Orangetiggs planning journal/Trip Report - New Updates p48!!

[orangetiggs]

yes we will go back, we try and go over at elast once a year, our ap run out next feb as we activated them for our planning session.

I will try and wait till august tim till i book it to see if we can get dining

 

[October Bride]

Are you going back for your one year anniversary?

I'm hoping we could do this to get a bit more use out of the annual passes, and have free dining again (we had this last year and loved it , for us it would have worked out about the right price if we'd have paid to add it on so we wouldn't do it again unless it was free!)

Will have to see how the budget goes, but it'd seem a shame to waste those annual passes!

If it wasn't for those pesky in-laws and their teaching jobs meaning we can't go til late October and would've been going for a free dining timed holiday in a shot!

We have had a similar probelm. My DF brother's wife is a teacher but she is one of forty guests so we had to book outside of kids holidays as the prices were higher. All kids are missing school but the schools have been wonderful about it. DF bother and wife are not coming but Bridesmaid is teacher and she has got two weeks off no problem and paid, i am confused, it seems its because she works at a college but so does DF brother wife.....to be honest it sounds like we were cold and cruel to book during term time but we had a feeling they would not come, disney is not really their thing.

 

[October Bride]

Oh my word!!! What IS it with people and a general lack of manners?! I would go absolutely ballistic if guests started inviting their friends to MY wedding left, right and centre!!! I'd also feel incredibly uncomfortable at the wedding of someone I didn't know!!

There's nowt queer as folk!!

I am glad you have said that, in was starting to think we were being tight.
I saw naughty friend brother in law today (who would share room with stranger as his holiday is a little expensive as he is in room on his own) and he was saying that stranger is just waiting for work to OK her holidays.....i just do not know what to do. I have met the stranger before at friends wedding and she seemed lovely but......really. This is not the first time this friend has asked someone to come with us. The last person she asked was her son's nursery teacher.......to be fair with it being a small world and all that we did know the girl, in fact she had been to wdw with us a couple of times when we were kids as my youngest sister was best friends with her butthat was like 8 years ago and my sister had moved away to wales since then.....really though how random is that!!!!:

 

[meryll83]

We have had a similar probelm. My DF brother's wife is a teacher but she is one of forty guests so we had to book outside of kids holidays as the prices were higher. All kids are missing school but the schools have been wonderful about it. DF bother and wife are not coming but Bridesmaid is teacher and she has got two weeks off no problem and paid, i am confused, it seems its because she works at a college but so does DF brother wife.....to be honest it sounds like we were cold and cruel to book during term time but we had a feeling they would not come, disney is not really their thing.

Maybe if people ask they will be granted leave in term time for things like weddings, but perhaps it's just that they don't like to ask coz they know it's outside of policy?
Doesn't hurt to ask I say - Si's mum has been given an extra week off so that she can have a 2 week holiday, his dad is going to ask for the same, but is leaving a while as there is a new principal etc, so he wants to let things setlle down first - but he has said that even if they say no he'll pull a sickie so he can do 2 weeks aswell!
We shudda just asked them both to pull a 2 week sickie during term time - problem solved!
If they weren't such important people (eg. not so close friends or something) we probably would have done term time anyway, but as they are family....

 

[Lynn5700]

good for you for sticking to your plans.It's thier loss.Don't get me started on annoying guests lol.

 

[orangetiggs]

I got my floral Budget this morning and not as bad as i thought! just over $2000 and we have to cut things from it cos of the guest list being lowered.

So my $10000 budget is looking more realsitic than ever now!! I have to beat lurkys $60 over!

 

[B2B-2008]

Thats brilliant, I haven't even talked floral yet, but I don't think we will be having much. Did you add chair covers etc to that?

Your BEO's are making me feel so much better, if mine come in over the top I will have to get you to work some magic on them

What did you decided to do about music for your pre-reception, reception? Also is the dessert party included in these costs?

 

[orangetiggs]

yes chair covers and sash's, all centre pieces and dessert party, standard linens with silver runners, silver and pink napkins

All my floral is silk as well and I have 29 crystals in my flowers, my girls have wands

this was including bubbles but we got them at target for $3.99 and they want to charge $77 for 28 bubbles!

I have a phone meeting tomorrow to cut my budget down with my planner. We feel we havent cut anything we really wanted and I think we will do the $10k min and not go to over

 

[B2B-2008]

I'm really impressed at the moment my workings out are coming in at $13000 without any chair covers etc. I really need to get this down I think our music choices are the problem and that we are having Mickey.

 

[Chilly]

Well done on keeping to your budget Sarah.

 

[orangetiggs]

we are having an ipod so the set up in $250 but we are thinking of buying a speaker set here and taking that over with us to save the $250.

We are not having minnie or mickey so we dont have that. So i guess for the $10k min we dont really have that much!

Our food is quite expensive at 107pp without prereception and dessert party and cake! and we are having a beer and wine pacakge at 29.50 pp so our food and drink are our main costs really

 

[orangetiggs]

chair covers are $8.50 , thats whats on our budget, we chose the standard white poly cotton with organza bows and the napkins are $.50 each and they are organze with a poly cotton underneath and tied with a silver ribbon so if we just went for standard white ones we would save a bit there

 

[Mama of Indybride]

OMG the first beo came in without floral at $21607!!!!!!

This may sound dense, but what does beo stand for? My sweet princess and I are going for our first site visit next week, but I real all about the beo and I do not know what the initials stand for.

 

[Mama of Indybride]

Welcome dinner nightmare!

we have organised a welcome dinner at chef mickeys 2 days before the wedding as a break the ice thing so everyone knows each other before the wedding and half our guests arent coming! i just think thats a bit rude really when its an hour out of there day to meet everyone!

i guess i'm being a bridezilla at the moment but it really wouldnt kill them to join us

You are definitely not being a bridezilla! I would think people would want to spend as much time with you as possible!

On the big day everybody will probably be clamoring for your time!

 

[Mama of Indybride]

Never mind! I found where you answered the question earlier.

Now I know what the dreaded BEO is, and can cringe and shake waiting for it!

 

[lpizzuro123]

We were thinking of having a Rehersal/Welcome party also (that we would pay for) but money wise I think what we will do is after the reheresal either do breakfast, lunch or dinner with the bridal party and immediate family - about 25 people - depending on what time we schedule our rehersal for. Our wedding is on a Monday and most people are coming in either Friday or Saturday.

We are going to let everyone know that on Saturday night we are going to go to the Scat Cat's Lounge at POFQ - which is one of our resorts in our block. Elliott Dyson performs there Wed. through Sat. nights from 9:00pm to midnight. It is a bar/lounge with some tables and chairs and Elliott plays great music. We go to see him whenever we are there and we already told him we will be down there for our wedding and we are going to bring a bunch of people to listen to him. As most people seem to be staying at POFQ for our wedding, we figured even if they are going out to dinner or will be in the parks that day they can stop by for a bit in the evening and listen to some great music and have a drink or two. This will be very informal so we do not need to make reservations - it will just be a stop by when you can type of thing.

Linda

 

[orangetiggs]

ok so i have a phones session with my planner yesterday to discuss my huge budget! i hopefully have it under $10k now but who knows! we cut loads of stuff put we are not really missing anything which is good.

I have changed from cinderellas carriage to the landau coach as i saw this on one of stans previews and it looks so nice and its $1000 cheaper! always a good thing!

didnt really cut much else apart from the guests which make a big difference.

Going to get my supplies for my UK blessing invites on monday so I can start making them and getting them sent out which will be another thing off the list.

I was thinking about my hair over the past week and I heard that there was a bride on here that used a hair piece so I may try and find a good one to practice with and do that, my makeup i might learn to do myself or get my bm to do it and that would save a bit on haor and makeup. just thoughts at the moment but time is ticking so i have to start making decisions!

 

[Chilly]

I have changed from cinderellas carriage to the landau coach as i saw this on one of stans previews and it looks so nice and its $1000 cheaper! always a good thing!

I've been wondering how far can cinderellas carriage (landau coach) take you?


Glad you've saved a bit more money.

 

[orangetiggs]

it takes you from the grand to wp and then back i think thats it from what i was told, not alot for your money

 

[Chilly]

it takes you from the grand to wp and then back i think thats it from what i was told, not alot for your money

I thought it would be something like that.