60 Candles, 30 Million Lights, Best Friends&Family at Disney--Priceless (New 5/23)

[KatMark]

I think you cut off some important information. I can't see where I need to go to crash the wedding!!

They look nice Kathy.

Tim, if you promise to bring your beautiful children, you can crash the wedding.

Beautiful invitations!!!

Thanks, Ann...I'm very pleased.

the invitations are beautiful!

They are simple, but elegant is what I told Alisha.

hey Tim, maybe if you offer to DJ they'll invite you

I asked him...he didn't take me up on it.

I don't mind all the pictures. They look great. Boo to that grumpy photopass photographer!

Very pretty invitations.

Thank you, Mel. I'm glad you liked the pictures. One bad apple...always puts a black eye on things.

I like the invites too.

I would love to meet some Disers in person! Keep in touch as we get closer to our dates. Where are you staying?

I think Lisa is staying AoA...but she can confirm. We are at the Boardwalk Villas. And as we get closer, a DIS meet will have to be worked on.

 

[goofy4prez]

We took care of the bill (and, by the way, we won't be back; first, they wanted to stick us in a side room behind a door and we were one of the first people there...I think not said Nicki; and the food just wasn't all that good--we prefer Crystal Palace and Tusker House), and then headed out. One of the things I am most looking forward to about staying at the Beach Club Villas with Mary and the girls is the ability to walk to Epcot.

It seems to be that the majority of most here on the DIS think the food at Cape May is very good. I share your opinion of this place for breakfast and am not impressed (not crazy about the dinner buffet either). Cape May, IMHO, screams Golden Corral breakfast buffet. Yes, Goofy and crew are excellent but the food I found to be rather average at best and subpar at worst. One thing I would have liked was the option of having a fresh omelette station (even Golden Corral offers this). Paying this kind of $$$ and having pre-made eggs was a very big turnoff. I did ask the server for a fresh omelette and she was somewhat taken back by the request. 20 minutes later a luke-warm omelette was delivered to my table. Cape May and I will not have a reunion anytime soon.

I do hope you enjoy your upcoming stay at Beach Club. I stayed at Yacht Club a few years ago and absolutely loved the location and the easy acccessibility to Epcot and it's many great dining options. The only thing I really did not like was the bus situation. It was "goofy" (pun intended) that the YC/BC/BW/Dolphin/Swan all shared the same bus. It was always packed to what I believed to be very unsafe levels. Often we would wait for the next bus only to find it the same way. And this was during the last week of January-first week of February. Perhaps it was the slow season why it shared with five resorts, but if this is true in peak season that would be absolutely insane. Would it keep me from going back to YC or BC? Not at all. In spite of the bus situation the resorts are amazing, I loved the Boardwalk area, and that walk to Epcot is just so convenient.

 

[Moira222]

Dominic has a long road ahead of him, but it seems that he is on the right road. Thank you again for all your prayers.

I missed this when I read through just chapter links. How amazing that Dominic is recovering. God is good.

Judy, think of the movie. "Have the gray stuff, it's delicious." You get a little dab of the "gray stuff" if you are celebrating something (it is not given to every diner).

so funny, now that you wrote it out, I can hear it in my head and I get it too!

Let's be glad that Andy, unlike the prince in the window, is wearing pants.

so funny!!! But Andy is wearing tan pants too!

LOVE your PP photos with the matching shirts. The back of the shirt is awesome too.

I'll be back later witih responses, but I had to share. Alisha ordered the wedding invitations on Friday of last week and they arrived at my house today (I'm writing out the envelopes and stuffing and mailing from here). Here's a copy of the final invite (can't believed my baby gets married in 132 days):

Beautiful! I love how the designs above and below their names looks like a tiara above Alisha's name.

I don't recall seeing a photo of you with Stitch, I'm going to have to look back again for that one!!!

 

[jecskc]

Invitations are soooooo pretty !!

 

[Tinker_Tam]

Those invitations are beautiful!!! It may just be me, but I think they have a whole Cinderella feel to them... after all, if there is only 1 day in our lives we should feel like a princess, it is our wedding day!

 

[mommy2mrb]

Tim, if you promise to bring your beautiful children, you can crash the wedding.


I asked him...he didn't take me up on it.




I think Lisa is staying AoA...but she can confirm. We are at the Boardwalk Villas. And as we get closer, a DIS meet will have to be worked on.

yes we are staying at AoA....have a few of my scrapbook DIS friends who will be there before and after thanksgiving too!
we definately will have to plan something!!! I know Tink will want to join in on the fun too!

 

[LisaKeys]

Kathy, I'm loving all of the photo's! You all were able to capture some fantastic PP's. I say there's never too many photo's to look at, especially when everyone in them are obviously having a fantastic day. Not even a less than par breakfast or a crabby photographer could ruin the day for the six of you.

As always, looking forward to reading (seeing) more.

 

[MeMom]

Somebody forgot to tell him Disney World is just for little kids.

Love the shirts!

Funny how different days, times, and experiences add up to different likes and dislikes. We loved our Cape May breakfast. At Tusker House, we have had one that was so-so and one that was better. You know it was the same food, in essence, but I guess it was the way our serving of eggs was cooked or the freshness of the fruit or the crispness of the bacon or the thickness of the gravy or whatever factors that made one a little better than the other. Crystal Palace has been good every time, but we seem to have issues with seeing all the characters there sometimes. They have to stop doing their greets to go march in the parade, and then they pick up at a different place. There was a time a couple of characters had been around three times, and one (I think Pooh) had not made it to us once. Not a deal at all for just grown-ups, but for the little girls, it is, so we had to wait and wait and wait, and finally we just saw him on the way out. Glad you tried Cape May once, anyway, and got the character pictures in their beach attire.

 

[DMGeurts]

I loved the update Kathy! I am so glad you are feeling better!

My favorite photopass photo is the one of the BACK of your shirts facing Spaceship Earth! I love it! Did you get lots of people asking you to stop so they could read? Also, do you have another photo where I can read what it says? LOL I think I missed that (or I don't remember - which is most likely).

And the invites are gorgeous!!! Love them!

D~

 

[Nermel9]

I love the matching shirts you guys are wearing! I've asked Brandon if he would wear matching shirts with me and I got a very serious "NO" so I'm guessing that's out for me!

You got such great photopass pics this trip! That's too bad about the grumpy Minnie PP photographer, I'm glad you said something on the way out!

Love the wedding invitations, the colors are beautiful!

 

[pas130]

Too bad about that one photographer. I say it all the time that Disney's CMs are soooo wonderful that the handful of rotten ones really stand out.

Exactly!!

Kathy
The invitations are beautiful! And I LOVE LOVE LOVE the group pics

 

[jenseib]

I saw that silver top too or something very simialr. I wanted it, but if I remember right, it was priced soemthing like 5 zillion dollars!

 

[Linda67]

Loving the PP pictures - such huge smiles on everyone's faces

The matching Tees look great and really makes the photos extra special

 

[emmysmommy]

Good to see that Mark has such a positive influence on Andy with the hat thing! He's definitely sporting some very nice head gear with the Grumpy one especially since he was really getting into character there! Love it!

You can never share too many PP photos of your lovely group so no warning required! Love the shirts and the message is priceless. For my next milestone birthday I'll have to start hinting at my DH to make a move to get a trip lined up. (Who am I kidding, I would completely take over any planning anyway. ) And that not so magical PP photog shame on them.

Thanks for sharing the lovely wedding invitations. They are very elegant and certainly make you excited to see the important event formalized in an invitation.

I hope you have an awesome (superbowl) Sunday!

 

[englishrose47]

Invitations make it so much more real !! They are great Love them !!!! Getting close now !!!

 

[KatMark]

After playing with Priceline off and on yesterday when they had round trip airfare posted for Air Tran at $223.00 per person and not being able to book it (it kept saying the deal couldn't go through), I thought I'd try one more time this morning before Southwest comes out with their prices tomorrow.

Sure enough, I just booked for Mark and I round trip to Orlando August 16 - September 1 for $447.60 for the two of us. And what is perfect about it is we have an 8 a.m. flight going to Orlando and our flight coming home isn't until 2 p.m. so we don't have to get up at the crack of dawn to drive from Marco to Orlando.

 

[WDisneyMom]

Love all of the PP photos, too cute. Some people just really shouldn't work with the public!!

Beautiful wedding invitations, it will be here before you know it. How exciting!!

 

[WDisneyMom]

Yay!! Congratulations on the great airfare and wow!! You will be in FL for 2 weeks?! We did that for our October 2011 trip and it was wonderful, only thing I would change would have been not changing resorts as much as we did...that was not fun!!

 

[Tiggerrn2]

Wow!!!!! I am finally all caught up. Didn't realize how far behind I had fallen. That darn work sure does get in the way of my DIS time!
You really had some lovely photopass pictures done! And I loved the matching shirts for Mark's birthday (and most definitely the HAT!!) So awesome that he loves to enjoy life like a kid at Disney!

Sorry your breakfast at Cape May was not enjoyable. We ate there in 2008 when we were staying at Beach Club. We thought it was pretty good for typical breakfast food. They were nice enough to let both the kids have the kids menu prices (even though DD technically was full price that year-she was 10, but no bigger than a bird and ate like one as well).

Favorite photo so far has to be Mark and the purse!! Between the purse and the hat, not sure what made it better!
Great updates!

You did an awesome job on airfare. Wish I wasn't stuck waiting for my job to OK our vacation request slips so I know when I can get away. I'll be sweating it out again like I did last year!

the kids wedding invites are really nice! So many exciting things coming up for your family this year!

 

[dizneeat]

After playing with Priceline off and on yesterday when they had round trip airfare posted for Air Tran at $223.00 per person and not being able to book it (it kept saying the deal couldn't go through), I thought I'd try one more time this morning before Southwest comes out with their prices tomorrow.

Sure enough, I just booked for Mark and I round trip to Orlando August 16 - September 1 for $447.60 for the two of us. And what is perfect about it is we have an 8 a.m. flight going to Orlando and our flight coming home isn't until 2 p.m. so we don't have to get up at the crack of dawn to drive from Marco to Orlando.

Okay, I am green with envy as of your airfare! I cannot even dream about such a reasonable fare, not even to DLRP (and I think that is an even shorter distance. )
But I am VERY happy for you! Doesn't it feel so much more real, once you have your airfare down?

And you know what made me even more? It looks like you are flying out of Orlando. Now that would have been the perfect way to meet - BUT, we will get back on the 2nd!

Will we ever meet?