MK Bridal Photos then 9am Wedding - I have a few questions

[Chickkypoo]

The morning of our wedding, we are having the MK Photos done (they're picking us up in the hotel lobby at 6am). What time will we arrive back at the hotel after the photos? Our wedding is at 9am at the Poly. Are we better off having them drop us off at the Poly?

What time should we have the limo start picking up guests? We have some staying at the All Stars, and the rest of us are staying at the Coronado Springs resort.

What time should we schedule the meal after the wedding? We're looking at probably doing brunch over at 1900 Park Fare. Is 10:30am too early? (I can't believe we're already coming up on 6 months out!)

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

 

[Janet2k]

The morning of our wedding, we are having the MK Photos done (they're picking us up in the hotel lobby at 6am). What time will we arrive back at the hotel after the photos? Our wedding is at 9am at the Poly.

I just took a look at the timestamps on my MK photos. The first one was taken at 6:13 AM and the last one was taken at 7:05 AM. If I am remembering that morning correctly, our photographer picked us up about 10 to 15 minutes early which surprised the heck out of me. Luckily, I was ready before he phoned our resort room and my husband was ready within a few minutes of the call (what a lazy bones!). I believe we were back at our resort by 7:30 AM. It was a wham-bam-thank-you-mam kind of morning. The Disney photographers are pro's at getting you in & out of the MK quickly.

 

[Snow_White]

If you're using Disney's limos, they will take care of the timing on your wedding day. Our wedding was at 4:00 and I think they started shuttling the guests to the WP at 3:30 or so, maybe a few minutes earlier (but this was from the Grand Floridian, not the All-Stars). We had all of our guests meet in the GF lobby (most were staying there already) at 3:00 to leave plenty of extra time and then we had the limo drive them to the WP. The limo drove me to the WP at 3:45. I would imagine you'd have to add on an extra 10 minutes of transit time for the All-Stars and Coronado. Just ask your EM--they most likely already have everything scheduled to the minute.

Our MK photo shoot took about a half hour, plus transit time and misc. stuff like moving ladders or workers out of the way (or whatever), so I think you can expect to be back at the Poly at around 7 or so (maybe 7:30 at the latest, depending on how smoothly it all goes). It was DEFINITELY a quick photo shoot (I hate the Disney photogs). I'm not sure where you are staying, but I'd probably rather be dropped off at the Poly, as long as there is a room you can use to freshen up before the ceremony begins. Of course if you're being picked up at a non-MK resort (like the all-stars), tack on extra transit time for your calculations.

I would think 11:00 would be better for your brunch, so you have plenty of time for pictures after the wedding and you don't have to rush. You can always get there a few minutes early. For our 4:00 wedding, we had our pre-reception from 5-6, and then our reception started at 6. I believe my husband and I arrived at our pre-reception at about 5:30-5:40. If our reception would have started at 5:30, we definitely would have felt like we had to rush to be sure we got there on time, with the pictures and all.

Your EM should definitely be able to help you with all of these details though.

 

[Janet2k]

What time should we have the limo start picking up guests? We have some staying at the All Stars, and the rest of us are staying at the Coronado Springs resort.

Ask your EM this question. They are pro's at important details such as this.

For example, for my custom vow renewal, my EM had created an itinerary with pickup times clearly stated on it. He gave a copy of this itinerary to each of the guests at my Welcome Party on the night before my vow renewal (note: all of my guests were in attendance that night). The itinerary stated each resort's pick-up time. As you can imagine, those pickup times were scheduled like clockwork so that everyone would make it to the Wedding Pavilion in time for the ceremony.

I was grateful that my EM had done this for me. I don't know if this is done for everyone, but I thought I would mention it so that you could see that the FTW folks do have information like this at their fingertips. Never be afraid to ask them for help.

I hope this helped.

 

[Chickkypoo]

Thanks everyone, I think I'll send Karen an e-mail. The only reason I was curious as there was a spot in the Wedding Planning Kit where it asked about limo pickup times and locations, so I thought we had to have a rough idea ahead of time.