Tabetha
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 12, 2004
I'm a bad, bad DisBride.
I don't have a lot of photos to show you from the planning session - I seem to have misplaced the USB cord that lets my computer and my camera talk to each other. Lame.
Anyway, we're under a month to the wedding, and as of Friday we'll have everything paid up. Surprisingly, we did not blow past our budget. We came in UNDER. Ok, only by about $100, but that's something! I'm pretending that the items that I bought outside of the Disney BEO don't count. Denial is a good friend of mine.
We're feeding our guests some items from Jiko, as interpreted by the Grand Floridian chefs. Namely, our pre-reception we are having the "Taste of Africa" dips and breads, our soup course is the Smokey Portobello Soup from Artist Point at the Wilderness Lodge, we're having a medley of greens, herbs and flower petals with rosewater vingarette and our entree will be a duo plate of Beef Filet with Red Wine Demi, Lobster Tail with Artichoke Cream sauce over White Cheddar Macaroni and Cheese (as served in Jiko) with carrots and Asparagus. For our vegetarians, we'll have the Grains, Peas and Vegetables (with Tandoori Tofu steak) from Jiko.
Now, if you put "Please advise of any special food requirements" on your invitations, be ready for them to come flooding in AFTER you give your final count to your planner. I have, no word of a lie, 12 special menu plates. That's out of 27 guests. It was really mind boggling. So that costs a little bit more.
Our cake will serve something like 60 people - it's a custom cake based on our invitations, and based on the shape I suggested, that's the smallest they could make it. I bought some cake boxes so that people can take slices of cake away with them. I refuse to waste that cake. Too yummy.
Our dessert party is a bit different - we're doing a wine and cheese party (with some fruit skewers for our lactose intolerant friends). We haven't abandoned the sweets, though. We'll have chocolate shots for that!
And after the dessert party, we're having the bus drop off any interested parties at Raglan Road to carry on the fun to the wee hours before it returns the fuddy-duddies back to their resorts.
I'm also having a tea with the ladies the day before the wedding - I've booked a table for 15, so I'm hoping the gals start RSVP-ing for that, as well as the golf game for the guys...
Oh boy... what else? I ordered our custom m&m's for our favours tonight. Lots of candy coming our way.
And I made up some pamphlets for people to keep with them at Disney World with the days and times of all of our meet-ups and the bus schedule for the Wine and Cheese Party.
Busy, busy!
I don't have a lot of photos to show you from the planning session - I seem to have misplaced the USB cord that lets my computer and my camera talk to each other. Lame.
Anyway, we're under a month to the wedding, and as of Friday we'll have everything paid up. Surprisingly, we did not blow past our budget. We came in UNDER. Ok, only by about $100, but that's something! I'm pretending that the items that I bought outside of the Disney BEO don't count. Denial is a good friend of mine.
We're feeding our guests some items from Jiko, as interpreted by the Grand Floridian chefs. Namely, our pre-reception we are having the "Taste of Africa" dips and breads, our soup course is the Smokey Portobello Soup from Artist Point at the Wilderness Lodge, we're having a medley of greens, herbs and flower petals with rosewater vingarette and our entree will be a duo plate of Beef Filet with Red Wine Demi, Lobster Tail with Artichoke Cream sauce over White Cheddar Macaroni and Cheese (as served in Jiko) with carrots and Asparagus. For our vegetarians, we'll have the Grains, Peas and Vegetables (with Tandoori Tofu steak) from Jiko.
Now, if you put "Please advise of any special food requirements" on your invitations, be ready for them to come flooding in AFTER you give your final count to your planner. I have, no word of a lie, 12 special menu plates. That's out of 27 guests. It was really mind boggling. So that costs a little bit more.
Our cake will serve something like 60 people - it's a custom cake based on our invitations, and based on the shape I suggested, that's the smallest they could make it. I bought some cake boxes so that people can take slices of cake away with them. I refuse to waste that cake. Too yummy.
Our dessert party is a bit different - we're doing a wine and cheese party (with some fruit skewers for our lactose intolerant friends). We haven't abandoned the sweets, though. We'll have chocolate shots for that!
And after the dessert party, we're having the bus drop off any interested parties at Raglan Road to carry on the fun to the wee hours before it returns the fuddy-duddies back to their resorts.
I'm also having a tea with the ladies the day before the wedding - I've booked a table for 15, so I'm hoping the gals start RSVP-ing for that, as well as the golf game for the guys...
Oh boy... what else? I ordered our custom m&m's for our favours tonight. Lots of candy coming our way.
And I made up some pamphlets for people to keep with them at Disney World with the days and times of all of our meet-ups and the bus schedule for the Wine and Cheese Party.
Busy, busy!
) I was reading back over your early posts and decided to investigate Trashy Diva on your recommendation, and... I found the 
(Let's just hope it looks as good on me as it does on the dummy 
)
I use Photobucket because when you upload a pic they have the code right there and you just copy and paste it....
May I ask what program you used to make them?
