Amanda & Robby PJ . 10/25/2011 SBP, LSS,UK DP *Invitations*

[DisneyBride1207]

So, I haven't posted in a long time! I have been super overwhelmed with running the flower shop, being a new home owner, saving for the wedding and just being busy with...LIFE! I have been still playing around on the disboards though -- just haven't gotten to posting about OUR wedding!

Update on wedding plans:

1. We changed the wedding to October 25th, 2011! It definitely helps with our wedding payments. I was upset about this at first, too concentrated on what people would think rescheduling it for the THIRD time, but I quickly got over that!
2. Wedding music - Pretty sure we are doing a ukulele for ceremony and cocktail hour and dueling pianos for our reception. Our wedding theme is a mix of tropical/ocean/nature....whatever that is!
3. In realizing that next year we may hopefully be starting a family, I realized we might not be able to use our Annual Passes -- so we are taking advantage of them by doing a planning session/vacation in May to WDW!!! We are waiting to hear back about the planning session. I'm curious as to what goes on in PS!
4. I will be bringing my own flowers for my bouquet and my BMs. I own a flower shop and I regularly do wedding florals for brides, so it makes sense cost-wise for me to just do them myself...especially since I'm so darn picky about florals! I am having my flowers shipped to our resort and I will just whip up my bouquet there!
5. I am still working on picking bridesmaid color dresses, flower colors. I have narrowed it down to maybe doing blue dresses for our ocean theme (I made invitations in green and blue with coral in the invites). I LOVE phalaenopsis orchids in fuschia so maybe MY bouquet will be all shades of fuschia/purple/lavender. I was thinking to have the girls bouquets be all green. I am all about the monochromatic color schemes for bridal bouquets. It always looks classy/not messy. I see so many bouquets and in person monochromatic just ALWAYS gets a WOW
6. Shoes: OHHH THE DREADED SHOES! I am about the same heigh as Robby (fiance), and I normally am very comfortable in a platform shoe because of my foot issues...but I can really wear anything that is higher than like 3.5" I am also unsure what color shoes to do...I think maybe I should just get whatever color I want. I love ALL colors ... tough
7. Flowers/decor: So, I am only going to do probably just petals for the ceremony and then bring orchids to scatter orchid blooms - green cymbidiums and fuschia vanda's on tables, etc. I am hoping to bring small glass cylinders with floating candles and orchids I have to talk to DFTW about this one as I have heard mixed reviews on the boards about what they allow/what they will setup. So I will report back about this.

I hope someone will be following this to help lend some advice So I'd love to hear back! I should probably start posting some pics, right?! LOL!

 

[DisneyBride1207]

Here is a pic with the original alterations (that weren't actually done, only pinned back, we ended up postponing the wedding the following week). This was a pic with the 'bustle' done up. It actually has a 4' train. I have lost about 20 pounds since I originally bought the dress!!! (as you can hopefully tell, I'm skinner in this image than the rest!!!)

This image was taken by a local photographer friend of mine -- it was me wearing the dress holding a bouquet that I designed for some promotional images for my flower shop:

Here is an image of me in June 2009 when I bought the dress (before alterations of course). I was being silly and wearing a different veil and hair piece then I will at the actual wedding.

a bit closer:

and of course the image from Rivini:

 

[DisneyBride1207]

So the old invites that I made for our original DCL wedding are these ones...

It sucks because I had to make totally new ones...it is a pain doing them twice! grr! hehe

I have actually made new ones that are underwater theme - I will post those as soon as I take a pic!

 

[LuvLuvLuv]

i just love the picture of you in your dress with the bouquet!!! sooooo pretty!! i think it was a good move to go to SBP instead of the beach. we always go in may and the sand can get hot hot hot!! you don't want to melt during your ceremony!! good luck with the rest of your planning!!! can't wait to read more!!

 

[kslo69]

I love love love the flower bouquet you are holding.

 

[DisneyBride1207]

So, picture it, May 2009. I was graduating from college and had been dating Robby for a little over 7 years. We took a trip to WDW for a family vacation (as we normally did) and Disney is my favorite place in the whole wide world! and OF COURSE I always hinted that he needed to propose when we went haha....but I didn't think he would actually do it!

So it was the middle of the week, and I figured there was no way he was going to...well, we all got dressed up to go up to the Magic Kingdom for the evening and I had NO IDEA what was awaiting me!

We walked up to the castle and my mom asked if I would take a pic of her and my dad. Then she said 'would you like a picture with Robby?" I still didn't see it coming

Then, he started the whole, "babe, you know I love you..." and I just got so nervous!

 

[DisneyBride1207]

thank you both!

 

[DisneyBride1207]

(just now realized I posted some stuff TWICE! I'm so silly...)

So, When we postponed they had to re-write everything and basically start the whole process over on the Disney end. We are still waiting to get our LOA so we can sign it and send it back. This means I also have NO PLANNER right now We did have Pamela, and she seemed fine. I really liked her assistant Jen Flores who seemed very helpful.

We also changed our minds about the types of rooms in the room block - - we wanted to add some suites, so that took time for the redo of that! We started this process way back in like July '10, and now here we are in (almost April) 2011 and still not yet to a planner. But, that's okay -- normally you don't plan much until the Planning Session anyhow from how I take it from all the other PJ's We are going to WDW in May for a romantic getaway and we will do our PS in person then! YAY! I just want to taste food! ...and see the locations in person of course

 

[PinkSleepingBeauty]

We get married the same day! your plans are looking great so far! Very pretty dress!

 

[donald&daisy]

I can't wait to hear about your planning session! I would love to see your new invites too!!!

 

[KristiLyn]

I LOVE that pic of the dress/bouquet!
And awesome engagement pic!! I really love it that it's just you two in the pic! Usually Disney pics have lots of people in them (or atleast mine do...ha)

 

[02AggieGirl]

What a beautiful bride!! Congratulations! Love your dress

 

[DisneyBride1207]

We get married the same day! your plans are looking great so far! Very pretty dress!

really?! I will check out your PJ if you have one!

 

[DisneyBride1207]

I LOVE that pic of the dress/bouquet!
And awesome engagement pic!! I really love it that it's just you two in the pic! Usually Disney pics have lots of people in them (or atleast mine do...ha)

ya it was weird that only a few people were around!! i always tell people how weird it was, which made it more obvious to people what was happening and people cheered!!

What a beautiful bride!! Congratulations! Love your dress

thank you

I can't wait to hear about your planning session! I would love to see your new invites too!!!

I will post those pics asap and take LOTS at the PS to share!!

 

[DisneyBride1207]

I am glad some fellow brides are following along -- I love advice and being an art major and used to constructive criticism -- so any input (as long as it's helpful and not downright mean) would be appreciated regarding aspects of the wedding I have thoughts about, etc!

Happy planning to all -- this makes me excited to have people to share my planning with!!! I really do appreciate being able to share thoughts on the disboards with fellow disney loving brides

 

[DisneyBride1207]

i just love the picture of you in your dress with the bouquet!!! sooooo pretty!! i think it was a good move to go to SBP instead of the beach. we always go in may and the sand can get hot hot hot!! you don't want to melt during your ceremony!! good luck with the rest of your planning!!! can't wait to read more!!

I just saw in your siggie that you will be in Disney the same week! how cool! you meeting with planners at all?

 

[PinkSleepingBeauty]

really?! I will check out your PJ if you have one!

I do have a PJ Feel free to check it out

 

[SerpentQueenClaire]

Just wanted to say that you look really beautiful in your dress and I'm sure that you are going to have a gorgeous wedding. The flowers in your promotional pic are incredible-you're very talented.
We don't fly out for our wedding trip until 28 Oct which is a shame as I won't be able to 'stalk' your big day!!

 

[DisneyBride1207]

so, I spent much hard work on my last passport invitations and had to change the wedding from DCL to WDW --- but that's okay with me!

I made these new ones that were a little more traditional style invitation, but still fit our underwater/ocean theme

I used a 'glimmer mist' from a scrapbook store and used a reverse stencil type of technique. I had so much trouble finding a paper type, stamps, etc. that I ended up finding a stencil type of thing that looked like coral - So I bought some shimmery/wedding-ish paper and used the glimmer mist to fancy up the plan paper. I used shimmery ivory paper for some parts and the other mixed in blues and greens for our wedding 'colors'. We have accents of other colors in our wedding -- for example I want fuschia flowers and to add touches of maybe yellow and orange somewhere in the reception -- I love all colors, so I thought "well the ocean has lots of colors with coral and fishies, so why not make it a mixture" hehe

I used a little cutting board from michaels for all my straight edges and bought their envelopes and cardstock and pieced together the colors I wanted. You can't tell but the green part is shimmery and looks really pretty and is appropriate for wedding invites IMO.

 

[goodmorningirl]

Just thought I'd jump in and tell you that your ideas so far are great. Your dress is really beautiful! This may sound weird but we are actually pretty similar lol. My boyfriend and I started dating freshman year of high school and are together 7 years now without ever breaking up and I work in a florist and hope to own my own shop one day. What a small world! lol I can't wait to hear more about your wedding.