A Wedding, A Honeymoon and a runaway Grandma - Updated 6/6 Finally Finished!

[not_Joanna_eggs]

Haha, I should somehow use "biological break" at school in between classes or something (sometimes I have a double period with one grade).

DH seems like the type of person who will wander off away from the group and get separated, but you'll always know where to find him ... by the trains!

Oops... I don't know how I missed responding to this... Sorry!

I liked "biological break" It just sounds funny. Even if it doesn't exactly make sense

Your so right, if I ever get seprated from DH at the MK, I'll know right where to find him!

When I told him I was going to WDW with my sister (and leaving him behind muahahah) he looked at me in all seriousness and said... "You have to take a picture of the train, but you can't ride it... that would be like cheating on me" I think (hope) he's kidding... But I'll think I'll skip the train just to be sure

 

[RachelNinja]

Mmm, the food descriptions got me so hungry! I would have loved the amuse bouche!!! All those varieties of salmon sound so yummy.

YAY, so if you're going with your sis, you'll have another TR??? Although I will miss the stories about your DH's obsession! I'm sure you'll still provide colorful commentary though!

 

[not_Joanna_eggs]

Mmm, the food descriptions got me so hungry! I would have loved the amuse bouche!!! All those varieties of salmon sound so yummy.

YAY, so if you're going with your sis, you'll have another TR??? Although I will miss the stories about your DH's obsession! I'm sure you'll still provide colorful commentary though!

The amuse bouche was super yummy. I was sad it was so small. I could have eaten big portions of all of it!

Indeed, I will be starting another TR soon. Though, sadly, the next one will be steam train free

My sister is on the Dis as well, but not really much of a poster, but I'm going to try to coax her into commenting on the TR... so you'll have dual commentary

Though, I guess that means that I should get cracking and finish this one since I'm leaving in just a few weeks

 

[not_Joanna_eggs]

Our very last day. We slept in a little bit and woke up still full and finished packing.

I must say that for us, the major downside of getting married at Disney was all the excess junk we had with us the whole time. Normally, for a week, DH and I can share 1 checked bag and a carry-on + my computer bag. On this trip, we had 4 suitcases, 2 carry-ons, a computer bag, my "purse" which was gigantic, plus our cake topper. It was ridiculous!

I checked our door, and noticed that there was no ME packet on our door, so I called. It took them a bit to find us but told us our time was 2:45. So we finished packing and called bell services to pick up and store our luggage.

We took one last picture of the monorail view from the balcony

And bid farewell to our lovely free room. Wish we could have used you more…

We then headed to monorail. DH was super awake and concentrating on where we’re going…

DH – Zoomin’ like grandma

We headed towards EPCOT.

We weren’t in a hurry, so when we saw Stitch with no line at all, we had to stop…

Well then Daisy got jealous, and tried to steal my man…

We came to an agreement, and decided to share him…

We still had some time, so we headed into Art of Disney to look around.

Then we headed over to the Living Seas and looked around at the aquariums for a bit.

Soon, it was time for lunch, so we headed to the Coral Reef for our ADR.

 

[RachelNinja]

Haha, that Daisy pic is fantastic! Love a good compromise!

 

[TokyoDina]

You guys lived my dream! I wanna have our Ceremony at WDW! We are already married for 3 years now but I want to do that someday. I've been in talks with Disney. We are just waiting for the right time. Which is never really cause DH is leaving for 6 months and who knows if we are even coming back to Tucson after he gets back. I loved your pictures!! I loved the honeymoon stage of our marriage! It was always so fun and filled with joy! Now it's a lot of love and devotion and being happy that no one needs to talk to have a good time.

 

[tksbaskets]

Great update and I love your report! Did I already mention you'll love your DVC? DH and I wished we had done that when we were young. Not that we aren't enjoying the HECK out of our membership in our dotage (not quite but if you ask our sons we are old as dirt)

Can't wait to hear more from you.

TK

 

[Believeinfairytales]

Love the kissing pic with you and Daisy! A framer, for sure.

 

[not_Joanna_eggs]

Haha, that Daisy pic is fantastic! Love a good compromise!

It was cute. We're usually not character people, but Daisy was funny.

You guys lived my dream! I wanna have our Ceremony at WDW! We are already married for 3 years now but I want to do that someday. I've been in talks with Disney. We are just waiting for the right time. Which is never really cause DH is leaving for 6 months and who knows if we are even coming back to Tucson after he gets back. I loved your pictures!! I loved the honeymoon stage of our marriage! It was always so fun and filled with joy! Now it's a lot of love and devotion and being happy that no one needs to talk to have a good time.

Vow Renewal!! Sounds like a good plan for you DH already relented he'd be okay with doing one for 10 years... only 9 years and 6 months to go...

DFTW is great, and they'll totally work with you. It's got to be hard to plan with so much uncertainty, but it will make the experience so much better when you get to it.

It's weird for us, we've been together for 9 years, so we were pretty much in the "old married" stage when we got married.... and now we're kind of back to a honeymoon type of place. It's funny.

Great update and I love your report! Did I already mention you'll love your DVC? DH and I wished we had done that when we were young. Not that we aren't enjoying the HECK out of our membership in our dotage (not quite but if you ask our sons we are old as dirt)

Can't wait to hear more from you.

TK

Thanks! I totally have this mental picture of these two 112 year old people hobbling around the MK taking all day to "run" towards Mickey declaring they will get all 50 years out of their DVC membership We already love our DVC and haven't used it yet But we've got 3 trips on the horizon, and everything is so easy.

I think have 2 more updates for this trip... hope to get one of them up tonight....

Love the kissing pic with you and Daisy! A framer, for sure.

That picture is one of my favorites. It's the last page of my **ahem** still unfinished **ahem** wedding album.

 

[not_Joanna_eggs]

So after Daisy and I agreed to share DH and a brief tour of the aquariums, we headed to our 12:15 ADR at Coral Reef.

This is one of our traditions. We try to have our “last lunch” at Coral Reef every trip.

We were seated on the first level in a booth – not right at the window.. but close enough.

First order of business… cocktails!!

For DH… and anti-oxidant cocktail…

And for me… my final (well, okay I had 2 during lunch, so this wasn’t my final final… but who’s counting?) magical star of the trip… Boo!

I love this drink mmmmmmmm

We placed our order and waited… and waited… and waited… and… took some pictures while we waited…

then we ate some bread while we waited…

Then DH decided that he needed to take his high school senior portrait again… that’s the only logical explanation for this pose…

Finally our lunch came…

We were so hungry – we didn’t realize it but we had waited a little over an hour!

I didn’t take a picture right away… but I did…

I had the lobster ravioli

DH had… um… Mahi Mahi I think?

Both were good. We figured the wait was just because of the kitchen being backed up from the lunch rush… so we ordered dessert.

Well, we waited an insane amount of time for this course too. I’m not sure why they were so slow…. But holy moley!

The server saw us playing with the camera, and offered to take our picture…
Hurry up, we’re hungry!

I had the chocolate wave…

Gooey!

DH had the Baileys and Jack Daniel's Mousse…

He definitely enjoyed it…

So about this time I ask DH was time is it… he replied 1:45.

WHAT??? We have less than 45 minutes to catch our Magical Express, and we're still eating our dessert - at Epcot!

 

[heaven2dc]

You cracked me up - 45 mins to catch ME and still at Epcot!! If they hadn't been so slow at Coral Reef, you wouldn't have had to stress so much - but all's well that ends well, right?

 

[Believeinfairytales]

- girl, you crack me up! I laughed out loud on DH's senior portrait pose. That's exactly what it looked like! You hit the nail on the head.

 

[wdwgirl03]

Mmm, that dessert looks good. LOL, 45 minutes to get your ME and you were still at Epcot?! My mom would've been having a heart attack.

 

[not_Joanna_eggs]

You cracked me up - 45 mins to catch ME and still at Epcot!! If they hadn't been so slow at Coral Reef, you wouldn't have had to stress so much - but all's well that ends well, right?

um... it ended.... You'll have to wait until the next installment to see if it ended well

- girl, you crack me up! I laughed out loud on DH's senior portrait pose. That's exactly what it looked like! You hit the nail on the head.

He's such a dork! I asked him what was up with it and he was like "it's my new photo pose... you like it?" Um... in a word... NO! Silly boy

Mmm, that dessert looks good. LOL, 45 minutes to get your ME and you were still at Epcot?! My mom would've been having a heart attack.

The dessert was good. I know it gets mixed reviews but we really like the Coral Reef. The desserts especially mmmmmm...

Yeah. I was too tired to have a heart attack, but it wasn't pretty.

 

[RachelNinja]

Wow, now THAT'S a leisurely lunch! I would've stressed the entire time about catching ME! Is there a way to take a cab to the airport just in case?

 

[bjgrazi]

Hey are you going to leave us hanging? Wanna hear how it ends.

 

[not_Joanna_eggs]

Wow, now THAT'S a leisurely lunch! I would've stressed the entire time about catching ME! Is there a way to take a cab to the airport just in case?

Yeah, we realized we were waiting a lot, but not to the extent or we would have said something much sooner. I was freaking out quite a bit! That was our back up plan - to take a cab. We figured it wasn't the end of the world, which helped me calm down a little...

Hey are you going to leave us hanging? Wanna hear how it ends.

I know... I know... Sorry... I'm working on it right now.

 

[not_Joanna_eggs]

Okay... 45 minutes to make the ME...I frantically tried to wave down our server and wolf down our dessert. We had 45 minutes to make it back to the GF to make the ME. This was doable

Unfortunately our server wasn’t in the rush we were and we waited about 10 minutes before we saw him again… and then a few more before we got our card back.

We walked briskly to the monorail – only to watch it pull away as we approached.

This isn’t going to be good…

What time is it? What exactly happens if you miss the ME?

Finally the monorail came, and we made it to the GF by 2:30… okay… 5 minutes to spare…

DH headed to Bell Services to collect our luggage, and I stood by the door looking for the ME… and the woman who checked us in the day before came running up to us with concern on her face… What are you still doing here? The bus left already?

Um...What??? Apparently our ME came at 2:15… not 2:35. Fantastic. I’m not sure where the communication breakdown happened, so I’m not blaming anyone… it just happened.

The wonderful CM who’s name I didn’t write down, ushered me to the registration desk, and brought a manager over. Apparently there wasn’t another ME coming in time for us to hop on… That seemed weird to me, but I wasn’t going to argue… I profusely apologized, and we counted our cash to take a cab to the airport. I felt responsible, and it wasn’t the end of the world…

Then the manager came up to us with a taxi voucher, and apologized for the mishap and told us to take a cab on the hotel.

Wow! Pixie Dust for sure.

I was very impressed how nice and accommodating the staff of the GF was. They really didn’t have to help us at all – and our room was free to begin with so, they doubly didn’t have to help us.

I was so appreciative; and it was definitely not expected at all. We grabbed our bags and grabbed a taxi. It was an uneventful cab ride to the airport. Once at the airport, we had to jockey our bags a bit due to weight, and we decided to upgrade to business class for $40 each – since it was only $10 more than coach + checking our 4 bags.

The flight was fairly uneventful, save for a really snooty flight attendant. But it was easy going. Despite our best efforts, the top tier of our cake got totally squished and was not worth saving. We did eat most of it over the next few days though.

My parents picked us up at the airport, and we made it home fairly quickly. As a wedding present, my parents had cleaned our entire house. That was awesome, because I didn’t get to it before we left. My parents are awesome!

So ended our amazing wedding trip. Definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I would recommend a Disney Wedding to anyone even sort of considering it. And although it was not traditional, I wouldn’t have traded having DH’s grandma on our honeymoon with us. It added to the one-time special-ness of the trip. I know we’re spoiled going to Disney as much as we do, so it was wonderful to be with someone to whom this was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

So this TR is over....But never fear! Due to a wonderful combination of DVC, airline vouchers / frequent flier miles, and APs… My lovely sister and I will be spending 48 frenetic hours in the World in 11 days. I plan on starting the TR soon, so I'll post a link when I get it up.

 

[Disney_Sarah]

Amazing report and pictures x

 

[tksbaskets]

I loved your trip report! I would have loved to have a Disney wedding but 23 years ago we weren't the Disney fanatics we are now

Will you and your sis be staying at a DVC? I will want to follow your trip report when you post the link.

We'll be at WDW at Christmas too. Our favorite time of the year.

TK