Is anyone here marrying at home, but HMing in WDW???

[litlpixie]

We are getting married in our home state (Rennaissance/Medieval Castle theme) so all of our family can attend, but honeymooning in Disney. We go twice a year, Easter with the kids, Summer just the two of us.....so we know our way around. I wanted to know if there were any couples just honeymooning...where ya staying, where are you eating, are you planning on doing alot......or like us, alot of nothing. We'll hit Epcot 1 evening, and maybe AK, so we can take the leisurely tour.....but other than we plan on reading by the pool, sipping frozen drinks....and going out to eat at places with NO characters:goodvibes

[joncmu99]

My fiance and I are marrying at home here in Michigan and then we'll be at the Contemporary from the 10 - 15th!

We've never been - but I'm making reservations at California Grill. I know we'll be doing Epcot, AK, and maybe MK. I'm going to plan out our days there but I expect the plans may not be followed on some days depending on if we just want to relax.

[TheLastPrincess]

We're getting married June 2 at home, then honeymooning at AKL Sept 14-23. We decided to wait for several reasons, the most important being Free Dining! But we are really happy that we have a 3-month gap....that makes 2 things to look forward to!

We are planning a semi-relaxing trip LOL. This is my DF's first real experience in WDW, and I want him to see everything. But I also made sure we have some down time. And I am trying to keep the character meals at a minimum! But we do have ADRs for dinner at CRT...I've never been inside the castle before! :cloud9:

[litlpixie]

The California Grill is fabulous!!! Make sure you let them know you're on your honymoon, they will do their best to seat you a great table by window....What A View:thumbsup2

[CastleLight]

We are getting married at home in NJ and then beginning our honeymoon in WDW - at the GF. We have ADRs made for each day - because I'm an obsessive disney planner and its part of the fun of planning a disney trip - but we are going to try to take it easy - sit by the pool, etc. :thumbsup2
We are especially looking forward to the Chef's Table at V&A and the 1900 Park Fare character breakfast before they close for renov.!

[MickeyAnne]

We are getting married at home in NJ because we have large and very close families and want them all to be there. We were originally planning on honeymooning in WDW and then a Disney Cruise --- but Disney is taking the ship over to the west coast for the summer of 08 so we had to change our plans. So now we are going to Disneyland and then a Disney Cruise to Mexico. I am excited but I know I will miss WDW :)

[Mickey76]

::MickeyMo


We're getting married at home, in New York, on 7/7/07....popular date to get married. We leave for our Disneymoon 7/10. My fiance` thinks we're staying until 7/16, but we're really staying till 7/19. I can't wait to tell her. I'm going to give her customized maps of the parks that I ordered from Disney a few days before the wedding so that she can pack her bags appropriately.

We're staying at the Grand Floridian and we plan on doing a lot. We've each been to WDW 10 times, the last time was together, but only for a day before we left for a western caribbean cruise (non-Disney). This is our first vacation together without family. She comes from a family with conservative values, so we haven't had a chance to go on a vacation alone. We have a lot to do and I'm sure we'll be tired, but it's worth it. We have a few ADR's like Chef Mickey's for breakfast, Crystal Palace for breakfast, 'Ohana, and Mama Melrose's for the Fantasmic dinner package, which I'll probably cancel because the night we have scheduled there are two showings of Fantasmic. No need to have the ADR with seating when we'll definitelt get good seats the second show. I'm really looking forward to our second night, as we'll be eating at Cinderella's Royal Table. She has no idea we're eating here and I can't wait to see her face when I tell her.

Congratulations to all of you that are also getting married and have a great time. I know we will.

[Glorydaz]

We're getting married in NJ on Halloween at a small B&B that we love. having 28 of our nearest & dearest join us for 2 days - then back to Staten Island for a post wedding reception/luncheon 4 days later..

our DisneyMoon will be in December - starting at the GF and ending at SSR with a 3 day Wonder cruise in between. can't make our ADR's yet but am sorting it out. on the list so far: Concourse Steakhouse, Narcoossee's, Wolfgangs ( a must on every trip!), Le Cellier, and a couple of unknown's! we will also be here for my birthday while honeymooning and are planning on doing one of the Candlelight Procession dinner packages.....

as for parks, 1 day MK, 1 day MGM, 2 days Epcot and 1 day AK - the rest of the time - RELAX by the pool...aaaahhhhh

congrats to all my fellow brides and spouses to be! :goodvibes

Michelle:cloud9:

[TheLastPrincess]

::MickeyMo


We're getting married at home, in New York, on 7/7/07....popular date to get married. We leave for our Disneymoon 7/10. My fiance` thinks we're staying until 7/16, but we're really staying till 7/19. I can't wait to tell her. I'm going to give her customized maps of the parks that I ordered from Disney a few days before the wedding so that she can pack her bags appropriately.

I'm really looking forward to our second night, as we'll be eating at Cinderella's Royal Table. She has no idea we're eating here and I can't wait to see her face when I tell her.



Congrats to you and YEAH! for surprising your sweetie!! She will be THRILLED! I know I would be in her shoes. I root for guys who do sweet things like that because my DF surprised me and it was the best moment of my life!:cloud9:

[TLC371]

I'm getting married here in Virginia Beach. I really wanted a Disney wedding, but I just knew most of my family wouldn't travel to FL for my wedding so I gave up that dream.

We are going on 2 trips to Disney after the wedding...the first one I call our "first honeymoon", we are going on our regular, yearly trip with my FH and his family, and we are bringing his youngest son with us. Then we are going on our real honeymoon, just the 2 of us, in December, most likely it's going to be December 8-15th. Just waiting for FMIL to get the dates straight for us.

We're staying offsite, both trips, because my FMIL has a timeshare at Star Island in Kissimmee, but it's just a few miles off Disney property. I know in October, we are doing MNSSHP on October 31st, but we haven't done any ADRs or anything as of yet, mainly because that's a whole family trip, we'll be doing just a lot of counter service and such. In December, we want to go to MVMCP and dine at LTT, we want to do the Candlelight Processional dining package, still need to figure out where we want to eat at for that, and I want to make an ADR for one of the MGM restaurants, not sure yet which one. I guess I need to figure that all out soon, as the time to start making reservations is coming up soon. But FMIL still hasn't done our week in FL for the honeymoon, she's giving us one of her weeks, and she needs to transfer it, and she's not doing it quick enough for me! I don't know if we'll be at the same place, Star Island, or if we'll she will have to go to a different resort.

[tmasingo]

We're getting married August 11th in MA and honeymooning at WDW from the 12th-17th. We would have loved a wedding at WDW, but it was too pricey and we wouldn't have had everyone we wanted to attend there. We're compromising and bringing a Disney theme to the wedding...and of course our honeymoon!

We're staying at the BC and we've got ADR's almost every day, I think. We're eating at CRT our first night and also have an ADR at California Grill one evening, which I'm very excited for. FH made sure to let them know we're on our honeymoon, so we'll see if we get a great seat! Ohana's is also on the list, as is Mama Melrose's for the Fantasmic package. Le Cellier another night, and I believe we've got breakfast ressies one morning at Crystal Palace, though we might change that to Donald's Breakfastasaurus. My DS from my first marriage wanted to eat at CP last week when we were there for his birthday, so we figured maybe we'd change our honeymoon ressie to Donald for a change.

We plan to do the 'big people' attractions for sure at all of the parks since DS is too small for just about all of them, still, and we don't bother to baby swap when it's just the 2 of us with him. I'm sure we'll relax at the pool some (though at Stormalong Bay in August, I'm not sure how relaxing that will be!!) and also plan to do a couples massage at SSR Spa :thumbsup2

[tink-princess]

We're getting married here in St.Catharines Ontario in a fairytale styled wedding and reception on May 10/08, then were disneymooning from May 11- 18. Im so excited! All your plans sound so wonderful!

[CastleLight]

I'd love to hear how all of you are bringing Disney to your at-home wedding. I'm having Disney music - for the bridal party intros, the cake cutting, etc., disney stickers on the favors. Still thinking of other things to do.

[tink-princess]

Hi

We're getting married in an old fashinoned church followed by pictures on out towns 100 year old carousel and rose garden. Our reception is at a ballroom and our colour are pink and brown. The invites have castles and horses on them ( as I cant get the disney ones shipped to Canada). The centerpieces are wire carriages with ivy and mini lights, our first dance is to "Beautiful" by Wayne Brady on the Cinderella soundtrack, the dinner music is the disney wedding cd, favours have the castle on the favour tages, the unity candel, garter, pen and guestbook, ring pillow and flower girl basket are all fairytale themed that I got on ebay for cheap. Let me know if you want the link its a great deal and they have lots. My tiara, necklace and braclet are all the disney swarofski cinderella set and our cake topper is cinderella and the prince.

PHEW, thats alot, please message me if you want any help.

Kiki

[lurkyloo]

on the list so far: Concourse Steakhouse, Narcoossee's, Wolfgangs ( a must on every trip!), Le Cellier, and a couple of unknown's!

FYI: Concourse Steakhouse will be closing this fall so they can expand Chef Mickey's :sad1:

[PirateKitty]

We're getting married on the beach in North Carolina, the very beach where DF first told me he was in love with me. The ceremony will be private, only our parents will be present. We'll leave the next morning and drive down to FL for our Disneymoon! :goodvibes We'll be having our reception at home mid November so we can celebrate with our families and friends.

[tmasingo]

I'd love to hear how all of you are bringing Disney to your at-home wedding. I'm having Disney music - for the bridal party intros, the cake cutting, etc., disney stickers on the favors. Still thinking of other things to do.

My FH is a huge Donald Duck fan, so we themed ours to Donald/Daisy for most everything. He found a cute picture of them hugging which we used for our save the dates. We found a fantastic pic of the backs of the two of them on a bench, facing the castle, which we had reduced to black and white and put on a vellum overlay that we tied with ribbon to the top of our invitation. The same picture, in original color, he put on cd labels, which we affixed to our favor, which is a homemade cd with all sorts of different Disney songs we picked (all love/friendship/dream themed). Our first song is also Beautiful (as a pp mentioned it was hers).

We also have tied it into our seating assignment/centerpieces. Our centerpieces are going to be baskets with white flowers and each one will have a different disney plush in it (I think we got the 15 inch ones). We've got 18 different characters and each table will be themed with one. We'll put people's names on a card that will have the character's picture on it, rather than a table number to let them know where they are sitting. Our cake is all white with black/white trim and we bought a cute Donald/Daisy figurine of him handing her flowers over a fence to put on top.

I think that covers the extent of our Disney incorporation :rotfl:

[ryantab02]

We're getting married on August 4th and Disneymooning from August 5th - August 11th. We were originally going to leave the reception early and then head down to Florida. But since we live 6 1/2 hours away, we decided against it. Plus, since we're leaving a day later we get to stay for the 1st August Pirate and Princess Party! We're very excited about that.

During our last trip, we bought the Minnie and Mickey cake topper at the Grand Floridan. We also bought the M and M champagne flutes inside the castle. Those are very special to me :blush:

Also, my Mother in Law is going all out for the rehearsal dinner. We're having it at the Officer's Club on the air force base and it is completely themed in Mickey! We just finished the place settings last night. Mickey hands to hold the dessert and glass, Mickey's pants to hold the plate, and Mickey's shoes to stick out.

Here's a picture:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b265/ryantab02/Wedding/PICT0136.jpg

I'm so excited!

[tink_n_pooh]

We are getting married 11/23/07 here in NJ so we can have all of friends and family with us. We will then be flying to Ft. Lauderdale for an 11 night cruise and then 4 nights at WDW! I can't wait! :bride:

[Mickey76]

::MickeyMo

I knew I forgot to mention something in my firsr post. We're having a Disney themed wedding, in NY. Our first song as husband and wife will be "When You Wish Upon a Star" and we have a few more Disney related things, such as:

"You'll Be in My Heart" is the mother/son dance.
Disney orchestral music during cocktail hour
"Be Our Guest" to be played as dinner is being served
Mickey and Minnie cake servers
Each table will have a picture of a Disney couple rather than a table number. Our table is going to be Mickey and Minnie.
The cake is going ot have a Disney cake topper...we're still working on what it's going to be exactly.
Disney favors: Coasters and a shot glass with Mickey and Minnie on it with our wedding date.
My fiance` and I bought the Mickey and Minnie wedding ears as well as the Mickey gloves to wear as everyone is leaving.

There might be a few more things but I can't think of them at the moment. If I do, I'll share in case somebody wants to use it in their own wedding. I don't mind.

[Hillary12.8.07]

I'm also planning an at home wedding and a disneymoon. We are getting married December 8th here at home because our families are just too big to take everyone to Disney. Then our Disneymoon is from the 10th-17th. We would loooove to stay at the Wilderness Lodge, but may settle for Port Orleans Riverside just to save money. My family has gone to Disney almost yearly since I was young, but my DF had never been, until this past weekend my parents took us on a last minute 5 day trip so now he finally sees why I'm so Disney nuts!! We bought 10 day no exp. hoppers and used 3 this past weekend so now we'll have 7 days left. I haven't made any ADRs or anything yet...we want the trip to be very laidback and relaxing, and not be held to too many plans. I would love to go to the California Grill one night though. I've always wanted to go there...
We looked at the cake toppers and all of the Mickey/Minnie wedding stuff, I know I want to have a few little Disney elements in the wedding, without going overboard.

[heatherlynn444]

I had a big 'ol New Orleans wedding at Home and thenDisneymooned at the GF in january. my Trip report is in my siggy if you wanna take a look! congrats!

[Ryann]

I'm getting married here at home in Alabama next Saturday! Then we are getting up super early Sunday morning and driving to WDW for our Disneymoon. We'll be staying at the Port Orleans French Quarter until the following Sunday. Here is our schedule:

Sun.~ MK, dinner at LTT
Mon.~ AK, dinner at Raglan Road, Pleasure Island
Tues.~ Epcot, dinner at Coral Reef
Wed.~ MGM, dinner at Yacht Club Galley
Thurs.~ Blizzard Beach, spend the evening strolling the Boardwalk, dinner at Big River Grille and Brewing Works
Fri~ MK, dinner at Tony's
Sat.~ Typhoon Lagoon, spend the evening at DTD, dinner at Wolfgang Puck Cafe

It may sound a little hectic, but the parks we are going to all have EMH nights, so we can go back to the resort and rest as need be, then go back and close down the parks! We have park hoppers,water park and more, and the DDP.

I noticed someone else say they are wearing the Minnie/Mickey bride/groom ears when leaving their wedding. We are doing that as well! I had read about them here on the boards, and said I wanted to get them when we got to WDW. One of my best friends went to Disney Land last month, and she brought them home to DF and I as a surprise! She even held them on her lap the entire plane ride home so the top hat wouldn't get smashed. Also, the label on the Mickey groom hat said "Jacobson Hat" I think. My DF's name is Jacob, so she marked out the "son" and put an 's so it says "Jacob's Hat"! She's the biggest sweetheart in the world!

[tlhbdm]

We're getting married December 7, in our hometown here in little old iowa. Then we're going to Disney the next after we open our gifts with our close family members. :bride: :groom:

[BrcsDisneyPrncs]

We are marrying at home in Western New York, way too much family up here that wouldn't make it to a wedding in WDW. We are disneymooning for a week at WDW afterwards. I'm new, and while i've been to disney many times (10 or so growing up) this will be my first time w/o family and my Fiance's first time. We want a fun filled bursting at the seams busy week at WDW, but without having to spend a TON. Any recommendations? Also any recommendations for incorporating disney into our wedding (those are some great ones Mickey76) would be fantastic!!! Thanks!:goodvibes

[ThunderMTexpert]

that's me! getting married here in mandeville, louisiana, and honeymooning at the mouse's house!! :) we're excited- and it gives our family a chance to be a part of this wedding, because many cannot afford to fly to disney, or some exotic location for our wedding!:bride:

[Stucas]

wow, I didn't realize how many jersey girls there were here.

I'm getting married at home, Nov, 1 2008 at the beach (but not on it...I don't like sand, lol) and then going to wdw for honeymoon. All we know so far is that we're going to stay at GF

-Lauren

[heatherlynn444]

that's me! getting married here in mandeville, louisiana, and honeymooning at the mouse's house!! :) we're excited- and it gives our family a chance to be a part of this wedding, because many cannot afford to fly to disney, or some exotic location for our wedding!:bride:

wait! I'm FROM Mandeville! i got married at FBC New Orleans and the reception was at Southern Oaks Plantation and then we went to disney!

[Glorydaz]

FYI: Concourse Steakhouse will be closing this fall so they can expand Chef Mickey's :sad1:


thanks for the heads up! I guess it will have to wait until our next trip after the Disneymoon - any suggestions where else to eat?

Michelle:cloud9:

[ThunderMTexpert]

wait! I'm FROM Mandeville! i got married at FBC New Orleans and the reception was at Southern Oaks Plantation and then we went to disney!
well, i'm actually from BUSH, right outside of COVINGTON, and he's from HAMMOND, right outside of COVINGTON, and we're getting married at benedict's and having the reception there in mandeville!! spending the honeymoon night in covington, then hitting i-12 as early as he'll let me wake him up- i'm thinking, 5am? mayyyybe 4? LOL-- "it's a small world after all!!"

[heatherlynn444]

well, i'm actually from BUSH, right outside of COVINGTON, and he's from HAMMOND, right outside of COVINGTON, and we're getting married at benedict's and having the reception there in mandeville!! spending the honeymoon night in covington, then hitting i-12 as early as he'll let me wake him up- i'm thinking, 5am? mayyyybe 4? LOL-- "it's a small world after all!!"

i know exactly where bush is, and when you said you were getting married in mandeville I assumed it was benedicts b/c well, there aren't a whole lot of other places! (hence why i did mine in NOLA)

I wne to High school in covington and lived in folsom b4 i lived in mandeville. we stayed the night in NOLA and got up at 6 to drive to orlando. it was a LONG drive!

[ThunderMTexpert]

i know exactly where bush is, and when you said you were getting married in mandeville I assumed it was benedicts b/c well, there aren't a whole lot of other places! (hence why i did mine in NOLA)

I wne to High school in covington and lived in folsom b4 i lived in mandeville. we stayed the night in NOLA and got up at 6 to drive to orlando. it was a LONG drive!

I went to SSA, then transferred to CHS, graduated in 2004-

[heatherlynn444]

I went to SSA, then transferred to CHS, graduated in 2004-

weird! I went to Northlake for 10 years, graduated in 2003

[Disneymoon2007]

We are getting married in New york and honeymooning in Disney for one week, and then outside of Disney for the next week... We can't wait. We have both been to Disney, but not together, so we are soooooo excited! :yay: :yay:
We are staying at the Polynesian, I have never stayed there....can't wait. In a magic kingdom view room. I am a little confused about that though, I'm not sure if there is a specific building for those rooms or what. I am gonna call and ask.
We are going to Discovery Cove too, I can't wait to swim with Flipper! :yay:

[phisigprincess]

That's what we did! Actually, we got married in June and went to the beach for a week and then waited till December to do Disney. It was a choice between and expensive island/tropical destination or a smaller beach trip and Disney. Of COURSE you have to do Disney too!! :) It was great because we could just relax right after the wedding and then 6 months later we were completely pumped for Disney!