Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique FAQ's w/ Photos

[pl'smama]

Thanks! It was my wedding cake, we got married in DW in 2004. Each layer was a different flavor. I highly recommend a DW wedding I'm new to the site and wanted to test a picture on the boards. Thank you!

Your cake was lovely! Is that the large castle sculpture done in white chocolate? OMG it looks good! Did you eat that or save it?

Any chance you can do a trrp report, albiet a late one, on your Disney wedding?!! We would all love to hear about it!

Suz

 

[teresajoy]

The photo package that comes w/ the castle package is 29.99 and that includes 4~4x6's and 1~6x8 if you don't do the castle package I would really just consider having them on your photopass and order the cd. I preordered the cd and had 113 pics on my photopasses so that worked out to be less than 1 dollar a pic plus I added boarders to all of my pics which doubled the amount that I had and I can do whatever I want w/ them.


Okay, my laptop decided it was time to go crazy so I haven't been able to post my pics yet. Of all times for it to do this the keyboard isn't typing right and I really want to cry b/c on 2/5 after our appt @ BBB we had a dinner ressie @ 1900 for 4.30 and my dd was picked to open the dining room and I videoed it w/ my camera and after adding it to my laptop I deleted if from my camera.

I hope your laptop starts cooperating with you!!!

Thanks! It was my wedding cake, we got married in DW in 2004. Each layer was a different flavor. I highly recommend a DW wedding I'm new to the site and wanted to test a picture on the boards. Thank you!

I second the wedding trip report idea! I would love to read about it!

 

[lilfish]

Can I make reservations for this ahead of time? How do I do it??? Looks like so much fun!!!

 

[Finally08]

So we just did this last week when we were there.
I would have cancelled the appt considering the circumstances if it weren't for the cancellation fee.
My dd was one of those nightmare kids you would have thought was being forced into it. In truth, she's done Libby Lu before and enjoyed it, but the afternoon of our BBB appointment, she was running on 5 hours sleep (P&PP the night before so to bed at 1am, up at 6am for Chef Mickey's!).
She was sleeping about 20 minutes before her appt, and then they were running behind so she got about another half hour nap in. But when it was time to wake her....oh my goodness!! She was disoriented and a total mess. She did not want to be awake at that moment and was unleashing it on everyone.
About 4 girls immediately surrounded her though and started reading to her and having her sprinkle pixie dust - I think she had 4 fairy godmother's at one point. They did an AmAZING job calming her down, and I just apologized over and over to them.

Once it was time for the reveal, her mood started to show again...look at her face when she laid eyes on herself for the first time...this is my fave photo of the whole week!

But as soon as we got out of there and walking around she loved it all. She would grin when she passed her reflection and loved all the attention she got when people commented on her.
All smiles by the time we got to the studio:

 

[praline3001]

Hi everyone! We got back from Disney a few days ago and my daughter did the castle package at the ...well at the castle

I want to say the Cm's who worked with us were WONDERFUL!!!!
They really made it special for my DD. The thing I really didn't like about it was the crushed feeling in the salon. We felt like sardines in there
It really took a lot of the magic away when she and I couldn't see eachother or even hear eachother!
I tried video taping some of it and the noise level was so high that you can't hear what she is saying on the video.

I really think Disney needs to make a limit to how many guest can go in with the princess or something. There was a family of 6 watching their princess (who makes 7) get done up. There were kids running all over the place who were not being made up... I tripped on 3 of them and 1 ran smack into me
For $179 I would expect not to be trampled on and be able to breathe
i don't know how those FGIT take it all day long. I got a headache just for the hour we were in there due to the noise level.

I am a chipper person and I love Disney and crowds don't normally bother me but so many people in such a small room WOW what was Disney thinking?

Here are a few pics of my

Here are a few from the photo shoot

There were more from the shoot but you get the idea haha
After the photo shoot was done I asked DH to take DD outside to entertain her while I picked out the pics I wanted from our package... this was his way of ENTERTAINING HER AACKKKK

So much for being a princess

All in all we had a great experience EXCEPT for the huge crowds inside the salon.

 

[pl'smama]

So we just did this last week when we were there.
I would have cancelled the appt considering the circumstances if it weren't for the cancellation fee.
My dd was one of those nightmare kids you would have thought was being forced into it. In truth, she's done Libby Lu before and enjoyed it, but the afternoon of our BBB appointment, she was running on 5 hours sleep (P&PP the night before so to bed at 1am, up at 6am for Chef Mickey's!).
She was sleeping about 20 minutes before her appt, and then they were running behind so she got about another half hour nap in. But when it was time to wake her....oh my goodness!! She was disoriented and a total mess. She did not want to be awake at that moment and was unleashing it on everyone.
About 4 girls immediately surrounded her though and started reading to her and having her sprinkle pixie dust - I think she had 4 fairy godmother's at one point. They did an AmAZING job calming her down, and I just apologized over and over to them.

Once it was time for the reveal, her mood started to show again...look at her face when she laid eyes on herself for the first time...this is my fave photo of the whole week!

But as soon as we got out of there and walking around she loved it all. She would grin when she passed her reflection and loved all the attention she got when people commented on her.
All smiles by the time we got to the studio:

Totally priceless! Your DD is just adorable! Poor thing must have needed her beauty sleep, but I am happy she got to have her BBB time. I agree with you on the middle photo. She is such a charming little princess. Regardless of what happened you have some great memories!!

Thanks for sharing, Suz

 

[pl'smama]

Your princess is just lovely! She sure looks like she enjoyed herself. I can just imagine how the noise must have been. My DD had an appt in Jan at the DTD BBB, but it was the first one at 9am. They let us in at 8:45am which was great. No one there until after 9 so we had the place to ourselves for a bit. It was really nice.

Thanks for sharing your great photos!

Suz

 

[Family24]

I agree with the above poster about they should limit the amount of people in the room which I thought I heard was only suppose to be one. When we were there two weeks ago my daughter had a great time but when we were in the room I was clearly sitting in front of her taking pictures and a load of people came in with their little girl. I mean at least six people and pushed there was right in front of me. I am a very calm person but I was just shocked people can be that rude. I just moved over as they were clearly being ignorant and did not even care. We still had a great experience and would definitely go back since she loved it so much but hopefully they will enforce the number of people allowed in the room.

 

[Finally08]

Another thing they should consider is having something AT THE DOOR to keep curious people from wandering in. The waiting room is tiny, and I can't tell you how many people we watched come in just to see what the place even was. And lots wanted to take photos, and were told by the CM's they could photograph the room but couldn't have any of the children in the photos (how would that be possible?).
It made checking in hard too, the check in counter is about 5 feet in from the door and that's where a lot of people are squeezing by to look around.

It would be a huge crowd relief to just to not grant access to those without appointments.

 

[praline3001]

I agree with the above poster about they should limit the amount of people in the room which I thought I heard was only suppose to be one. When we were there two weeks ago my daughter had a great time but when we were in the room I was clearly sitting in front of her taking pictures and a load of people came in with their little girl. I mean at least six people and pushed there was right in front of me. I am a very calm person but I was just shocked people can be that rude. I just moved over as they were clearly being ignorant and did not even care. We still had a great experience and would definitely go back since she loved it so much but hopefully they will enforce the number of people allowed in the room.

We must have been there at the same time

Several times people just walked right in front of me while I was taking pics of my DD in her chair! Half the photos I have are the backsides of other people
It really took away from the whole experience IMO

They need to open up a seperate waiting area for family members or make a bigger waiting room. The idea of it being in the castle is GREAT but the room just isn't big enough for the amount of girls they are pushing through....

What would be a GREAT IDEA is if they took Tink's treasures and moved IT into the castle and put the BBB where Tink's treasures is..... that would give plenty of more moving space ... well maybe not Tink's treasures but one of those stores right behind the castle

 

[pixleyyy]

I agree with the overcrowding. We were there at 8am and it was pretty crowded. I also had difficulties getting photos without some strangers backside in it. I can't imagine it in the summer or holiday times when it's just packed with people even more.

 

[theparsons]

I think a LOT of the crowd problem has to do with the time of your appointment.....not unlike the crowdedness of character meals has to do with the time you're there.

My girls had appointments at 11 and 11:20 (I wanted them done by the same FGIT because I videoed the whole thing for each). When we arrived at 10:40 it was definitely crazy and crowded. There was no seating in the waiting area until close to 11...and we weren't called for the first appointment until about 11:10 (which about drove Meghan nuts....when her little buzzer went off she literally jumped up and yelled, kissed that silly buzzer and bounced up and down some more, ).

By the time we got into the salon it had really quieted down....all the chairs were full of girls, but the waiting parents crowd that we had fought our way through to get to the dressing room was gone....there was seats on the center benches for Grandma to watch from.....and we totally lucked out in that we got a corner salon chair and I was able to stand against the wall (that one on the left corner as you enter where there is a locked door to the outside). So the only backsides I have in videos is our FGIT's . It is a little hard to hear the conversations they had....but the girls remember most of what was going on, and we wrote down some of it to put away with the DVD so that years from now we'd remember the conversations they had. The part that bothered me was the Photopass Photographer kept wanting to carry on a conversation with me when it was clear that I was videotaping so unfortunately I have his comments about what we should do afterwards and where to get our salon pics done and what rides to avoid with the dresses on....grrr. I think my one or two word answers to him finally gave him the hint. I mean I know he was being nice and I do appreciate it, but if someone is videotaping something you don't talk to them!

By the time Jessica's time came about 11:45 or so (they had a bit of trouble with Meghan's hair being so thick and long getting it all up into the bun.....Amanda, our FGIT quipped that Jessica would be faster now that she knew how to deal with their hair).....by then the crowd in the salon had thinned out considerably....there were even chairs that were empty for short times instead of the instant turnover. I'm guessing it's because folks made appointments for their girls to be done up in time for lunch.

I know that we made most of our character meals at "off" hours....dinner at 7pm, lunch at 2, breakfast more like an early lunch at 10:30 or 11...so that we were before the lunch crowd but after the breakfast rush. Not only was it quieter than I've read reports on, but it also meant that because it was not nearly as busy we got a little more time with the character because they didn't have as many tables to get through. We did O'hana breakfast at 10:30 and actually had Stitch steal my DH's seat and he sat there pretending to eat my DH's breakfast for several minutes. This was Stitch's third time around to our table....the first time we really felt rushed for autographs and a quick photo and hug....the second time we didn't need the autograph so we got more photos but they were still "pose and run".....that third time I was able to switch to video and got lots of interaction, including Lilo coming over to join Stitch and admonish him for eating DH's breakfast!

The one character meal we did early....Crystal Palace at 8:15am so we could be in the park "alone"....was pretty chaotic. Though Pooh and them spent a bit of time with us, it was noisy and crowded at the buffet....and we spent about an hour enjoying our first morning at WDW and noticed it got quieter as we were getting ready to leave. I think the "before the park opens" times are definitely prime time at CP. It was worth it though to get the pictures that we got before our breakfast!

So, next time maybe consider going at an "off" time. Of course I have older girls (they're 11yo) so we were able to have a little snack when needed to tide us over for our off hour meals (beef jerky in our purses was a godsend). That would have been a little harder to do with young kids who are used to eating at a set time.

 

[praline3001]

We had our appointment for 12:50 and it was packed then

I wonder what a good time would be to make an appointment. The concept is adorable, the FGIT were wonderful ... but they just pack way too many people into 1 room for it to be magical.

Maybe it was just a crowded day that I went, who knows but the entire day there was a crowd around the door trying to get in.

I agree many who are there are sightseeing. It took us a good 5 minutes to get to the door of the place and guess what.... the crowd outside the door? none of them had appointments

Maybe having a CM there to direct people WITH appointments would move along the crowd.

 

[badblackpug]

I have, twice!

Trust me when I say I was quite leery but the way it was handled at the BBB really impressed me. In the photo below, my daughter had indvidual braids I had done as she went back to school later in the week. Her braids had been freshly-washed the day before so when she got to the salon she had 'clean' hair. She got the Fairytale Princess style.

It took two FGM's In Training to style her hair because they had to get it all on the top of her head with a thick black ponytail holder, then secured it with bobby pins. The style lasted for 5+ days like this even when she swam!

For the second visit right after Christmas of last year, she got the Coach package and her hair done in the Disney Diva style. She had cornrows which were done on the Disney Cruise Line but her hair was left out in the back. The stylist had no problem fashioning it into the hairstyle. Here was the result:

This stylist didn't do my daughter's hair 'directly' but she was next to the stylist working on my daughter's hair. She offered assistance in how to get her hair up in the Fairytale Princess style. She also complimented me on doing my daughter's individual braids! When I was there in December, there were two black stylists in the room. There is another lady who is biracial but she wasn't there in December. She was in August though.



The two times I went I did see Bronner Brother's products (spritz and pomade). If the stylist doesn't know (and they usually do), emphasize that you don't want anything water-based on your daughter's hair if it's pressed or chemically relaxed. Since my daughter had braids/cornrows, I instructed them to use spray leave-in conditioner. The stylists are very good about asking you first what product you'd like put in your child's hair.

Also, another FYI I found out when I made a BBB appointment for my daughter in April, you must bring your own brush and comb.

Your daughter is going to love the BBB!

Thank you for the pics of your princess. Mine wanted to do this sooo badly in November, but we skipped it because I wasn't sure BBB could style black hair. I think we will get braids before we go. This year it is a must do!

 

[haley123]

So we just did this last week when we were there.
I would have cancelled the appt considering the circumstances if it weren't for the cancellation fee.
My dd was one of those nightmare kids you would have thought was being forced into it. In truth, she's done Libby Lu before and enjoyed it, but the afternoon of our BBB appointment, she was running on 5 hours sleep (P&PP the night before so to bed at 1am, up at 6am for Chef Mickey's!).
She was sleeping about 20 minutes before her appt, and then they were running behind so she got about another half hour nap in. But when it was time to wake her....oh my goodness!! She was disoriented and a total mess. She did not want to be awake at that moment and was unleashing it on everyone.
About 4 girls immediately surrounded her though and started reading to her and having her sprinkle pixie dust - I think she had 4 fairy godmother's at one point. They did an AmAZING job calming her down, and I just apologized over and over to them.

Once it was time for the reveal, her mood started to show again...look at her face when she laid eyes on herself for the first time...this is my fave photo of the whole week!

But as soon as we got out of there and walking around she loved it all. She would grin when she passed her reflection and loved all the attention she got when people commented on her.
All smiles by the time we got to the studio:

Your daughter is absolutely adorable. I love her dress. Where did you get it from?

 

[DisDancerina]

I was wondering that, too.

 

[pixleyyy]

I was wondering that, too.

If I remember right that's a Disney Store dress. That's the deluxe tink costume they had.

The new Disney Store costumes are ADORABLE. Silk flowers on all of them similar to the Tink one above. Check out their website. Soooooo cute!!!

 

[DisDancerina]

If I remember right that's a Disney Store dress. That's the deluxe tink costume they had.

The new Disney Store costumes are ADORABLE. Silk flowers on all of them similar to the Tink one above. Check out their website. Soooooo cute!!!

I'll check in a second, but they sound adorable!

 

[karmalicousss]

very pretty and very cute!

 

[mickeysmyboy]

Does anyone have a photo with the Jasmine costume? My DD will be turning 7 the 2nd day of our trip. We have a 9:30 am appointment for BBB in the castle as part of her HUGE WDW birthday celebration. Our first trip to BBB was Halloween morning 06 at DTD. She got Cinderella's wedding dress and the fairy tale princess hair.

This time she's a bit older and more into things like Hannah Montana, etc. She wants the diva hair and Jasmine costume. I was just curious what it looked like!

TIA