I guess it's time to post my Dessert Party Pics. I broke down and uploaded the pics to FB. The pics I got from Randy take forever to upload since they are of a higher quality then say something that I take myself with just a point and shoot camera. But....it's worth the extra time and headache because I have really been wanted to post these pics.
When we first started planning the wedding I was going to have an Epcot DP because we were going to get married in Epcot and I wanted to keep the continuity going. When we switched to a WP wedding, we decided to switch to a Sago Cay DP. I wasn't sure about decor but I knew I wanted to keep it minimal so I went with what a lot of brides have done and ordered the gel candles with glow cubes. I had this idea to theme the tables with Disney Couples, not the human kind but rather non-human kind. I thought that I could coordinate the gel colors with the couples. Well I decided that I liked purple, blue, pink, green and red. We looked on the internet and a local
Disney store for smallish plush of our couples. We were able to find Minnie and Mickey for red, Donald and Daisy for Blue, Princess and the Frog (frog versions) for green and Lady and the Tramp for pink. Well, let me tell you, finding a couple for purple was very, very hard....we just couldn't come up with a non-human couple. We did searches on purple characters, Disney things associated with Purple...it was just impossible. I finally decided that I wanted to look for a Miss Piggy and Kermit and use them for purple because she us usually wearing that color....couldn't find any stuffed creatures. They have pookaloo's but the only place to get the Miss Piggy one is in NYC
. Finally, a few weeks before the wedding we went to the Disney store again and found a Stitch and Angel. We decided to switch them to Blue and use Donald and Daisy for Purple since she was wearing purple. Whew....
so much hassle and as you will learn, in the end it all didn't even matter.
At our reception at the Napa Room, Tanis told us that due to the cold weather they wanted to hold our eating portion of the Dessert Party inside using the Whitehall room. I said, ok, and didn't question anything else after that.
We were back in our room resting before the DP and about 45 minutes before the party decided to get dressed in our Wedding finery again and drive over to the GF. We drive over and realize that the parking lot is packed!!!! There is a seperate area for convention parking and it was full. I had Brian drop me off at the entrance to the GF and decide to walk over to the convention area and meet Brian there. We arrived at the same time as my mom and children so I walk over with them. On the pathway over I received so many cool compliments from people and it made me feel really good.
I had taken off my veil earlier but brought my ears to put on and I was also wearing a wrap my mom gave me (it really helped because it was freezing!) We arrived at the Convention area entrance and the place was rockin!!!! Apparently some pool company was having a 1920's themed party and there were like 1200 people in the huge ballrooms (right near the Whitehall Room) jamming away and everybody was drunk.
It was beyond loud, but I wasn't going to let anything ruin the night so I thought, well at least we get free music
. One funny thing that kept happening was random people from the other party would just walk into our room, stand there, look around, ask if they could have food??? and just stumble away. At one point a magician came over and started to get ready to perform for us. DH said, oh this is a private party, well the magician left. I said, why did you say anything? We could've gotten a free show, lolol
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Back to the story. So I arrive and most of our guests where already there. Here is my making my entrance.
Some of our food...
We also included Mickey Bars as BOC. They were beyond a doubt the hit of the party. I think everybody had one, or two, even Stan had one, lol.
I love this pic of me
You can see that I had put on my wedding ears, Brian also had on his top hat.
We also had coffee, tea and hot chocolate....I had the hot chocolate...
Here is Bryan and Amber with the glow stuff...they had the most fun with it I think...
The food was so amazing. I'm so grateful to Randy and Stan because they have been to many of these and knew how to help me with things. We had about 45 mins to eat and mingle...went by sooooooooo fast! At first everybody was standing/sitting talking etc. Stan whispers to me, "you might want to tell your guests to start eating". Oh, yeah!!! So, I told everybody to eat up, LOL. At this point I couldn't remember what Tanis had told me at the Napa Room. I was a little confused when I got there, thinking, well....can we still go out to watch the fireworks? Why are my decorations different in here? Will they still play the music for the fireworks? (We paid the $500 extra for the music). Randy took charge and found an event manager and he said we would have to walk out to Sago Cay before the Fireworks. In the meantime Brian and I had brought Glow necklaces and bracelets (bought at the dollar store) and everybody helped themseleves. We put our plush on the tables, and mingled and ate. I did not have time to eat what I wanted because of people talking to me
. I was thinking the entire time, how can I ditch these people (family) and just eat these desserts...I was starving at this point and everything looked so good. In the end I did sample almost everything and it was AMAZING!!!!!!
I just hope we get one of the photographers we suggested. I asked for either Regina or Ty because I like their style. 
We get there and I finally see my gel candles....but they looked very sad sitting there all by themselves. The tech guy was there finishing up the music set-up, thank goodness because I was worried about this! One thing that didn't work out the way it should have was we had white linens and no confetti and it looked weird.
What menu did you use for SCP?!
