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

[meryll83]

Girlies you are all far far too kind!!

Just come across a potential stumbling block
Can a UK bride give me specifics on how long it took to get their marriage certificate (I'm told it goes off for processing and gets posted on to you at home)?

Received the pack from our UK officiant today, and it says they need our marriage certificate to be able to perform the at home ceremony!

No one told me this before, and I'm sure someone told me it took weeks to get it back - we have 3 and a half from the (estimated) date of the wedding til the date we want the at home ceremony and now I'm scared it's all gone wrong and won't work!!!

 

[pjstevens]

Meryll,

Your dress is absolutely stunning. So pretty! Can't wait to see it for the REAL event. It's so hard when you are planning, it seems like it will never get here. I think once you hit the one year point, it will really start to fly!

 

[meryll83]

Meryll,

Your dress is absolutely stunning. So pretty! Can't wait to see it for the REAL event. It's so hard when you are planning, it seems like it will never get here. I think once you hit the one year point, it will really start to fly!

I really really hope so!!

 

[Ticky Toria 78]

Hi Meryll, yes they do get sent back to the courthouse by your reverend for processing and then posted out. I think it took three weeks for ours to arrive after we got home. The courthouse also have a website where you can locate copies of these, I can't find this at the mo but will let you know when I find. Maybe you could ask your Rev and see if they process this more quickly for you....

 

[meryll83]

Can anyone shed some light on my above query regarding the time it would take to receive our certificate - it may foil all our plans if we can't get it in time?!!



Ok, so, although there are rumours abound that the choice of Escape cake designs may be increasing slightly, I've resigned myself to the fact that it is more than likely going to be a very plain, simple style of cake.
Which is no problem at all, but we have now sent off to a couple of companies here at home requests to receive a quote for a slightly more elaborate cake for our at home reception.
(Now depending on what quotes we get back will determine whether we decide to have a cake at all I think, coz it's something we weren't sure about!).

Here is the design we like and have ask fior quotes on (excuse the poor colouring, there's something wrong with my MS Paint):

We've asked that the chocolate colour be deep red, the mauve be pink and the ivory to stay as it is.
It's very similar in design to Disney's Mad Hatter in a way isn't it?

I've also asked if it would be possible to place a few hidden mickeys in there, firstly in the little shimmery balls on the wires of the topper by grouping a couple of them into 3's, and secondly, within the middle layer of the cake (using the below photo cropped from scottish / canadian's cake - thank you for the inspiration!):

So hopefully the vendors will come back to us in the next couple of days with a price - hope it doesn't shock us too much!
We're thinking of the bottom layer in fruit cake, middle choclate sponge and top vanilla sponge, we're yet to discover what their many choices of buttercream filling are!!

 

[DigitalLove]

Hiya Hun

About the licence... We got married on Thursday 20th March and arrived home on Saturday 29th March and i'm pretty sure the licence arrived on the Tuesday after we arrived home so 1st April? I know I was really suprised by how quickly it got here!!

Hope you're well and excited by all your planning. Work has been hectic the last few weeks and i've been doing extra shifts until they have been coming out my ears. Hopefully i'll get some time soon to sit down for a couple of hours and catch up with everyones PJ's and TR's

Christina

xxx

 

[Lynn5700]

Meryll your gown is gorgeous you look amazing in it!!!!!!

Did you ask if you could have that cake for your wedding in Disney? I don't see why you wouldn't be able to..they would probably charge an upgrade for it. The cake looks so cool!

 

[Keira1387]

I love your dress! I really like the "pick ups"

 

[meryll83]

Hi Meryll, yes they do get sent back to the courthouse by your reverend for processing and then posted out. I think it took three weeks for ours to arrive after we got home. The courthouse also have a website where you can locate copies of these, I can't find this at the mo but will let you know when I find. Maybe you could ask your Rev and see if they process this more quickly for you....

Sorry I didn't notice your reply when I was posting my last message, perhaps we posted at the same time!
I have emailed Randal Miller and he is going to investigate a bit further, but you're probably right, if he's aware it's urgent, I'm sure he can pass this info on and try and get it rushed through.

Hiya Hun

About the licence... We got married on Thursday 20th March and arrived home on Saturday 29th March and i'm pretty sure the licence arrived on the Tuesday after we arrived home so 1st April? I know I was really suprised by how quickly it got here!!

Hope you're well and excited by all your planning. Work has been hectic the last few weeks and i've been doing extra shifts until they have been coming out my ears. Hopefully i'll get some time soon to sit down for a couple of hours and catch up with everyones PJ's and TR's

Christina

xxx

That was fast Christina! Which courthouse did you go through?
It would be home before us if this happens
There seems to be a big difference in timescales from bride to bride though doesn't there - I think maybe the best thing is for me to ring our UK registrar and say if the worst happens and we don't get it, what can we do? One of the first things she mentioned to me was that the ceremony she performs is not legally binding in any way, so I'm not really sure why it's essesntial that they have it I wonder if they could accept a faxed copy or something from the courthouse? I don't even know if they would offer this service though

Sorry to hear work is a bit crazy for you, just think of the extra pennies you're getting for those extra shifts though

Meryll your gown is gorgeous you look amazing in it!!!!!!

Did you ask if you could have that cake for your wedding in Disney? I don't see why you wouldn't be able to..they would probably charge an upgrade for it. The cake looks so cool!

Thanks Lynnie
I haven't asked about the cake yet, as we still don't contract until October, but perhaps we might as well go with the cake that's included in the Escape package and then splash out on the fancy one for at home. We only need a 2 layer in WDW anyway, as there will be a max of about 15 of us, whereas at home we're probably looking at 100....
We'll see how the budget goes (that's my answer to everthing at the moment, I'm loving the horse and landau, but $1700 )

I love your dress! I really like the "pick ups"

Thanks Keira,
Good to see you around again!
It's hard to see on the pictures, but each pickup has a jewel in it - I'll try and take a close up of them at some point....

 

[Chilly]

Love that cake design.

 

[DigitalLove]

We went through Orange County Courthouse. I'm just looking at it now, and it was stamped and sealed on 26th March which would have been a Wednesday, so i'm guessing it went straight in the post that day so yeah, it arrived REALLY quickly.

I wish I got paid for doing extra shifts. Alas, we have a flexible working arrangement.... we do extras if we are busy, and take the days back when we are quiet. We've had a fair bit of staff cuts and natural staff wastage lately though, so we are rarely quiet and trying to take the time back is difficult. I've just applied for NHS Professionals (bank staff) and have told work from next month, i'll only do extras as bank staff... We're trying to save lik crazy as we have seen a lovely resort in Mexico that we want to visit next year

 

[meryll83]

Love that cake design.

Thank you - it's a shame the colours have gone weird coz of my stupid PC Hopefully we may get at least one quote today - I had an email last night from one of the companies saying they couldn't open the attachment so could I resend - doh!

We went through Orange County Courthouse. I'm just looking at it now, and it was stamped and sealed on 26th March which would have been a Wednesday, so i'm guessing it went straight in the post that day so yeah, it arrived REALLY quickly.

I wish I got paid for doing extra shifts. Alas, we have a flexible working arrangement.... we do extras if we are busy, and take the days back when we are quiet. We've had a fair bit of staff cuts and natural staff wastage lately though, so we are rarely quiet and trying to take the time back is difficult. I've just applied for NHS Professionals (bank staff) and have told work from next month, i'll only do extras as bank staff... We're trying to save lik crazy as we have seen a lovely resort in Mexico that we want to visit next year

We were hoping to get our licence online, but I've only seen Brevard County that does this - does this mean that the certificate has to go there too?
Is the Orange County Courthouse the one that most people visit in person / nearest to WDW? We didn't really want to take hours out of our day to do this.....

 

[DigitalLove]

Its kind of difficult to explain, but your licence IS your certificate. In our case we took our ID to the courthouse (which was about a 30 minute drive from LBV I guess), filled in the licence, swore an oath and paid the fee. We then had the licence given back to us which we produced prior to the ceremony. After the ceremony your witnesses sign the licence along with whoever is marrying you, and it then gets sent back to the Courthouse where you first got it from. Basically, all the Courthouse then does is document the date of the marriage on their official records, and then stamp the licence with the official seal of the courthouse, sign it, and then send it back to you. There is no pretty wedding certificate like you get here in the UK with your occupation and Parents on etc... Its basically just a signed and stamped photocopy of the original licence application you made.

Following the ceremony, you don't see it again until its posted back to you. Its the responsibility of whoever is marrying you to get it back to the Courthouse and i'm pretty sure they have 10 days following the ceremony... so how quick you get it back could depend heavily on how quick your Officiant sends it.

 

[meryll83]

That's a shame that it's not a nice looking certificate.
Do you have to get it filed over here in the UK at all to make it valid here or anything?

 

[Mumofthebride]

Meryll...... I have sent you a PM

Kim

 

[meryll83]

Meryll...... I have sent you a PM

Kim

Thanks Kim,

I've replied

 

[figmentfan814]

I love your idea for the cake. I would still go for it at Disney, after all they are able to do a lot more than some standard bakeries.

 

[meryll83]

I love your idea for the cake. I would still go for it at Disney, after all they are able to do a lot more than some standard bakeries.

I'm just wondering if it would be better to put the amount saved on upgrading at Disney to having a fab cake at home - we were only intending on having a very basic cake or none at all at home, but I think it would be nice for the majority of people to see it, rather than the few of us at the wedding.

However... by the time of our contracting I'm hoping we should know more about the rumoured alternative choices for Escape cakes

I got an email back yesterday from the other cake vendor asking if I could send her the picture of the "inspiration layer" (scottish / canadian thank you again!!) so they can put together the quote. For crying out loud, I hope a few hidden mickeys aren't that much of a deciding factor in how much extra to charge
Haven't head back from the first one since I resent the images through.
Maybe tonight.......

Simon had a guess at £500, but I'm going to guess closer to £400 (the lower the better ) - I hate how they don't have any prices on their websites so they can just make it up as and when they feel like it! I don't really know what the going rate is for a cake to feed 100 over here so pray with me that I'm the winner of our guesstimations, and by a long shot!!

 

[orangetiggs]

our at home cake is 4 layers and is £395 we are having a different flavour for each layer and not fruit cake

 

[meryll83]

Cake prices came back closer to my figure but we're still going to have a think about what we want to do.

In the meantime....

IT'S TIME TO GET ORGANISED!