Meryll83's SBP/Citrico's/Morocco PJ - Update: Trip Report now underway!!

[padisneyfour]

congrats about getting your date and locations. WOO HOO! That is fantastic.......

 

[keenercam]

Yay!! So glad it all worked out!

 

[farjojo]

Really happy for you that it has all worked out for you.......May the hardcore planning commence!!!!

 

[Summer-Caitlin]

YAY, I am so happy for you. Now at least you can relax and get all your vendors organised. You must be ecstatic, now the fun really begins

 

[meryll83]

Thanks everyone for the well wishes, just waiting for our contract to come through now! I finally feel like things are really starting to happen!

Do you need to put the Dessert Party and Restaurant location on the save the dates? The important thing is the date and you've got that. Did you sort out the problem with printing your save the dates?

Claire,

It's not essential I put this info on I suppose, but I wanted to give people an idea of what is actually going to go on and how the day should pan out. Mind you, it might confuse them more if things get changed later on!

I'll have another look at the STD's this weekend before I finalise them, but I resigned myself to the fact that I wasn't going to be able to get them to line up, so I'd just print them on seperate card and glue them together back to back.
Did I ever send you the various templates I have, I can't remember if I did now, but I know I was meant to!



I've emailed various vendors to confirm we have our date now and enquired about paying deposits / more of the balances off, so I'm waiting to hear back from them.

We also decided that if we were paying for the MK Bridal Portrait, we might as well pay that little bit extra for a second park, so we're hoping to do Morocco, Italy and China at Epcot. Brie has forwarded our request to do the shoots the morning after the wedding to DPS, and will let us know as soon as that's confirmed too!
Now I know what you're thinking, everyone says they are soooo tired the next day to do the photo shoots, but it saves us a rehire cost of Si's suit if we return it to resort reception before midday the day after the wedding, and it's only a couple of hours, we can chill out for the rest of the day.
I'm happy we've made this decision, I love photographs, and I think we'll have them in abundance on this holiday!

 

[Chilly]

Did I ever send you the various templates I have, I can't remember if I did now, but I know I was meant to!

No you didn't but no rush I've still got ages till I can book!

 

[Chilly]

Thanks for e-mailing over the STDs

 

[meryll83]

Not a problem Claire,
sorry it took so long


Well our contract has arrived so we'll be having fun going through that tonight!

For any UK brides, did you use FedEx or UPS to post it back? I'm gonna scan it and send an email copy in the meantime, but I just wondered who is best to use for the snail mail?

 

[orangetiggs]

i used royal mail airsure and it got there fine

 

[Pinkerbell1983]

I just faxed my LOA and the credit card form across, this is what I've done with everything.

 

[meryll83]

Cool, I'll see what the post office have on offer at the weekend! - do you need to post the credit card auth form as well if you're emailing it? I don't want them to charge me twice!

ok next question!

I don't see anywhere on the contract anything about the new(ish) outside photography rule - ie. that outside photographers such as Randy cannot do in park photography.
I had wanted Randy to do our dessert party originally, but cancelled this due to the new rule, but as it's not mentioned in my contract do you think I can still get away with this?

 

[Beep]

Hey hun,

Congrats on getting the date, time and place. I can't waiit until I call to book ours.

I haven't been able to get on here for ages (no idea why) so I've been itching to find out how you got on!

Lexx x

 

[orangetiggs]

thats so good about getting your date.

Now let all the planning with disney begin. it will come around so fast, I remember booking ours and now we have been married 2 months already!!

 

[meryll83]

Yey, thanks girlies!
I'm hoping the time now flies as fast as people tell me!


I notice there are 2 postal address on the back of the DFTW contract - how do I know which one to send it to?

 

[meryll83]

I notice there are 2 postal address on the back of the DFTW contract - how do I know which one to send it to?

I asked Brie about this and it was the Lake Buena Vista one she told me to use and she called the other day to confirm it had been received, took just under a week to get there by standard Royal Mail international delivery, so I was pretty impressed with that!

We now also have confirmation that our MK and Epcot photoshoot have been booked in for the day after the wedding, at 5.30am, apparently this was the only slot available that day. I'm so looking forward to this, it's a good job coz I have a feeling we'll need that motivation to get out of bed!! Just waiting to hear back from Beaute Speciale now, as I'd provisionally booked the day after this, so I'm hoping they're still available this day, fingers crossed!

Incidentally, while I'm on photography, did anyone get a chance to think about this?:

I don't see anywhere on the contract anything about the new(ish) outside photography rule - ie. that outside photographers such as Randy cannot do in park photography.
I had wanted Randy to do our dessert party originally, but cancelled this due to the new rule, but as it's not mentioned in my contract do you think I can still get away with this?

Think I might chance it when I get my planning pack and say that we're going to use Randy for the dessert party and see what they say, has anyone else had the new photography rule written into their contract yet??


We've paid off the basic package we've booked with Stan in full, we're keen to get everything paid off ASAP!

I'm waiting to hear back from Randy about what our balance payment should be, as we came out with slightly different figures, but I might wait and see how we get on with Disney about the dessert party photography first, as we might owe him a bit more if we can get him in to do that too!

I've made some progress with renting DVC points so we can stay at the Boardwalk for a couple of nights over the wedding date, so in a couple of weeks we should have that all confirmed too. We loved the Boardwalk last time and can't wait to stay there again!

I also got some velcro dots from ebay to hold our invitations shut, so I stuck all of those on the other day, that's another little job out of the way. Just gotta wait a while longer now to choose the guests and put the content in!!

We sent our STD's out the other week too, everyone seemed to really like them and asked how we did them.

Getting the guys to do their measurements will probably be the next task as we want to get the tux rental sorted soon. Think I'm going to give them all a 'how to' sheet so they can't do it wrong!!
Simon likes this one from Carolyn Allens:

So we're gonna try for this one, think we might buy our own cravat style ties here though, as CA's only do a normal tie, plus then the boys can use them again at home with their own black suit perhaps to save us rehiring for everyone, we think we'll just hire a tux for Si for the at home do.
Not sure whather to have a different colour waistcoat or cravat for Si or not, we're thinking ivory waistcoats and wine coloured cravats - maybe his buttonhole could just be different to the others?
Also need to get the dress steaming with CA's organised soon, might do that tonight.

Oh, and in bargain of the week - after nagging at Julie (she knows I love her really and it's for her own benefit!!) I convinced her to ring Virgin, as the Disney park tix have gone up horrendously on Disney UK (£216 currently for 14 day ultimate tix) and every other vendor the last week, but I notice Virgin seemed to be the only company still have their old price on the website (£196). Well she rang, they gave her a lower price than the website anyway (£183), and then the 10% flying club discount that was available at the time of her original holiday booking, even though now it's gone down to 5%! Result!!

That's it for today's busy busy update!!

 

[figmentfan814]

I would definitely check about the photography especially if it's not in the contract. We were able to get around several things that they forgot to include in ours

 

[meryll83]

I would definitely check about the photography especially if it's not in the contract. We were able to get around several things that they forgot to include in ours

Ooh what else, tell me your secrets?!

Ok, so our planner gets assigned and in touch with us in a couple of weeks now our contract has been received and pennies taken, but in the meantime, is it now that our contract will be on it's way back to us with our AP's or does the planner sort this?

 

[Beep]

Hi hun, finally Virgin Media sorted out or broadband problem so I'm back!

I'm so pleased for you - you're all official now!!

We'll be where you are now next month so I'm going to be hanging on your every word in your PJ so keep us updated.

We've got Brie too and she seems great

 

[meryll83]

Hi hun, finally Virgin Media sorted out or broadband problem so I'm back!

I'm so pleased for you - you're all official now!!

We'll be where you are now next month so I'm going to be hanging on your every word in your PJ so keep us updated.

We've got Brie too and she seems great

Hey chick,

Glad to have you back!! Not long now for you to book!!

We've got confimation now from Beaute Speciale that our new date is ok, and a new form from Brie so that we can start to pay off some more of the wedding, like the bridal portrait etc. We're keen to pay as much as we can now, as the US dollar account we're using doesn't accrue interest anyway, and at the moment I feel safer with Disney having our money than leaving it in the bank

Incidentally, does anyone know who it's best to request a particular photographer(s) from? Should I do this via Brie, direct with DPS or via my coordinator when we get one allocated?

Alex, Brie's been really great and got back to me within 24 hours whenever I've emailed her with a question, now it's a waiting game to see who our co-ordinator will be.....

 

[figmentfan814]

Ooh what else, tell me your secrets?!

Ok, so our planner gets assigned and in touch with us in a couple of weeks now our contract has been received and pennies taken, but in the meantime, is it now that our contract will be on it's way back to us with our AP's or does the planner sort this?

We got our AP vouchers after sending back our signed contract. We received them with a thank you note from our sales rep

There were just some discrepencies with paying for viewing fees at the DP and then we were supposed to be billed at dinner prices since we had a DP, but it wasn't put in the contract so we paid the brunch prices.