PrincessBride07
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Here is the planning session trip report. It was just my mom and I, because my DF just started a new job and is still building up days off for the wedding.
June 7th- Hi Ho Hi Ho Its off to Disney I go!
I will start when I landed in Orlando. I really dont like this airport, but I feel like I am back home. I head down to the baggage claim to get my luggage and meet my mom. (She was leaving from Nashville and I left from Biloxi.) Well, it took forever to get the luggage from my flight on the belt. (I will let you know that it takes 2 minutes and 40 seconds for a Titleist bag to go around the belt once.) Well, the luggage started to come out, and low and behold mine was on the Orlando flight that was coming in later that night. We arrange to have the airlines drop in off at our hotel. We managed to get our car and headed to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner. After dinner we headed to the Fairfield Inn at the Marriott Village and checked in to our room. It was around 9:30, so we decided to head to DownTown Disney for a little bit. We only made it into the World of Disney. I loved all the cute stuff for the Year of a Million Dreams. We went back to our hotel and planned our next day out. The Magic Kingdom.
June 7th- Hi Ho Hi Ho Its off to Disney I go!
I will start when I landed in Orlando. I really dont like this airport, but I feel like I am back home. I head down to the baggage claim to get my luggage and meet my mom. (She was leaving from Nashville and I left from Biloxi.) Well, it took forever to get the luggage from my flight on the belt. (I will let you know that it takes 2 minutes and 40 seconds for a Titleist bag to go around the belt once.) Well, the luggage started to come out, and low and behold mine was on the Orlando flight that was coming in later that night. We arrange to have the airlines drop in off at our hotel. We managed to get our car and headed to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner. After dinner we headed to the Fairfield Inn at the Marriott Village and checked in to our room. It was around 9:30, so we decided to head to DownTown Disney for a little bit. We only made it into the World of Disney. I loved all the cute stuff for the Year of a Million Dreams. We went back to our hotel and planned our next day out. The Magic Kingdom.
! By the way-- did your mom ever find a good home for the other puppy?
Excellent choice!
The bride waved to us as she went by. We then watched the shuttle launch. It was beautiful. We were afraid we wouldnt get to see it, because it had been really cloudy for most of the day. About 45 minutes before the launch the sky went completely clear. It was perfect. (I imagine for the bride too!) 
). Well, two days later I realized that it is spelled wrong. Oh well, at least it is unique. After the Christmas shoppe, we went into World of Disney. We were waiting to buy everything there because I got a 10% discount. I bought a ton of stuff for my nephews for Christmas, and a bunch of stuff for scrapbooking. I did get the blanket they offered for $15. It has Mickey on it with the symbols of the four parks. We finished slightly early so we made a mad dash to the Shades of Green again to get more tickets for December. We went to meet up with a couple of my former coworkers at Seasons 52 in Altamonte Springs. I worked in Orlando for about a year. I had a really good time talking with them, and the food was so good. I felt bad for the waiter because we sat at 6:15ish and didn’t leave until 9. We gave him a pretty good tip though. 
.) She tells me that my back up location was the American Adventure Parlor. I didnt even know that I had a backup location. She mentioned that they dont like to tell the couples this, and I am not really sure as to why. I got really excited about the new location, so she checked to see if we could do that. She left for a couple of minutes and came back saying that it was moved. (That is when she found out about the rehearsal stuff too) Now we are doing the dessert party at the UK terrace instead. (Apparently the UK terraces are only used for dessert parties, which is why she looked so confused at the idea of having dinner there.) Marion actually left at this point and Rose came in. We finished the reception planning after I was finished with Rose, but for this report I will write Roses stuff a little later. Ok, so now we are working with a completely new reception. I started with the idea of the violinist again (this was before we listened to Bill), but you can only get them for 3 hours plus they take 20 minute breaks every hour. Translation, I would only have them from 6-7:30 for the reception which runs till 9. Marion suggested that I get a dj, but I was against this because I dont want the whole dancing thing. She explained that if I only wanted them to play background music, thats what they would do. Also, they would be the master of ceremonies announcing our arrival, cake cutting, and even announce last chance to use the bathroom. I would have to assign someone in my group to do this, or hire someone to strictly do that. I decided that it was the best to have the dj, and just have him play background music. The table talk was rather quick. We are having three round tables with a sweetheart table. She started asking about the toast and what I wanted. I told her that I wanted both sparkling cider and Asti. She is going to look into what kind of Asti they offer, and have me select from there list. She also asked about a blessing. I love this idea, and wrote down my brothers name to do this. She also asked me about favors. I liked the idea of candy apples (really apples dipped in chocolate), and asked if I could even bring them in. They are technically a food after all. Marion said that since it was wrapped and meant for a favor that they would be allow. I told her to tentatively put me down as having apple favors. (Another side note here, if you dont know for certain what you want they will put down TBD.) We now had a dessert party to plan. She brought in a dessert party menu list for me to look at. I have always had my heart set on the fondue so I got that, and I choose the Kid In You package. I really didnt want have desserts, because I wanted everyone to eat the cake. Good news is that the cake will be in the parlor. We talked about having it outside, but she said that it would be easier for the servers to cut the cake in the parlor before the dessert party. I also asked about getting cake bags/boxes and hand them out to the guests. She told me dont waste my money with the bags/boxes. They are really small, and you cant put much cake into it. Also, the servers have a hard time getting the cake into them. She suggested that I use the small glad Tupperware containers. She said it holds a lot more, and it keeps it better too. Lastly we talked about the cake itself. She brought in the cake and filling samples to try. I was slightly miffed at the fact that the peanut butter cup and the red velvet cake werent on there. I had requested these, and they said it would be fine. Oh well. We started to dig in. I was really looking for the cake/filling combo that wasnt chocolate. I first tried the baileys. It was super good, but had a coffee kick to it. I didnt think a lot of people would like this so decided against it. I tried the amaretto next. Words cannot describe how good it is. I tried it with both the yellow and the almond cake. The yellow had no taste at all, and the almond had a faint taste that went well with the amaretto. We had our winner. I also tried the others just for fun. Let me tell you the chocolate chocolate combo is super rich. I decided the bottom and top layers would be chocolate with peanut butter mousse. The center layer will be almond and amaretto. When I mention the chocolate peanut butter mousse she asked if I had any guests with nut allergies. She told me that they use to not offer that at all because of the allergy, but they had so many requests for it, they put it back on the list. I thought the allergy thing was strange because she didnt mention anything about the almond cake. 
