In response to your question about planning ideas. One of the best ideas we had turned out how to spend our time before the honeymoon rather than during.
My fiancee and I are getting married in July. When she and I were talking about our long awaited honeymoon, we tossed around some big ideas before she suggested WDW. Her rationale was truly wonderful: "Since this is a place we plan on going back with kids and grandkids many times, each visit with them will be the chance to relive our wedding day and honeymoon."
One of things I've noticed alot about the Disney planning sites is that the Mousemooner ideas seems to have lost a little of its pizzazz. Since we spent a good deal of the year planning a lot of the fine details as a way of getting excited I am now at a bit of a loss for how to drop a few special things into each day. So I am reaching out for help... all suggestions are welcome.
Little background, staying at the Poly for 2 weeks, we've made our AR's for the entire trip already, and have picked out most of the "couply" things we'de like to do. I've planned already to have balloons in the room when we arrive and some flowers to be delivered midway through the trip.
Anyone got any other ideas?
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In response to your question about planning ideas. One of the best ideas we had turned out how to spend our time before the honeymoon rather than during.
Here is a little of what we have done
One year before the wedding day the two of us went away for the weekend. We brought along a slew of Disney guides books and DisneyMania music. We used part of the time to pick where wed stay, for how long etc. Then on the way home, instead of feeling gloomy about going home and getting back to work, we called the Disney folks and booked our trip. The have a magical day salutation at the end of the call lingered for the rest of the drive.
Then each month on the day we are getting married I left a package for my fiancée that helped count down to the wedding. Most of the time I took advantage of
Disney Store Sales, Target Clearances or Ebay so nothing was more than $10-15. Even though both of us have been to WDW, weve never gone together and shes never had the full Disney experience. One of the things she is really looking forward to is pin trading. Often my month gifts came from EBAY where I found pins that reflected us (like the U of FLA MM pin she is a Gator Grad) that give her a base to start with.
Probably the best planning day came 180 before arrival. Knowing that we could book our ARs starting then we both came down with cough-cough and played hooky. We got up early, got on the Disney website, made our reservations for the whole trip, then had the rest of the day together.
Each of the ways weve counted down to the trip has created conversations about wandering parks together, fireworks on the beach and looking for the little things that WDW has to offer. Hopefully, these feelings will linger long enough to make the lines seems shorter and the heat feel cooler.