After taking pictures around the Downtown Disney area and saying "Thank You" about 5,000 times to people as they congratulated us it was time to go get ready to enter our reception. The reception was to start a 1pm that would be when food was served. Our guests were already up and seated and talking just waiting for us. We entered Fulton's went up the stairs and into the private room that we were not using. It was here that I took off my garters and got some air under my dress because man were my legs hot. We took off my veils, bustled my dress and put the peacock feather clip in my hair. When we were ready Diana led us to the door and then our DJ started playing our entrance song "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" from Lilo & Stitch.
After we were introduced we went straight into our first dance which was to our song "I See The Light" from Tangled. It was fun to do that first and when you are up there dancing while everyone stares at you it feels like the song is really long. In actuality that song really is not that long I think it is about 3 minutes and 44 seconds long which really is NOT that long.
you can see the room here
After our dance it was time to sit down (finally) and eat. It was great to sit down and what made it even better was our table was full of my friends and our brothers. It made lunch for us easy going and not stressful. The wine goblets my mom had made by her pottery friend were set out at our seats, our boxes of skittles were at our places and the special menus Fulton's printed with our names and wedding date were also there. Everything was so beautiful. I looked around and the centerpieces were gorgeous the feathers in the napkins the linens looked stunning and it all just went together so well. I was so happy! Here are some pictures of the reception room:
Our goblets
This table was filled with our seating game boxes
The entire room
Aladdin Table you can see my DIY coloring pages for table names in the frame
Also to discuss this I chose the table linen and then off set it with a matte chair cover of a similar color. The centerpieces are tall with blue gel to simulate blue lightsabers with out using blue lightsabers.
The bridal table we had a purple centerpiece to simulate a purple light saber
Also here you can see that our two chairs have a slightly different chair cover we went with a marine blue but in a different fabric and we used a sash to designate the importance of the chairs. We were the Lion King table.
Back to blue centerpiece and the Little Mermaid table
The boxes for the seating game they had a person's name on the outside and on the inside was a decorated wooden star with a character name. They had to match that character to one of the three tables to find where they would sit. We also added skittles under the star.
The entire room from the other direction
Our Guest Book Table
The table sign for the Lion King table
napkin and menu detail
Favors
detailed shot of the Little Mermaid table sign
detailed shot of the Aladdin table sign
The food was delicious we had a chicken, fish and crab option for our guests and of course Greg and I had to have the crab. The crab was actually very very good and I could have kept eating but I knew we had to move things along. I love the food at Fulton's and it definitely did not disappoint.
We had toasts from Greg's brother, my maid of honor and my mom. My mom seemed to feel a little awkward about doing it but it only made sense she say something. The toast from Greg's brother was great I was a little nervous of what he might say but he did a good job. Salina my maid of honor just made me tear up because she really was just so happy for us. My mom did a great job and said some wonderful things. Of course she called me up to stand with her and I am so glad she did because if she hadn't we would have just been crying separately and instead we got to cry together.
Once the meals were done we got to start dancing! Woo hoo I love dancing and I don't think I really stopped dancing once we started. The first dance was with my dad to Trashin the Camp from Tarzan. I had told him in advance what it would be and said he should listen to it. From his reaction he totally did not listen to it. I think he was expecting the traditional slow song and instead we got a fun upbeat song. It was fun though we laughed a lot.
The next song would be my dance with my Mom. She was holding my nephew and he did not want to get put down so he joined in on our dance to In My Daughters Eyes by Martina McBride.
The next dance would be for Greg and his mom this dance would also lead into all the guests joining in on the dance floor. They danced to Somewhere Over the Rainbow performed by Katherine McPhee.
It would be at this point that everyone got up to dance so I had a dance with my brother and then from there the party just let loose. We had so much fun and danced SO SO SO much. The only regret I have is that we did not lengthen the reception. We should have made it one hour longer just so we could have danced more and had more time to eat dessert. Dessert was served after the dancing started it was yummy cheesecake and I only got a few bites. During this fun dancing time my nephew and I did the wobble together and tried to teach the 2 year old. That was a blast!
At the end of the reception our DJ Maria Shafer, I forgot to mention who our DJ was (she was so amazing by the way), said it was time for the last slow dance of the afternoon and it was to Can You See the Love Tonight. Only for this dance Greg and I were to dance in the middle of a circle of all our guests and they were belting out the lyrics to the song while we danced. Once the song was over we got a great big group hug. This was amazing to me because I had never seen it done before and it was just so cool. This is why I loved our intimate wedding little tid bits like this.
Once the reception was over we took some pictures with Randy. The boys took some out on the boat deck and then the girls as well. After all of this was done we had to figure out clean up. Diana was boxing everything up and we were deciding what to keep. I really wanted to just get back to Old Key West to rest for a while before the dessert party. So once we bagged some stuff up for us to take to the room my mom, Greg and I made our way out of Fulton's and walked to the boat launch that would take us to Old Key West from Downtown Disney. That is right folks I rode on the boat in my wedding dress! Once we got back to the resort we were able to get one of the golf cart guys to drive us back to Turtle Pond where we were staying so we could go to our room.
Greg helped me out of my dress and I found a way to lay down for a while...man was I exhausted.
We had to be up and get dressed to go to the Dessert party later so everyone took advantage of the down time we will have and I think it was a good idea to space the events out and give people some time to breathe.
There are so many more pictures you can follow this link the pictures of the reception on my photobucket.
Coming Up Next: Fireworks, Desserts and Wishes Oh My!
Teresa