proudestmunkie
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So after lurking in everyone else's PJ's I figured it's about time I start my own. I need somewhere to get my ideas out and I feel bad constantly chewing off Bill's ear 
Here's a little background on us.. (I apologize for this being all over the place)
Bill and I met at work ( a co. that was a subsidiary of the New York Times) about 9 years ago, maybe even longer than that. He was in the process of getting divorced after being seperated a while (he married really young and wasn't happy) and I was in a relationship too so we became friends, but nothing more. We'd talk and laugh and got along well but never really thought about anything else. Shoot to a year forward, Bill was out on medical leave for a while (he hurt himself at work), we hadn't talked so I thought I'd never see him again (didn't anticipate staying at the job that much longer). BAM! Bill comes back in one night (we worked night shifts since it was the newspaper co) and we start talking again. I was single by this time so what the hey, right? One night not long after, I couldn't get a ride home, he volunteered since we got off our shifts about the same time at 6am, he said it wasn't out of the way really no problemo I promise (a short time later I found out he was 45 mins away from my house, silly boys) we ended up having breakfast, talking, and hanging out for hours. That was pretty much it, we've been together ever since.
Fast forward to now, almost 8 years later. We've had alot of ups and downs and hard times but we're here together, stronger than ever. We talked about getting married but never anything set in stone. This past November, we were discussing life plans and our future together and he tells me that by this time (November, not currently) next year or not long after he wants us to be married. We're sitting in the car, in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot having a coffee so I'm kind of like, really?! You pop this on me now?? I asked if he was serious and he said yes, so I said okie dokie let's do this thang, and that's when we started planning when/what we're going to do.
We always wanted a destination wedding, I always said somewhere warm and intimate, maybe an island or something along those lines. Our original thought when we started seriously talking about it was DCL but my mom as much as she loves DCL was like, ehh there's alot of adults and not too much to do at night, so it went out the window. Then Bill (who wasn't such a Disney person, he's really opened himself up to it now though) suggested WDW. I never let a WDW wedding get it in my head because I thought Bill would be like
but I was wrong (YAY! for being wrong! 
)
Since January we've been pricing things out, looking at locations and all that good stuff. I would've been content with just my family and throw a party home for everybody else but someone ::cough cough:: decides since he didn't have a real wedding the first time (they ran off), his family wasn't there, his close friends weren't there, he really wants to do it right this time and have the whole kit and kaboodle in FL. This is coming from a guy whose typically pretty tough and doesn't show emotion to anybody so it's actually very sweet, I think that it means that much to him. Anywho, we realized an Escape wedding was out of the question (our immediate family alone comes to just about 18) and a Wishes wedding was too far out of our budget. NOOOOO my dreams of a Disney wedding crushed! I actually cried when I saw the prices and knew for what we wanted to do it would never work out. I get Lurkyloo's book, start doing a ridiculous amount of research and realize HEY we can still do this!!! (And thank you ladies, the PJ's really helped get my stuff together
)
We wanted to do October 31 which is my fav time of year in WDW and my fav holiday--F&W, MNSSHP, awesome!!!! BUT next October in the grand scheme of things is too far away and this October is too soon financially.
So now hopefully you got through that whole, long drawn out bit, here's where we're at....we settled on April 2012...not too close, not too far. We don't have a location yet, we're going to look at S&D, SoG, or nix those and go with our original plan of DCL if it gets too nervewracking. If we go with on property the date will be the 13th. It's both of our fav # and it's a Friday..next best thing to Halloween
but our original black tie NBC theme goes out the window 
We're heading down to FL 5/21-5/29 to see Bill's parents who are just outside of Tampa, doing WDW as a break between (5/24-5/27) so we're looking at the properties then.
Now we play the waiting game, less than a year out, still trying to figure out what exactly we're doing.
Here's a little background on us.. (I apologize for this being all over the place)
Bill and I met at work ( a co. that was a subsidiary of the New York Times) about 9 years ago, maybe even longer than that. He was in the process of getting divorced after being seperated a while (he married really young and wasn't happy) and I was in a relationship too so we became friends, but nothing more. We'd talk and laugh and got along well but never really thought about anything else. Shoot to a year forward, Bill was out on medical leave for a while (he hurt himself at work), we hadn't talked so I thought I'd never see him again (didn't anticipate staying at the job that much longer). BAM! Bill comes back in one night (we worked night shifts since it was the newspaper co) and we start talking again. I was single by this time so what the hey, right? One night not long after, I couldn't get a ride home, he volunteered since we got off our shifts about the same time at 6am, he said it wasn't out of the way really no problemo I promise (a short time later I found out he was 45 mins away from my house, silly boys) we ended up having breakfast, talking, and hanging out for hours. That was pretty much it, we've been together ever since.
Fast forward to now, almost 8 years later. We've had alot of ups and downs and hard times but we're here together, stronger than ever. We talked about getting married but never anything set in stone. This past November, we were discussing life plans and our future together and he tells me that by this time (November, not currently) next year or not long after he wants us to be married. We're sitting in the car, in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot having a coffee so I'm kind of like, really?! You pop this on me now?? I asked if he was serious and he said yes, so I said okie dokie let's do this thang, and that's when we started planning when/what we're going to do.
We always wanted a destination wedding, I always said somewhere warm and intimate, maybe an island or something along those lines. Our original thought when we started seriously talking about it was DCL but my mom as much as she loves DCL was like, ehh there's alot of adults and not too much to do at night, so it went out the window. Then Bill (who wasn't such a Disney person, he's really opened himself up to it now though) suggested WDW. I never let a WDW wedding get it in my head because I thought Bill would be like
but I was wrong (YAY! for being wrong! )Since January we've been pricing things out, looking at locations and all that good stuff. I would've been content with just my family and throw a party home for everybody else but someone ::cough cough:: decides since he didn't have a real wedding the first time (they ran off), his family wasn't there, his close friends weren't there, he really wants to do it right this time and have the whole kit and kaboodle in FL. This is coming from a guy whose typically pretty tough and doesn't show emotion to anybody so it's actually very sweet, I think that it means that much to him. Anywho, we realized an Escape wedding was out of the question (our immediate family alone comes to just about 18) and a Wishes wedding was too far out of our budget. NOOOOO my dreams of a Disney wedding crushed! I actually cried when I saw the prices and knew for what we wanted to do it would never work out. I get Lurkyloo's book, start doing a ridiculous amount of research and realize HEY we can still do this!!! (And thank you ladies, the PJ's really helped get my stuff together
)We wanted to do October 31 which is my fav time of year in WDW and my fav holiday--F&W, MNSSHP, awesome!!!! BUT next October in the grand scheme of things is too far away and this October is too soon financially.
So now hopefully you got through that whole, long drawn out bit, here's where we're at....we settled on April 2012...not too close, not too far. We don't have a location yet, we're going to look at S&D, SoG, or nix those and go with our original plan of DCL if it gets too nervewracking. If we go with on property the date will be the 13th. It's both of our fav # and it's a Friday..next best thing to Halloween
but our original black tie NBC theme goes out the window We're heading down to FL 5/21-5/29 to see Bill's parents who are just outside of Tampa, doing WDW as a break between (5/24-5/27) so we're looking at the properties then.Now we play the waiting game, less than a year out, still trying to figure out what exactly we're doing.
) told me she thinks I'm subconciously picking SoG. Bill's thoughts are when we get there and check everything out then we'll know and pick but I feel like when all is said and done we're looking at 10 months out and for WDW it seems so..short...lol. I know whatever I go with will be great and I really don't have a choice but to wait a month but it's racking my brain and making me nuts!
<--me minus the coffee. Thanks guys for listening to me ramble on.
I don't need to change my dress now though I'm going to wear it the whole time unless we do something that forces me to change. Yay for 2012 brides! 
