Jennifer & Charley's 9/15/11 SBP/The Attic 12/9 Feat DisneyWeddingPodcast!

[jlocmac]

I guess we all think alike then!!!

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I've given up for right now. Hopefully I'll be able to get this part finished tomorrow after work. It all depends on how well that goes. lol

 

[DoomBuggy0922]

Just a few more, quick thoughts!

-Oooh, more posts!
-Awww, I’m sorry about the tall people.
-I haven’t seen this show in ages. DF hates shows.
-Why shouldn’t you be out of the room? OH!!! She must have known about your animal obsession; THAT’S it.
-Oh, I love One Man’s Dream.

I'm so scattered.

 

[jlocmac]

Just a few more, quick thoughts!

-Oooh, more posts!
-Awww, I’m sorry about the tall people.
-I haven’t seen this show in ages. DF hates shows.
-Why shouldn’t you be out of the room? OH!!! She must have known about your animal obsession; THAT’S it.
-Oh, I love One Man’s Dream.

I'm so scattered.

I'm really trying to finish this thing. It's so difficult! lol I'm just so tired after work.
-I really dislike tall people sometimes.
-Charley wanted to watch all the shows, everywhere we went. lol
- I think that was probably the reason!
-I'm always so scattered, so don't worry.

 

[KristiLyn]

I just caught up on your pj! Everything looked great! You were beautiful and it looks like you had a great time!!!

 

[jlocmac]

I just caught up on your pj! Everything looked great! You were beautiful and it looks like you had a great time!!!

Thanks Kristi!!

We had a wonderful time. I want to do it all over again! If only I were a rich girl!!!

I can't wait to read all about your new plans. Whatever you decide to go with will be beautiful, because you'll both be together!!!

 

[jlocmac]

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 (cont)

We went back to the room and did what any newlywed couple does... sat on our balcony, drinking coffee and watching the animals!!

And you know we took pics. It doesn't matter that these were the same animals we'd seen all week. They were standing in a different position, therefore it must be documented.

These birds were hilarious. All week long they stayed around the water hole area. Anytime they saw the ducks coming to the water, they would take off running at them...flapping their wings. Funny to me!!

This child was staying across the way from us. I zoomed in on him when I saw him come out on their balcony. He looked VERY young.. like maybe 3? He pulled a chair to the railing and was standing there watching the animals. He was scaring me so bad!! I just knew he was going to fall.

Apparently the zebra was just very shy. He was always hiding behind the trees.

These are the lights down our hallway. I decided to go off exploring the exit doors around our room. lol Just to see what I could see. (Charley was trying to take a nap.. he's such an old man sometimes LOL)

So around the corner from our room was an exit. So I went out there. Here was a whole new section of animals we hadn't noticed.. and I found it on our next to the last day. How great?! (can you hear the sarcasm through my typing?) So here's some of the cuties that were out that door.

Ok..so here's some cloud pics. I took them so I could go back and show Charley what I saw. During this photo..I was seeing a line of characters. The 1st one in line is the mother hen from the cartoons way back when (as you can see I don't remember the name.. but she wore an apron and a bow in her "hair"), the next is a baby chick, then maybe a rabbit or something?, but the last one was definitely Mickey Mouse... old school style.. leaning forward with his hands behind his back. That's what I saw... and I still do. lol Charley on the other hand.. said I was crazy and he didn't see any of it!! hahaha

He's a close-up of just Mickey

I went back to the room after I took those pics, so Charley could see them. He came back with me after that.

So then we were back to animals....

Of course you know FL weather.. the afternoon showers had arrived.

The zebra was definitely not a fan of the weather change. He moved to the cover of a palm tree.. don't think it helped all that much.

So then all of the gazelles? took cover as well.

This guy wasn't happy at all. He just stood up, turned around and layed back down.

I guess he got tired of laying around.

Then the tour truck came through.

These deer looking critters didn't like the rain either.

 

[jlocmac]

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 (cont)

I don't even remember how long we were out there watching the animals. I just love animals. lol

Here's our hallway art.

Just picture the twins from The Shining.....

So we had an extra TS credit from earlier in the week I guess. We thought we had straightened everything out... but whatever. We wanted to do some kind of character meal, but there wasn't anything available. We finally just decided to go back to the GF Cafe. It was really good, so why not?! I called dining and made our reservation. I want to say it was for sometime after 7??

We went early, since we got in earlier the last time. Unfortunately they told us it would be closer to our reservation time before we were called. I of course, had to go to bathroom. So I went... lol There were quite a bit of little girls putting on their princess costumes for MNSSHP. I was chatting with 1 of the girls who was dressed as Little Red Riding Hood... but she wanted me to guess her costume. Anyway.. I told another little girl she looked cute, and her mom gave me the evil eye?? lol Like I was trying to mess with her kid... so I finished washing my hands and walked out.

Well I went back to Charley and told him about it.. he was like "what a B" haha. We went outside to walk around but right after that, our buzzer went off. We went back in.. and who was at check-in? The mom from the bathroom and the rest of her family. There was probably 6 or 7 of them. They were trying to get a reservation for right then, before they went to MK. Unfortunately for them, there was nothing open! That's what happens when you're mean to people. lol Just sayin!!!

To Be Continued.. because I have to go eat!!!

 

[DoomBuggy0922]

-Um, did I fall behind or something? I’m sorry!
-I think Charley scared the zebra. Yup.
-Awww I’m sorry there were all these animals you didn’t know about!!!
-I TOTALLY SEE THE MICKEY!!!!!!! My grandparents SWEAR they saw a Mickey cloud on their first Disney Cruise. You’d be in good company.
-Omigosh I love that zebra. Can I have him?
-You REALLY need to do the “dine with an animal person” at Sanaa! Charley should buy it for you.
-Good! I’m glad Mean Old Mom didn’t get a ressie. HA!
-But I don’t want your honeymoon to end. Even though, well, you're writing this, so it's ended.

 

[jlocmac]

-Um, did I fall behind or something? I’m sorry!
-I think Charley scared the zebra. Yup.
-Awww I’m sorry there were all these animals you didn’t know about!!!
-I TOTALLY SEE THE MICKEY!!!!!!! My grandparents SWEAR they saw a Mickey cloud on their first Disney Cruise. You’d be in good company.
-Omigosh I love that zebra. Can I have him?
-You REALLY need to do the “dine with an animal person” at Sanaa! Charley should buy it for you.
-Good! I’m glad Mean Old Mom didn’t get a ressie. HA!
-But I don’t want your honeymoon to end. Even though, well, you're writing this, so it's ended.

I think you might be behind, but I forgive you!

-Charley definitely scared him!
-I was very upset those animals were there. But that's not the worst..
-I'm glad someone sees Mickey.. even if you're fibbing to me, at least you're making the effort! We should hang out with your grandparents.. like I said before, we're old people ourselves.
-I shall bring you the zebra personally!!!
-Yes, Charley should pay for that. That would be awesome!!
-I was glad too. She didn't deserve 1. She was very mean to me!!!!
-I want to get married all over again. Even if I have to go through all of the aggravating stuff to be able to do it... I will. lol I so hope you don't have MAJOR wedding depression afterwards like I do. It's just damn ridiculous!!!

 

[jlocmac]

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 (cont)

We were seated by the window, at a small table. Drinks were brought, orders placed.. same ol same ol. I ordered the steak again, because it was delicious the last time. Well... I don't eat any kind of meat if it's red, pink.. whatever. If it's not well done, I don't want it. I barely got my knife into the piece of meat, and it started bleeding. I just couldn't do it. There was no way!! The server finally came by, and I say that because they're wasn't a lot of people there at the moment. I had propped my knife and fork over the cut open steak. She saw it as soon as she walked up. She was like.. you ordered well done, that's not well done. No kidding.. It's still mooing at me!!! hahahaha

Charley wouldn't eat, because I didn't have my food. I told him to eat before his got cold. They brought my recooked steak back out with fresh sides. It was yummy this time. So we finished eating and ordered dessert. We both got the berry almond glazed cake tart thingie (lmao@that description).. had we known it would be the same size as the one that comes with the dessert sampler, we would've just got that.

Our server wasn't the nicest person in the world. Not that she was mean or anything. She just didn't have the energy that the man from the last time. But when she brought us our receipts, she gave us a framed pic of the GF made out of chocolate. It's very pretty!! We still have it in the freezer. More on that later....

By this time, it was flooding outside. There were people running around all over the place in their costumes for MNNSHP. I felt so bad for them. The weather was horrible. Luckily there was a break in the storm, and we were able to get to the car without getting soaked. Thank the Lord.

Here's the few pics we took while at the GF.. and by few I mean just these 3. lol

So we made it back to our room. It wasn't very late, but it was our last night. We figured we'd just hang out together and be done with it. We had already decided (Charley had), that we weren't going to a park the next morning. We were packing up and heading home.

We watched tv, drank coffee, ate left over snacks, talked about our whole trip and the experience... and packed our stuff to leave. I was so sad. Like about to cry.. it was pitiful. I knew we would be back soon.. but it wouldn't be the same. That would just be a regular ol vacation.. not our wedding trip or our honeymoon.

I don't know how late we stayed up. I know we pretty much had everything packed except for what we needed the next morning. We went down to The Mara at some point to get a drink.

Then we went to sleep.. on the last night of our honeymoon trip. (cue the obnoxious tears!)

 

[DoomBuggy0922]

-My grandparents are in Kissimmee right now! (They’re snowbirds.) You should totes be BFF.
-Awww I am sorry you have wedding depression. At least you’ve been to Disney a few times since!
-Oh no! Mooing beef!
-Ohhh I’ve seen pictures of the GF chocolate things. I love them! I want one.
-Awwwwww if I were you, I totally would have cried. I still sob like a baby when I leave WDW. And when I see the MK morning show. And when I see Wishes. You get the idea…

 

[belle2211]

-I want to get married all over again. Even if I have to go through all of the aggravating stuff to be able to do it... I will. lol I so hope you don't have MAJOR wedding depression afterwards like I do. It's just damn ridiculous!!!

I completely understand you on this! I got the worst after wedding depression. I didn't expect it at all. We drive by the WP at least 2 times a week and each time, my eyes would get teary. DH didn't get it. I told him that everything was sooo perfect, but that I had been waiting 30 years for this perfect day and now its over. I don't want it to be over. So he said we can do a VR in 10 years. I told him I better start planning now! But I still get sad when I think its over

 

[BethieTink]

I completely understand you on this! I got the worst after wedding depression. I didn't expect it at all. We drive by the WP at least 2 times a week and each time, my eyes would get teary. DH didn't get it. I told him that everything was sooo perfect, but that I had been waiting 30 years for this perfect day and now its over. I don't want it to be over. So he said we can do a VR in 10 years. I told him I better start planning now! But I still get sad when I think its over

So, since I am planning my VR for our 10th, what does this mean for me depression wise next year!!

Jennifer,

Just wanted to say again, what a fabulous honeymoon you had! Thanks for sharing.

 

[jlocmac]

-My grandparents are in Kissimmee right now! (They’re snowbirds.) You should totes be BFF.
-Awww I am sorry you have wedding depression. At least you’ve been to Disney a few times since!
-Oh no! Mooing beef!
-Ohhh I’ve seen pictures of the GF chocolate things. I love them! I want one.
-Awwwwww if I were you, I totally would have cried. I still sob like a baby when I leave WDW. And when I see the MK morning show. And when I see Wishes. You get the idea…

-I'm jealous of your grandparents then. lol
-Yes I know.. but it's just not the same! I just want another Disney wedding. It's not like I'm asking for a lot.
-I seem to boohoo at things like that as well..and not things that I should be.

I completely understand you on this! I got the worst after wedding depression. I didn't expect it at all. We drive by the WP at least 2 times a week and each time, my eyes would get teary. DH didn't get it. I told him that everything was sooo perfect, but that I had been waiting 30 years for this perfect day and now its over. I don't want it to be over. So he said we can do a VR in 10 years. I told him I better start planning now! But I still get sad when I think its over

I know, it's ridiculous. It's like "weren't you happy with the 1st 1?". Yes, very happy.. that's why we want to do it again!! lol

So, since I am planning my VR for our 10th, what does this mean for me depression wise next year!!

Jennifer,

Just wanted to say again, what a fabulous honeymoon you had! Thanks for sharing.

I hope you don't have the depression afterwards.

And thank you!! I love sharing everything.

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Non-wedding or honeymoon trip related. We're going to Orlando Dec 24th-28th. We're staying at Rosen Shingle Creek. I found a really good deal on Cyber Monday.

I can't wait. I'm so excited. We're planning on being in the parks on Christmas Day. We just don't know which one we will go to. I know we have to be at MK the night of the 27th for our DP. But that's about the only scheduled plans we have. Any suggestions on which park to go to XMas day??

 

[jlocmac]

Saturday, September 24th, 2011 (cont)

The day I dreaded was finally here... it was check out day. I was so disappointed!!

We didn't sleep very late, but we didn't get up early either. I went out on the balcony and looked across the way.. and saw these going up..

We planned to just take our time and make sure we had everything. We made sure all of the stuff was in something that could easily be carried to car. Charley made a few trips down while I was getting ready.

If you know my TR by now, you know that I couldn't leave without looking at the animals first. I decided to go right down the hall to the lookout I found the day before.

Imagine my surprise, when I see this animal!!

Yes, I know this is a giraffe... and yes, we'd seen several giraffes all over the property. But this giraffe was on OUR side of the fence. Yes people.. that means the giraffes that belong on our part of the Savannah (the side our balcony faced) were no back from their exams... on the day we were checking out! AHHHH!!!!! I was so mad. I'm not even kidding. I was about to cry like a 2yr old kid. lol

I went and told Charley.. he came and looked at them for a minute. Another woman came out there at some point taking a couple of pics. I stayed out there until Charley made me come in, so we could leave.

Here's the pics I took before I was dragged..kicking and screaming.. back inside.

Look how cute these guys are.. leaning in for their kisses!!

We went back to the room.. did a check through. We had everything, and it was time to go....

We still had a lot of stuff to carry, but it wasn't that bad. I had the wedding planning notebook and all of planning crap. I sat all of that on top of our cake box.. then the chocolate framed pic of the GF on top of that. Off we went to the car.

As you can guess.. 15ft from the car.. that damn chocolate GF pic slid right off the top and hit the ground. The frame busted into big chunks, but the pic part itself was still intact. I almost starting crying. I was so upset. Charley told me to pick it up and come on. lol We got to the car and loaded it up... and we were off. Our DFTW and honeymoon was over.

 

[DoomBuggy0922]

-I think you should do a VR every year!!! How awesome would that be?!
-I am so sad the honeymoon is over.
-What the heck, giraffes! I am so sorry.
-I totally would have almost/cried about the GF thingie. I totally understand!

 

[jlocmac]

-I think you should do a VR every year!!! How awesome would that be?!
-I am so sad the honeymoon is over.
-What the heck, giraffes! I am so sorry.
-I totally would have almost/cried about the GF thingie. I totally understand!

-I wish I could afford to do a vow renewal every year! That would be beyond awesome!!!
-We still have the GF chocolate framed pic. It's in the freezer with our chocolate ears (cake topper).

 

[jlocmac]

So I had over half of my reviews typed out, and we lost power for like half a second. So irritating!!

BTW... DO NOT forget to call all of your vendors BEFORE the wedding day. You don't want to be worried about them not showing up to the right spot at the right time!!!

I'm going to try this 1 more time tonight. Hopefully I can get finished before 90210 comes on! lol I'm not giving a scaled rating.. just my overall feelings.

Reviews

DFTW
Getting married at Disney was worth every single penny we spent. The booking process was easy for us..but we didn't have any kind of wait because of the time frame. They made everything so easy for us with the whole planning process. I can't imagine getting married anywhere else.

Escape Package
We chose this package, because it was all inclusive. I wish we would've actually thought about everything we were going to be adding from the beginning.. then upgraded to Wishes. We were almost at the before tax minimums anyway. I could've cut cost elsewhere to make up the upgrade difference. Maybe for the vow renewal... Make sure you compare both packages with all of your upgrades before you make your decision.

Tanis Armstrong
Nobody gets to choose their planner.. they're just assigned. I'm so glad we got Tanis as our planner. She was great! She was normally pretty prompt with emailing. (I hate talking on the phone) I usually didn't wait for very long for responses. You really have to take into consideration how many weddings they're planning at 1 time. Just the thought is enough to make me go crazy!!! Finally meeting her on the wedding day was awesome!! She kept everything running smoothly... even when there was a missing chair right before it was time for me to walk down. If you have her, you're in good hands!!!

Carolyn Allen's
The husband and wife team came to steam my dress, veil, and crinolines... the wife did anyway. The husband did whatever she told him to do, while he was chatting with me. They were great. Charley stayed on the balcony, and they hung the dress backwards from the curtain rod when they were done. It didn't take long at all. I would definitely recommend them.

Beaute Speciale (Rosie)
I can't rave about Rosie enough. She did a fab job on me and my mom. I had a couple of inspiration pics for my hair but none for make-up. I loved my hair!! She took what I liked from both pics and did a wonderful job on me! My mom looked great as well. She didn't have any pics for inspiration. Rosie did it on her own. We were both very happy with the job Rosie did. She also helped my mom get me into my dress and out the door on time for our bridal pics that morning. She was very prompt... even at 4am!!!

DPS Regina w/ Penny
We did bridal portraits in MK and Epcot the morning of our wedding. We had Regina with Penny as her assistant. Regina was also our Escape package photographer. We loved all of our pics!! This is THE MOST AMAZING experience I've ever had. I can't even describe to you what it feels like to be standing inside the parks in your dress.. with nobody around (feels that way anyway ).. taking beautiful pics. It makes me all teary-eyed just thinking about it!! She did great at our wedding too. Her and Randy work well together. We had some issues to DPS print team. Overall we ended up with 3 sets of the wedding pics before we received the bridal portrait prints. So total.. 4 sets of weddings pics, 1 set of bridal pics. We're waiting on our albums and high res disk. Will let you know how we like those. I will say that Karen (Escape Wedding Photography & Bridal Pics Coordinator) and Ruth Ann (not quite sure of her title, but she's with Escape photog too.) did everything in their power to get the situation corrected. They finally had them send all pics to them 1st, so they could make sure everything was there for the final time.

Randy Chapman
We chose to go with an outside photographer for several reasons, but mainly because of cost. We loved Randy. I only emailed back and forth with him a few times before the wedding day itself.. so I was kind of nervous about meeting him. No problem there though. He was ready and waiting for us at the correct time in front of our resort. He was very quick with getting our disks back to us. He took TONS of pics.. and they're all soooo beautiful. I'm hoping to book him for our 1st year anniversary trip soon.

Disney Floral (Rosie)
We were very happy with the floral aspects of our wedding day. Everything was what I asked for. Contact with Rosie prior to the wedding is not so great. She doesn't respond to emails.. and neither did her assistant. I emailed everything I needed to change to Tanis and let her forward the info along. It seemed to work better that way.

Ron Rosenzweig (Officiant)
We chose Ron to officiate our wedding. He was the only person out of about 5 people, that answered my email. He was very good about answering me back in a timely manner. He sent different examples and readings for us to choose from... making the whole vow thing a lot less stressful for us. He met up with us before the ceremony to explain how things would work (since we didn't have a reception). Heck, he was at the resort at 9am (our wedding was at 10am). He was very well spoken and looked at us when performing the ceremony. I listened to every word he said!! I would definitely recommend him.

Violinist
We had a male violinist. I have no idea what his name was. I didn't even get a chance to talk to him. Charley spoke to him for maybe 2 mins. We didn't even get a chance to tip him. Everyone says he did an amazing job. I couldn't tell you. I'm not lying to you when I say that I didn't hear 1 bit of music. I had a 1 thing on my mind.. and that was getting to Charley without busting my butt!! I do know that in all of our pics, he's playing in the background. So he definitely played for the whole time!!!!

Disney Honeymoon
Disney wedding or no Disney wedding.. the honeymoon at Disney World is THE BEST!!! We had so much freakin fun on our honeymoon.. I can't even tell you. I would do it again and again and again!!!! Everyone congratulating you and sending you well wishes... it makes you feel so good. Like everyone actually cares about you and that you're having the time of your life... and for me, that was the best thing. Especially since I didn't (and still don't) feel like our wedding/honeymoon was that important to some of our friends and family.

I hope I didn't forget anybody. If I did let me know. If you want more info about sometime, PM me.

 

[DoomBuggy0922]

Yay reviews! I am so glad everyone was so wonderful for you.

 

[jlocmac]

A couple more..

Sea Breeze Point
I'm so glad we chose this location. We saw it for the 1st time the day before the wedding. While it was smaller than I pictured it, it was perfect for us. Even if we had upgraded to Wishes, this would've been the location. It doesn't require a lot of decor to make it pretty. It is on the Boardwalk, but you don't even notice anyone while the wedding is going on. (I did notice some people taking pics of us afterwards )

The Attic
This location was awesome. Walking into the reception was our 1st look at it. It was just the right size for our group. Everybody really liked the decor, and I got a free vase out of the deal.


Wish I had...
-To begin with.. not change our original wedding date (4/20/12). This would've given us more time to save and for me to research and plan.
-If the above would've happened.. Upgraded to Wishes. (Don't regret not doing it.. just could've gotten more for our money)
-Sticking with Escape.. had a DP instead of the brunch reception. The DP was knocked out of the running as soon as my dad said they weren't staying overnight. (They ended up staying 2 nights) While I loved the reception, I think everyone would've really enjoyed the DP more. Hardly any of our guests went to the parks, and none of them saw any kind of fireworks while they were there. So that's definitely 1 thing I wish we would've done instead. I would've even booked the Tomorrowland DP for everyone if I would've thought about it. lol
-Stuck with our plans for the honeymoon. (not going to the park after the wedding and changing reservations because of annoying siblings!!! )

If I think of anything else.. I'll let you all know.