Let the Planning Begin ..lots o' questions:

[vlkleinh]

1. Is a head table possible in the Attic? I remember reading about this somewhere. If yes, where should it go? If no, just thinking about "reserving" a couple tables for the wedding party. Will this work?

2. Can we provide our own bubbles? We have some, but if we can't we probably won't have anything. This is for the walkout at the end of ceremony.

3. Cuvee or sparkling wine? opinions.

4. Can we just have a cd with a bunch of songs that are played except for a specific song for when the wedding party and bride walk down the aisle? I don't know a lot about weddings...is it better when very specific songs are chosen and started...or is it not worth the stress of getting the exact right song at the right moment? (ps. I'm pretty laid back...but I'd rather not fuss with music issues played on a boombox..the lower key the better)

5. Is it possible to have wine but not have it served tableside?

6. Do Kid's Nite out Kids parties count towards wedding minimum?

7. Would a SBP ceremony work alright sans floral? I can't get into floral...the bouquet will be hard enough!

I'm sure there will be more questions later! Thanks everyone...I appreciate you taking the time to read this!

 

[girli565]

1. I've seen it done before, so I would guess yes. It is tight in the Attic so the extra tables for the bridal party may not be possible.

2. I'm sure you can, they sell little packs at Michael's for bubbles.

3. The Cuvee is very dry and bitter, if you like a dry wine you'll like that. The house sparkling wine is sweet so you may choose that way. The Cuvee is $60/bottle and teh house sparkling wine is 40/bottle.

4. I don't know. I'm very type A, so I plan down to the minute. I would chose all songs played.

5. You can have a wine and beer only bar.

6. I believe anything done on the wedding day counts.

7. I've seen pics of SBP with little to no decorations or with a lot of decorations. It's really up to you and what your vision for your wedding day is.

 

[WDWBride04/19/2010]

3. I hardly ever find a bottle of wine I like (right now there's just one at Jiko), and the Cuvee was soooooooo good, so we're going with that.

 

[S <3 M]

I don't have all the answers to all your questions. But I do know the answer to your question regarding bringing your own bubble solutions. And the answer is Yes. or your florist can provide them as well. We are planning on using a bubble gun instead of making our guests blow bubbles. I am just wondering if i'll be able to bring the bubble solution onto an airplane.

 

[vlkleinh]

that's right...I said BOOMBOX!

 

[emilymad]

They are adding a sweetheart table for us at the Attic but there really isn't room for anything else. We are doing a seating chart and not open seating so it would be easy to seat your bridal party together and near you. The sweetheart table is inside along with 4 tables of 4 people.

The only floral we are doing at SBP is petals on the aisle. SBP doesn't really need much decoration.

 

[DansBride2009]

We had a head table in the Attic. It was in the corner in between the inside and the outsside, we had about 40 guessts. Everyone was comfortable and our reception was amazing ... although, the head table only included me and my husband lol. I'm sure you could work something out if you had a small bridal party.

I did not do a lot of flowers either. The only thing I splurged on were extra petals for the aisle and my boquet and my bridesmaids' boquet. I also got simple table decorations; one hydrangea in a pretty silver vase, with Mickey confetti around it. It was perfect.

For the ceremony we got the said rose petals and I got flowers with streamers ... the streamers were gorgeous and inexpensive. Soooo pretty in pictures and the flowers were transported to use on the cake table.

You can get an ipod hookup if you want to, but our Disney DJ was only around 900 or something like that. He was amazing. We had the time of our lives with our DJ, my grandma even got up and danced with Donald!! It was incredible. However, if you don't want that they will let you do an ipod set up. We also had Mickey, Donald and Pluto visit and cut the cake with us, they were phenomenal!

We didn't have any alcolhol at our wedding, I just didn't want it because I knew how stupid people can get with alcolhol, and my family doesn't drink. We offered coffee, coke, etc., and I think guests really appreciated our choice, but on that note, to each is own, really. The package includes a free champagne(sp?) toast you can get on your honeymoon, though, and my husband and I really enjoyed it.

I don't know anything about the Kids' Night Out because we only had 3 kids and they were all older, so they did what we did; they were 11-13.

SBP is where I got married and I think it's a pretty enough location to use without a lot of decorations, but it is gorgeous decorated; we had chair covers with sashes, the streamers and rose petals with some flowers above the sand table. It was perfect, but do what's right for you; it's pretty just as is.

A Disney wedding is incredible; you will love it ... we had an EPCOT photo shoot that was so much fun, I think Joe was our photog and he was awesome ... we also had Randy Chapman(awesome!!) and Stan for videography(awesome again!) for our ceremony and reception ... and a dessert party at EPCOT. The dessert party watching Illuminations is sooo worth it ... look into that for sure. Our guests felt like they were treated like royalty, they told us, and really enjoyed the fact that they had a section for just us and didn't have to fight with other people to watch the show.


Have fun planning! I hope my post helped. It really was one of the best days of my life and I hope you feel the same way about your day. If you don't like something, just say so and they will make sure they bend over backwards to help. We had Maxine, who was incredible!

Good luck and keep us posted ... I hope my long winded post answered your questions and helped!! I'm so jealous because you have your wedding to look forward to and mine is over, LOL!!

 

[vlkleinh]

Thanks all. Your responses are all very helpful! I wonder if Disney appreciates how much these boards do to help people remain calm (I suppose they might also work to stress some people out lol)!

Anyway...I love it ...all of it!

We are doing Wishes wedding (10k min), Attic reception, and UK Lower dessert Party. We have at least 6 children under 6 in our immediate family...so some of our planning is about helping everyone (including kids AND parents) have a stress free day (if that's possible on a wedding day).

It should be lovely.