Rebecca & Wes DFTW 5/7/11 Wedding pictures FINALLY POSTED!

[SaidYes]

No way! that is too funny! And I think we both have purple bridesmaid dress too lol! Great minds think alike

 

[lilsqueakrr]

Your bridesmaid dresses are gorgeous! There's a few in there that I'm debating on having my girls try on! And seeing your pictures helped me decide that I MUST find them! ;D

Your dress is gorgeous also! I love it! =] I still haven't found mine.. luckily I have time!
Can't wait to see what else you're planning!

 

[SaidYes]

Well my fitting went great the other night. The dress is big, but that's to be expected. They are going to take a lot in the waist and chest and add some crinoline to the bottom so its even poofier! They are also sewing the belt onto the dress so it won't have a tie in the back. I will update with pictures of my headpiece options when I get a hold of them.

Now I am just waiting to settle everything relating to decor. I spoke Warren the other day and I am having real issues with the lighting of the room. We definitely want to pin spot the tulip arrangements but I hate the stark white color of the light. It looks like helicopter lighting and I'm not a fan. Also, it leaves everything else in the shadow. Here is what I am going for lighting-wise.

I know this might be a little hard to achieve completely but this gold lighting glow is the idea. They said they could try to soften the pin spotting so its not as stark white and uplighting might help do the trick. Also, i think if they just dim the lights of the ballroom it would help achieve this since the room is mostly pink and gold shades.

Here are some examples of our arrangements, though they're not great examples...

This is the general idea for the tulips as far as how they fountain out. Warren is making sure though that there are at least 5 to 6 dozen tulips in each arrangements. It should be as many as this in each...

you get the idea.

The table linens will be gold organza and look similar to this only floor length with the gold chivari chairs. It's an expense, but I LOVE those chairs too much!

This weekend I need to finish my wedding newsletter. I wasn't planning on doing one but apparently people need more guidance than I thought. They are also not calling the phone no. on the save the date and are calling my parents asking them why they are being quoted $500 for a room at the Grand Floridian. Ya, they are calling the normal disney reservations phone number. Did anyone else have a problem with their guests doing the same thing?

 

[elleinad16]

The table linens will be gold organza and look similar to this only floor length with the gold chivari chairs. It's an expense, but I LOVE those chairs too much!

I was just running the numbers yesterday for the chiavari chairs...I feel the same way. WOAH BABY cost wise, but they're SO pretty and will be totally worth it.

 

[SaidYes]

I did it! The newsletters are all out and sent! The turn-around time from start to finish was about 2 days, so not that bad. I'll post a picture of it if I can. Mine was only 1 page front and back so not nearly as much information as some of the others I've seen but I knew I was behind on getting it done and had not planned on doing one at all until people starting calling the wrong phone number to make hotel reservations and called my family asking why they were quoted $500 at Grand Floridian. Anyway, problem should be solved.

We also played the fun game called 'Cutzies' to get our numbers down this weekend. Our wedding weekend looks like this:

Thursday, May 5th- Surprise tickets to Epcot for bridesmaids; bachelorette party 'around the world' that night.
Friday, May 6th- Bridesmaid luncheon at Grand Floridian cafe, Rehearsal at the church at 4pm, Rehearsal dinner at 6pm at Il Mulino at the swan and dolphin. Boat ride over to Epcot for Dessert Welcome Party in Terrace de Fleurs, France for 80 guests until 9:30pm.
Saturday, May 7th- Wedding at 1pm. Pictures til cocktail hour begins at 6pm. 130 guests
Sunday, May 8th- Private brunch at Citricos for 80 guests at 9am. Rest of the day at Magic Kingdom with family and friends.
Monday, May 9th- leave for honeymoon in Hawaii

We are having a hard time getting our numbers down for the brunch and dessert party. My side of the family (aunts, uncles, cousins) is HUGE in comparison to his. But that means that we can't cut anyone from the immediate family because you can't justify that. So, we decided to make the dessert party for ALL out of town guests (anyone not from FL) as a thank you for making the trip. This will be about 100 people but because it's Friday night a lot of people will be travelling so we may still make our 80 goal. The brunch is now only for the bridal party, our immediate family (grandparents, aunts and uncles, 1st cousins) and anyone else staying at the Grand Floridian. We added anyone staying at the resort because the brunch IS in the resort so we thought that made sense. I don't think anyone's feelings will be hurt this way. It was definitely tough trying to figure it out though. I'm still hoping it will just be 130ish at the wedding and reception. I'm a bit nervous it could get up to 140!

Another new development over the weekend was that my aunt and uncle who live in Orlando and just a few miles from the church offered to have people over for light snacks and drinks after the ceremony until 4pm before returning to the Grand Flo for the reception. This was SOOOO generous of them and will workout great since many people will have nothing planned for the span of time and the bridal party will be taking pictures back at the resort. The church is about 40 min from Disney so people should be getting back to the resort not too long before the cocktail hour starts at 6pm. I am also thinking of getting a caricaturist to begin at 5pm and go through the cocktail hour so that way people have something to do in the interim. Does anyone have experience with this? I feel terrible leaving people to do nothing for so long so Im thinking this might help fill some time. My mom thinks I should just have him start at 6pm in the event no one shows up early and I wasted a bunch of money, so I'm considering that too.

Here are some pictures from our engagement shoot in Atlanta. My other aunt offered to pay for the photography for the wedding for us so I'm having an Atlanta photographer come down to Orlando for the wedding. These are just a few...

I also forgot I had these from our planning session back in November.

 

[SaidYes]

whoops. Sorry for the HUGE pictures!

 

[Jilian]

Beautiful pictures! I love your dress & shoes too.

 

[KristiLyn]

Adorable pics!!!

 

[sw33t_angel]

LOVE those engagement photos!! They are beautiful!!

 

[Bickimook2]

I love your shoes! They are so pretty. And your pictures are lovely

 

[KitKat5]

I love your shoes and your dress looks amazing! I cant wait to see more pics of it!! I love the tulip centre pieces too...they will look so amazing!

 

[lubee12]

I love your shoes!! and your engagement pictures are so cute

 

[lzimm13]

Hi Just started reading! looks great so far! What church are you getting married in? the church you pictured in your first post is Mary, Queen of the Universe right? I'm Catholic too so I'm doing the same thing you are but when I contacted Mary, Queen of the Universe they told me they didn't do weddings so now we're using Corpus Christi in Celebrations.

 

[SaidYes]

It's actually Blessed Sacrament in Clermont. My aunt and uncle live over there so I've been there a number of times. It's about 35 minutes from Disney but it is really beautiful with lots of stained glass windows. I remember reading that about Mary, queen of the universe too. It became such an issue finding a church real close by that we just decided to play it safe and went with what's familiar!

 

[SaidYes]

We are now OFFICIALLY having our rehearsal dinner at Il Mulino at the Swan and Dolphin! Amen to that! What a pain it's been. The dinner will only be for 20 adults (mainly our bridal party only) before our dessert party for 80 at Epcot that night. Well, the restaurant has their stupid minimums and excuse me for not wanting to spend $2K for 20 people to eat pasta. Anyway, my fiance was my hero again and negotiated it down to $1K. Hallelujah!

I also talked to Warren about doing our ceremony floral as well since I completely trust him and can count on it showing up on time. Here is what I'm going for in the church...

If it doesn't go as well with the bouquets, we may just do white hydrangea and white roses instead of the colored hydrangea. Its really romantic looking though and I'm pretty excited about them.

I'm still fighting with myself over my hair and what headpiece I should wear.

Haha, I find these funny because you can tell Im having a tough time deciding. Excuse my messiness- it poured that day and I look like a drowned rat. I wish you could see them better but it's obvious one is bigger than the other. UGHHHHHHHH I don't know! Tiara or no tiara? All I know for sure is that I want my hair down and wavy for the reception. Im bringing my hairdresser from Atlanta to do my hair so I know she can take it down for me between the ceremony and reception. I'm leaning towards half up for the ceremony but I can't find a good picture of what I want.

Anyone know of any good websites for looking up wedding hairdos. I know I don't want a prom hairdo, that is for sure!

 

[PinkSleepingBeauty]

Hi, just joining in and wanted to say thanks for posting in my Planning Journal! Looking forward to hearing your plans too!

 

[TweedleDe&TweedleDum]

i love your dress and shoes!
and your pictures were beautiful! you both look so cute.
cant wait to hear more!!

 

[SaidYes]

I finally called the church today. I hadn't talked to them in awhile and I had some lingering questions. Well, they let us move up our rehearsal time to 4pm thankfully since we are having dinner at 6pm and we will need in drive about 35 minutes from the church to Il Mulino at Disney during rush hour on a Friday afternoon. This should work out great. Bad thing, is they won't allow an aisle runner. Can't say Im too disapointed tho since I could see myself tripping all over that anyway! O well, what can you do. I should be able to decorate with flowers as I wanted tho without any problems.

I did some more research last night for possible hair styles. I'm still torn so your input is suggested. Like I said earlier, I know I want to take it all down for the reception so it looks similar to this...

I feel most myself when my hair is down like this so it will be appropriate for the dancing and letting loose.

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4

So, it's obvious I like the teased up top look. I have my trial in march but Im not even sure what to try right now! Im sooo indecisive.

 

[KristiLyn]

My vote is for #3!

 

[SaidYes]

Today is 90 days out and the minimum balance for wishes is DUE! Disney has my money and now I wish they would answer my laundry list of questions I asked over a month ago!

This weekend my parents, Wes, and I took our first ballroom dancing class! My parents have talked about doing it since I was little so for their xmas present I got them private dance lessons with Wes and I. We are doing it at Arthur Murray and they are phenomenal. We have two more classes coming up later this month. We brought our first dance song and they teach you the type of dancing that best goes with the song. We will do the same for the father daughter dance. Wes and I aren't bad but he wears size 15 shoes which can make things a little difficult sometimes Wes and my song is Journey's "When you love a woman." Not traditional AT ALL but classic in that it is JOURNEY and who doesn't love them right?! My dad and I are dancing to "you raise me up" by Josh Groban which will probably make me sob like a baby. I'll let everyone know when we get good at dancing, lol.

Today I am thinking about my friend and bridesmaid. She is having surgery today to repair the repair of a botched apedectomy. Im especially thinking of her because on Saturday I got a note from her in the mail. A note for no reason at all saying how glad she is that we're friends and how happy she is for me, etc. I cried reading it. I could not have asked for a better friend and among all the wedding details it was such a good reminder of how blessed I am. (she is the tall gorgeous blonde on page 1 )

Also on Saturday, I received the vellum to our invitations in the mail!!! I was so excited because I did not expect these so soon! Here are some pictures of the vellum and the invitations. The invitation is the sample so ours will look exactly the same except these are obviously not our names, details, etc.

I'm completely in love with the gold thermography and the way it kind of shimmers (not captured well in the pictures) and the vellum makes it so unique. I love that its a very traditional wedding invitation but still modern and unique.

I also said I would post pics of the newsletter I sent out last week. Since Im miserable with working this forum like a pro I just took some pictures. If anyone knows how to upload a document like this from word let me know so you all don't have to look at my lousy photography haha. And to preface, by NO means can this rival some of the newsletters Ive seen out there. Mine was completed in about 24 hours from start to finish and I clearly lack the skill or patience to put together something as wonderful as some of the brides on here. But, still, it should be helpful to our friends/family and that's what matters, right?

I like the small Disney touches...