TinkerBabe1010
Earning My Ears
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Good morning ladies (and gents)!
We were originally thinking about doing a ballroom reception at the BW because we thought we were too big of a party to have any of the "different" locations, however, thanks to the wonderful advice on these boards, we are now planning on an American Adventure reception, which we are very, very excited about!
I do have a few questions about an Epcot reception in general and a few specifically pertaining to the AAR.
1) For EPCOT receptions, where does the tasting during the planning session occur? I know for hotel receptions it takes place at the hotel, so where for EPCOT?
2) Who is the chef for EPCOT receptions? I know for all the hotels the hotel chef makes the food, but who does it for EPCOT? Is it a chef from one of the restaurants or is there someone already delegated?
3) For the reception can we offer an entree from a specific restaurant? Can they do that? For example, I think the mushroom filet from Le Cellier is to die for!
4) We're thinking about doing Illuminations for our pre-reception (either that or we'll do it the night before). We don't want to do a lot of pre-reception food because 1) the cost, 2) we want a big dinner and think people won't eat it all if we do a huge pre-reception. Has anyone just had cheese and crackers (and other dips or spreads) and veggies? Stuff like that? Was it adequate or did it just look cheap? It's really more of an issue of wasting food than the cost (althought lowering cost is appealing).
5) Can you do an open-bar for the Illuminations pre-reception and just have that open bar continue at the reception?
6) Has anyone not done a champagne toast? We're not huge champagne fans at all unless it's really good champagne, and we can't afford to buy that many bottles of Dom!
Did anyone just have people toast with what they would be drinking anyway or give out other toasting drinks? Is this acceptable?
American Adventure questions:
1) We want to have a DJ and we are wondering where the DJ is? Is he upstairs, downstairs, etc?
2) Are our guests allowed to see the American Adventure Show during the reception or is it all closed down? I'm not even sure we'd want to do that, but just wondering if it is an option or not.
Thanks so much everyone! I'm sorry I'm so long winded, it's totally more endearing in person I promise!
We were originally thinking about doing a ballroom reception at the BW because we thought we were too big of a party to have any of the "different" locations, however, thanks to the wonderful advice on these boards, we are now planning on an American Adventure reception, which we are very, very excited about!
I do have a few questions about an Epcot reception in general and a few specifically pertaining to the AAR.
1) For EPCOT receptions, where does the tasting during the planning session occur? I know for hotel receptions it takes place at the hotel, so where for EPCOT?
2) Who is the chef for EPCOT receptions? I know for all the hotels the hotel chef makes the food, but who does it for EPCOT? Is it a chef from one of the restaurants or is there someone already delegated?
3) For the reception can we offer an entree from a specific restaurant? Can they do that? For example, I think the mushroom filet from Le Cellier is to die for!
4) We're thinking about doing Illuminations for our pre-reception (either that or we'll do it the night before). We don't want to do a lot of pre-reception food because 1) the cost, 2) we want a big dinner and think people won't eat it all if we do a huge pre-reception. Has anyone just had cheese and crackers (and other dips or spreads) and veggies? Stuff like that? Was it adequate or did it just look cheap? It's really more of an issue of wasting food than the cost (althought lowering cost is appealing).
5) Can you do an open-bar for the Illuminations pre-reception and just have that open bar continue at the reception?
6) Has anyone not done a champagne toast? We're not huge champagne fans at all unless it's really good champagne, and we can't afford to buy that many bottles of Dom!
Did anyone just have people toast with what they would be drinking anyway or give out other toasting drinks? Is this acceptable?American Adventure questions:
1) We want to have a DJ and we are wondering where the DJ is? Is he upstairs, downstairs, etc?
2) Are our guests allowed to see the American Adventure Show during the reception or is it all closed down? I'm not even sure we'd want to do that, but just wondering if it is an option or not.
Thanks so much everyone! I'm sorry I'm so long winded, it's totally more endearing in person I promise!
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) We just did crudites, dips, fruit, cheese, etc. for the same reasons that you want to - we wanted people to eat the kick#*& dinner that we had. We didn't really go to the pre-reception so I don't know what the response was. I did see some pics, though, and it was a nice setup. We didn't have a bar, just champagne punch and non-alcoholic punch.
Disney charges something outrageous for it (since you can get it at bevmo for 7.99 on sale), but it was a lot cheaper than some other "nicer" champagne that we wouldn't have liked. We also had sparkling apple cider for the non-drinkers...
Good luck! I love AA! Now I have "Golden Dream" playing in my head... 
the Magic Kingdom photo session is very hard to do the next am....
...Plus dinner can have a huge price range...I've heard you can do it for around the minimum 10to 15k....but i think they said the average is around 20k for the ceremony/pre-reception/reception with the 100 people (someone please correct me if Im wrong..these things change all the time)
best idea is to set a budget and then have Disney fit it
if you say the sky is the limit and then try to cut back
its hard to give up all the extras
ONE more question, did you do a lot of decoration in AAR, or did you think it looked pretty good as is? I'm not sure how much to budget for that, other than centerpieces. I was thinking that tulle and twinkle lights would look good, sort of draped in between the columns--- doesn't sound good, and I can't think of a better way to describe it, but it looks pretty in my head 
