Your pictures are beautiful Lisa!
Thank you so much!!
i'm glad to hear you say that about the lss...mark doesn't want dancing at all either, so i'm glad i picked that location!!!
Good choice!! Another thing that worked really well as an "alternative to dancing" was the caricature artists. They were a big hit. Disney set them up right in the main area, where the DJ and dance floor would have been.
Lisa, Your photos are absolutely fantastic!
You were so beautiful and the ceremony location was gorgeous! Loved your reception as well. I look forward to reading your TR!
Thank you! I give all credit for my appearance to my hair-and-makeup stylist, Naomi (About Face). She was amazing! By far my best vendor selection.
I'm sorry to hear about the flowers. Did you have DIsney floral do them? My SIL is way laid back, so she'd be a good candidate for this maybe? She has a bouquet picked out off the Wish book.
Yes, it was Disney floral. I had a picture from a magazine for my bouquet. They used the same type of flowers (delphinium) but the look was different. For the tables, I asked for the "Whimsical" design from the Wish book, but with blues instead of pinks/reds. I wanted Royal blue as the primary color, light/sky blue as the secondary. At my planning session, I said it would be o.k. if there was a little white, too. (Blue flowers are tough to come by.) So I knew there would be some white gerber daisies and white roses, but I thought they would be minimal, not the dominant flower. On my floral budget, it specifically said to "keep roses to a minimum", since I'm not a big rose person. The way I had the centerpieces pictured in my head, the "white parts" would be about as prominent as the "purple parts" in the original Whimsical design. Here's a picture:
So in my mind, I'd have Royal blue instead of red, light blue instead of pink, and white instead of purple. But this is what my centerpieces looked like:
While I'm on the subject, here's a picture of the bouquet I requested:
And what mine looked like:
Not a huge difference. It was just a little more purply and bunched together than I expected.
Cake I requested:
My cake:
Again, not a huge difference at all. My cake was just had slightly more muted colors. And the flowers didn't cover the layers of the edges as well.
So overall, my flowers were fine. I just didn't have a "WOW" moment when I saw any of them. And I guess I just had unrealistically high expectations, probably because I was spending nearly as much on decor as I was on food. I felt like I had "splurged" a bit on decor. If it had been a more modest portion of my budget, I probably wouldn't have been at all disappointed.
Hope that makes sense. I don't want to sound like a big complainer or that I'm anti-Disney floral or anything. Truly, I think the fault was mine. I didn't explain what I wanted well enough and didn't communicate well about what aspects of the flowers were important to me.
Your dress looks gorgeous and your flower girl is so cute! The UK pavilion is a lovely setting for a wedding, you all look so happy. And I've never seen wedding Donald before, he looks great in his tux! I bet the kids had a great time with him. The food at your reception is making me hungry, and your cake is beautiful, what flavours did you have?
Yes, Donald was very cool. Our cake flavors were chocolate cake w/ raspberry mousse and yellow cake w/ raspberry mousse. And there was plenty of both!
I'm sorry that the decor didn't meet your expectations. I do agree with you that the centerpieces you got were totally different than what was pictured, but I still thought everything looked so beautiful. I love the whimsical setting and really want to get that also. Thanks for sharing!!
