April Wedding....Lisa&Rob PJ

[IrishBride]

Hi All, I was a member of this board a while back and was known as Florida Bride, then the site was blocked inwork and I had some trouble with passwords etc so Ive had to re register. I just got a laptop at home so Im thrilled I can log on and catch up on all that Ive missed

My wedding is fast approaching. My fiance (Rob) and I are getting married on the 26th April in the Wedding Pavlion. The reception will follow in the Grand Floridian beginning with a coctail hour from 3.30 - 4.30 and the main reception from 4.30 - 1am. We have approx 75 guests travelling from Ireland and I am so excited.

Ive alot of the planning done and I'll post with more details and photos later this week (just got a digital camera and am still figuring it out.

I have two bridesmaids , my sister Rachel and Robs sister Melanie. They'll be wearing baby pink dresses.

Ive booked Randy and Stan and truely blessed to have Meri as my wedding planner.

Following the wedding my husband to be and I will spend 6 weeks visiting NYC, the West Coast, Las Vegas, Chicago and Orlando then for 2 weeks the back end of the trip.

We have our room block running form the 25-27 April, it includes All Star Music, Caribbean Beach and the Grand Floridiann. We have to fill 50 room nights. If any of you guys would like to help us meet the room nights and get a room in disney at the discounted rates please PM me and I'll PM you my wedding website address for you to book the rooms at the cheaper price.

Im really looking forward hearing from you all and sharing my plans!!!

xxxLisa xxx

 

[hope1826]

Congratulations!!

I can't wait to see pics of everything!!
Our at home pre wedding reception is in NJ on your wedding day!

 

[mla1977]

Sounds good so far. What part of Ireland are you from? It is my favorite country to visit. I've been twice and would go again tomorrow if I had the money.

 

[MistressOfAllEvil]

Wow I can barely get 15 people to come from Michigan to Florida. How have you managed to organize 75 people?? You are my new hero!

I'm so glad you found your way back to us and I can't wait to read more!

 

[orangetiggs]

I have meri too!! I'm not 100% sure on her yet!

Wow thats a lot coming over we have 30 from the uk traveling with us which is good

 

[cseca]

Congratulations!!!!
Our wedding is only 2 days apart
We'll be there on the 26th and I'll be thinking about you....

Good luck with all the planning ...

 

[IrishBride]

Thanks a million for all of your replies. Im from Wicklow (garden of Ireland) and Im just so so excited about the wedding. We are travelling from Ireland on the 19th April, so we will be in one week before the wedding to do the last minute bits and some serious tanning by the pool.

I don't know how I've managed to organise 75 people, let me tell you it hasn't been easy and Ive had my ups and downs but its finally coming together.

Meri is a star, she really does take into account all of our needs and NOTHING is a problem, she is a breath of fresh air.

I'll update more and the weekend and include pics!

 

[oneyodafan]

Congrats! Looking forward to reading more!

 

[IrishBride]

Well guys Ive spent the last few days emailing Meri and Alix getting info on my room block. Im contracted for 50 nights and only have 21 booked so far...its sooo stressful Im just hoping its the irish being so laid back and that my guests will start booking their rooms soon! My problem is as they are travelling from Ireland they have all booked rooms on I-Drive and their very reluctant to book into Disney for the wedding as they've already paid for accomodation on I-Drive. So, if any of you would like to help me out and get a discount for rooms in Disney my room block runs from 25-27 April and includes The All Star Music, The Carribbean Beach and The Grand Floridian.

I just read back over my posts and realised I never filled you in on my fiance , how we met & the engagement proposal.....

So where to start, I suppose how we met is a good place. Well we met when I was 14 and Rob was 16, just as kids hanging out. Initially Rob dated my best friend (very innocent kids stuff) and I dated Robs best friend and as it turns out Im with Rob now and my so called best friend (more on that later) had a baby for Robs best friend...freaky stuff!!!

So there we were with different people but seriously wanted each other rather than the person we were with. Don't know know how it happened but one night he told me he wanted me and not Michelle and it went from there....

We were on and off for so long , suppose we were so young. This continued over the years then when we were around 17 we parted ways, he did his thing I did mine but I NEVER for one minute forgot about him. One night we met in a nightclub and it just felt like we'd never parted. But things don't go that smoothly for me, it was too good to be true, Rob was leaving to go and work in Amsterdam one week later, so we only had a week together. I was working all week so I think we managed to meet up twice in between and planned to meet up the night before he left. So the night before I spent ages getting ready and waited patiently outside McDonalds in torrential rain and he didnt show, I rang his house no answer. I waited an hour and no sign so I rang my friends and drunk myself in an awful state, I seriously thought that was it he was gone forever.....

I woke the next morning and was so upset, couldnt eat couldnt sleep and still no call. Then two days later his friend phoned, said Rob was so drunk he forget to call and when he sobered up he had to go to the aiport. I decided there and then he wasnt worth the tears so I got on with my life ..it was hard but I knew he was away working and still it cost very little to make a call or send a postcard and neither happened from him.

Rob was gone for 4 months when one day in work a friend of mine said she saw him out the night before. My stomach sank.....what should I do? Wait though there is more he was out with my so called best friend!!!! I HAD to have a plan. So I called Michelle asked if she fancied going out but Id drive and NOT drink. I bought the tightest white trousers I could find and the lowest cut top, got my hair done and walked into the club feeling so good....but then I saw him....he saw me too and then he saw Michelle standing beside me, I could read his lips.... oh f**k......

So there I stood with my 7up and I could see him approaching, Michelle said to me may the best woman win and just as he arrived I said "you can have him im not interested" and I walked away. Got in my car and drove home feeling satisifed and worried I'd made a mistake, felt like I was giving him to her.

I heard the next day he snubbed her said its not you I want its Lisa. I was thrilled so thrilled I made the big step of telling my parents and my sister that he was home from Amstedam (they knew he'd stood me up and they had to pick up the pieces so they were very angry with him). My parents were like "be careful" but my sister was to drop a bombshell..... Rob had been phoning from Amsterdam and she'd been telling him I wasnt in - even if I was and she hadn't passed on any messages...AND he'd written a postcard which my sister intercepted and hid on me!!!!!! She thought she was doing the right thing...its funny now but at the time I was fuming.

It was a week later in the same club before I saw him again..... more on this in my next post!

 

[mla1977]

Oooohh! Bad Rob! Worse sister! I would have killed her right then and there. I can't wait to hear the rest though!

I've never been to Wicklow. I think the B&B we stayed at last time was in Co. Kildare. I read a novel called "The Princes of Ireland" that made me really want to visit Co. Wicklow though. I will one day visit all of Ireland. DBF is concerned about his own safety if he were to visit. He is Vietnamese. He like to pull up articles about how Asians are victims of racially motivated crime. Once he starts reading me the articles, I need to point out to him that all of them have happened in Northern Ireland. He has yet to show me anything about things happening in the rest of Ireland.

 

[MistressOfAllEvil]

OMG... That's the craziest story I've ever heard. I can't wait to read the rest of it. It must've turned out well, but I want all the juicy details!

 

[IrishBride]

So one week later Im back in the same club with a group of friends and I spot him on the other side of the dance floor. I couldn't keep my eyes off his every move and every time I looked in his direction he was looking in mine too! Towards the end of the night (and very early hours of the morning) I was walking to the cloak room and there he was in front of me, innoncently I pinched his bum (although I'll never admit to him I was the one to do it) he immediatley took me into his arms and kissed me!!! If Im honest that was what I wanted but I just couldn't appear too interested so for the next month or so I played it cool even going to my ex-boyfriends debs (known as prom in the US). And I also invited my ex to my debs....My ex was a complete clown at his debs and really he wasn't the person I wanted to share that evening with so with one days notice I asked Rob to come with me to my debs....with one days notice and Rob only 1 week in a new job and considering the debs took place on a Wednesday night I knew I was pushing my luck but I had my mind made up - if he didnt make a serious attempt to attend I was walking away once and for all from our 'on / off' relationship. Rob phoned me the morning of my debs and to my complete suprise he had arranged the time off, organised a tux and bought me flowers!!! When we arrived at the ball all my friends were so shocked to see us together. That night was the first night Rob ever told me he loved me - 26th August 1999 and we've been together ever since!

So fast forward 7 years to September 2007. Rob and I had planned to visit New York and Las Vegas but Id been so ill from the February the holiday was looking more and more unlikely. I have a back condtion called sacriloitis which is seriously debilitating. I can't sit for long periods, walk any distance or stand without being in severe pain. For the most part of 2007 I was bed bound, in and out of hospital and very depressed but Rob cared for me, he never moaned, he cried when I cried and he was my support. I was at home feeling sorry for myself when Rob was planning to propose with the aid of my mum in secret. I had NO idea and even now I can't believe he asked me to marry him after what must have been months of hell watching me cry all the time and wince in pain if I had to so anything for myself. In the August before we were scheduled to travel my consultant took me into hospital and operated to remove a lump which was growing on a nerve, so the trip to the US was in serious jeporady. I had no idea Rob was planning to propose in NYC and I was too sick to worry about missing the trip. I made a good recovery albeit it was a slow recovery and got the all clear to travel ONE day before we were to fly out of Dublin.....

Next up, the proposal...

 

[IrishBride]

Hi guys, can you please tell me how to post photos....cant figure it out!

Thanks

 

[IrishBride]

So onto the engagement. Rob and I arrived in NYC, showered and Rob had reservations at Tavern on The Green. Rob planned for us to go in the horse and carriage around Central Park but the weather was awful - raining and really windy so we got a taxi straight to the restaurant. I didnt know what to expect but the restaurant far exceeded any thoughts I imagined. We have cocktails and were shown to our table. I really had NO idea of what was about to happen, I was busy studying the wine menu when next thing I knew Rob was down on one knee...being as blonde as I am I thought he wanted to look at the wine menu too so I said - theres no need to kneel I'll pass the menu to you and with that he answered : "Im trying to ask you something" and then came my tears I was shocked, excited and totally overwhelmed and happy. The whole restaurant were watching and the restaurant photographer caught it all on camera. I was thrilled. Later that night Rob told me how his plans were ruined by the weather as he had planned on proposing in the horse and carriage but I wouldnt change a thing.....

Next up....deciding on Disney and breaking the wedding venue news to the family....


Guys, can someone please tell me how to post photos!???

 

[topsy]

Hi, I don't think you can post photos until you've made 10 posts : (

 

[topsy]

Hi, I don't think you can post photos until you've made 10 posts : (

 

[mla1977]

Bump! Here's you PJ!

 

[FIREFLY01]

Ok I Am Hooked The Story Of You Guys Making It Through Everything, And Him Standing By You At Your Worst, And The Incredible Proposal, Can't Wait For More
U Have To Upload Ur Picts To Photobucket.com Then Copy The Bottom Link And Place It In Your Writings, Then It Will Show Picts Once You Submit Reply

 

[IrishBride]

Ok I Am Hooked The Story Of You Guys Making It Through Everything, And Him Standing By You At Your Worst, And The Incredible Proposal, Can't Wait For More
U Have To Upload Ur Picts To Photobucket.com Then Copy The Bottom Link And Place It In Your Writings, Then It Will Show Picts Once You Submit Reply

Thanks a million! Im not good on computers at all so you'll have to bare with me. I didn't even know where to start to search for my own PJ...LOL

I'll try to upload some pic's now but Im making NO promises, Im crap crap crap at these things.

How do I incorporate the two PJ's? or can this be done?

I promise my next post will be pic's...I know the pic's are the best part.

xx

 

[IrishBride]

Ok so before I go on I think I should post some pic's so you can meet me properly and see my sister and my family.

Im making no promises here, I hope I upload these pic's properly, I don't feel free to tell me where Im going wrong!

So heres me and my sis, Im on the right, this was taken the night before we flew out to Barcelona for my hen party (bachlorette party in the US) 20 girls flew out on this trip at the end of Jan , just before I went into hospital and we did some major celebrating.... more on this later!

And heres a pic of the barman in the pub in Barcelona, me, Melanie (Robs sister & my bridesmaid), my sister Rachel and my best friend Jacqui.

These are some of the most important people in my life so I thought I'd start here....apart from Rob of course and Im downloading some pics of me and Rob now which I'll include in my next installment with details of the big decision - to get married in Disneyworld Florida!