I'm meeting with my
Disneyland planner this Friday, can't wait! Maybe once that happens I'll start a journal here and on the wedding boards so I have an outlet for all this pent up excitement about the wedding. A year seems like such a long time and not long enough at the same time.
KingLouie, how did your meeting at Disneyland go? We'd love to hear!
Trust me when I say that the year goes by REALLY fast. The first meeting with Disney was a real blast, too. I haven't even gone over the details of the site visit and early planning on here. Maybe I should do that.
So, what are these details you are holding out on us? LOL! When you are ready.
Okay, now that Gay Days is past, and "End of Month" nonsense is tapering off here at work, I've got some time to go into the early planning stages that we went through a year ago.
It all started when we heard in April that Disney was changing their policy concerning commitment ceremonies. Scott and I started talking about actually meeting with the DFTW folks. Prior to the announcement, we'd actually considered booking a "Family Reunion" where we'd have a small ceremony as part of the "party". When we were doing our site visit with our Wedding Consultant, he mentioned that several people had done just that.
So, I called the number on the DFTW website and they let us know that if our date was within 18 months, we could meet with someone (a Wedding Consultant) and look at venues and discuss preliminaries. As I've previously mentioned, Scott and I had already decided that we didn't want to have our ceremony during Gay Days (too hot, too crowded, etc.), and really wanted to have people experience the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. We also had some thoughts about potential ceremony locations and wanted to avoid Halloween decorations, if at all possible, so we settled on the last weekend in September/first weekend of F&WF and scheduled our appointment for June 15, 2007.
We walked into "Franck's" and met with the Wedding Consultant that they'd assigned us. Anywhere else, he'd be called something like "Sales Manager", because he'll be our contact up until our contract is signed and we've got everything booked. Then he'll turn us over to an Event Planner who will then work with us through the completion of our event.
We sat down with him and discussed quite a bit about what our "vision" was for our ceremony and the reception. We also talked about room blocks, and minimum requirements, etc. We discussed rehearsal dinner options (because it's a destination wedding for a lot of people, they do a welcome party for all of thier out of town guests, we're doing something else.) He explained that our preferred ceremony location is considered a theme park location, and he'd have to check on whether or not they could book it, and if it would hold as many people as we anticipated coming to our ceremony, etc. We discussed reception options as well. He mentioned "The Great Movie Ride" as I mentioned before. I told him that I thought holding a gay wedding in the "Wizard of Oz" set was a bit too "over the top" for us. (My actual words were "We're gay, but we're not THAT gay!"
) We then went off in a company car to check out the ballrooms at the Boardwalk and Atlantic Dance Hall. One look at ADH and it was a done deal. Scott said "this is it" and I just nodded in agreement. It's perfect for us. So he penciled us in, and told us he'd let us know if our ceremony location was possible, and that was pretty much it.
Next up, what happens when we heard back from him.
Anyway, seating charts, flower arrangements, catering....luv it! Just found out I am in charge of my Father-in-laws 60th birthday party. Let the fun begin!! Not as fun as a wedding, but still fun.
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Now I've given away part of rpmdfw going away outfit!
