A Summer Wedding and a Disney Trip CANCELLED, HELP DECIDE WHEN WE'LL GO IN 2011

[PixieDustPrincess05]

So, you'll never guess where the rings were???? They were in my sock drawer. I didn't really think to look there. I was looking in all odd places. I did check his sock drawer! Sorry though, I was super busy today before work, so I didn't have time to take pics and upload them before I had to go, so tomorrow, they will be here! Promise!

I got some wedding planning done today:

I called around for a DJ. best price so far is $625 for 5 hours

I CALLED OUR VENUE AND SWITCHED ROOMS TO THE BIGGER ONE. Manny's parents gave me a list of some more family members, and I really wanted the bigger room anyway. So gorgeous. I'm going up there on sunday for the bridal show, so i'll have lots of pictures of our new room. My friend and I were talking about centerpieces and decorations for this new room. Oh, it's so pretty. It's got a lot of windows and it's just wonderful!!!

How exciting!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[3princesses+aprince]

Here is mine, of course! It is white gold on top and yellow gold underneath.

The underneath

And now Manny's

And Manny took the girls shopping and bought them pretty dresses! They are going to wear them this weekend for the bridal show!

And this guy was waiting for me!!!!

 

[Twoboysnmygirl]

Beautiful rings!!! I love the girls dresses too!!

 

[mickeystoontown]

I love love love the rings. I have never seen one like your's where there's two different colors of gold. How neat!

Oops almost forgot to say that the girls look so cute in their new dresses.

 

[Victoriasmom98]

OMG!! OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!! So beautiful, Pam!!!!! I love both yours and Manny's!!! And the girls' dresses are so pretty!!! I think we were all posting at the same time......we've been hovering to see your rings!!!!!

 

[3princesses+aprince]

Beautiful rings!!! I love the girls dresses too!!

I love love love the rings. I have never seen one like your's where there's two different colors of gold. How neat!

Oops almost forgot to say that the girls look so cute in their new dresses.

OMG!! OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!! So beautiful, Pam!!!!! I love both yours and Manny's!!! And the girls' dresses are so pretty!!! I think we were all posting at the same time......we've been hovering to see your rings!!!!!

Thanks guys!!! Yeah, I've never seen a ring two different colors of gold either. See, I wanted white gold or silver and Manny wanted gold, so I figured this was good!!
And it looks like you were all "hovering" that's cool, glad to see you were excited for me! And sorry I made you wait an extra day!

 

[racefanof88]

Pam the rings are beautiful. I have always wanted a ring with channel set diamonds. I think that is what they are called...... The girls look so pretty in their dresses. They will have fun at the bridal show. I remember seeing one years after I got married and I so wanted to be getting married again........

 

[Victoriasmom98]

Pam, you are lucky that someone is doing your photography. The cheapest I've found so far is $699!!! OMG!!! Hey, wait......oh K - A - R - E - N.......I've seen the pictures you've taken with that fancy new lens of yours.......how about coming up to Maine before you head down to Disney????? hehehe

 

[longing2Batdisney]

Pam
the rings are beautiful and yours is so different...I've seen two tone but not like that. I really like that. The girls look so pretty in their new dresses and I love your new friend.
Connie

 

[leamom2princesses]

Wow, I have missed a lot of stuff! Your dress is gorgeous Pam as are is the MOH and Bridesmaids. They look so light and summery. Love them! Your rings are really nice too. I have an anniversary ring very similar to your wedding band and I love it. So pretty!

I love the dresses and the Mickey Manny picked up for his girls. How sweet huh?

 

[klacey1]

Your ring is stunning, Pam! It's beautiful-- I like that you and Manny got different ones, too. DBF and I were having a rings conversation and I kept saying I will want coordinating rings, but after seeing how nice yours and Manny's are, I like the idea of completely different ones!
Love the girl's dresses, too! Funny story-- my mom is a hotel manager and would have bridal shows at the hotel she worked at 15 years ago. From ages 4-7, I was the flower girl model for all of her shows! I'm told I would refuse to take the dresses off!
I hope you and the girls have fun at the bridal show!!

 

[PixieDustPrincess05]

I love the rings!!!!!! And the girls dresses!!!!!! And the Mickey!!!!!!!!
It looks like you are marrying a keeper there Pam- that was so thoughtful of him to buy those adorable little girls of yours those pretty dresses! I think that is just awesome, you guys are going to have an awesome marriage!!!

 

[Charlefours]

Your wedding dress is beautiful! Love the bridesmaids dresses too!! The rings are gorgeous. My DH and I do not have matching rings either--we each picked out the one we like.

The girls looked so cute dressed up and the Mickey is adorable. I hope you are able to find a more reasonable DJ!!

 

[mommytothreeboys]

Beautiful rings and Beautiful girls! Lucky you!

 

[3princesses+aprince]

Pam the rings are beautiful. I have always wanted a ring with channel set diamonds. I think that is what they are called...... The girls look so pretty in their dresses. They will have fun at the bridal show. I remember seeing one years after I got married and I so wanted to be getting married again........

Thanks, I just fell in love with the ring the moment I saw it! And YES we had a ton of fun at the bridal show. SO glad I got to go, and the fact that it was at the venue just made it that much better!

Pam, you are lucky that someone is doing your photography. The cheapest I've found so far is $699!!! OMG!!! Hey, wait......oh K - A - R - E - N.......I've seen the pictures you've taken with that fancy new lens of yours.......how about coming up to Maine before you head down to Disney????? hehehe

Oh, I realize how lucky I am with that! I haven't even priced them out, because I knew Ryan would be doing it for us from the beginning but I know they are pricey!
Oh and i agree, I think Karen should come and do your photography. LOL

Pam
the rings are beautiful and yours is so different...I've seen two tone but not like that. I really like that. The girls look so pretty in their new dresses and I love your new friend.
Connie

Thanks, I was surprised when I saw that ring too! I love it!!!!

Wow, I have missed a lot of stuff! Your dress is gorgeous Pam as are is the MOH and Bridesmaids. They look so light and summery. Love them! Your rings are really nice too. I have an anniversary ring very similar to your wedding band and I love it. So pretty!

I love the dresses and the Mickey Manny picked up for his girls. How sweet huh?

Thanks, I know, I have gotten a lot done in the past few weeks. Thank goodness! I was getting nervous!

Your ring is stunning, Pam! It's beautiful-- I like that you and Manny got different ones, too. DBF and I were having a rings conversation and I kept saying I will want coordinating rings, but after seeing how nice yours and Manny's are, I like the idea of completely different ones!
Love the girl's dresses, too! Funny story-- my mom is a hotel manager and would have bridal shows at the hotel she worked at 15 years ago. From ages 4-7, I was the flower girl model for all of her shows! I'm told I would refuse to take the dresses off!
I hope you and the girls have fun at the bridal show!!

Thanks, and we had so much fun at the bridal show! That is so cute, that your mom used you as flower girl! My girls would love to do that!

I love the rings!!!!!! And the girls dresses!!!!!! And the Mickey!!!!!!!!
It looks like you are marrying a keeper there Pam- that was so thoughtful of him to buy those adorable little girls of yours those pretty dresses! I think that is just awesome, you guys are going to have an awesome marriage!!!

Thanks, yeah, I guess i'll keep him!

Your wedding dress is beautiful! Love the bridesmaids dresses too!! The rings are gorgeous. My DH and I do not have matching rings either--we each picked out the one we like.

The girls looked so cute dressed up and the Mickey is adorable. I hope you are able to find a more reasonable DJ!!

Thanks! You guys don't have matching rings either? I got some strange looks from a few that we didn't get matching rings I think, we're going to go through the rest of our life with these rings we should both be happy about them and have what we want. I guess that's how we are. We never make each other do things we don't want, we're all about whatever makes each other happy! That's why he's agreed to honeymoon in Disney

Beautiful rings and Beautiful girls! Lucky you!

Thank you!!!

 

[Victoriasmom98]

See all the responses you have to get to when you miss a couple of days on the boards???!!! I say that missing a day on the Disboards is just nonsense!!

 

[3princesses+aprince]

Wow, I haven't been on the dis all weekend! I feel weird Saturday I was getting stuff together for work and cleaning. We had a superbowl saturday party at work that night! Lots of food!
Sunday I went to the bridal show!!! I took the girls with me and picked up my bridesmaid, Brittany! Manny and Anthony cleaned up for the superbowl party and went out to get some more snacks and stuff.

We had an awesome time! There were so many vendors there. We got to look at EVERYTHING. Invitations, cakes, which we got to sample. OH YUM!!! Centerpieces, linens, decorations, dance lessons! I got to wear a sticker that said BRIDE on it. So everyone knew to focus on the bride! I got roses!

So this place has a big lobby where some vendors were set up and the pianist was playing. The pianist was so good that.... guess what , we booked him for our ceremony!!!!
Then there are 3 rooms! The smallest one was the one we originally booked, but decided there wasn't enough beauty in that room, we upgraded to the middle sized room. I was hoping that room was decorated with tables, centerpieces etc, but it was the small room that was. This room and the biggest one had all of the vendors set up, but I snapped 2 pics anyway just to give you an idea.

This is standing halfway in the room and looking straight ahead, the room still goes out to the left and to the right. It's huge!!!

This is the bar to the left

The small room had lights and tables set up

The biggest room had a ton of vendors in there, even someone offering dance lessons, there were a "bride and groom" dancing on the dance floor.
This was the chocolate fountain the girls kept going back to. There was an entire table full of cookies, marshmallows, etc... to dip under the flowing chocolate!!! OH YUM!!!

I ended up with so many freebies, like "the knot" bridal magazines, magnets, pins, flowers!
The man offering the dance lessons was giving away a free lesson to everyone that went today. So, he'll be contacting us soon! That will be fun!
We samples some different types of chicken. One was coconut chicken. We weren't sure at first, but oh my god it was GOOD!!
And best of all ,we found our DJ !!!!!! That was my goal for sunday!! This is no ordinary DJ. She actually gets on the dance floor and leads all of these fun and crazy dances! She can also simmer down a bit if you want her to, but no way, she's amazing. At one point she was dancing and shaking the whole floor around her. HERE SHE IS!!! With her butt stuffed and a wig on. She was dancing to Apple bottom jeans, not sure if that's the real name of the song, but they sing about a big butt, so she had one.

I am so happy with her, I am still smiling today, just thinking about her! And the best part was if you booked with her yesterday you got $100 off. So I was doing this Until I saw the prices, then Brittany and I were doing this It was $625 for the 5 hour reception. Well, that alone is a GREAT price, that didn't even include the $100 off though! She is costing us $525. I couldn't believe it! She's worth so much more than that! We had to book with $150, so we owe $375 There were other DJs just standing there looking pretty telling you that they would DJ for you for $1125 for 6 hours and I am not kidding. How on earth was anyone else there going to compete with this chic. They so were not!!!!

And then we came home and had my Dad and his girlfriend over for the super bowl. We ordered Pizza and the kids were not interested in the game at all, not even Anthony, he would just run out for the funny commercials.

So, as you can imagine I am so happy today!
We got the DJ for the reception
We got the pianist for the ceremony, who is from Rachels. It's so pretty! That is $125 for an hour. So he will play while the guests are coming and sitting and then of course through the ceremony! I can't even believe it!!

 

[leamom2princesses]

Wow Pam! What an awesome find on your DJ! Way to go! I'm excited for you too.

We went to a reception with a chocolate fountain and yummy fruit and such and it was awesome. The kids really loved it.

 

[Victoriasmom98]

Oh Pam....it all sounds really wonderful! I am very, very happy for you. My friend Heidi found another DJ for me who also does photography. It's a father and son duo so one takes pics and one dj's. And that together is $450, so I have an email into him right now. I tell you, I don't know what I'd do without my friend Heidi!!!! It sounds like you have everything coming together beautifully! This Saturday we have to go put the deposit down on the venue and go to a cake tasting! That should be fun. I also just received the confirmation that the engagement announcement will be going into the papers on February 14th. How fitting, eh?

I haven't read anything about how Janine made it through the blizzard. I hope she posts soon so we know she's fine. I can't wait for us all to be in Disney!!!!

 

[klacey1]

What a fun weekend!! That chocolate fountain is making me want to run out to the Melting Pot right now!! Yummy! Glad you got so much accomplished for the wedding-- $525 is really a terrific price for a DJ, especially for a wedding.
I'm with the kids-- the superbowl is definitely more about snacks and commercials for us than football! I was also not a fan of the halftime show.