Committment ceremony update

[smmast]

We sail May 30th. I am waiting to hear back. Update to come.

 

[smmast]

Update: Sent off the planning packet today at the 11th hour. Had a hard time selecting the music. Really only needed four songs, but it was harder than we expected. We chose "Somewhere over the rainbow" by Israel K (can not spell last name) as our seating song.
We will walk in to "Valentine" by Martina Mcbride, Recessional song "Only you can love me this way" Keith Urban and cake cutting song "How sweet it is to be loved by you" James Taylor.
I will be escorted by my sister and brother and Jenn by her two brothers.
We chose a contemporary style cake, vanilla with butter creme filling, boring but our favorite.
we are wearing hawaiian leis instead of carrying bouquets and all the guests will also wear tropical flowers. We chose a basic photo package due to $$.
That's all i can think of right now. Any questions? Disney has been absolutely fabulous to deal with!!

 

[soulmates]

Update: Sent off the planning packet today at the 11th hour. Had a hard time selecting the music. Really only needed four songs, but it was harder than we expected. We chose "Somewhere over the rainbow" by Israel K (can not spell last name) as our seating song.
We will walk in to "Valentine" by Martina Mcbride, Recessional song "Only you can love me this way" Keith Urban and cake cutting song "How sweet it is to be loved by you" James Taylor.
I will be escorted by my sister and brother and Jenn by her two brothers.
We chose a contemporary style cake, vanilla with butter creme filling, boring but our favorite.
we are wearing hawaiian leis instead of carrying bouquets and all the guests will also wear tropical flowers. We chose a basic photo package due to $$.
That's all i can think of right now. Any questions? Disney has been absolutely fabulous to deal with!!

SO very happy for you both!!

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

Wow. Sounds fabulous!

And stop with the boring already! It's a classic!

Looking forward to hearing how it all went!

 

[Hydani]

Your plans sound great! I hope I can get married by Disney one day. I've always wanted a cruise marriage anyways I hope we hear more about the wedding, and see pictures too!

 

[smmast]

Looking for suggestions. We would like to give our guests a small gift as a token of our appreciation for joining us on the cruise, but having trouble coming up with something. We had thought about ordering gifts from Disney Cruise Line and they would send them to the staterooms directly. We looked at the small duffel and the water bottles, both really nice, but needless to say slightly overpriced in my humble opinion. The other thought was to put something together at home and mail it to the ship and hand the gifts out ourselves, but we may not want the hassle. Help!

 

[kingLouiethe1]

Looking for suggestions. We would like to give our guests a small gift as a token of our appreciation for joining us on the cruise, but having trouble coming up with something. We had thought about ordering gifts from Disney Cruise Line and they would send them to the staterooms directly. We looked at the small duffel and the water bottles, both really nice, but needless to say slightly overpriced in my humble opinion. The other thought was to put something together at home and mail it to the ship and hand the gifts out ourselves, but we may not want the hassle. Help!

I know it sounds like a hassle, but if you gave away duffles you wouldn't necessarily have to fill them,. Here's an idea, you can go on disney shopping and often they will have sales on the personalized duffles, you could have one made for each of your guests, and if you wanted to fill them you could get each of them a beach towel, you would probably still end up spending less than if you went through DCL. You could even have the package shipped to Florida if they would hold it for you, or maybe one of the nice people on this board in FL would let you ship to their home.

 

[nordkin]

Looking for suggestions. We would like to give our guests a small gift as a token of our appreciation for joining us on the cruise, but having trouble coming up with something. We had thought about ordering gifts from Disney Cruise Line and they would send them to the staterooms directly. We looked at the small duffel and the water bottles, both really nice, but needless to say slightly overpriced in my humble opinion. The other thought was to put something together at home and mail it to the ship and hand the gifts out ourselves, but we may not want the hassle. Help!

People on the cruise forum rave about the Perfect Gift operated by Shirley Nelson Brown in Cape Canaveral. You tell her what you want, she puts it together, and delivers it to the ship. We have used it and it was great. She has some good suggestions as well. Here is the link. http://www.theperfectgift.cc/

Donna

 

[ckdsnynt]

We went to an out of town wedding where all the out of towners were given a custom box with the following contents: bottled water, diet coke, regular coke, mints, salted pecans (the wedding was in a state where pecans are big!) trail mix, chocolate kisses, miniature chocolate brownies & chex mix. Then it was tied with a big ribbon and had mini wedding bells on the ribbon. It was great for late night snacks. But probably not on a cruise, huh, where all you do is eat! Except when you go ashore at Castaway Cay? Nice to take there?

 

[smmast]

We had thought about water bottles, sunblock etc. Had not thought about snacks, but that might be good for my niece and nephew(the only kids joining us) to take to the show at night, also save their mom and dad a little $$. I think i'm making a bigger deal out of this than it needs to be... aka Bridezilla LOL! These are good problems to have. Thanks for the suggestions and keep them coming!

 

[franandaj]

Its been quite a while since i first posted that my partner of 14 yrs and i are having a committment ceremony aboard the Disney Wonder in May.
Planning has gone very well. We are now on our third wedding planner from Disney, the first two both left Disney weddings, i believe left the company. Our current wedding planner is wonderful and certainly the best of the three. Everything is pretty much set, only big thing left is the dress, i mean dresses
We will be joined by fourteen guests, mostly family. Would be happy to answer any questions.

This is cool! I didn't know they did committment ceremonies or would provide same sex couples with planners! At the DLR they go with the laws of the state so I bet during the blink of an eye when same sax marriage was legal in CA they pulled off a bundle of them! Now, not at all. Pleease, give us details, are you both wearing dresses? I've never known two women who wear dresses, that's cool! My DP and I have pretty clear roles, she'd kill me if I ever called her my wife or even considered her wearing a dress! But that's so cool if you both like it!

 

[smmast]

Got the dress!! Yesterday i went shopping with my wonderful sister and found a beautiful dress. I don't know if i have ever been so excited about a dress
Submitted everything to Disney and waiting to hear back with final numbers ($$).

 

[OrlandoMike]

Got the dress!!

I'm sorry, but pics must be provided or you will be in BIG trouble!

 

[franandaj]

Absolutely, we want pics!

 

[smmast]

If i knew how to upload a picture i would, but not so tech savvy. I will try.

 

[soulmates]

HUGE trouble if we can't see those pictures!!

 

[smmast]

Can anyone tell me a SIMPLE way to upload the picture? I downloaded it to my desktop, and i work on a mac.

 

[soulmates]

Can anyone tell me a SIMPLE way to upload the picture? I downloaded it to my desktop, and i work on a mac.

What I do, is I opened a FREE account with Photobucket. I upload my pics to photobucket and then it gives me the link to post pics, very simple. Good luck.

Chris

 

[smmast]

Well we are T-minus 38 days and counting until we depart for our commitment ceremony cruise. I have a list the length of my arm of things to do, some of which are my own doing. Never was successful uploading a picture of the dress, but i think it is beautiful and so does my partner, the two votes that count We will all be staying at BCV the night before the cruise departs and taking DCL transfer to port. We found very cute beach bags at Five Below and have filled them with all sorts of little things to use as stateroom gifts for our guests. We will be mailing that box ahead of time so it will be in our stateroom when we arrive and then we can give them out.
i am so excited i could burst!!!
OH, i almost forgot after the cruise we have decided to go back to WDW for Gaydays!!!! the perfect ending!

 

[smmast]

Ok here goes with a link to the dress, wish me luck.

http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/3069200...cat=TEXTNORD&cm_pla=FriendEmail&cm_ite=254576