Grand Floridian Wedding Portrait sessions

[JoeM7981]

Hello everyone! Has anyone got one of these done? What is included in the $450 for 1 hour? Do they rope off sections for you at all? I am worried about having super cropped pictures taken because there will always be some rude clueless people that don't have any common sense and will walk right in front of the camera or stand inches away from you trying to take selfies for there facebook pages. Those of us who have had to deal with this while trying to have photopass pictures taken will understand lol. Thank you

 

[Disney_Alli]

We did a session at Polynesian - not in bridal wear though. No areas were roped off but people were very polite. Our photographers were constantly telling people they were fine to walk around us - everyone was afraid to get in the way. It was a lovely experience and was a great way to wrap up our wedding/honeymoon trip.

ETA - we also did photos all around the Boardwalk on our wedding day in our wedding wear and everyone there was very respectful as well. No issues with anyone obliviously walking in to pictures or interrupting us.

 

[JoeM7981]

We did a session at Polynesian - not in bridal wear though. No areas were roped off but people were very polite. Our photographers were constantly telling people they were fine to walk around us - everyone was afraid to get in the way. It was a lovely experience and was a great way to wrap up our wedding/honeymoon trip.

ETA - we also did photos all around the Boardwalk on our wedding day in our wedding wear and everyone there was very respectful as well. No issues with anyone obliviously walking in to pictures or interrupting us.

Thank you very much!

 

[epcotcenter1982]

I know Disney generally has an approach of no brides being in the same space at the same time so if you're with official Disney fine art photography they'll shoo away people doing casual photography in the space.

I know I'm extending my photography time by an hour to add photography in and around the Grand Floridian and it won't be completely confirmed until 30 days before because if a Wishes wedding is booked (which includes pre wedding shoot photos) it'll affect the "no 2 brides in the one area" system...and it will be adjusted accordingly....

I know my dress is going to attract the attention of little girls but I'm going to have my mother on guard duty for sticky hands I only expect ogling though...

 

[Addicted to Dopey]

For the $450 what is included besides the photographer for the hour? Do you get hard copies of the pictures or a cd of them??

 

[Disney_Alli]

For the $450 what is included besides the photographer for the hour? Do you get hard copies of the pictures or a cd of them??

You get a proof book and I believe a CD of all the images (but I'm not 100% sure because ours was on the disc with our in-park shoots)

 

[epcotcenter1982]

For the $450 what is included besides the photographer for the hour? Do you get hard copies of the pictures or a cd of them??

I would assume it depends a bit on if this is an add on to your wedding or a completely separate thing.

If it's just the portrait package alone probably just the website loading and archival disc. But if it was in addition to a wedding where you had used Disney fine art photography for the ceremony they might let you add those photos into your album which is in the standard photography packages in an Escape wedding (for example)

Theme park wedding shoots include an Album.

We had an Escape Wedding and extended our photography by an hour for $200 (it's less as it's same location...all on Grand Floridian property) and Beth and Mike just continued to shoot from ceremony, to cake and celebration, to around the grand floridian. Our Brag book has included images from all. So all can go into my albums.