Steph and Tom's PJ!1/3/10-WP/WHR/AAP/ITALY-We won Best Love Story! Thanks for voting.

Hey Steph!! I can't believe how many times I have totally stalked your PJ and never commented on it. I am so glad that I ran into you the other day. I really enjoyed meeting you. Too bad I didn't get to stay and spend more time with you. We were completely wiped out by that point!

I cannot wait to see wedding pics! All of your plans sound awesome. Hope you guys are still having a blast while you are there!
 
I totally stalked yours also!!! That is why you looked so familiar. It was great meeting you also! I totally understand about being wiped out. You looked great though. I look forward to reading about your VR! I skimmed it a little (been so busy) and the pics so far look adorable!!!
 
Hi all. I am back! Been really busy but will do a TR soon. My wedding was beautiful. I was very happy with how it turned out. I will update soon.
 

THANKS girls. The wedding was amazing and I am glad I got to enjoy it. On a sadder note, my grandpa passed away the next day. He held on for me but I will tell you more when I start my TR which should be shortly with reviews and day by day to the wedding.
 
Hi all,


I am back from my wedding and disneymoon and it is high time I start my TR.

I will start with Vendor Reviews:

Ken Weaver: A
Ken was really wonderful. He is a native NY so he understood us a little better than some other planners might have. He is very knowledgable and you can tell he has been in the business an long time. He always had ideas and suggestions on how to make things a little easier on us. We did have a few miscommuniations with him on some things early on but in the end he really did come through with everything. He made sure the wedding day went on without a SNAFU.

Jen Flores: A
Jen really is Ken's right hand woman. She is so sweet and helpful. She really helped us the week before our wedding since we had to switch the DP from UK to AAP for dessert and italy for fireworks. It was too cold to do the DP outside (my wedding day high was 47 and at night 30). She managed to get approval to change our location and confirmed we can decide on the day of the wedding if we wanted it inside. She was prompt on getting back to me on things I had questions about.

Elizabeth Motoc: A
Elizabeth was also wonderful. She got my flowers perfect and exactly they way i wanted them. MOH's flowers were also very beautiful and looked great with her dress. I know people complain all the time about disney's floral but I thought they were right on point, fresh looking and could not be more beautiful.

My flowers:
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MOH's Flowers:
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The centerpieces looked wonderful and she was able to track down the beauty and the beast enchantment rose to put on my sweetheart table.

Our table(i look weird but i was crying at becky's speech):
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Once I get Joe's pics I will post better ones

She also helped me to design a special "pirates treasure chest" for Tom as a surprise to also be placed on the sweetheart table.

Patricia Lejune A+++++++++++++
Patricia is the BEST. My hair and makeup stayed on all day and night. She is such a nice person and her and her assistant(whose name I can't remember) did fabulous jobs on me and my 2 friends. She did exactly what I wanted-i wish she lived in NY! I HIGHLY recommend her to ANY future bride.

Joe Duncan and his assistant Chris-Pending
Joe and Chris were such nice guys and fun! They were always there taking shots and made sure to get shots I wanted or if they saw something fun and interesting they got it. I will give a grade once I get my photos.

DJ Scooter-B+
My DH was nervous about Scooter. I spoke with him only twice before the wedding and was a little apprehensive that he would be on top of his game. Well he came through. He played great music the whole wedding, people were complimenting the music. He was funny and a real nice guy. He played all the songs we wanted on our lists and did not do any stupid line dances or hand out cheesy bat mitzvah leis and stuff.

Disney Caterers: B+
Food was fantastic. We got a lot of compliments for the food and the cake was so yummy. Even DH who is not a big cake eater said, i don't remember it being this good at the PS! The reason for only a B+ is that they ran out of one of my appetizers 40 minutes into he cocktail hour. They substituted for something else but Tom and I did not know since we did not get to the cocktail hour until 10 mins before it ended. We were told by friends 2 days after our wedding. We spoke to Ken who advised that the kitchen ran out and replaced it with something else. What can you do. The DP was a hit also. Everything was fresh and yummy!!!

I think that's all-up next day 1....
 
OMG YAY!! You are back!! Thanks for the reviews...and I love you dress!! You looked stunning!
 
You looked beautiful! I'm so glad everything worked out for you. We tried to keep any eye out for you both, but we must have missed you! And we had the same cake!

Congratulations!!
 
Thanks! We looked for you also. I thought I saw you at Living Seas on MOnday but when the bride got closer, it wasn't you :( How did your wedding go? PM pics when you get a chance and PM a little about your experience.
 
Congratulations!!! :goodvibes You look gorgeous in that teaser pic!! It's wonderful that things went so well and that you liked Joe (I can't wait to see your pics). I totally agree with your reviews of Ken and Jen! And I'm soo happy for you that things went as smoothly as they did thanks to them. :thumbsup2

Also, I was thinking of you b/c our Digital Montage album came in right before x-mas and it turned out awesome. I definitely recommend you going with that one! I'm gonna try taking photos of the pages and posting it on the other forum when I can.

Again! CONGRATS!! :dance3:
 
Thanks!! You are so sweet! I was watching WE the other day and they had the disney weddings on again. It was so funny to see Joe when they were filiming your wedding! I did not notice the first few times I watched it obviously since I never met him until my wedding. I kept pointing it out to Tom. Look there's joe:lmao:

I am soooo excited for my pics. It sucks to wait! :rotfl: I am so glad your album came out great. I hope you are able to take pictures of it. Thanks again!!!
 
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Can't wait to read the TR.. the photos look lovely.. and wow, you had some really famous guests at your wedding!! :cutie:

I might print out a picture of your bouquet too... my DBF proposed on Christmas Day!!!!! .. so now I'm starting to think about weddings & Disneymoons! :yay:

Luv & pixie dust

Emma princess: x
 
Congrats! You look beautiful! And it's so nice to see how everything came together. I can't wait to hear more details and see all the pics.

I'm so sorry about your grandfather. :hug:
 
First of all - love all the photos and reading about your day. Everything seemed perfect. Can't wait to see more.

DJ Scooter-B+
My DH was nervous about Scooter. I spoke with him only twice before the wedding and was a little apprehensive that he would be on top of his game. Well he came through. He played great music the whole wedding, people were complimenting the music. He was funny and a real nice guy. He played all the songs we wanted on our lists and did not do any stupid line dances or hand out cheesy bat mitzvah leis and stuff.

:dance3:
We had DJ Scooter also and we loved him. Everyone was up dancing all day. Funny what you said about cheese stuff - he did do this for us and we loved it and so did all our guests. That is what is so great about Disney - you can really make your wedding your own.

He brought blow up guiters and our ring bearer and his little bother loved it. He played one of the songs from CARS and they were up on the dance floor.

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Linda
 
Thanks girls.

TR BEGINS!! Dec 30-Day 1


We wakeup at 4:30am to get ready to leave for JFK. It is FREEzing this time in the morning but I don't care because I am sooo excited that my wedding week is about to start!!!! We have 4 bags, a carry on, my dress in a big brown box and some other stuff. The lines for checking the bags were so long. So we go to the skycap. We had extra bags and my one suitcase was over 50lbs. The skycap was so nice though. We mention we are going to disney for our wedding and honeymoon and he waived the over the limit bag fee! I was so psyched!!

At this point I am so nervous about going through with my dress. Being some idiot terriorist tried to blow up a plane the week before security was beefed up. The line was INSANE. I wanted to get to the gate early so that I can make sure my dress was in the compartment above me. At this point it did not look like it was happening. I also was worried they would make me open the box with my dress in it. We made sure Tom went on a different line than me just in case. Off goes my dress through the x-ray machine. The guy says to me is that just a dress? I said its my wedding dress and veil and everyone is like Congrats! No issues, no having to open the box nothing! The only thing I got stopped for was I forgot to throw away my bottle of water! Finally we both get through the gate and get to our flight as they started bordering. Tom has to run to the bathroom and I told him I would meet him on the plane. Finally dress is secure, we are secure and off we go to Disney!!! Of course the one time I do not bring a book on a plane the TVs don't work almost the whole way. Tom fell asleep and i can't really sleep on planes (i HATE to fly) i just sat there bored. On top of it there was turbulance. Damn jetblue!!! Finally the plane touches down in Orlando. We meet up with my MIL and SIL at the airport(more drama since they were in the wrong meeting spot). They flew in about 15 mins before us. Anyway we eventually found them and then the 4 of us are on our way....

We head towards the magical express...and realized we went to the wrong terminal! We went to A instead of B so had to go all the way back. Finally we get on the magical express and off to the GF!!!

Up next-drama with our hotel room, meeting up with a fellow disbride(claire a/k/a chilly), BM, MOH arrive and tony's restaruant(never again!)....
 
Day 1-cont...

So excited to be on the ME. FInally after what feels like forever, we get to the GF. MOL AND SOL are staying at the Contemporary, so we tell them to go check in and then meet us back at the hotel. We get off the bus and there is a women standing there waiting for us. Since we are concierge they personally take us in. Our room was not ready at the time but they took us upstairs. I have never stayed concierge and was so excited to be in the main building at the GF. I give the bellhop my dress and our bags and tell him to guard the dress with his life. I was so nervous to leave it, i had it with me the whole way. We tipped well to make sure that dress was taken care of!!! I love walking into the GF, its just so beautiful. So we take the elevator to the 4th floor and the doors open and all i see is food!!! :) i had known this already but still was so exciting to see. I forgot to take pics-sorry but it is nice. So the CM sits us down and starts talking to us about the room not being ready but will be soon. She tells us the room is beautiful and great view blah blah blah. I don't really remember much of what else she said, i just wanted to get to the parks!! lol So we walk downstairs once the CM is done talking to us. I want to see the gingerbread house of course. They told us that they would call us once the room was ready, so we just hung out at the hotel. Also I wanted to see fellow disbride claire since I knew she was coming to the GF at 2.

We sit down in the front of the GF and then a limo pulls up. I knew it was claire. I was so excited! She gets out and she looked beautiful! SHe recognized me right away and gave me a big hug! She then had to run of course and we said goodbye.

We then went to the back of the hotel for a smoke break and MOL and SIL come to meet us. They are all checked in. Tom decides to see what is up with our room. He was gone a real long time. At this point the BM, his wife and son come to meet us at the GF. they just arrived. So BM tells me something happened and tom is taking care of it. The nosy person I am wants to know. I call Tom and he tells me don't worry I am taking care of it. At this point I need to know so I run upstairs and meet him with the CM. Turns out the room they gave us was the worse room possible. It faced a smoking terrace and the other building. Anyone who was smoking would be able to see into our room!! we also did not have a balcony which is important to us. Tom worked his magic and we got a great room with a view of the Wedding Pavillion, monorail and lake!

Pics from our terrace:

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So we go to our room and thank g-d my dress is there. We then all went to the MK. I was waiting for my MOH to call and tell me she arrived. We had dinner ressies at Tony's for 6:15. So we walked around for a bit and got our fast passes for space mountain. At this time MOH called me to tell me she was at the entrance to the park! I was so excited to see her and her husband who is also a very good friend of mine. We then went in for dinner. The food was HORRIBLE. The sauce was gross and we will never go back there. We are NY'ers and are use to homemade sauce (DH and MOH DH are italian) so it was def a disappointment but not a surprise. After dinner we went to monster's inc. laugh floor. I am wearing my bride ears and as soon as i sit down, there I am up on the screen! After Monster, Inc. we walk aroung, go on some rides and then it is time for wishes.

Me and DH during wishes
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Me and MOH Becky during wishes

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After wishes BM and his family left. So me, DH, MOH and her husband stayed. We went on pirates, thunder mt, and space mt. MOH's husband was so psyched we did not have to wait online for space mt due to fast pass. It was of course AWESOME! At this time it is about 2:30 am, so we all head back to the hotel since we have breakfast at ohana's the next morning at 10 am.

Up next day 2-ohana's, more friends arrive and NYE at hollywood studios!!!
 














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