$198,000 Disney wedding at Sams club?!?

[Tracy Savage]

50 guests, ceremony, wedding planner, photographer, dessert party, 4 nights for couple at the Grand Floridian. All for $198,000 at Sams Club. REALLY? Am I that out of touch?

 

[tchrrx]

My Mother-in-law called me tonight to tell me about this. Since DD is only 9, I'm not really sure why she called, but whatever! I guess she just thought it was interesting.

 

[Tracy Savage]

It's crazy. Who in their right mind would do that? You could have a week long wedding around here for that kind of cash!

 

[JerseyJanice]

That figure doesn't even include dinner?

Are we sure that number doesn't have an extra zero tacked on that's a typo? It's impossible to comprehend that it could cost that much.

 

[AshleyW]

Here are the details from the Sam's Club website. $200k is insane for a wedding, even with all that's included. I'm planning mine right now, and we've got our budget at $10k.

This Kind of Wedding has Only Existed in Fairy Tales. Until now.
Imagine a wedding custom designed for a Sam’s Club® Member at Walt Disney World® Resort. This fairy tale includes all of the trimmings: Celebrity Wedding Planner David Tutera, a once-in-a-lifetime Magic Kingdom® Park ceremony, reception, and much more!

Your package for two includes:
• A Two (2) Day Planning Session with dedicated Disney’s Fairy Tale Wedding Wedding Planner and a meeting with David Tutera for the Bride and Groom
• Four (4) nights deluxe accommodations at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa for the Bride and Groom, to be used during the wedding event
• Four (4) days Royal Treatment with Disney’s Special Activity Host/Hostess for 8 hours per day, to be used during the Wedding event
• Transportation for the Bride and Groom and Wedding Guests the day of the Wedding for the Ceremony and Reception
• Photography and Videography package for the Wedding Ceremony and Reception from Disney Fine Art Photography
• Save-the-Date and Wedding Invitations
• Custom-designed Ceremony, Dinner Reception and Dessert Party for 50 Guests to include floral, décor, entertainment and menus

Ceremony Details:
• Once-in-a-lifetime wedding ceremony inside Magic Kingdom® Park during park hours with Cinderella Castle as your backdrop
• Everything begins at Swan Boat Landing where draped chiffon, flowers and ribbons create a lovely space. In this charming spot within the Magic Kingdom® Park, with Cinderella Castle as your backdrop, your ceremony is staged.
-Draped chiffon fabric and flower balls grace your ceremony space while swaged chiffon and flower balls adorn the railings. More chiffon and garlands wrap the poles, finishing off the look.
-An alter piece or unity arrangement adorns the ceremony area and topiaries grace either side of the water railing
Chiavari chairs, decorated with flower balls and trailing ribbons await your Guests. -A “Just Married” sign and flower garland hangs from the back of the landeau coach marketing this momentous occasion

Reception Details:
• Custom-designed dinner reception in a secret location, surrounded by Disney magic
• Set in the mysterious backstage area of Magic Kingdom® Park, your reception will delight and amaze your family and friends. Here, everyone enjoys dinner surrounded by Disney’s magical Parade Floats. Then, to cap it all off, you experience a private viewing of Wishes Nighttime Spectacular!
-The Bride and Groom arrive on a float adorned with parade dancers
-The dancers perform a parade-style musical number created just for the Bride and Groom
-A delicious dinner is prepared by our award-winning Disney Chefs is served backstage at the Magic Kingdom® Park Parade Float Area
-Following dinner, Guests will dance the night away among the Parade Floats
-From the Parade Float Garage, the Bride and Groom, along with their Guests, will be able to step outside to see “Wishes” Fireworks Spectacular from this backstage vantage point!

David Tutera Details:
• Private planning session with celebrity wedding planner David Tutera
• Celebrity wedding planner David Tutera is hailed as an artistic visionary whose ability, uniquely creative talents and outstanding reputation have made him a tremendous success in the lifestyle arena. Tutera has created a name for himself by taking his passion for designing spectacular events and transforming it into a lifestyle. He continuously exceeds the expected with an unmatched level of inspiration, imagination, and innovation to create the latest trends in entertaining. Tutera's grandfather, a successful florist, first noticed his grandson's artistic ability at an early age and encouraged David to pursue his destiny. At age 19, with the sound advice of his grandfather and only one client, David opened his own events planning business. Today, David Tutera Inc. is an award winning company built from experience, dedication and Tutera's natural talent for transforming the ordinary into extraordinary. His name has become synonymous with style, elegance, creativity, and vision. Honored in 2006 by Modern Bride Magazine as one of the "Top 25 Trendsetters of the Year," David is also a professional speaker hired by Conde Nast, In Style, and many others to lecture on the topics of weddings, lifestyle, design and more. In addition David was also awarded as the "2005 Best Celebrity Wedding Planner" by Life & Style Magazine. David has been featured on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, E!, and the Style Network. In addition, People, USA Today, In Touch, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, In Style, Cosmopolitan, Celebrity Living, Redbook, and Town & Country, have all featured his work. David Tutera currently lives in New York City and maintains offices in both Manhattan and Mamaroneck, New York.

ETA: Here's the link in case anyone's interested in purchasing this package.
http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?catg=14602&iid=10-31-09_Homepage|POVB|MainPOV

 

[JerseyJanice]

Well, now, that price does include a celebrity consultant. I guess that makes it worth the cost.

 

[Tracy Savage]

Doesn't it kinda sound like it's in a dark parking lot where they line up the parade floats?

 

[Tracy Savage]

Apparently there is one one of these packages, so ya better jump on it. No refunds either.

 

[druidia]

This is entirely plausible because it's a Magic Kingdom ceremony. FTW stopped doing those awhile ago. I think they were up around $100-150K to start the last I heard? Anyway, that's why the steep price tag. And there have been a few who paid it, but they also were able to use a few of the rides, like the Carousel and Dumbo.

Getting married elsewhere at Disney is much more reasonable. At least, it was 5 years ago.

 

[Desnik]

Well I am having my vow renewal there in a few days and can tell you first hand it is expensive and you can go really crazy with the decor. 50 guests are costing me $30,000. With that said, the price of $200,000 seems about right since it's being held at the MK. You can't have a ceremony there during park hours and you can't have a reception there at all. I'm sure there are plenty people out there with money who would pay $200,000 to get married at the MK. So, this package being offered is a "dream" package because you can't buy most of the things it offers.

 

[dzorn]

Here are the details from the Sam's Club website. $200k is insane for a wedding, even with all that's included. I'm planning mine right now, and we've got our budget at $10k.




ETA: Here's the link in case anyone's interested in purchasing this package.
http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?catg=14602&iid=10-31-09_Homepage|POVB|MainPOV

No problem spending $200K after all you saved a lot from shopping at Sam's for those bulk items.


Denise in MI

 

[AshleyW]

No problem spending $200K after all you saved a lot from shopping at Sam's for those bulk items.


Denise in MI

Think I can talk my fiance into it using that logic?!

 

[mhsjax]

Doesn't it kinda sound like it's in a dark parking lot where they line up the parade floats?

That's what I was thinking.

 

[mhsjax]

Well I am having my vow renewal there in a few days and can tell you first hand it is expensive and you can go really crazy with the decor. 50 guests are costing me $30,000. With that said, the price of $200,000 seems about right since it's being held at the MK. You can't have a ceremony there during park hours and you can't have a reception there at all. I'm sure there are plenty people out there with money who would pay $200,000 to get married at the MK. So, this package being offered is a "dream" package because you can't buy most of the things it offers.

But why would you want to have a ceremony during park hours, having everyone look at you and hearing a bunch of tired little kids pitch temper tamtrums. The rest sounds ok, but not that.

 

[Desnik]

Yeah I agree!
But right now if you want a ceremony at the MK it is very early, like 8am or something like that! I can't even imagine having a ceremony that early, even if it is for the MK.

 

[luvmy3]

Dd told me last week she wanted her wedding at WDW. Its a good thing she's only 11, it looks like I'll need all those years to save up for it

I just don't understand people spending the equivalent of a mortgage on their wedding, no matter where it is

 

[jlima]

They are pricing an experience that normally can't be purchased, so they can call it as they see it. They can call the float arrival a $10K value and the "secret location" venue a $20K value, when in reality it has no value, because it isn't something that the average person can purchase.

Plus, the marketing value of the $200K wedding is generating publicity and people like us are falling for it hook, line & sinker. Probably no one is going to purchase this package. But the publicity they are getting is priceless.

 

[Shugardrawers]

Yeah I agree!
But right now if you want a ceremony at the MK it is very early, like 8am or something like that! I can't even imagine having a ceremony that early, even if it is for the MK.

I dunno....I think they'll sell a good number of these packages to spoiled little "daddy's girls".

For us average Joe's who couldn't save that up for a lifetime it sound pretty stupid. I agree. You're no less married if the ceremony is at the GF Pavillion, the Boardwalk or the Court House. Go ahead, blow your house downpayment on your wedding. I dont' give a ..........

 

[lttlmc3]

Ugh. I think it would be very annoying to get to Disneyworld for a trip and be forced to watch someone's wedding. The whole place will be decorated for it and would ruin my pictures. Oh, and I'm jealous of whoever gets it.

 

[rie'smom]

I could see that amount of money IF the ceremony was not during theme park hours and if the reception was held in one of the lands. It sounds like the reception is held in a utilidoor corridor.