Farewell Brunch Venue Question

[Majekmoon14]

Has anyone done a farewell brunch at Ariel's? My wedding planner suggested this as a nice venue. What others do you guys recommend? Also, do you just let everyone know informally about the brunch, did u post it on ur Disney wedding webpage or what? And lastly, what time was it at? I guess hotel check out it by 10 or 11 so should we have it like 8am or have it later so people can already be checked out? Thanks!!!

 

[Snow_White]

8:00 seems a bit early (unless you are all super-early birds). I think 11 or so would be better, but that's just me. Yes, I'd post it on your website, but you might also want to send out some informal invites a few weeks in advance too, just so everyone is 100% clear on the time and everything. We did that for our dessert party and it worked out great.

 

[JandJ]

I agree, 8:00 am is too early for brunch. We had our day-after brunch at Whispering Canyon Cafe (we only had 14 people) at 10:30 am. Those who were leaving that day checked out before coming to the brunch and either put their luggage in their car or left it at the resort as they'll hold it all day the day you check out. Check out is at 11:00.
I did DIY invitations and mailed them a week before, but I had verbally told everyone and put it on our website, so they knew it was happening.
Have fun and happy planning!

 

[UnderTheMistletoe]

I agree, 8:00 am seems a bit early. It's brunch, right? Not breakfast. An 8:00 event requires most people to be up no later than 7:00am.

We had considered doing one at Crystal Palace when we first started planning. We nixed it becuase our wedding reception isn't ending until midnight. The idea of having to wake up to an alarm at all wasn't that appealing! Farewell for us is tough because for as many people as we have there, we have different vacation schedules as to their comings and goings.

I would send out an invitation to inform people. For us, we have sent out invitations to every event- the wedding, the rehearsal dinner, golf outing, etc. That way, they have the information in hand and available. If you're doing welcome baskets, you may want to include the informaiton there again.

We have also sent out newsletters to the guests. One soon after the Save-the-Dates but before the invitations; and now that we're a month out. We've also sent them out to the bridal party several times to keep everyone on top of the goings on and aware of their duties and timelines. You can send them out as an email attachment to the ones you have addresses for and regular snail mail for the ones you don't. If you want a cope of our first one, PM me with your email address and I will email it to you. The second one is still in editing!

 

[twojo21]

definetly go with 11am, 8am is to early, especially if the wedding is the night before. i would defintely send an invite & a rsvp for the brunch as with a private venue youll have to give your exact guest count for food, etc. were actually debating a farewell brunch at typhoon lagoon but we havent decided yet. ariels is a beautiful venue, thats where were hosting our wedding reception.

 

[Laurafoster]

Ooooh i didnt know you could do it at Typhoon lagoon - do you have any info on that?

 

[twojo21]

the figures i have from our planning session is $600 for the food we were looking at, muffins, waffles with toppings, sandwiches & salad, soda, juice. plus guest tickets $34 adult, $28 child not sure if we'd buy them or let guests buy their own tickets.