About our wedding

[ypmurg]

For everyone who asked. I will tell a little bit everytime I go online. If you have any specific questions please ask.

First off it was the best wedding ever( I am sure I am a little bias.) We got married at the WP cockltail hour and reception at the Boardwalk, bus transportaion for the guests, cinderellas coach, and pictures at the castle the next morning. Plus a bunch of little extras. Like I said before if you have any questions ask us because we either had it or looked into it.

These are a couple of things I wish I knew before I got to Disney to make things easier for us.
If you are getting bus transportation make up a schedule before hand and give them to all the guests. We were calling everyone up until the morning of our wedding to tell them the schedule. If you are making gift bags add that to the list of goodies.
If you are doing cocktail hour with 100 guests make sure they put 100 chairs in the cocktail hour room (even if they put chairs around the outside of the room so someone can pull up another chair if needed. I always hated when I went to a cocktail hour and had no place to sit and eat.( this is something we requested and did not receive) but they did say it can be done.
One other thing is make sure the size or the dance floor. They were going to give us a 18'x18' dance floor and told them to double it. I think they gave us something close to 30'x30' it was perfect.

I will continue next time hope some of this helps.
good luck

 

[ypmurg]

about the buses. They only offered us one pick up at each hotel. You are paying for them by the hour so you tell them when to pick people up. We had them make three trips to every hotel to the WP then kept one to return people home every hour when needed.

For our ceremony songs we had the organist play all Disney songs
someday my prince will come, circle of life, a dream is a wish your heart makes and for me they played the 12 chimes then cindy at the palace. during the kiss they played kiss the girl and walking out they played a disney melody. We had more then a few people comment how they liked it because it was a little different then the usual.(then again they are not going to tell us they didnt like it) but we did

Cocktail hour we did not have much food It was all getting pricey.
we did fruit plate, veggie plate, chicken skewers and a pasta station with 2 sauces. Without the pasta station there would have looked like there was nothing. Oh and of course, open bar The only problem with cocktail hour was not enough seats other then that everything was was good. We are from NY and catering halls are a dime a dozen so they usually throw a cocktail hour in for free for something like we got. Then you have a little extra $$$ to add a bigger selection so I would not doubt it if that did not get great reviews from our guests. But I did not hear anything bad so it went great

I bored you long enough. And again I hope some of this is helpful to someone. good luck

 

[bubbaloo311]

Hi - it's great to hear about your wedding.

My husband and I got married last November at the WP and also had our CH and reception at the Boardwalk. Our CH was at SBP and the reception was in Promenade East. I am also from NYC - the home of the huge cocktail hour - so I can totally relate to what you said.

I am just curious to know who your EM was. We had Michelle Dorr - and she was amazing. She made sure there was ample seating at the CH - either seated at tables or standing at a tall top table - so everyone at least had a place to put their food - even if they were standing. Given the layout at SBP this worked well.

Also, we were really hung up on the cocktail hour so we sucked it up and tried to make it as lavish as possible without totally breaking the bank. To try and make less appear more - I asked Disney to do a completely Asian themed cocktail hour (I plan events as part of my job so I pulled things I had done for work - and Disney was great at fulfilling our wishes.

We had chinese spicy noodles served in individual chinese boxes (special request), chicken fried rice station, beef satay skewers, shrimp terikaki wrapped in bacon, spring rolls, and veggie and cheese displays.

Disney completely surprised us with an amazing Sushi Station - something we had cut out due to budget - because we agreed to be part of the Food Network Special. It was beautiful - and we were really grateful to Disney and our EM for making it happen.

My cousin's wedding had about 20 different stations - with ice sculptures and seafood bars - so I too was nervous. But she paid a ridiculous amount for her 280+ people in a rather expensive catering hall in NJ. While her wedding cost a lot and had so much food it was sinful - I hope they donated it to a charity it was ridiculous (though very normal up here).

No matter what, I am sure your guests were blown away by how magical your wedding was - and that's something only Disney can do.

But's a good thing you made Disney work with you on the buses and the dancefloor. My moto with Disney is "ask and usually you shall receive". Just one question, did your EM not tell you to let your guests know about the pick-up times? We just included a letter with out welcome bags.

But congratulations, and I'm glad that for the most part everything went well.

 

[ypmurg]

Our EM was Justin but got got sick two days before our wedding then Diane took over. We told Justin about the seating but we had to go over a lot of things with Diane and It was lost in the mix. That was one thing we forgot to tell her.

About the buses, we knew we had to tell the guests but they wanted to stop once at each hotel. Since we were paying by the hour we wanted them to stop a few times at each. It worked out well they were able to make two trips to each hotel and a third that would not get there before the start of the ceremony. Most of the people caught the second bus.

We did not find out what times the buses would stop at each hotel until the afternoon before.

Disney did a great job with everything else I dont think anyone will remember how flat the CH was. Plus the food they did have there was good so how can you complain.

My friend a couple of weeks before mine did the same thing with the CH as your cousin then had five tables of desserts carried onto the dance floor so I thought I was going to be in trouble.

We had the dessert slippers for everyone and the decorate you own cupcakes for the kids. They both went over real well.

We also wanted them to give the guests a choice of what to eat but would not do it so we sent menus with the invitations. I was not sure how that was going to work out but it was fine. Food wise the only thing I was not a fan of was the salad, everything else was great. A lot of people agreed. For all the things that can go wrong I will take mine over anyones. They were so little and did not effect the good time we had.

Note for everyone else: Tell Your EM to send you a list to your room every morning of which guests have checked in the day before. If you are having more then a few people and they are staying in different hotels it makes it so much easier to welcome them. I did not realize I can get that until I was there for a few days and what a difference. They give you the name and room number.