Lauren & Joshua's Fairy Tale Wedding 1/16/2010 - Reception Details Added

[bellebride116]

Lauren & Joshua {January 16, 2010}

My name is Lauren and my fiance, Joshua, and I live in New York, and like everyone reading this we love Disney World! By the time we get married we will have had a year and a half engagement, which is perfect when you're planning a destination wedding. Before we got engaged we always knew we wanted a destination wedding. Like most, when we got engaged we looked into DFTW, however, due to the rules we ended up choosing a different destination wedding venue in Orlando.

**I'm just getting used to uploading pictures, so excuse the random sizes**

About Us​

Josh is an executive for a large department store company and up until recently I was an editor for a teen magazine. I quit and am now enjoying planning our wedding {Although I admit, I will miss meeting all the celebs!}.

Josh and I love to travel and we have been lucky enough to do so until recently since we are saving for the big day!

We have two adorable yorkies <3!

The one on the left we rescued about 2 1/2 years ago. He was abused and has no teeth because of it. He also has seizures and is scared of everything. The one on right was given to us by a friend of a friend who couldn't keep him anymore a little over a year ago. He just turned two and had major surgery for bladder stones. Thankfully he is fine now and loves to play!

How We Met​

{I took this from our wedding website}

It Was Love At First Sight
Lauren and Josh met in 2005 when she came home from college over the weekend. Lauren got a weekend job at the same place Josh was working. They noticed each other for MONTHS before Josh worked up the courage to talk to Lauren, they even told others about noticing one another. When Josh and Lauren finally talked months later, they had the longest conversation ever - literally! They talked for three hours. All the hype from 'noticing' one another came true when they spoke. They told others they liked each other but never one another. They remained friends, for a while since were both dating other people at the time. Separately, they broke up with the other people they were with. One night Josh randomly kissed Lauren and the rest is history. Lauren and Josh officially began dating spring 2006. At just about the two year mark Josh proposed.

The Proposal​

{Also taken from our wedding website}

Josh proposed in their kitchen on July 2, 2008. He handed Lauren a card that said sweet things. Lauren read it to where it said, "Look At Josh Now." She looked at Josh and he was down on one knee with a ring around one of their dog's collar's.

The Ring​

I always wanted a very plain and simple, but elegant ring with one diamond in the center. Josh picked out the perfect one!

Coming Right Up: The venue & some wedding details!
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The Venue

Our venue is the gorgeous Marriott World Center Resort & Spa. We LOVE this place! It has the most amazing pool we have ever seen! We wanted a resort that would accommodate all our guests at a discounted rate and put everyone all together -- this one is it!

We love our outdoor ceremony location because it's a complete blank slate.

The view from the ceremony site:

Our reception will be taking place in one of the hotel ballrooms.

Wedding Colors

Our colors are black, ivory, light pink, and dark pink

Up next: Attire


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[bellebride116]

Before I go any further let me just say I'm a two dress bride. My ceremony and picture dress is amazing, but heavy, so I got a second dress that's super lightweight to change into for the reception. I special ordered it with no train.

Ceremony Dress: Maggie Sottero's Estella {in ivory, not blue like in the picture!}
The Front:

The Back:

Reception Dress:

Shoes:

Garter:

Josh's Tux: Black & ivory

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[bellebride116]

Josh and I each have three bridesmaids and three groomsmen. We wanted a small bridal party and neither of us have a maid of honor or best man {too hard to choose!}

The girls are wearing this dress from David's Bridal {the crystal brooch sold me on it!}.

We told each of our mom's to get any dress as long as it's a shade of pink.

The groomsmen are wearing an ivory, black, and light pink tux.

We also picked out the same tux as the groomsmen, except with a dark pink vest for each of our dad's.

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Save The Dates:

We have quite a large guest list, so we sent out our save the date magnets about 13 months in advance. We included our wedding website on it which was really helpful for our guests.

Invitations: These were a labor of love!

Our invites are in the mail and the RSVP date is approaching!

Monograms: We have two monograms that are seen throughout our wedding weekend.

Entrance page to our wedding website:

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[bellebride116]

Okay this is my last post for the night!

My bouquet inspiration: Large, tight, round bouquet of all light pink and ivory roses with crystals spread throughout.

For the bridesmaids: A smaller version of my bouquet with all light pink and dark pink roses.

Centerpieces: We have THE most AWESOME florist EVER. He emailed us pictures of our centerpiece mockups a few months ago.

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[MainStMandy]

Welcome and Congratulations!!! Your wedding looks like it is going to be stunning!! Your second dress was one I was considering in the beginning...they are both very beautiful. I absolutely LOVE your centerpieces!!! Looking forward to more!!

 

[bellebride116]

Welcome and Congratulations!!! Your wedding looks like it is going to be stunning!! Your second dress was one I was considering in the beginning...they are both very beautiful. I absolutely LOVE your centerpieces!!! Looking forward to more!!

Thank you! I was just reading your planning journal -- I love the dress you chose! Very elegant!

 

[pezaddict231]

Congrats! Love your plans so far, the floral arrangements are beautiful! Who is your florist? Can't wait to hear more of your plans.

 

[bellebride116]

Congrats! Love your plans so far, the floral arrangements are beautiful! Who is your florist? Can't wait to hear more of your plans.

Thank you! Our florist is Lee Forrest from Lee Forrest Design in Orlando.

 

[CassIS300]

Aww you guys are so cute! I love all the pictures you posted. No disney wedding huh? Thats ok... it will be just as magical! I love your reception location. Beautiful! Subscribing!

 

[bellebride116]

Some Reception Details​

The next major thing to check off my to-do list is reception lighting. We really want to uplight the ballroom in pink. These are my inspiration photos I've been sending to different lighting companies to see if they can re-create something similar:

We are doubling our linens on each table. Our awesome venue has ivory and black linens which are going to be set up like this, as well as black chair covers:

The only things we need to rent are pink chair sashes and pink napkins.

We are using these candles on each guest table instead of the ones in the pictures of the centerpiece mockups:

Hopefully we can get our pink napkins folded like this to put our menu's in:

These are the first draft of the menu's I designed:

I plan on backing all the menu's with black cardstock. Between the space at the top I'll be putting a ribbon with crystal buckle similar to this picture:

I had found these awesome candelabras at Home Goods and plan on putting the three I bought on the escort card table with rose petals everywhere like in this picture:

I had bought these really cute princess crown escort card holders. They were a bit pricey at $2.50 each, but the quality is great and I'm really happy with them.

Table Numbers & holder:

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[bellebride116]

Aww you guys are so cute! I love all the pictures you posted. No disney wedding huh? Thats ok... it will be just as magical! I love your reception location. Beautiful! Subscribing!

Yeah we chose the 'destination orlando' wedding instead. It's a mile from Disney so it's all good. After our wedding weekend we are actually moving to Animal Kingdom Lodge for a week... I'm really excited cause I've never stayed at that hotel before!

 

[CassIS300]

Yeah we chose the 'destination orlando' wedding instead. It's a mile from Disney so it's all good. After our wedding weekend we are actually moving to Animal Kingdom Lodge for a week... I'm really excited cause I've never stayed at that hotel before!

Ahh Lucky! I have always wanted to stay there but its a bit on the pricey side. We are staying at the New Orleans-riverside. We have stayed at the Caribbean so I wanted to try something different.

Be sure and post lots of pics of the wedding. It looks like its going to be amazing. I wish I had the money to do all that

 

[bellebride116]

Ahh Lucky! I have always wanted to stay there but its a bit on the pricey side. We are staying at the New Orleans-riverside. We have stayed at the Caribbean so I wanted to try something different.

Be sure and post lots of pics of the wedding. It looks like its going to be amazing. I wish I had the money to do all that

Ugh I hear ya! We LOVED Caribbean Beach!!! Josh wanted to stay there again but then we decided to splurge and try 'the animal one' as he calls it LOL. Animal Kingdom is his favorite park so once he found out there was a hotel similar there was no turning back. He had a conference at Coronado Springs a few years ago and that place was really nice too! We never stayed at any of the Port Orleans ones, let me know how they are!

 

[trudy88]

What a cute couple; and your plans are really lovely. I esp. love your choice for a bouquet!

 

[bellebride116]

What a cute couple; and your plans are really lovely. I esp. love your choice for a bouquet!

Thank you!

 

[CassIS300]

Ugh I hear ya! We LOVED Caribbean Beach!!! Josh wanted to stay there again but then we decided to splurge and try 'the animal one' as he calls it LOL. Animal Kingdom is his favorite park so once he found out there was a hotel similar there was no turning back. He had a conference at Coronado Springs a few years ago and that place was really nice too! We never stayed at any of the Port Orleans ones, let me know how they are!

Yeah caribbean beach was nice. I loved the lagoon right there and the pool was pretty cool. I will def let you know about Orleans riverside. It should be fun!! I will post pics too.

 

[MainStMandy]

Thank you! I was just reading your planning journal -- I love the dress you chose! Very elegant!

Aww thank you! I definitely have wedding dress envy when I see the big princess gowns...but I do love my dress and it fits my style.

Yeah we chose the 'destination orlando' wedding instead. It's a mile from Disney so it's all good. After our wedding weekend we are actually moving to Animal Kingdom Lodge for a week... I'm really excited cause I've never stayed at that hotel before!

We just recently stayed at Ak for our anniversary and LOVED it!! It's so beautiful. We had rented DVC points and stayed in a studio with a Savannah view. I can't say enough nice things about it!!

Oh and I just love the lighting you picked out for your reception!! It makes me think of the platinum wedding show...very glamorous and elegant!!

 

[bellebride116]

Aww thank you! I definitely have wedding dress envy when I see the big princess gowns...but I do love my dress and it fits my style.



We just recently stayed at Ak for our anniversary and LOVED it!! It's so beautiful. We had rented DVC points and stayed in a studio with a Savannah view. I can't say enough nice things about it!!

Oh and I just love the lighting you picked out for your reception!! It makes me think of the platinum wedding show...very glamorous and elegant!!

I'm pretty clueless when it comes to DVC so we just booked a room at the hotel and not the villas.

Thanks! I hope we can do lighting. I emailed those pictures to a few lighting companies to get a quote... hopefully it won't be too pricey