Dani and Patrick's Poly Wedding. 1.26.11 Welcome Bags & Blogged by The Roots!

So after approximately 1.25 hours of sleep, a dear friend shows up at 6am to shuttle us to the airport. Knowing us all too well; he knew we wouldn't have time to eat breakfast. He brought along donuts and OJ for the ride! We Love :lovestruc our friends!!!

Smurfette looks like she's a coffee craving zombie :coffee: just like us.
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After the plane was de-iced I planned on only being awake long enough to snap the following two shots. As fate would have it we were sat next to Doreen, a huge Disney fan and sweet to boot. Unfortunately, she also loved to talk which threw a wrench in our plans of sweet dreams of the days to come.

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There it was! The Florida sunshine, we made it!! :goodvibes

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Cristina, an amazing friend of ours, arrived at the airport with this homemade sign and lots of energy!! Her bubbly demeanor quickly made us forget about all the trials we survived to get to this point and once again made us excited about our pending wedding! :yay:

The three of us headed for a relaxing lunch at Panera and then to Downtown Disney to visit with some old friends. We put Cristina in charge of getting us out in time. Luckily, we had a lot more time than we realized because its a lot more difficult to say goodbye to someone after only seeing them for an hour when its been a year since your last visit.

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She then escorted us to my parents' room at the Port Orleans resort, where we passed out our welcome bags. They were a huge hit!

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We visited for a few minutes before we had to turn around and pick up Patrick's friend from the airport. I was hoping Andy would be just as tired as us, but after flying in from England he was wide awake.

We all headed to Boma for an always incredible dinner. Did you know the stopped serving potatoes with afrituted? :confused3 Such a bummer, they were my favorite! I wasn't very involved in the conversation, in fact I don't remember much else of the night because I was just awake enough to function. I felt bad, but had plenty of time to make it up to them!
 
Wedding Bag Details


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Who doesn't love reusable shopping bags with Mickey Mouse on them? These were purchased at the Disney Store for 2.50 a piece. Each family received one filled with their favorite candies and a handy backpack for each person to carry around the parks.

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We found a great deal for the backpacks on amazon!

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Each bag had personalized celebration buttons for our wedding as well as my dad's 50th birthday! Thank you curiouser for this awesome idea! I found a still picture of Maid Marion & Robin Hood for the wedding buttons. I used Illustrator to create a vector drawing of dad's favorite character, Tigger, for his! Everyone loved them, not just our guests, but other Disney guests and cast members too!

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You can purchase the buttons to make your own here. These were a lot less expensive than Michaels and Joann's even with coupons.


On the outside of each bag I also attached an antibacterial gel with its own carrier. On sale these each cost about 1.20 a set. I also attached a personalized Disney's Photopass in an ID badge. ID badges were really inexpensive at Office Max. We also wrote down the number of each Photopass we handed out and had the number attached to ours. The pre-order price is 99.00 which turned out to be an amazing deal for the 2,000 + pictures we ended up with between us and our guests!

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The dollar bin at Target always has some kind of cute Disney items. Here is what we included in our bags.
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Andy received one of each kind of Toy Story Mac & Cheese... since they are after all Andy's Toys.

We also included some vacation & wedding essentials.

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And of course there has to be some fun stuff!
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The pinwheels came in a pack of three for 1.00 at the dollar store. A cute little inexpensive way to dress up the bag. Each person also got a pin lanyard with a Disney Fairytale Weddings pin and a pin we thought they may like.

The most important part of each bag was the treasure box and not because of the doubloons inside. Each treasure box contained a personalized letter telling them how excited we were that they came to celebrate with us and how much we "treasure" :grouphug: their love and relationship. This produced tears every time! :sad:

Photographical Memories

Since this journal has been a long process, if you are curious to see wedding pictures before I get to that entry (hopefully it will not be another three months) check them out here...
http://rootweddings.com/blog/2011/06/02/danielle-patrick-wedding/

I see a theme of being firsts! We were their first wedding of 2011, their first wedding at the Polynesian, their first couple to take pictures on the monorail with them and possibly more. :goodvibes

Have I told you yet how much I love :love: the roots?
 
I LOVE LOVE your wedding pictures, so fun and beautiful!!

I'm going to steal some of your wonderful ideas for the welcome bags!! I love the photopass idea! And also the heartfelt letters to all the guests!!! LOVE :lovestruc
 
Thank you!

Please steal them! I was so detailed with our bags hoping someone else could use our ideas!! :goodvibes
 

Your pictures are beautiful!!! I love them!!!!
Love the welcome bags!! Thank you for posting them in detail! I've been going back and forth on the welcome bag idea, but I really love the things you've done! I think I just made my decision seeing yours!!
Can't wait to read more!
 
Your pictures are beautiful!!! I love them!!!!
Love the welcome bags!! Thank you for posting them in detail! I've been going back and forth on the welcome bag idea, but I really love the things you've done! I think I just made my decision seeing yours!!
Can't wait to read more!

Thank you KristiLyn!
:woohoo: I'm glad I helped make your decision!
 
I just read through everything and it was all so amazing! You (and the whole wedding) were absolutely beautiful!!! I loved what you came up with for the welcome bags and you have given me so many ideas to "borrow" from when it comes time for our wedding next year! :thumbsup2 Where did you get the treasure chests from, if you don't mind me asking? I've searched everywhere, but I haven't seen anything as "realistic" and cute as the ones you used. All I've been able to find are really cheap plastic ones that are filled with candy and they look very childish. :goodvibes Thanks a bunch!

~AnnaLe
 
I just read through your report and I cannot wait to hear more! I love love love your theme and your wedding was absolutely gorgeous!! And you completely looked like a princess - So beautiful!!!!! :goodvibes
 
I LOVE your Robin Hood buttons!!! Robin is my all time favorite Disney movie and character and those buttons are just too awesome!! How did you make them look just like the Disney Celebration buttons? I would love to be able to make them for my wedding! And I saw your pictures on the Roots blog and they were to die for!! So stunning!! :goodvibes
 
I just read through everything and it was all so amazing! You (and the whole wedding) were absolutely beautiful!!! I loved what you came up with for the welcome bags and you have given me so many ideas to "borrow" from when it comes time for our wedding next year! :thumbsup2 Where did you get the treasure chests from, if you don't mind me asking? I've searched everywhere, but I haven't seen anything as "realistic" and cute as the ones you used. All I've been able to find are really cheap plastic ones that are filled with candy and they look very childish. :goodvibes Thanks a bunch!

~AnnaLe

Anna I actually bought them from Disney at the Pirates ride. I have 11 left over, if you are interested send me a PM. :)

I just read through your report and I cannot wait to hear more! I love love love your theme and your wedding was absolutely gorgeous!! And you completely looked like a princess - So beautiful!!!!! :goodvibes

Thank you so much! I definitely felt like a princess princess:

I LOVE your Robin Hood buttons!!! Robin is my all time favorite Disney movie and character and those buttons are just too awesome!! How did you make them look just like the Disney Celebration buttons? I would love to be able to make them for my wedding! And I saw your pictures on the Roots blog and they were to die for!! So stunning!! :goodvibes

I drew the buttons in Adobe Illustrator. If you'd like the same buttons I could always send you my template.

Thank you! It was exciting to see my photos on the Roots blog, they are so talented!!
 
I have enjoyed reading all the details of your wedding, as well as the pictures! I have a question for you.... the shoulder sleeves of your gown....are they removable?? your gown was just gorgeous. Is it the same one you got from the trunk show? Did you have it altered?
And, I must agree with, I believe it was in the photographers comments, that the love was visibly oozing in the photos. :love: Best wishes in your marriage. Congratulations!
 
Oh my goodness I'm behind! We are about to leave for our first anniversary trip in two days and I haven't even got to our wedding day in the journal yet!

I have enjoyed reading all the details of your wedding, as well as the pictures! I have a question for you.... the shoulder sleeves of your gown....are they removable?? your gown was just gorgeous. Is it the same one you got from the trunk show? Did you have it altered?
And, I must agree with, I believe it was in the photographers comments, that the love was visibly oozing in the photos. :love: Best wishes in your marriage. Congratulations!

Thank you! Thank you!

They are removable! It is the same dress I got at the trunk show, and I did have to have it altered so while I had the seamstress look at it I asked her if it would be possible to make them removable. So I wore them for the ceremony and took them off part way through our pictures.
 
Anna I actually bought them from Disney at the Pirates ride. I have 11 left over, if you are interested send me a PM. :)


I drew the buttons in Adobe Illustrator. If you'd like the same buttons I could always send you my template.

*** I loved the buttons. Could you please send me the template? ***
 
Anna I actually bought them from Disney at the Pirates ride. I have 11 left over, if you are interested send me a PM. :)


I drew the buttons in Adobe Illustrator. If you'd like the same buttons I could always send you my template.

*** I loved the buttons. Could you please send me the template? ***

Send me a PM! Do you have a little time before the wedding? I have to find the drive I saved them on. :surfweb:

Also do you want them as an Illustrator file or something else?

I need to get on finishing our story! :)
 














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