*Teresa & Greg-7/1/12*Swan/Fultons/GF Marina-Epcot Character Fun-Updated*2/22*

[MrsDuck]

Love you Swalphin!

 

[2dogmom]

It is such a great feeling when you realize you have found the man of your dreams. I hope your day has been better. Glad to hear Randy is all set up!

 

[Icecoldpenguin]

Love you Swalphin!

I love you too Swalphin!

It is such a great feeling when you realize you have found the man of your dreams. I hope your day has been better. Glad to hear Randy is all set up!

It really is a fantastic feeling

 

[virtuous girl]

Randy is my photographer to!! All this talk about how great he is is getting me all EXCITED! Great timeline & PRICE

 

[Icecoldpenguin]

Only 100 DAYS TO GO UNTIL WE LEAVE!! Tomorrow you can expect a post that says we are in double digits! Just a heads up!

For a while there was not much going on for the wedding that was worth sharing but we are now reaching a point where I had to start working again. Thanks to my wonderful fellow Swalphin Faith, my butt got kicked into gear.

So here are all the things that I have gotten done recently.

1. All of the materials for the invitations have been bought. I am just waiting on a sample of the printing to come from Cards & Pockets. We have been finalizing this today and I should be paying the $8 for the full sample to be printed and cut and sent to me for my approval. Once I approve it then they will print the full order and ship it to me. In case you guys want to use them to print things for you here is what it is going to cost me and I think they are very reasonable. In addition they do a fantastic job and they make sure everything comes out looking very very nice.

White 4.5x6.5 Invitation Card w/Color Print 40 pieces- $26.40
*this card will go on a punch matte that will then be attached to the onyx pocketfold for a layered effect*
Heavy White 3.5 x 5.75 RSVP Card w/Color Printing 40 pieces 2 sided- $33.20
White 3.5 x 5 Ticket information card w/Color printing 40 pieces- $23.60
White 3.5 x 4.25 Accomodations card w/color printing 40 pieces- $23.20
White 3.5 x 3.5 Registry card w/color printing 40 pieces- $22.40
White 3.5 x 6.5 times gude card w/color printing 40 pieces- $22.80
For a total of $151.60 for the whole thing to be printed

I really do not think this is bad all things considered and ordering all the pieces was really not very expensive either.
Here is a list of the pieces I am using to create the invitations:
*I would provide images but photobucket is being a royal pain*
From Cards and pockets-
*Signature 5x7 Onyx Pocketfold
*Punch 4.75x 6.75 Punch Matte
*Punch Belly Band
From Paper and More-
*Purple Punch A7 enevlopes
From Zazzle-
*Stitch .65 stamps
*Yoda .35 stamps
*Custom address labels
*Custom square monogram stickers

2. I have decided on the bridesmaid necklaces I just have to buy them now

I am not sure which girl will get which necklace just yet

3. The deposit has been paid on the floral contract so that is all set which I am very excited about. I did not think I would be that excited but with what I am getting and for the price I am pretty dang excited.

4.The wedding favors are almost completed as far as pieces being purchased. I am doing pin trading favors I know there are some other brides on here Nancy is one of them that are doing them also.
*what I am using*
-I bought a bag of non duplicated pins off ebay there are 100 of them
-Purple lanyards from oriental trading
-ID badge holders the plastic kind from office max (still need to buy)
-I will be designing a card to put in them that explains pin trading and how to do it

5. after much debate in my head Beaute Speciale has been booked for my wedding day and for my bridal portraits ( I will get to that in a minute). I have requested Laine because of the amazing work she did on Danielle's hair does anyone have any pictures of what Laine did with your hair?

Here are some ideas of what I want to do with my hair:
1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Which do you like?

Now for what I want to do for my eyes:

This is the #1 Choice

6. Our bridal portrait session is scheduled. We will not have time the day of the wedding to do resort pictures so we are going to do them July 12th. I have realized I will be carting my wedding dress around with me everywhere as we resort hop...which does not make me happy so now I have to figure out how in the world I am going to do this. Any suggestions? And also now I have to figure out how I am going to do my flowers for the bridal portrait session since it is so far away from the wedding date..any suggestions?

The bridal portraits will be taken at All Star Movies anyone have a list of all the big props they have at all star movies so I can make sure I get pictures with them? Then we will go to the Polynesian I want my pictures with the castle in the background and the monorail. Then we will go to the contemporary where we will get pictures where greg proposed and then other cool places maybe the BLT fountain?

7. I decided not to do programs I just do not want to spend the energy on making them

8.The rehearsal dinner is in the works we are just waiting to hear back from our contact at Fulton's where our reception is because we want to use Portobello's the same company as fulton's for the rehearsal meal.

9.I made a ADR for June 28th the day we will be getting into orlando. We will be getting there about 7:30pm and we are staying at Old Key West so we will eat dinner that night at Olivia's

10.We bought our airfare. We will be flying Jet Blue I am so very excited about this.

11.Just got in contact today with my catered events manager and we are working on our custom dessert party menu! So exciting!

The ball is rolling folks hopefully there will be more to tell very soon!

Teresa

 

[MrsDrewsky]

Wow, you are so on top of it. I am really impressed! I just love the favor ideas, I can't wait to see the final product. You have some very lucky guests. I am also in love with the bridesmaids necklaces.

Your post yesterday was really touching to read. Sometimes it takes being heartbroken to realize what a catch the good guys are, and not take them for granted. I just love your and greg's story, and I definitely teared up reading your post from yesterday.

Have you checked out allears.net for photos around all-star movies? I love the idea of a bridal portrait session there.

 

[lilsqueakrr]

Teresa it all sounds fabulous! I cannot wait to see it all come together!

I absolutely LOVE your number 1 choice for makeup!!! It's so fun and gorgeous! Totally think you could rock it! For sure!
I want to do something similar for my wedding.. but my uncle told me no haha. ;D But we'll see once I have my trials. ;D

Yay! Cannot wait to see how your favors turn out!! And invitations! I'm ordering my final printed invites this week!

 

[luvvwl]

I love all your hair inspiration pictures! I'm thinking of going full up with mine since it'll be July and we all know what Florida in July is like! Let me know how it goes with being down!

 

[Shannon84]

LOVE LOVE LOVE the makeup ideas, those are awesome and so you!!

Sounds like you got a whole ton done for wedding stuff, thats awesome!

I am not sure what to do about the floral for the potraits though...sounds like you would need a second bouquet made maybe?

 

[tinydancr06]

Wow! You have gotten SO much done! I absolutely love all of your hair pics but I have to say that number 3 is incredible! The eye makeup looks awesome, too.

What you wrote about Greg was just SO sweet. It was such a warm fuzzy just to read it. Isn't it funny how fate works out? It is very obvious that you two were meant to be and the issues with your ex were just a bump in the road on the way to your prince. I'm so happy for you! Your wedding will be such a cool celebration of your love.

 

[elleinad16]

Yay! You are going to love Laine! She works magic. A lot of those hair inspiration pictures are what I printed out and showed her too! I can't wait to see what you decide on. Also, I love the makeup--Even if you can't do all the peacock colors, I think the purple would look great by itself as well. So happy to hear you got a lot of stuff checked off!

 

[Icecoldpenguin]

Wow, you are so on top of it. I am really impressed! I just love the favor ideas, I can't wait to see the final product. You have some very lucky guests. I am also in love with the bridesmaids necklaces.

Your post yesterday was really touching to read. Sometimes it takes being heartbroken to realize what a catch the good guys are, and not take them for granted. I just love your and greg's story, and I definitely teared up reading your post from yesterday.

Have you checked out allears.net for photos around all-star movies? I love the idea of a bridal portrait session there.

Thank you so much for the suggestion to go to allears that really helped and I have a list now in my wedding book. I really wanted to get the bridesmaids something simple but also something disney related and thank you disneystore online!

Thank you for the compliments on what I wrote it is so true that we have to go through pain and struggle to find the good things in life.

Teresa it all sounds fabulous! I cannot wait to see it all come together!

I absolutely LOVE your number 1 choice for makeup!!! It's so fun and gorgeous! Totally think you could rock it! For sure!
I want to do something similar for my wedding.. but my uncle told me no haha. ;D But we'll see once I have my trials. ;D

Yay! Cannot wait to see how your favors turn out!! And invitations! I'm ordering my final printed invites this week!

I love the makeup choice too! and why does your uncle get to decide how you do your own makeup or hair that is ridiculous! Hooray for invitations getting printed

I love all your hair inspiration pictures! I'm thinking of going full up with mine since it'll be July and we all know what Florida in July is like! Let me know how it goes with being down!

I usually have my hair down when I am in florida in the summer It just does not bother me that much. I am used to it though my hair is super dark it hits up very easy so it does not bother me.

LOVE LOVE LOVE the makeup ideas, those are awesome and so you!!

Sounds like you got a whole ton done for wedding stuff, thats awesome!

I am not sure what to do about the floral for the potraits though...sounds like you would need a second bouquet made maybe?

I have thought I will need a second bouquet too or maybe I can get a florist here to make me an all feather bouquet and I can ship that and use that.

Wow! You have gotten SO much done! I absolutely love all of your hair pics but I have to say that number 3 is incredible! The eye makeup looks awesome, too.

What you wrote about Greg was just SO sweet. It was such a warm fuzzy just to read it. Isn't it funny how fate works out? It is very obvious that you two were meant to be and the issues with your ex were just a bump in the road on the way to your prince. I'm so happy for you! Your wedding will be such a cool celebration of your love.

Thank you for all your kind words they mean a lot! And thanks for the compliments on the pictures Fate is a wonderful thing.

 

[librarygeek]

You've gotten a lot done, good job! I really like the first hair inspiration pic, it's really pretty!

 

[Icecoldpenguin]

Yay! You are going to love Laine! She works magic. A lot of those hair inspiration pictures are what I printed out and showed her too! I can't wait to see what you decide on. Also, I love the makeup--Even if you can't do all the peacock colors, I think the purple would look great by itself as well. So happy to hear you got a lot of stuff checked off!

I am really glad we got the same person and I am glad you used the same pictures your hair came out gorgeous so i can only hope for something just as awesome! It will probably be just purple and smokey colors if i cant do the rainbow thing.

You've gotten a lot done, good job! I really like the first hair inspiration pic, it's really pretty!

that is one of my favorites too

 

[sarahb01]

Wow you are on a roll!! I love all of your hair pictures, but #3 is really neat. I don't think I have ever seen anything like that. It reminds me of a Celtic design.
I really like the first picture for your make-up, I love the colors, and I think that would look beautiful on your skin tone.

I love all of your updates, and need to be better about replying.

 

[BethieTink]

Wow, Teresa! You have gotten alot done recently. Good job.

Love the hair pics and the first eye is stunning.

Hope your week is going better than it started.

 

[lilsqueakrr]

I love the makeup choice too! and why does your uncle get to decide how you do your own makeup or hair that is ridiculous! Hooray for invitations getting printed

Well he's not CHOOSING. But he's recommending I should say. My hair will be whatever way I want.. I just have to go for my hair trial. hah.

I need to play around with colors and see what I can come up with. Then we'll go from there.

But I can't wait to see yours!

 

[Icecoldpenguin]

Wow you are on a roll!! I love all of your hair pictures, but #3 is really neat. I don't think I have ever seen anything like that. It reminds me of a Celtic design.
I really like the first picture for your make-up, I love the colors, and I think that would look beautiful on your skin tone.

I love all of your updates, and need to be better about replying.

Yes get better about replying! HAHA j/k! Anyway yes I love #3 but I think it would be really really hard to actually do. I most likely will go with something inspired by 2 and 3 this means as I am getting my hair cut more regularly over the next 3 months that I can keep my bangs.

I really want to use this time having professional makeup done to do something I would probably never have done before.

Wow, Teresa! You have gotten alot done recently. Good job.

Love the hair pics and the first eye is stunning.

Hope your week is going better than it started.

The week has gotten a lot better. I am glad so many people like the eye makeup I want to do.

Well he's not CHOOSING. But he's recommending I should say. My hair will be whatever way I want.. I just have to go for my hair trial. hah.

I need to play around with colors and see what I can come up with. Then we'll go from there.

But I can't wait to see yours!

Yes hair trials are nice to have I wish I could have had one but oh well!

I hope you get to do what you want for your wedding after all you are going to be looking at the pictures!

Teresa

 

[Icecoldpenguin]

So it has been a while since I said anything about our christmas trip. I just really got overwhelmed with stuff but I want to finish this report. This won't be as detailed as I like to make it but that is ok.

CHRISTMAS DAY

To begin the amazing day that would be Christmas we had a breakfast ADR at Ohana. This is the meal I always look forward to!I am such a huge Stitch fan and I really love the food.

Boys!.....
The next thing that has happened has resulted in an on going joke to where greg absolutely can not stand stitch. even to the point that he will hide and torment my stuffed stitch.

Stitch wanted to see my ring because of our just engaged buttons. he then proposed to me and started walking away with me.

The aftermath is below

Then it was pixie dust cupcake time

Afterwards I walked around a bit and took some pictures of christmas decor at the Poly. We left and went to the contemporary and it was after we got there that I realized I had left my Oakley's at breakfast.

This was super frustrating because earlier in the trip i lost my phone at mickey's philharmagic. It fell out of my lap and I noticed it when we got all the way down by peter pan. I had to back track and the next show had started and they would not hold the show once it was over to ask if anyone had found a phone. I told them that I personally would make a damn barricade and search every single person so no one stole it if they would not help me. A cast member that was a manager said he would do something he went inside and somehow managed to find my phone....I digress

So I had to go all the way back to the Poly to get my glasses and our server had grabbed them. So hooray!

After all of this we went back to the wilderness lodge and we were trying to figure out what to do. The parks were INSANE so we knew we did not want to do that. I really wanted to go on a hidden mickey hunt and Greg made up a game. I have an app on my phone that is the hidden mickey book they sell everywhere at Disney and book stores. He said for every 3 or 5 hidden mickeys i found I would get a prize. So with that we set out on our quest.

I found A LOT! I got a prize for the ones at the contemporary, the floridian, and the polynesian. The GF hidden mickeys are very difficult just a heads up.

When we were done for the day I took these pictures:

I think Greg is adorable here!

That evening we went to Hollywood Studios because we had reservations for the Sci Fi Dine in.

Greg had never been and I had been once before but I really loved it. We had a great waitress who actually had just gotten married and she talked wedding with me a lot! After dinner we went and rode the following:
*Great Movie Ride
*Little Mermaid (my first time)
*star tours
*I believe tower of terror and RNR were this day

Then for the best part we went to the art of animation! I had never done this and really wanted to.

I enjoyed the show and I enjoyed walking around. I got to meet Pooh and Eeyore which was SOOOO unexpected I had no idea that they were in there. Greg surprised me, I almost cried. (yes i have met them before but I love winnie the pooh that much)

Then we went to do the drawing and while in the holding pen we did disney trivia and I actually got banned from answering questions because I knew the answers to every question...apparently it was unfair to everyone else.

We got to draw stitch!!! Which was super awesome!!

Once all that was done we left and went back to the WL and went to sleep!

to be continued...engagement pictures on day 5!

Teresa

 

[NoOrdinaryPrincess]

I would have been sooo upset too! I love your stitch and pooh pictures. Adorable!