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(Still waiting to book and will complete this as I go along - thanks Danielle for the copied format)
Basic Wedding Information:
Wedding Date: Friday, April 12, 2013
Ceremony Location: Disney's Wedding Pavilion - 2:30 p.m.
Reception Location: Atlantic Dance Hall, Boardwalk Resort
Dessert Party Location: UK Pavilion Epcot
Disney's Fairy Tale Wedding Planner: Christy Brown
Disney Floral Event Designer: Heather Sparby
Disney Floral
Officiant: Rev Kevin Knox
Wedding Photographers: Regina Hyman
Wedding Videographers: Stan with STVS
Hair and Makeup: Beauté Spécialé (www.beautespeciale.com)
Colors: Marine blue, Pistachio (light green) and white
Wedding Party: 5 bridesmaids, 4 groomsmen, 1 Jr bridesmaid, 1 flower girl, 2 ring bearers.
Guest Count: Estimated 75
Wedding Planning Information:
About Us/Our Engagement Story
I've been reading around on these boards for a while and I thought its about time I start my own PJ. I'm anxiously waiting to get my date booked next month for a WP ceremony, GF reception and UK DP!! Will post more on our story soon....
Ok so here goes my first attempt at my PJ...
Our Story:
Colin and I met in 2008 when he came to visit the US from Scotland for work (we work at the same company). I didn't know him well then and it wasn't until early 2011 after he moved to the US, that we realized something was there between us and we took that step into a relationship. We spent most of our first year at Disney at least once per month, sometimes twice, YES we are Disney fanatics and live close enough to drive easily!!! We are both kids at heart and he has lovingly accepted my two children as well which was hugely important to me. Being raised in two totally different countries of the world has not stopped us from having tons of things in common, it's amazing how similar our personalities are!
Here we are:
And with the Kids at Chef Mickey's:
The Engagement:
It was Christmas Eve and we were both not having the greatest day, we both woke up in horrible moods and my children were spending their first Christmas Eve night away from me so I was an emotional mess. I was sitting at the computer in the living room when he came to kiss me bye and said he had to go run an errand and I was thinking "must be last minute Christmas shopping." He told me to go get ready while he was gone and we would go do something to lift our moods (since it was Christmas Eve and sour moods are not allowed on that day lol)! He called me when he was on his way home to ask me what I wanted for lunch and of course I hadn't though about it and was in-decisive. At that point he told me he had a plan for lunch and that he would be there to get me soon. When he came home, he came inside and grabbed the ice chest and said "we're going to have a picnic on the beach" and of course I was fine with that and had no idea what was coming. He packed the ice chest while I obviously wasn't paying attention and we drove to the beach. We live about 5 minutes from a beautiful beach and it was like 70 degrees outside. We set up a blanket and ate sandwiches on the beach and just talked and laughed about everything. He started talking about how he would love to move forward with our lives (this is a conversation we had spoken about recently) and eventually he came to saying "what a better time than right now" and before I knew it he was on one knee asking me to marry him. It all happened so fast and I was so shocked I didn't know what to say. I knew it was coming eventually, but not that day. He had also put a bottle of champagne and strawberries in the ice chest without me knowing. Long story short, we ended up having a bottle of champagne and strawberries and then we left the beach newly engaged to go celebrate with family.
The Ring:
(Still waiting to book and will complete this as I go along - thanks Danielle for the copied format)
Basic Wedding Information:
Wedding Date: Friday, April 12, 2013
Ceremony Location: Disney's Wedding Pavilion - 2:30 p.m.
Reception Location: Atlantic Dance Hall, Boardwalk Resort
Dessert Party Location: UK Pavilion Epcot
Disney's Fairy Tale Wedding Planner: Christy Brown
Disney Floral Event Designer: Heather Sparby
Disney Floral
Officiant: Rev Kevin Knox
Wedding Photographers: Regina Hyman
Wedding Videographers: Stan with STVS
Hair and Makeup: Beauté Spécialé (www.beautespeciale.com)
Colors: Marine blue, Pistachio (light green) and white
Wedding Party: 5 bridesmaids, 4 groomsmen, 1 Jr bridesmaid, 1 flower girl, 2 ring bearers.
Guest Count: Estimated 75
Wedding Planning Information:
About Us/Our Engagement Story
I've been reading around on these boards for a while and I thought its about time I start my own PJ. I'm anxiously waiting to get my date booked next month for a WP ceremony, GF reception and UK DP!! Will post more on our story soon....
Ok so here goes my first attempt at my PJ...
Our Story:
Colin and I met in 2008 when he came to visit the US from Scotland for work (we work at the same company). I didn't know him well then and it wasn't until early 2011 after he moved to the US, that we realized something was there between us and we took that step into a relationship. We spent most of our first year at Disney at least once per month, sometimes twice, YES we are Disney fanatics and live close enough to drive easily!!! We are both kids at heart and he has lovingly accepted my two children as well which was hugely important to me. Being raised in two totally different countries of the world has not stopped us from having tons of things in common, it's amazing how similar our personalities are!
Here we are:
And with the Kids at Chef Mickey's:
The Engagement:
It was Christmas Eve and we were both not having the greatest day, we both woke up in horrible moods and my children were spending their first Christmas Eve night away from me so I was an emotional mess. I was sitting at the computer in the living room when he came to kiss me bye and said he had to go run an errand and I was thinking "must be last minute Christmas shopping." He told me to go get ready while he was gone and we would go do something to lift our moods (since it was Christmas Eve and sour moods are not allowed on that day lol)! He called me when he was on his way home to ask me what I wanted for lunch and of course I hadn't though about it and was in-decisive. At that point he told me he had a plan for lunch and that he would be there to get me soon. When he came home, he came inside and grabbed the ice chest and said "we're going to have a picnic on the beach" and of course I was fine with that and had no idea what was coming. He packed the ice chest while I obviously wasn't paying attention and we drove to the beach. We live about 5 minutes from a beautiful beach and it was like 70 degrees outside. We set up a blanket and ate sandwiches on the beach and just talked and laughed about everything. He started talking about how he would love to move forward with our lives (this is a conversation we had spoken about recently) and eventually he came to saying "what a better time than right now" and before I knew it he was on one knee asking me to marry him. It all happened so fast and I was so shocked I didn't know what to say. I knew it was coming eventually, but not that day. He had also put a bottle of champagne and strawberries in the ice chest without me knowing. Long story short, we ended up having a bottle of champagne and strawberries and then we left the beach newly engaged to go celebrate with family.
The Ring:
OMGoodness Ladies! ***WARNING*** I just deleted my account on theknot.com due to absolute rudeness from the other brides on that website. I simply posted an etiquette question about the wording on our invites for having a smaller destination wedding and then having our vows blessed in a church a year later with a post party with a larger crowd back home...and who should be invited to the shower, etc, etc. I'm trying to accommodate both crowds as we can't have them all at the Disney wedding. Keep in mind, this is my first time getting married and therefore I wanted to see who should be invited to the shower (so I can prepare a list for my shower host), and how we should handle not inviting everyone to the destination wedding (I never mentioned Disney and thank goodness I didn't, I would have been slammed even worse I'm sure). 
and I mean SHOCKED at the rude responses I received. Instead of being nice about it, and possibly giving their constructive criticism, I got called a selfish spoiled brat, my state of Florida was criticized basically by someone stating "why do they always have to be from Florida" which is basically saying that the state I live in is full of idiots. I was told I was all about me, me, me, when actually in doing these two separate events, we are considering our guests more than anyone because we can't afford to have everyone at our Disney wedding! We could just get our vows blessed quietly in the church and be done with it, but I was considering everyone who won't be invited to our Disney wedding and planning to host a celebration for them after our vow blessing, it's not for me!! Is there something wrong with that idea????? 
congrats on your big day 
I was so upset, I'm just not like that and don't understand how others can be so mean.
thanks for sharing and i hope you arent turned off to all the bridal forums because i want to hear all about your planning!
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My lack of board posting experience led to my link in my signature to stop working the past couple days. Thanks Kate for letting me know. 
Wish me luck 
There are two different designs and each have a different trim color, either blue and green or blue and ivory. My colors are in the background of the collage, blue, green and ivory/white! I love the cala lily bouquets as well so I plan to have those as my flowers for the wedding. I found the necklace online and I fell in love with it, but of course all of this could change when we actually get in a store to try things on lol. 
