Patricia & Dale - DFTW VR 9/9/08 TR starts pg 50 - Finally finished! :)

[pjstevens]

Originally Posted by mermaidbride1108

Wow, You sound so happy! That's so exciting!

Congrats!

I read about your engagement. I tell you some guys are so romantic. Thanks for stopping by. I am sure I'll be lurking among all the other pj's trying to get some little ideas (being it is just the two of us, wont' need to do much).

[pjstevens]

Originally Posted by figmentfan814

How exciting! My mom was hoping for a VR this year (30 years for them) but my wedding has kind of pushed that out. I hope she gets her VR one day soon too!

Figment,

Oh my goodness, only 20 days till your DFTW!!!! I am so excited for you. I'll be by to try and read some of your pj. Congrats to you!!!

[pjstevens]

Originally Posted by Janet2k

Pjstevens, I forgot to mention this earlier. I'm not sure what they're going to send you, but I scanned in the information that was recently sent to me and I shared it in a thread of mine. If you click here and go halfway down that page (look for posts 84 - 88), you'll find various images of the current FTW booklet for WDW. There is a little bit of "Cruise Collection" information in there.

I hope this helps keep your excitement going until you receive your official information from the FTW folks. Again, congratulations on your upcoming vow renewal!

Janet,

Thanks so much for the link... oh I cannot wait to get my mail!!!! It looks so beautiful. I know there isn't a lot for the cruise wedding, but I'm still looking forward!! Thanks for sharing your booklet with me.

[Janet2k]

Originally Posted by pjstevens

I cannot wait to get my mail!!!! It looks so beautiful. I know there isn't a lot for the cruise wedding, but I'm still looking forward!! Thanks for sharing your booklet with me.

You're welcome, Pjstevens. A DVD comes with the WDW version of the FTW booklet. Just another reason for you to keep checking your mailbox daily.

[keenercam]

Patty -- Hi! I am so glad I found your PJ!! How exciting for you to be planning this. It is actually so close! Have fun planning! I will be here often to hear all about how things are going.

[pjstevens]

Ok, I guess it's official, I have a PJ!!!!!

I have been looking at dresses (online only) since the thought of this popped into my head. Being that we are doing our renewal on the cruise, I knew I didn't want something too fancy, but I wanted something pretty. I have several tattoos (sorry if that offends anyone) but two are on my shoulders so I didn't want anything strapless or with spaghetti straps.

Well, today I found this dress and thought it would be perfect (without the necklace it's shown with)! If you have read any of my trip report, you know I am not a small person. I would love to lose 50 pounds before cruising (actually for my health) but the cruise is a good motivator. So I am not sure how this will look on me, but I may buy it and if it doesn’t look nice I’ll try to sell it.


It has a matching shirt for hubby.



So of course I haven’t shown hubby any of this, lol. He will think I’ve fallen off the deep end. I told him we have to look pretty for our vow renewal!!! PRETTY, you got that! Of course I had to listen to that. I meant for him to look nice, and I want to look pretty.

I am trying to find if anyone has seen or has a picture of the "Special Vow Renewal Album" that is included with the photography packages. I am debating here. Someone mentioned recently on their TR that they just got the CD (with all the pics on) and I was thinking that would be the best thing, so you have them all. We did NOT have a professional photographer the first time around. My photographer worked with my mil and did our wedding as our gift (if I recall, it was a LONG time ago ) We got all of our photos in one of those magnetic albums. NOTHING PRETTY TO SHOW!!! We paid for our own wedding, so it was done on a shoestring. We didn't have any 'real' music at the reception (there was some background music), like I mentioned no 'first dance', no alcohol (not that we drink now, but we did like to then). Sorry, rant over.... back to the photography. That is one thing I wish we had done and would really like to do right this time. I would love your opions on this.

Well I guess right now, I better end here. I am anxiously awaiting my mail from DFTW!!!

[padisneyfour]

Hey just wanted to say i was looking at some of your pics from your xmas trip - they were great! congrats on PJ start!

[pjstevens]

Originally Posted by padisneyfour

Hey just wanted to say i was looking at some of your pics from your xmas trip - they were great! congrats on PJ start!

Thanks so much. I can't tell you how much fun we had at Disney in December. Boy, what a difference from the August heat and humidity. Granted we had an unusally warm week and some humidity, but nothing compared to the summer!!!

[PrincessBride010103]

First off congratulations on 25 years!! We vacationed on the wonder twice and its awesome!! A great place to renew your vows! Also, that dress is really pretty...love the matching shirt!

[pjstevens]

Originally Posted by PrincessBride010103

First off congratulations on 25 years!! We vacationed on the wonder twice and its awesome!! A great place to renew your vows! Also, that dress is really pretty...love the matching shirt!

Wow eight days til your DFTW!!!!! I'm so excited for you! Thanks on the congrats. I'll tell you it's not easy all the time, there are trials in all relationships, good days and bad, love and arguements, but I made a committment and I love my husband more every day! I am so excited to be celebrating 25 years!!!

Can't wait to hear all about your wedding!

[Starr W.]

Originally Posted by pjstevens

Wow eight days til your DFTW!!!!! I'm so excited for you! Thanks on the congrats. I'll tell you it's not easy all the time, there are trials in all relationships, good days and bad, love and arguements, but I made a committment and I love my husband more every day! I am so excited to be celebrating 25 years!!!

Can't wait to hear all about your wedding!

I love your dress! Where did you get it.

[pjstevens]

Originally Posted by Starr W.

I love your dress! Where did you get it.

Starr,

I haven't bought it yet, it's on ebay!!! and very inexpensive compared to what I've seen online for 'bridal' dresses. I really thing it's pretty too.

[pjstevens]

Well, I have searched 'most' of my home and cannot find our wedding pics (nor my book that has our marriage certificate in it). I did find info on line to get a certified copy (for only $10) so I am going to send off for that and not worry and kill myself over finding this. I did want to post a few photos of what we looked like the first time. We went to the Poconos for our honeymoon (one of those couples resorts with the heart shaped tub and all ) Fortunately, they did have a professional photographer so we do have some pics from then. These are from September 1983!!! I was please these were in a nice book so they still look nice (yea, I use to be blond).



Yea, hubby had LOTS of facial hair. We went back for our second anniversary and had a few more done (notice the lack of hair, ) Much better, I told him he can never grow that beard back.

[Mermaid_Ariel]

Awww!!! You guys are so totally cute!!! I love seeing these kind of pictures because I get that fuzzy feeling because I know for somebody it's nostalgic Thank you so much for sharing your memories with us!

[keenercam]

Patty -- Those pix are adorable! I have to tell you, I really like the color of your hair in your most recent trip pix. I know when we knew each other well you were blonde, but the darker color hair really makes your eyes look huge!