Michael & Theresa ~ 4/19/2010~WP/CG/UK lower~holy moly an update! day 4 is up

[lpizzuro123]

Our ceremony was from 9:00 to 9:30 in Italy. After a few photos and well wishes our guests were bused over to ADH and our bridal party, my DH and I stayed in Epcot for more photos.

Our pre-reception was from 10:00 to 11:00. Our guests were served coffee, tea, cut up fruit with dip and pastries, muffins and such.

At 11:00 our guest were brought down to our reception area and a few minutes later our dads and bridal party and then my DH and I were announced and walked down the stairs. We had our first dance and then the toasts. There was a few announcements made by the DJ and then a host brought my DH and I up to our buffet brunch. They then called up our guests by table for their food.

After eating everyone danced some, took some photos and we made the rounds to a few tables. I think around 12:45 or so Mickey and Minnie arrived and danced and took photos with our guests. We did the cake cutting a few more photos and then they left. We did a lot more dancing, photos and just talking with everyone. Our reception ended at 3:00.

So basically, our guests were at ADH from 10:00 to 3:00 - 5 hours. We would not have made our reception any shorter. We had a bus to take everone back to their resort. It was available if anyone wanted to leave early at the top of every hour it would make a trip back if anyone wanted to leave. I don't think anyone left.

We had a break for our guests from 3:00 till around 8:00 and at 8:00 all our guests met at the front of Epcot and walked into the park for our dessert party.

Linda

 

[disneygal922]

Thanks Linda! It really helps to get a detailed timeline of things!

 

[disneygal922'sboy]

That sounds exactly like what it will be for us kiddo. I think the 3PM end time will be alright. Maybe we can sweet talk them into letting us have an earlier time at the Wedding Pavilion!

 

[disneygal922]

I think the earliest they do at the wedding pavilion is 10am because they need to organize the organist and staff and whatnot. but ya never know

 

[disneygal922]

So we have officially decided on the California Grill for the reception! Hopefully we will be able to budget in a dessert party for the evening! For those of you who have had brunch receptions with a dessert party, what did you do inbetween your reception and dp?

 

[lpizzuro123]

Great idea for the CG. As far as what we did between our reception and dessert party, we were out of ADH by 3:30. We had wanted some more pictures with Misty so we were with her and her husband till around 5:30 or so. We took lots of pictures on The Boardwalk, we were staying at The Boardwalk Villas so we went up to our room for some more photos and then we went to the front of The Boardwalk for a few more photos. By 5:30 we went back to our room and I will admit - the first thing I did was take off my dress. While my dress was very comfortable, I had it on from around 7:00 that morning and I just wanted to relax. My DH also got out of his tux. We read some of the entries in our guest book and hung out until around 7:00 and got redressed and left our room. A few of our groomsmen met us in the lobby and we started waling to Epcot for our Dessert Party. We were able to get into Epcot before 8:00 and walked to our Dessert Party location (UK).

Our guests were bussed back to their resort (POFQ). In speaking to some of them it sounds like most of them got changed and hung out at the pool, some had something to eat in the food court and some just took a nap. By 7:15 or so they all headed back to Epcot for our dessert party. We did not hire a bus for them so they took a Disney bus to Epcot and met a CM in front of Epcot and were escorted into Epcot and over to our Dessert Party location.

Linda

 

[padisneyfour]

Theresa, congrats on making your choices - looking forward to hearing more!

 

[disneygal922]

Hi Ladies! Thanks again for reading our PJ and sharing your input and advice!

Linda ~ When your guests met you back at Epcot, was there a designated area for them to all meet up? or did they just tell the ticket people, 'hey we are here for a dessert party'? did you have to meet them up front? Sorry I have so many questions, you've been so helpful! Thank you so much again!

Tammy ~ Thanks for stopping by again!

Oh, yeah, we decided for a dessert party to use the lower UK! I think this will be a great location especially with all the benches for our peeps to get a front row view!

 

[disneygal922]

OK, so because I have gotten so much help from everyone on these boards I am posting these pics. I did not take the pictures so I can not be credited for them. They are from our Disney WC.

California Grill

Lower UK

Ok.... so hopefully, those can help some one! This however, is something I created on photoshop. I need to vamp it up a bit but it's a start at least.

These are possible place cards I made on photoshop as well

what do you think? any suggestions?

 

[Sweetsus]

The Plans

We decided to wait 2 years so we can save up enough money for the wedding and a down payment on a place to live! We originally wanted to do April 17 b/c it was not only the day we got engaged but also our first date! Anywho, April 17, 2010 is a Saturday and well, we can't afford a saturday wedding! So it will be sometime around then!

We really like the wedding pavilion and are 100% set on it!
For the reception we really like the Living Seas but I'm a little concerned it might be too dark! I've always envisioned a bright, airy look to my reception! We will see!

The colors will be Purple, Pink and Champagne! My sisters aren't exceptionally thrilled with purple dresses but i am set on Purple and Pink, Bright Springy colors!

OMG I'm only starting to read ur journal now. I've seen ur countdown timer in ur sig and I kept meaning to take a peak as I knew it was around our date. DF and I are planning our wedding for 28th April 2010 and we're choosing pink and champagne as our colours!!!!! DFs 30th Bday is 17th April 2010 so we wanted to have our wedding close to that time.

I'm putting off starting my wedding planner until we're confirmed. But I am considering starting up.

Good luck with the plans

 

[Keira1387]

CG looks beautiful!

 

[disneygal922]

I'm wondering if anybody has any pics of flower arrangements that use mostly carnations? I know a lot of times they are considered "fillers" but I think they may be really nice all by themselves....

 

[disneygal922]

OMG I'm only starting to read ur journal now. I've seen ur countdown timer in ur sig and I kept meaning to take a peak as I knew it was around our date. DF and I are planning our wedding for 28th April 2010 and we're choosing pink and champagne as our colours!!!!! DFs 30th Bday is 17th April 2010 so we wanted to have our wedding close to that time.

I'm putting off starting my wedding planner until we're confirmed. But I am considering starting up.

Good luck with the plans

Thanks for reading! you should totally start a PJ. They are so helpful and nice to keep all your ideas in one area!

 

[DisneyBrideToni]

Everything sounds great so far!!! I found this link of pictures. There are some centerpieces and bouquets shown made out of all carnations. I love carnations too. I think they are fun!

http://aim.search.aol.com/search/im...dc=20&icid=snap-pic&icid=rbox_images_google.M

 

[disneygal922]

Thanks for the link Toni! There are some great pics on there!

 

[sunsh1ne]

i had carnantions

 

[Mrsdisneyb2b]

i had carnantions

Oh wow I never thought about carnations ! They look so magical... like little wands!!!!

 

[disneygal922]

sunsh1ne, thanks so much for posting your pics! is that salt water taffy in your tall centerpiece? so creative!

 

[disneygal922]

So, we narrowed down our guest list a little more! I do have a few questions though about newsletters.
For those of you who have sent out Newsletters, when did you send them out? is it too early for us to send them out? we really want to get an idea of who is going to try and make an effort to come and also b/c we want to get feedback on where they might stay so we can block the rooms accordingly.

oh and if anybody has a template for a newsletter or would like to post his or hers for me to get ideas i would greatly appreciate it! Thanks everyone

 

[tiggerrifficheidi]

I just caught up with your PJ. I love your use of purple, of course! And I thought my maids looked gorgeous in it, so I hope yours don't mind!

Here's their dresses...

And some purple and pink for you!