Tanya & Dan's VR DCL!!!Dec 4, 2009 MK & Epcot Photoshoot Pics Posted

[DISNEYMAGIC2005]

haven't been on in a while but I wanted to find out how your VR went and I'm glad you got started on your TR!!!! I love the pic of your kids in front of the Christmas tree and the pics that you have taken are amazing. I can't believe you did your own hair. It looked great! Well can't wait to read and see more!

 

[CinderelliT]

Loving it so far!

I know I have said this before, but your two kids are too adorable! Especially when meeting the princesses!

But you two got some beautiful shots so far. Patiently waiting for more!

Thanks! More coming up now!

haven't been on in a while but I wanted to find out how your VR went and I'm glad you got started on your TR!!!! I love the pic of your kids in front of the Christmas tree and the pics that you have taken are amazing. I can't believe you did your own hair. It looked great! Well can't wait to read and see more!

Hey girl!!! How are you? I hope married life is treating you well. Thanks for the compliments. You'll have to let me know what you are up to these days, and you really need to finish your TR!!!

 

[CinderelliT]

The first place we went to take pics was route 66. It has all this pop art and it is really cool. I saw pics that another bride did there on her trip right before me, and like any good photographer, I had to copy them.

 

[CinderelliT]

One of my fav's of the whole trip:

I had a really difficult time getting him to pose for me. He hates being in front of the camera!

 

[CinderelliT]

Okay - while I am waiting on photobucket, I'll write a little bit. It was about this time that lunch was going on, and we were in one of the main hallways - so we started getting a bit of a crowd. We had the tripod set up to photograph ourselves, so I am constantly worrying that someone will knock it over. Plus we look kind of silly smiling for no one. People didn't realize that we had a remote for the camera!

It was loads of fun though getting to dress up and play around like this. I was too nervous on our actual wedding day to do any such thing. We were so much more relaxed and laid back. We wanted to just have fun and be with each other. We really are each other's best friend and we spend as much time together as possible. We never get bored, sick, or tired of each other. We rarely even fight. We bicker a lot, but we don't fight. If we do, it's over quickly. Neither of us can stay mad at each other for very long.

And on this day, there was no fighting in sight. We just laughed with each other.

 

[CinderelliT]

Okay - these are all really similar, but we took them in a sequence. I need to make a photo collage that looks like those strips that you print out of the photo booths.

 

[lpizzuro123]

Wow - love the photos - everything looks wonderful. Love the blue crinnie and shoes. Your hair came out great. Can't wait to read and see more.

Linda

 

[chepic]

looks great

 

[Stephie77]

The photos looked great. I am stilll can't beleive you did your own hair. It looks great in the pics and when I saw you at park Fare. I would never be able to do it myself! can't wait to see more!!!

 

[hawky7]

Hey Tanya!!!

I'm 10 pages in, I started at the end and went backwards two pages and realized I really should start at the beginning... But with that being said.. I LOVEEEEEE your DCL pics, you look gorgeous!! And the ones with the portholes are sooo great!! Well they all are!!!

You and your DH sound exactly like us!!! I was thinking that earlier today on another thread, and then reading the first 10 pages I was like geez they are exactly the same as us! So I quite enjoy reading your story. I hope to be finished by the end of the week!!!

Anyways, everything looked beautiful and I can't wait to finish reading your TR!!!

 

[amberg@eastlink.ca]

You learn by doing! Get out there and have fun with your camera. The more you do it, the more you'll learn what looks good. Maybe you are natually talented. Look me up on Facebook - Tanya Downs.

k ive been a bad disboards friend! lol i missed your last posts- been on the netbook thats still emailless and not my big 5 yr old beast of a computer. lol i always did want to take a photog class. just never got around to it. sadly my camera is only a plain old kodak digital. altho i love digital!!! tried looking you up- it hit me with 5 tanya downs, none that look like you! lol


love all the new shots- im blown away at how detailed the shots on the ship are- disney doesnt miss any details even at sea! i love the xmas tree one of the two of you. so pretty!

 

[29apr00]

finally all caught up! Love all the shots! I can't believe you were able to do all this by yourself! So great! Our VR ran late, we didn't even leave the lounge until 535pm and our Palo reservation was for 6pm. So we skipped the inside pics because i wanted more of the outside deck ones, with Atlantis in the back.....but it was too dark, I don't think we got any. I don't know, i can't remember! Hopefully i get to see them soon!

Anyway.....LOVE THEM ALL!! Can't wait for the actual ceremony!

 

[CinderelliT]

Wow - love the photos - everything looks wonderful. Love the blue crinnie and shoes. Your hair came out great. Can't wait to read and see more.

Linda

Thanks so much! I loved having the pop of blue under my dress. It was fun.

looks great

Thanks!

The photos looked great. I am stilll can't beleive you did your own hair. It looks great in the pics and when I saw you at park Fare. I would never be able to do it myself! can't wait to see more!!!

It's fake hair - that's why it looks so good. LOL. It was so good to see you. Can't wait to see more of your pics. You looked drop dead gorgeous in the ones you had up.

Hey Tanya!!!

I'm 10 pages in, I started at the end and went backwards two pages and realized I really should start at the beginning... But with that being said.. I LOVEEEEEE your DCL pics, you look gorgeous!! And the ones with the portholes are sooo great!! Well they all are!!!

You and your DH sound exactly like us!!! I was thinking that earlier today on another thread, and then reading the first 10 pages I was like geez they are exactly the same as us! So I quite enjoy reading your story. I hope to be finished by the end of the week!!!

Anyways, everything looked beautiful and I can't wait to finish reading your TR!!!

LOL! I can't wait for you to start a pj. Most of mine is me not being able to make up my mind about things.

k ive been a bad disboards friend! lol i missed your last posts- been on the netbook thats still emailless and not my big 5 yr old beast of a computer. lol i always did want to take a photog class. just never got around to it. sadly my camera is only a plain old kodak digital. altho i love digital!!! tried looking you up- it hit me with 5 tanya downs, none that look like you! lol


love all the new shots- im blown away at how detailed the shots on the ship are- disney doesnt miss any details even at sea! i love the xmas tree one of the two of you. so pretty!

Since we finally got wireless, my beast has been retired. Poor thing. Glad you found me. It was post a pic of your animal day. I'm hairy, but not that much!

finally all caught up! Love all the shots! I can't believe you were able to do all this by yourself! So great! Our VR ran late, we didn't even leave the lounge until 535pm and our Palo reservation was for 6pm. So we skipped the inside pics because i wanted more of the outside deck ones, with Atlantis in the back.....but it was too dark, I don't think we got any. I don't know, i can't remember! Hopefully i get to see them soon!

Anyway.....LOVE THEM ALL!! Can't wait for the actual ceremony!

Thanks! We did get a few nice ones outside too - those are coming up soon and then the ceremony!!!!

 

[CinderelliT]

Sooo...school and work are keeping me busy. We are photographing all the livestock events at the fair, so next week is going to be CRAZY! I hope I can make enough money to buy my disk from my MK photo shoot. I keep lurking on the website and trying different log ins, but no pics are up yet.

I also came down with MRSA almost 2 weeks ago. We finally have it under control with major antibiotics, but I'm still feeling pretty crummy. Dan the man also has a form of MRSA that gave him Pneumonia. We knew he was really sick and he had a course of antibiotics, but he just kept getting worse. He was really ill while we were doing our MK shoot, but didn't want to cancel it again, so we drugged him up. When we went to the dr the next day, she wanted to put us in the hospital! I suppose standing in 30 degree weather for 4 hrs wasn't the brightest idea. But at least we are all on the mend.

So while I've been moping around the house, I did start my invites. They look gorgeous, but are very labor intensive. If I find out any of our relatives throws one of these in the trash, I'm gonna strangle them!!!

I don't know how brides can make like 100 of these things! I've managed to complete 4 and I am only making 30 and its going to take me several weeks!

I have managed to upload a few more pics into photobucket. Here I am on the staircase:

These were really awkward to shoot b/c there were people EVERYWHERE. I figured they would all be off the boat, but by this point, we had managed to get quite a following. They were also setting up the flashes and backdrops below me for the ship's photographers, so we had all that, AND the staircase that I really wanted by the ginormous Christmas Tree was roped off. Not allowed. Boohoo!

Then Imran found us! He walked up to me with my bouquet!!! It was gorgeous! He said that he usually leaves them in the cabin, but he didn't want us to take any more pics without it. He knew where to find us b/c he said all the staff and everyone was making such a fuss about us. LOL!

This is one of those times when I really did feel like a princess. There were two other brides on this ship, and I didn't see them. (Although I wouldn't mind). But we weren't like competing, or waiting on each other. We were treated like royalty the entire time. People would stop to help us, or give us congratulations, or give us treats. Just everyone, including the staff was super nice.

Use of border to crop out ugly tourists.

This is one of those times that it is hard to capture the right angle with the tripod. But it was still cute.

I have more of me with my shoe up on the stairs - my cinderella moment! But they are really silly. DH kept telling me to look surprised, and I just kept laughing. I would try to make a face, but I am a terrible actress. Then he would frown at me and I would laugh, and we would have to start all over again.
Plus there were these two old women watching me on the deck above me and I could here them laughing at my attempts of acting shocked about my shoe. They were not helping the situation.

The whole time we were in the lobby, you could hear people see us and say, "Awww" or "Wow" or "Look a Bride and Groom!". It was just really cute.

 

[CinderelliT]

Everyone kept trying to help us with pictures. Umm...thanks, but you are really in my way. I didn't want to actually say it and sound rude! But everyone kept telling us how to pose and where to stand. We were like, ummm...we got it!

Also, by this point, my alterations on my dress were like coming undone! The top of my dress by my chest was coming loose and starting to stick out and the wrinkle re-appeared in the bodice. The wrinkle is most likely fat from the sheer amount of food I had been puting away on the ship, but the more I moved around in the dress, the worse it got. I kept thinking that I was going to go up to the bridal shop and complain, but I hate confrontation, so I haven't done it.

The next issue with my dress was that as the top was sticking out more away from my body, it was exposing more of my body. When I was on the staircase, DH went up a deck to take pics of above and was like 'WHOA!" No wonder I was drawing a crowd of old geezers.

There are a few of these pics that I ain't sharing. One of them was nice and I photoshopped my dress up higher, but it looks silly. Plus there's one that Dan took at this really weird angle, and I look like the Wicked Witch of the West melting into the ground. FOR REAL! The dress and the stairs ate me. It's so bad I might just have to post it.

One of the waiters really wanted to help us get into Triton's and take a pic in front of the mural in there. The mural is AMAZING! Really beautiful. But it is huge. And there's tons of tables in there. However, the head waiter and some of the other staff members had just cleaned it all up and it was empty, so they escorted us in.

Again, not the best pictures, but still neat to be able to get to take a pic in there.

 

[hawky7]

Awww YAY for the awesome new pics! I love the staircase ones!!!

Okay and your commentary on the second posting is HILARIOUS! Thanks for that, I've been sick, and haven't done much laughing, but that made me laugh thinking about the other people on the ship telling you how to pose and such. Anyways, love the updates!!!

And I don't love that you found those SOOOO cute Mickey/Minnie Champagne flutes, cause now I really want some too, and I can't find them ANYWHERE! So dang it!!! JK, I mean I really keep checking ebay, but the only ones they have are ttaaacccckkkyyyy. Nothing as nice as yours!!! Does your box say where they came from? Although I think I'd much rather find some on ebay,!! Along with the aisle runner you made too. So Tanya, could I just borrow your ENTIRE vr??? Everytime I read it, I'm like ohhh I want that, ohhh I want that too!!!!

 

[CinderelliT]

I have the same problem when I read other people's PJ's! I want one of everything. I even ended up with 3 pairs of shoes b/c of this!

Ummm...I think the toasting flutes are from Arribas Bros. in Disney. Try checking their website and see if there is any on there. I scoured over ebay stuff for MONTHS before finding a good pair.

Good luck!

 

[amberg@eastlink.ca]

omg! your dress!!!! after all that you went through rite before the wedding with it too!!!! im not good with confrontation wither, but i'd be doing it this time for sure!!! rite now im in it with our local jewlers that have destroyed my engagement ring, after it broke at disney in october. i took it in and 7 times later it still isnt fixed. they keep making it worse.

and no i didnt think you were that hairy!!! lol yeah our beast, wegot when pg with dd. so 5 yrs next month. it takes 20 minutes to turn on and then open anything. awful!

i love the tritons pics- lorelei would die to see that/be there! so nice to hear that you're really are treated as a princess.

 

[CinderelliT]

What jewelry store is it? B/c I have a wrap that goes around my engagement ring that we got from Kay jewelers, and it has been a nightmare. It cost about as much as my actual diamond and it has only 1/2 the carat weight of little round stones. My prongs on this one snag on stuff all the time, and I have even lost a few diamonds b/c of it. I've had it fixed like 5 or 6 times, and every time it comes back worse too!! I'm ready to just give up on it. You would think for the amount of money that these stores make that they could hire jewelers who knew what they were doing!!

I hope you get yours fixed for good.

 

[CinderelliT]

So are y'all sick of looking at us yet?

Us pretending to be in action mode:

In the lobby, there is this huge bronze statue of Ariel. It kind of reminds me of the Cherubs on the staircase in Titanic. But Ariel is cuter!

Here she is, up close and personal:

Then we went up a flight, or I went up a flight first to hang out over the balcony of the atrium.

Now I'm waiting on photobucket to upload some more..... That thing is slower than molasses.