Dinner ideas and a few Intimate Questions... help!

[ck_1]

Please help, I'm confused about a few things concerning our Intimate Wedding...

Our Intimate Wedding is in July at Sea Breeze Point - I'm good with that - time is 3 p.m. We're staying at AKL - excited about that! Already got Rev. Jack Day to officiate - woo-hoo!

Question 1: I keep hearing about how people got their "Jack Packs" in the mail. I wasn't offered one. Rev. Jack Day said he'd be there at 3 p.m. and he would make our wedding ceremony very nice - meaning, we'll just leave it up to him. Any other intimates have the same experience? Does he just arrive, you say "I DO" and that's it? Did you feel comfortable with that?

Question 2: We were planning to have our "dinner" not a reception at AKL's BOMA restaurant. That way we could change and easily join our guests. Is it okay to do this? I haven't told them it's our wedding day, but we're not doing anything special. We'll probably have our wedding cake boxed up and set up at our table at dinner. Does that sound doable? Or are we breaking any Disney laws?

Question 3: We were going to ask our guests to meet us at AKL about 2 p.m. 2:30 p.m for Limo service to Sea Breeze Point and then return by Limo for dinner at Boma, and then probably some time spent at Animal Kingdom since they have the extra magic hours that night. However, can our guest park at AKL? I’d like to imagine since it's a special day they'll work with us on this point. My parents will be staying at SOG. OH, another suggestion is to have dinner near the Boardwalk, but could we rent the Limo out longer to get everyone back to AKL or to their locations?

Question 4: I'd like to set something nice up for us to do that evening, or even the next day for brunch... any suggestions? I know about the fireworks show, but is there anything else that people have done that wasn't terribly pricey. We'll have about 15-20 people.

Okay, okay... last question... if you've made it this far into my post:

Question 5: Is it okay to use rose petals at Sea Breeze for tossing afterwards or decorations. I really love them. Or is that a no-no too? All these restrictions. And where could I get them?

Thank you!!!! Seems like I've posted more questions on this board than I've actually talked to my Wedding Coordinator Any suggestions would be helpful. Nothing is set in stone yet, so I’m flexible… sorry for the long post

- Chris

 

[Tinkerbelle14]

The only question I can definitely answer is the one about dinner afterwards. Our co-ordinator was fine with the fact that we booked dinner at Palio's for after the wedding and she even offered to have our cake boxed up to take with us to the restaurant. Having dinner afterwards is fine, they can't stop you from eating! As long as you don't have a traditional reception with the hall and dancing on the Disney property. Good luck with everything else!

 

[Cinderella2006]

I seem to be having the same problem as you; lots of questions on the Intimate wedding. I have found my coordinator useless! I have not heard a word off him and to be honest he doesnt really sound interested; when i rang he said we would sort things out nearer to the time! Bearing in mind i am only 170 days or 5 months away but whos counting! So i made my plans without any guidance.
I am getting married in the Wedding Pavilion at 2pm; we have our cake cutting/ champagne reception on Commanders Terrace then we are going to 1900 Park Fare for Dinner at 4.50pm. We will most probably go back to the hotel get changed and catch the fireworks. Thank goodness for the Dis Boards is all i can say - without you guys i would be lost!
Back to the main subject - i cant see anything wrong with you having your cake cutting at Bomas; the only thing i might say is that they might charge you a setting up fee but i am sure someone will correct me if i am wrong.
I asked if i could have a copy of the vows and if we could add our own vows and include the children etc and my minister was happy with that (i have Ron Rosenweig) I was not comfortable with the idea of having no rehersal or not knowing what would be happening in the ceremony - just beacuse i am not a custom i am still paying a great deal of money for this!
Hope this helps, sorry i cant help more because i am also clueless!

 

[melmel]

1. When I initally e-mailed Rev. Day about having him as our officiant. He mailed me the packet, and the 'contract' to sign and mail back to book him. If you are concered about what he will say, I'd call and ask him to send the packet to you. I used the ceramony I prefered but I did take a few lines from a different one, as the one I liked didn't have the repeat after me type vows. However having had Rev. Day I'm sure even without the packet your day will be perfect. So either way don't worry.

2. Just call and make your ADR for Boma and you'll be fine. You may have to do it through group dinning though, depending on how many are in your group.

3. If they have cars why don't you just have them drive to the wedding site. We used the limo to shuttle everyone because we were all at the same hotels, and didn't have cars. I can't see why AKL wouldn't let them park there if they said they were for your wedding and dinner (which would be true as they're eating at Boma later). Another thing to keep in mind is the limo only holds 8, so that would mean mutiple trips back and forth which will slow everything down, especally in July when the roads are busy.

3b. You can add time to the limo but it gets expensive, a cheaper alternative is to get town cars. They are around $15 or $20 one way. They pick you up at the dinner site and drop you at your hotel. We had dinner at Yachtsman, and we just booked a towncar for our trip back to our hotel. You book it through your EM it's in the planning packet. The rest of the guests used a vancab that held everyone, so only one taxi fee, and they were informed ahead of time of the fact that they'd have to pay for the taxi. And we just had the bellman call it when dinner was over.

4. You could have tea at the Grand, or meet eveyrone in a park to spend the day. Or have everyone for breakfast at Chef Mickey's or something like that. With Disney you pretty much have tons of options when it comes to little touches.

5. Double check on rose petals with your EM or with Rosie at Disney Floral. I 'think' it's allowed at outdoor sites (we did it at Sunset), but Disney's always changing their minds so deffiantly double check. We had the petals delivered through Rosie. Everyone got a little bag of petals, and I belive it was $5 each. The pictures are beautiful though and totally worth the cost. Our EM set it up for us, she had all the petals and after we walked down the aisle, we walked back up. She then got everyone in position, including Randy, and gave everyone their petals. Then we walked back down again for the toss.

Hope this helps you

Melissa

 

[WDWbride2007]

The one thing that I will add is that you may not be able to display your cake during dinner. We wanted to do this, but we were told that it could not be done because it is a public restaurant. It never hurts to ask though. I would suggest speaking with Boma's manager directly. Good luck!

 

[JandJ]

1. Definitely call or e-mail Rev. Jack and request the Jack's Pack. We used a few of his ceremonies and put them all together into our own, then I re-typed it in Word and e-mailed it to him. It was exactly what we wanted the day of the weddding.

2. We didn't have a dinner after our Intimate, but our CM did make all of our meal reservations for us - rehearsal dinner, brunch the next day, our dinner the next night, etc. I think you can wear your dress to dinner there since it's not a park, but it's always best to ask first.

3. Your guests can say they are eating at Boma and they will be allowed to park at AKL. But, it might be better to have them park at the Boardwalk since the wedding is there, like melmel suggested.

4. We did our day-after brunch at Whispering Canyon Cafe. My father has cancer and can't travel much, so we did pretty much everything at WL. The brunch was so much fun! There were 12 of us. It was casual and relaxed, which we wanted because even though we had an Intimate, our wedding was quite formal. The brunch was a chance to hang out, talk, and laugh. Beware - if the wait staff knows why you're there they will pick on you - but it's a lot of fun!

5. We didn't want a lot of decoration at WL, but we were not allowed an aisle runner. We had bows on the benches and a couple vases with silk bouquets that we made. Ask your CM about rose petals. Usually things like that are only an issue because of the clean-up. I don't know if that's an issue for Disney, but it is at hotels. For example, at a corporate holiday party I did last year they wanted confetti on the tables but that's an additional $750 clean-up fee, and no one wanted to go for that. So just ask first and there won't be any upleasant surprises.

Best Wishes

 

[ck_1]

Thank you everyone! I appreciate you taking the time to respond to such lengthy questions. Sorry for the late response. I've had more wedding woes for another thread (parent issues this time).

I'm not sure why Rev Day didn't offer us a packet or contract. Perhaps because our wedding is in July??? I'm okay with just showing up; he did assure me that the wedding would be nice and vows would be equally so. We opted for a non-religious ceremony, but I'm kind of re-thinking that. Even though we're not very religious people we are very spiritual. Does non-religious mean totally devoid of using the word "God"? I'll call him just before the wedding to smooth all of that out and reconfirm.

Dining - yes, I should probably call to tell the restaurant about the cake. Funny, it's Disney's cake, not sure why I couldn't put it out - but good point! I could also talk to them a few days before the wedding since we'll be there. I'd rather talk to someone face to face, sometimes it's easier. Plus, we're staying at AKL they should be accommodating.

melmel thank you for your suggestion with our guests going straight to the Boardwalk instead of coming to AKL. I don't know why I never thought about that!

Good point on the rose petals and clean-up. I'll definitely call my Wedding Coordinator and ask, regardless of the fact that she probably wont know who I am; since I rarely talked to her.

Thank you for all of your thoughts and suggestions. You've given me more to think about, such as next day lunch / dinner and whether I can wear my dress at Boma! I'll post some of the answers I get in case anyone else is thinking about the same issues.

Thank you again!!!

 

[melmel]

I would think non-religious wouldn't mention God, but I could be wrong. We went with mild religion. We had a prayer, he did the reading of the what is love from Corinthians, and blessing of the rings, and there was a mild mentioning of God through-out. But it didn't mention who's God or which God, just the general God. I really liked it. I have a religious background, so I wanted some mention, but I didn't want the churchey verison just the mild one. Everyone was very happy with the ceremony, even his more religious mother, and grandmother, who immediatly asked there will be a priest right, hehe. I'm sure whatever Rev. Day does will be perfect and magical. If your concerned just call him, he's great. And to be honest he could have done the whole thing in another language and I'm not sure it would have fazed me at that point.

Melissa

 

[ck_1]

Thanks Melmel! I like that idea better.