Krismark's CS/WHR Wedding 10/26/2012 ~Final Update

[bambi0921]

I am so loving all your plans so far! Those invitations and STDs are gorgeous!!! I'm so super excited to follow along and especially to see how everything looks at Tamu Tamu Courtyard.

 

[KristiLyn]

LOVE your STD's!! And the venue you chose is AMAZING!!!

 

[Fay]

Hi Kristen,

Congrats on your PJ, engagement and planning a wedding! hehe isnt it exciting!!! About your colours... Im a pink girl my self and like the idea of pink and black... also your bridal bouquet and bridesmaids flowers look lovely and vintagey in different mixes of pinks and nude colours... Have a look at my PJ as have attached stuff on blush, it might help you decide!

AND LOVE THE SAVE THE DATES!!!

Hope to hear from you soon!

XXX

 

[brer rabbit 28]

Hi Kristen,
Just read your pj from start to finish. Goodness knows how I managed to miss it thus far!!!

I love your colour scheme and choice of venue, very different and beautiful.
For the record, I loved all 3 shoes. I don't know how you're going to pick!

 

[super_k0116]

I am so loving all your plans so far! Those invitations and STDs are gorgeous!!! I'm so super excited to follow along and especially to see how everything looks at Tamu Tamu Courtyard.

LOVE your STD's!! And the venue you chose is AMAZING!!!

Hi Kristen,

Congrats on your PJ, engagement and planning a wedding! hehe isnt it exciting!!! About your colours... Im a pink girl my self and like the idea of pink and black... also your bridal bouquet and bridesmaids flowers look lovely and vintagey in different mixes of pinks and nude colours... Have a look at my PJ as have attached stuff on blush, it might help you decide!

AND LOVE THE SAVE THE DATES!!!

Hope to hear from you soon!

XXX

Hi Kristen,
Just read your pj from start to finish. Goodness knows how I managed to miss it thus far!!!

I love your colour scheme and choice of venue, very different and beautiful.
For the record, I loved all 3 shoes. I don't know how you're going to pick!

Thanks everyone for your kind words!! You're so sweet! The image on the STDs is concept art for Cinderella by Mary Blair (she's the artist that designed It's a Small World and the big ol' mural that's in the Contemporary Resort. She was to coolest and I had to use a piece of her art somewhere.

Well, tomorrow is our 16 month marker! We can be officially booked!

I'm finally feeling a bit more settled on plans lately. Poor DF has been driven crazy with me constantly changing my mind when it comes to colors, cakes, invites, venues, dates, etc. Now I'm starting to stick to an idea in my head since we have both found venues that we both like. Things are becoming less written in Jell-O and more penciled to paper.

I ordered the Save the Dates today after some tweaking. Upromise got me a discount of 50% off the invites through VistaPrint. I've gotta say it's worth signing up for the service! Discounts on tons of online vendors plus cashback. Bank of America's Add It Up program is great for this too.

I made our monogram today as well.

I'm hoping to make these into stickers for our invites.

We want to incorporate butterflies and dragonflies into our theme. I want love birds but DF wouldn't budge on this and it's only fair that I make it work.

 

[KristiLyn]

Thanks everyone for your kind words!! You're so sweet! The image on the STDs is concept art for Cinderella by Mary Blair (she's the artist that designed It's a Small World and the big ol' mural that's in the Contemporary Resort. She was to coolest and I had to use a piece of her art somewhere.

Well, tomorrow is our 16 month marker! We can be officially booked!

I'm finally feeling a bit more settled on plans lately. Poor DF has been driven crazy with me constantly changing my mind when it comes to colors, cakes, invites, venues, dates, etc. Now I'm starting to stick to an idea in my head since we have both found venues that we both like. Things are becoming less written in Jell-O and more penciled to paper.

I ordered the Save the Dates today after some tweaking. Upromise got me a discount of 50% off the invites through VistaPrint. I've gotta say it's worth signing up for the service! Discounts on tons of online vendors plus cashback. Bank of America's Add It Up program is great for this too.

I made our monogram today as well.

I'm hoping to make these into stickers for our invites.

We want to incorporate butterflies and dragonflies into our theme. I want love birds but DF wouldn't budge on this and it's only fair that I make it work.

Looks wonderful!!
And yay for tomorrow!!!!!

 

[elle1024]

YAY that you were able to book already, I am about 15 days away (& counting of course )
Anyways... just wanted to say that I am in love with everything so far!!!! Your dress is absolutely amazing.

 

[super_k0116]

YAY that you were able to book already, I am about 15 days away (& counting of course )
Anyways... just wanted to say that I am in love with everything so far!!!! Your dress is absolutely amazing.

Hi! I know how the waiting game is (obviously )! What's funny is waiting and waiting to be sixteen months out and when it happens. Nothing happens, so far, no email saying we're booked or even a phone call. I don't think I'm supposed to hear from them for another two weeks or so (or so I've read).

Thanks for the compliments.

I actually called my dress shop to get the date they expected my dress to come in. I had expected a six month wait, which put my guess early April at best. The girl at the shop told me that it's supposed to ship out next week and be in by the end of the month.

So, yeah, surprised and excited. Now I feel like I've got to lose 20lbs and buy my wedding shoes yesterday. Even though I still have a little over a year to really meet my goals. Plus it will be much easier to keep them there if I don't have so long to keep admiring the key lime pie in the freezer section!

 

[elle1024]

Hi! I know how the waiting game is (obviously )! What's funny is waiting and waiting to be sixteen months out and when it happens. Nothing happens, so far, no email saying we're booked or even a phone call. I don't think I'm supposed to hear from them for another two weeks or so (or so I've read).

Thanks for the compliments.

I actually called my dress shop to get the date they expected my dress to come in. I had expected a six month wait, which put my guess early April at best. The girl at the shop told me that it's supposed to ship out next week and be in by the end of the month.

So, yeah, surprised and excited. Now I feel like I've got to lose 20lbs and buy my wedding shoes yesterday. Even though I still have a little over a year to really meet my goals. Plus it will be much easier to keep them there if I don't have so long to keep admiring the key lime pie in the freezer section!

Kristen don't tell me thattt! I will be harrasing Bill (our consultant)... he BETTER at least confirm promptly. LOL. I have been sending him multiple emails daily & he has been pretty good about them. (& when I say pretty good I mean in respnse time, NOT the actual response seeing as he is very dry)

YAY about your dress!! The same thing actually happened to me... I put in my dress order since they told me it wouldn't be here until early April- turns out it arrived Sunday. I think if I would've known it was going to be THAT fast.. I would've waited a bit longer to order. Can't imagine not being able to do anything with it for a year & a half!!!!

 

[Bickimook2]

Everything looks great. Can't wait to follow along. We are doing a vintage theme as well roaring 20s meets old Hollywood otherwise known as Art Deco . I love the second pair of shoes that you posted the yellow ones and your save the dates are awesome. Can't wait to hear more

 

[mjshorses]

Hi, I'm just joining in!!! I love your plans so far and I have to say I'm a big fan of shoes # 2 I think they're very vintage, very pretty, and very original.

Also, I emailed my wedding consultant the day after my 16 month mark to see if we still had our date, times, and locations and she responded back the next day I believe. I don't think it would hurt to email your consultant asking the status just keep in mind they definitely can't give you the word the day of your 16th month mark because a convention or another bride can still request to book on that day. Hope this helps

 

[*Pixiedust1438*]

Your STD's and Monogram turned out wonderful! Yay for hitting the 16 month mark today! I just noticed your getting married 1 year and 1 day after me!

 

[super_k0116]

Ok, so, I emailed my sales consultant yesterday to get a status update on our date/location/whatever else I can squeeze out of them info-wise.

Our SC told me that we had our date, June 7th, on hold for Sea Breeze Point and we could start working on an LOA this June 7th.

Ok, so, they got the wrong venue put on hold for us. There are a lot of DFTW Brides & Grooms booking and whatnot throughout the year and this kind of thing can happen, but I'm somewhat irritated by this because:

1. We did a site tour with them. Face to face. Visited the locations with our SC. Saw them put our info down on our locations in front of us and shook our hands. Casitas Courtyard. Tamu Tamu.

2. Before the site tour I had emailed them back and forth a few times stating our new wedding date and they still had us in the system for our old date when we came in for the tour.

3. I'm pretty sure from what I've read is that if I'm using a non-ballroom location or a theme park reception w/SBP, our LOA should be able to be drafted about now. Not at the 12 month mark.

So, yeah, this isn't really a big deal. People are bound to make mistakes. Perfectly reasonable. But I can't help but wonder how much more won't make it into the system when it should with my SC. Hoping my wedding planner is much better at this kind of things when we get to that point and that they won't be so overwhelmed and overlook things like this.

Ok, venting complete! ...sorry...

 

[super_k0116]

Kristen don't tell me thattt! I will be harrasing Bill (our consultant)... he BETTER at least confirm promptly. LOL. I have been sending him multiple emails daily & he has been pretty good about them. (& when I say pretty good I mean in respnse time, NOT the actual response seeing as he is very dry)

YAY about your dress!! The same thing actually happened to me... I put in my dress order since they told me it wouldn't be here until early April- turns out it arrived Sunday. I think if I would've known it was going to be THAT fast.. I would've waited a bit longer to order. Can't imagine not being able to do anything with it for a year & a half!!!!

Ok, ok, I take it back! LOL I'm sure if you're sending him emails daily he might make darn sure to email you as promptly as possible.

And as far as your/my dress goes: the only thing to do now is stare at it longingly daily as you get ready in the morning and trying it on as many times as you can when no one else is home.

Everything looks great. Can't wait to follow along. We are doing a vintage theme as well roaring 20s meets old Hollywood otherwise known as Art Deco . I love the second pair of shoes that you posted the yellow ones and your save the dates are awesome. Can't wait to hear more

Hi! So glad you came poking around here. I've been peeking at your journal and think everything you've got going is just beautiful. The aisle runner turned out great and you bouquet is awesome. I don't think I could ever make something that fabulous. (not without somehow gluing some random body part to it)

Hi, I'm just joining in!!! I love your plans so far and I have to say I'm a big fan of shoes # 2 I think they're very vintage, very pretty, and very original.

Also, I emailed my wedding consultant the day after my 16 month mark to see if we still had our date, times, and locations and she responded back the next day I believe. I don't think it would hurt to email your consultant asking the status just keep in mind they definitely can't give you the word the day of your 16th month mark because a convention or another bride can still request to book on that day. Hope this helps

Hi there! Glad to see you here. I need to figure out where I found the d#%*& #2 shoes! No idea. Everyone likes them and I don't know where to get them. Figures Oh well, maybe I can find something better.

BTW Your engagement photos are amazing!

Your STD's and Monogram turned out wonderful! Yay for hitting the 16 month mark today! I just noticed your getting married 1 year and 1 day after me!

Thanks! and how cool! Well if you come to disney for your first anniversary you might get a chance to crash our ceremony.

 

[super_k0116]

Ok, my sales consultant got back to me this week and told me that we now have Coronado Springs booked for our ceremony...with a little hitch.

I guess a big group is coming to the resort during our wedding and will be using every room in the convention center at Coronado Springs. Therefore, as of now, we have no planned back-up location if it is rainy. Oh well. I'm not too worried about it. Our sales consultant is talking with the Director of Coronado Springs to see what they can work out for a back up rainy day location. Cool. I really didn't want our back-up in a convention center room.

So we'll see what the new back-up location could be for us in this space they aren't very familiar with planning a wedding.

We also pinned down the LOA timing business. At 13 months we can plan our room block and at 12 months we can draft our LOA and pay our deposit. Don't think I'll try to put up a fuss about it and take a nap instead.

I sent in our form and have chosen Jack Day as our officiant. He called me today and asked if I was working with DFTW to get married at Casitas Courtyard. I assured him we were and he wouldn't get kicked off of property for performing an unauthorized nuptial at Coronado Springs. He didn't really seemed to believe me, so I gave him my sales consultant's name and he recognized the name and said he would have to give my SC a call just to check. It was a kind of strange call but an understandable one and in the end he was very friendly and sweet.


Our save the dates came in from Vistaprint! They turned out beautifully. I'm pretty surprised that I managed to make enough space for a KTTW card to fit between the print without overlapping anything sight unseen on a 4x5 card.

I did figure out how the attach them: removable glue dots. They worked great. The only issue I had was when I looked at the STDs a day after I put them together, the cards had detached.

This happened because I should have put the glue on the magnets instead of the KTTW card which made them detach over time. D'OH! So, I had to redo them tonight and dispose of most of the dots I had used before. At least AB got a kick out of throwing a glue dot ball at the wall and seeing it stick. As soon as I finish fine tuning our wedding website, these puppies are getting postmastered and I'll be taking another nap before moving on the the next round of wedding fun-ness.

 

[Sccrmnky2005]

Can't believe that I never came across your PJ and posted!!!

I'm here now, to follow along, as I love your venue, so different and unique! Will you be in Disney after your weeding for your honeymoon? If so, might bump into each other if you stay long enough, we plan on being at Disney around the 14th.

Can't wait to read more about your plans!!!

 

[super_k0116]

Can't believe that I never came across your PJ and posted!!!

I'm here now, to follow along, as I love your venue, so different and unique! Will you be in Disney after your weeding for your honeymoon? If so, might bump into each other if you stay long enough, we plan on being at Disney around the 14th.

Can't wait to read more about your plans!!!

Hi! Yeah, that happens when you don't have a very catchy title.

Welcome and thanks! I don't know how long we'll be there after the wedding but if we're there when you get there, who knows?

 

[super_k0116]

Ok, so, after months and months of looking at cakes and asking DF what he likes and doesn't like to the point of him asking me not to show him anymore cakes until I found one, I have found one aaaaaannddd...DF likes it too!!!

Wonder of wonder! Miracles of miracles!! (fiddler on the roof reference! yeah I'm a theater geek) Here it is:

We'll probably not do the top layer of this cake and get a vine pattern with little butterflies and dragonflies done in place of the red flower buds.

DF isn't to crazy about the color so we might go with it in this blue instead of the coral pink that I think is just dreamy.

I found some molds of flowers to make the medallions out of fondant. Hopefully, Disney would be willing to use them AND give them back so I can make cookies from them on our anniversary.

Bottom tier medallions alternating around the cake:

Top medallion

We may or may not paint the medallions to look like this...

...only in a color matching the cake.

 

[pixie921]

Love the cake ideas! I'll be very interested to hear how things go with Disney when you bring the ideas to them -- I hope they can do what you want, and the idea of using the molds afterwards for anniversary cookies is so sweet (pardon the pun!)!

 

[super_k0116]

Love the cake ideas! I'll be very interested to hear how things go with Disney when you bring the ideas to them -- I hope they can do what you want, and the idea of using the molds afterwards for anniversary cookies is so sweet (pardon the pun!)!

Thanks!

Yeah, I'm not sure how that would work out with Disney. Hopefully, they'll be accommodating. Fingers are crossed while still looking at cakes, just in case. Martha Stewart Wedding is my crack and I can't help but ogling each pretty wedding thing as soon as I get the email announcing the newest issue is on news stands.

I'll be sure to post about it when I talk to someone about the springerle molds for the cake.

BTW I liked the pun. They're always welcome in this thread.

I can't wait to learn how to make springerle dough to make the cookies. Then all I'll need are some lederhosen to wear while I'm baking just like the lady on the springerle mold website.