So, we have been trying to get as much figured out as we can before our planning session in December. Its difficult since we are so far away from Disney. We are 3 hours behind Florida time so by the time I get off work, it is already 6pm there and most people are off work.
So this week I kind of figured out our welcome party/rehearsal dinner. We were originally just going to do a rehearsal dinner, probably at the Rainforest Cafe or the T-Rex restaurant. I called their group events line and they sent me their menus. They have a minimum of $40 per person.
Well, one day my Mom and I were talking and she thought we needed to have some kind of Welcome party. We figure we are going to have about 80 people at the wedding, so maybe around 50 people at the welcome party, depending on when people fly in and how tired they are after their flight. That being the case, Rainforest is out. After calling Saratoga Spring, where we are staying, we decided to just do a Welcome Party in our room since we have a 2 bedroom villa. We will probably just get frozen lasagnas from Costco or something like that. The other option is to get sandwiches and have everyone meet us at the pool. I talked to someone at Saratoga an they said that we can bring our own food to the pool, but there is no pool hopping between resorts. We have about 5 2 bedroom villas booked at Saratoga so we will have a lot of people anyways. I don't think they will card us at the pool if some people are from a different resort. We will have so many room keys, we can just show them that. Plus most of the people there will actually be staying at Saratoga.
So that is our idea for the Welcome party. As for the rehearsal dinner, I think we are going to do a lunch instead. Probably at Portobello, but I am not sure yet. We are hoping that we can do lunch around noon and then do the rehearsal afterward. Then after the rehearsal, people can go and rest up or go to the parks before the welcome dinner.
When I talked to our planner, Carol, she said to go ahead and make our dining plans and we would arrange the rehearsal around them. I guess we can't figure out our rehearsal time till a month before the wedding.
So, we just have to finalize our rehearsal lunch and that is done.
We also went and got my DF fitted for his tux. We decided to go through Men's Warehouse. I called the one in Winter Garden, Fl, to see what I needed to do and what their policies are. I guess, that since our wedding is on Saturday, MW will deliver the tuxes to our hotel the Wednesday before. We have until that Thursday at 4pm to call them if there are any changes. If there are changes, then they will made and the new tuxes will be delivered to our hotel by that Friday or Saturday morning before the wedding.
That being said, we will be in Florida the week before the wedding and so will one of our Groomsmen. The others and the Dads will be flying in Thursday night so they will have to pick up their tuxes at home and fly with them to Florida, but they can leave the in Florida and the Winter Garden store will pick them up so they don't have to fly home with them.
For the tuxes, we decided to go with the Kenneth Cole, black, 2 button design with white shirts with no pleats. My DF will be wearing the black Tuscany vest with the Jade stripe Euro tie. The Groomsmen and my brother will will wear the same tie but with the matching Jade Tuscany vest.
For the Dads, they will wear the same thing, but with a Silver Tuscany vest and silver stripe Euro tie. I am very excited about these.
!!! If you don't mind me asking...What bridal shop did you go to?
Did you? How did you know this was "the one"? As for the Jewelery...I think the dress is beatiful on its own...you could do a necklace if you wanted but I would think something really small and simple! Love all you plans so far ^_^
