Krysten & Michael's DFTW - 9/9/10 - WP/Narcoossee's - 1 Year!! 09/09

[jtanddolly]

It's my birthday too! I hope your wedding was magical. I can't wait to hear all about it!

 

[Petals & Pixie Dust]

Happy Belated Wedding Day!

 

[Disney9.9.10]

Hi everyone! I wanted to thank you all for the well wishes!! The wedding went beautifully!! We will be home in about another week and I will do some proper updating then. Thanks again!

 

[pezaddict231]

Congrats! Glad to hear everything went well and I'm looking forward to hearing all about it!

 

[puente0629]

Congrats and have a magical honeymoon!!!

 

[DisneyDiva84]

YAY! I am so happy to hear that everything went well! Cannot wait to see all the pics and I hope you have a great honeymoon!

 

[Stephie77]

Hope you had a wonderful wedding day! Enjoy your honeymoon.

 

[pixiegirl]

Have a magical honeymoon!! Can't wait to hear all about the wedding and honeymoon!!

 

[amyy]

Glad you had a wonderful day. Can't wait to hear details and see the pictures.

 

[Boardwalk_bride]

I can't wait to hear all about it!

 

[sambycat]

congrats!!!!!!!!

 

[shippedtosea]

glad you had a great day! Have an amazing Honeymoon!!!

 

[Disney9.9.10]

Thank you everyone for your kind words!! We are home now, and I am trying to get the house back in order while we also are returning to work and we still have to get everything ready for our home reception - busy busy! I am working on an update now and will post my Glad I did's and my vendor reviews really soon. Thanks for reading!

 

[shippedtosea]

welcome home! can't wait to hear all about it!

 

[Sccrmnky2005]

Welcome back!!! Can't wait to hear about everything!!

 

[DisneyDiva84]

YAYAYAYAYA

You are back! I can't wait to hear how everything went!

 

[Disney9.9.10]

Thanks ladies!!

I am going to post vendor reviews, but no grades - I just find that easier for me to do. So here we go!

Bill Barchik (Wedding Sales Coordinator)
We didn't use Bill for that long because we had our planner, but working with Bill was great. He was very quick to respond to everything and was very friendly and thoughtful.

Karen Heyn (Wedding Planner)
While overall I am happy with Karen, there were some ups and downs. I felt like she tried to upsell us in our initial phone meeting, she was very slow to respond at times, and sometimes her responses were not helpful and quite blunt. The rest of the time we were happy with her. She was great when we changed our time and location and told us it was no big deal and she was happy to help us. Most of the time she did respond to emails quickly and with helpful answers. On the day of the wedding she was amazing. She was on top of everything (even though I wasn't lol) and she helped us through a couple of situations that we had. So like I said, overall we were very happy to have Karen help us with our big day.

Warren Hasseltine (Disney Floral)
We had Warren, Rose, and their assistant Jennifer do our floral, but I mainly dealt with Warren. He was amazing! He was quick to respond to all of my emails, quickly made any changes we asked for, sent us many many BEO's, and was really a pleasure to deal with. He also sent me some linen samples because we weren't able to go to Disney for a planning session. This was very helpful and I was so glad he did it. When we changed our location, he was also extremely helpful in regards to our tables and centrepieces. He suggested some centrepieces for us, and in the end, I loved them! On the day of our wedding, our napkins didn't show up (something to do with a clerical error), but I wasn't really concerned and we are getting refunded for it. One last thing about floral. I was brought a bouquet for our MK session in the morning, and I loved it. When floral came back before the ceremony, they told me that they brought me the wrong bouquet in the morning and they had a second bouquet for me. I liked the original one that they brought best so that is the one I used, but I had 2 bouquets!

Beaute Speciale (Ana and Laine)
Ana and Laine were both great. We had a bunch of fun with them in our room while getting ready. I had brought some pictures of what I wanted for my hair (from a trial with my home hair stylist) and Ana did the same style. Everyone told me that my hair looked great, but I didn't feel like it held well. My hair doesn't like to curl but usually stylists can get it to do something. I would have liked it to be a little closer to what my stylist did, but I was still happy with how it turned out. I don't know a whole lot about makeup so I left it to Ana's discretion and she did a great job. She even gave me a couple things for touch ups later in the day. Laine did a great job with my mom and grandmothers hair - they looked great and were both really happy.

Stephanie (DPS)
I haven't read about Stephanie on here, so I was a little bit surprised when she showed up. Stephanie and her assistant (Denise I believe) were great to work with. They were both really nice and continually complimented us and told us how great we were looking, which really helped us because we don't do this sort of thing often lol We have seen our pictures and are really happy with the way that they turned out. There are a couple that aren't exactly what I expected, and one has a worker's ladder in it, but overall we are happy with how they turned out.

Randy Chapman
I haven't seen any of our pictures from Randy yet, so I cannot comment on those. But I can say that Randy was an absolute pleasure to deal with on our wedding day. My whole family loved him. He created a wonderful atmosphere for our day and it was like we have known him for years.

Rev. Jack Day
I cannot say enough good things about this man. The whole time we dealt with him he was wonderful. I had a good feeling about him from the very beginning, and I was right lol Our ceremony was exactly what we wanted - exactly. It was a short ceremony, and since we aren't religious we wanted the emphasis to be on love. It seemed like Rev. Jack knew us personally, which I loved. We had him say a thank you to our parents and grandparents, and it was so beautiful I couldn't stop crying. This review is a little bit all over the place, but we were just so happy with everything. I feel that the officiant is one of the most important decisions in planning a wedding and I am so glad that we had Rev. Jack there to share our day.

Cake/Brunch
We were also extremely happy with all of the food. Our brunch food was all delicious and I had someone that got all of my food for me. We were so incredibly full we couldn't eat another bite. I wish I could have that kind of brunch every day lol Our cake was also great. It was exactly what we wanted, and everyone commented on how beautiful and delicious it was.

I think this is everyone that I need to review. I may add to this though if I think of something else lol Hopefully these reviews are helpful and easy to read.

 

[pixie921]

Krysten, thanks for posting your reviews! Aside from photos, these are what I look forward to most when reading post-wedding reports. It's so helpful to read what went right and what might've been done a little differently. Glad to hear that your day was so lovely!

 

[Disney9.9.10]

Krysten, thanks for posting your reviews! Aside from photos, these are what I look forward to most when reading post-wedding reports. It's so helpful to read what went right and what might've been done a little differently. Glad to hear that your day was so lovely!

Thank you for reading! I always find the reviews to be really helpful too.

 

[Disney9.9.10]

I have been thinking quite a bit about my glad I did/wish I did post, and I have had quite a hard time of it lol So I will do my best here.

Glad I did

- The one thing that I do know for sure is that I am really glad that we decided to have a DFTW. Our day was everything that I could have wanted and I am really happy with the way it all went. Disney has been a big part of my life, and it allowed us to have a wonderful day filled with the magic that only Disney can provide. All of our close family was able to make it, so we had a really nice, intimate wedding, and I wouldn't change that for anything.

- I am also glad that we did the MK shoot (and on the wedding day). This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I am glad that we took it. We had a great time and we have some wonderful pictures to remember it by. I was originally a bit skeptical of having the shoot on our wedding day, but it was really nice to be just us together for a while - very romantic.

- I am glad that we stayed together the night before the wedding and got ready in the morning together. I always thought that I was really traditional and this would bother me, but we had no other option for our MK shoot, so we went with it. It was really nice to be able to wake up beside each other, and get ready, just the 2 of us. DH even did up my corset dress! It was a wonderful morning.

- We decided not to decorate the wedding pavilion at all, and I am very happy with that decision. It looked so beautiful as it was, and I am glad that we didn't spend the money on it.

- Getting Cinderella's coach was something that I just knew I wanted to have, and it was definitely worth it. Everyone we passed waved to us, little girls were saying that I was a real princess, it was amazing. The memories will last a lifetime and it was worth every penny.

Wish I did

I don't really have much to say here. I am happy with how the entire day turned out, so there really isn't anything that I would change.

- If anything, I think that I would have liked to have had a desert party with all of our guests, because the wedding reception ended so early. We didn't have one because it just wasn't in the budget, but it would have been nice.