude, but I guess it's just a drop in the bucket for them.
I still love Disney Parks, but DFTW isn't getting a dime of mine.
I understand that there are many veteran brides who may not agree with my analysis, but I would have liked to have this information earlier on.
These are some of the reasons:
To have a character come to your wedding for less than 30 minutes (it's timed from when they leave and re-enter the dressing room) costs 900 dollars, not including tax or service charge. (UPDATE: 4/4/12, I was informed that there is no tax or service charge on character visits)
There are multiple minimum prices to abide by. For example, you have to spend at least 12,000 (not including tax and a 21% service charge) on the event. And, you have to spend at least 100pp (not including tax and a 21% service charge) for brunch.
There is no way that my guests are going to eat 100 dollars worth of brunch food. But instead of being able to allocate the funds as I see fit, I have to spend 100 dollars on food that won't be eaten.
Also, you cannot take leftover food with you. I believe that is because Disney knows fully well that they won't be providing 100 dollars worth of food per person, this is just a way for them to get more money and provide less.
If you want an outside band, you have to pay Disney 1,550 dollars for "technical support". As most bands just need an outlet, this is an unreasonable charge.
The room block. This whole thing was a huge pain. In my opinion they should just offer a room discount for guests of a wedding.
Also, my wedding coordinator acted like Disney was doing us a huge favor by letting us have our wedding there, and I didn't feel the same way. Every question was answered in a vague way, or I was told that my wedding planner would discuss it further. I wanted facts before I signed away 2,000 dollars.
This is all I can think of for now, but my entire perception is that Disney is money grubbing on the weddings.
What is unfortunate is that we love Disney, that's why we wanted to get married there. We probably would have gone back for many anniversaries. Not to mention, we would have brought about 100 guests to Disney, many who had never been. Disney could get many customers out of this, but instead they basically talked us out of this.
I know there is a high demand for Disney weddings, and maybe that's why they didn't feel the need to cater to us.
I can't imagine that I'm the only one who has changed my mind, and it seems like Disney may be losing money over this attitude, but I guess it's just a drop in the bucket for them.
I still love Disney Parks, but DFTW isn't getting a dime of mine.