tlhbdm-TR-12/7/07 *Update* Day 3

[tlhbdm]

I don't have any pictures of us getting ready or right before the wedding because A. the getting ready pics are on my mom's camera, and B. the only pics we have right before the ceremony are professional pics and I won't have those for another week and a half.

So this first part isn't going to have very many pictures yet, but when I get them I will add to it.

We woke up and went over to the hair salon at about 10:00. All of my BMs and Jr. BMs were meeting us there. By the morning the streets were all cleaned off from the snow from the night before. Everyone got there and my mom and brought muffins, almond cake, and memosas. I only had two memosas all day and then a glass of champagne at the reception. I was afraid I would drink too much because I couldn't taste anything yet because of my cold. My sister went first along with my mom. Then when my mom was done I went and my hair was even better than my bridal portraits. When my sister was done Channing went and here turned out really pretty, while myself and Channing got our hair done, my sister, MOH, and two Jr. BMs went to the mall and got there makeup done. Finally another hair dresser got done with her client and started on my BM Gina. When Channing and I were done getting our hair done my mom took us to get our makeup done and picked up the two Jr. BMs and took them to get there hair done. When I was getting my makeup done, my aunt(dad's sister) and my grandma came over and got there makeup done . After everyone was done with hair and makeup a few of us (Gina and DH's sister went home) went and walked around the mall for a while because we had about an hour to kill. Then I had a brilliant idea that we would go see Santa. We got a really cute picture of us all with Santa but it's on my mom's camera. Santa asked me what was going on for the day even though he knew because I had my veil on from getting my hair done and I said oh nothing just getting married, and he told me to be a good girl. Anyway so when were were done we got in the car and drove to my grandma's house and got my dress and everything to go with it, cause we were storing it at her house. Anyway, I walked into her house and my grandma started crying and I told her to stop or she would make me cry. So we got everything from her house and then I remember I needed to pick up a prescription at Walgreens and so we drove over there. We got to Walgreens and it took them 10 minutes to get to the window and so I was annoyed then they did it wrong and I just wasn't happy with them, but I tried to be nice because DH works for a different Walgreens and he hates pissy customers. So anyway by this time it was like 2:50 and DH called my mom to make sure he didn't need to get anything from our apartment and he said he was leaving and would be there at the same time as us and we told him to chill at the apartment for like 30 minutes. So we got to the church and the florist and the photographer showed up and started on there work. At this time our wedding coordinator had yelled at DH, two of my BMs and our photographer so I'm pretty pissed at her by now. I tried to let it slide though.

Then we all got ready, here is a pic of the BMs right before they got into there dresses.

One of the photographers came down with the girls and started doing the "getting ready" pictures and by this time my mom's dog was there and we got pictures with the dog. After I was all dressed at about 3:45 they put DH into position for us to do our private moment. My fil was there and I was kind of annoyed but whatever. Our photographer took about 45-an hour with pictures of just us. Then we went into the chapel and did a few more pics of DH and I. We then started on BMs pictures, I do have some of them from my mil's camera.

Then they did DH and BM and then DH and GM and then me and GM:

DH and his sister:

Then we started on family pictures:
These are all DH family:

Apparently none of me and my family got taken on my camera so when I get the professional pictures I will put them on here. After the pictures were over they took us back downstairs for about an hour before the ceremony. My aunt's boyfriend went and got McDonalds for all the kids and got me a drink because during pictures I almost passed out because I was so warm. After I drank my iced tea, our hairdresser from earlier showed up with a curling iron(I love her) and did touch-ups on my hair and any BM who needed touch-up. Then the pastor came down and said a prayer and then everyone lined up. I will let the pictures do the talking for a while.

This picture is kind of funny because all of the GM are looking in different directions and I am walking down the aisle.

After the processional we sang a couple of worship songs. Then after that the pastor did his message which was really good. Ok pictures again.

The Kiss(believe it or not we have NEVER taken a picture of us kissing):

Then we walked out to When You Wish Upon a Star by 'Nsync, it was so romantic. Then we went to the back of the church and bussled up my dress. Then DH and I ushered everyone out of the church. Then we got in the limo, I don't really have any good pics but the photographer does so I will post what I have.

 

[caryndisneydiva]

how lovely! you looked amazing! can't wait to see more pics AND honeymoon disney pics!!!

 

[KatGarcia]

I love weddings and I love Disney and I love disney moons - so I'm in!!! Great start!

 

[Goldeelox9]

I can not wait to read all about it! You looked breathtaking!!!

 

[Bostonbride6292008]

You look amazing!

 

[scottny]

just found this and I am in.

 

[kmab00]

When You Wish Upon A Star by NSYNC is my current cell phone ring tone!! I'm a dork.

Great pictures!! Looks like you had a beautiful wedding! Can't wait to hear more!!

 

[hayanyujah847]

Just joining your TR now! You looked lovely on your wedding day and I love the subtle hints of Disney in your rehearsal & wedding. Can't wait to read more!

 

[tlhbdm]

Pictures are online. The web address is:

www.designerimages.photoreflect.com

Under Tori and Brandon

 

[tlhbdm]

I left off in the limo so I will start with the reception

After we got out of the limo we were greeted by our most awesome wedding coordinator ever. We stood in the lobby and got pictures and sipped some champagne. There are pictures are the professional website. Then finally after my mom got there we went upstairs. *Side story* my sister took my mom's keys to the reception with her in the limo and so my mom didn't have any car keys to get to the reception. So my mom was all worried that she wrecked my night, and I was like mom where do I have to be that was the ONLY thing that went wrong that day and it was kind of funy. When we were announced as Mr. and Mrs. Munyon we went straight to the cake table and my mom gave a toast again pictures on professional website. Then my moh gave her toast and we both cried, I love my aunt (moh) so much.

Then the best man (our roomate) gave his toast. Then we cut the yummy yummy beautiful cake. I didn't want to cut because it was so pretty.

.

Then after we did the cake cutting and the toasts we did our first dance. It was to Can You Feel the Love Tonight. It was so romantic we both cried (psst..don't tell DH that I told you that)

I just wanted to stay in DHs arms all night and not leave them but the reception had to go on. After we did the first dance we did the Father-daughter dance. We danceed to My Little Girl by Tim McGraw. I am so glad my dad came to the wedding cause it was really awesome dancing with him. I only have one picture but the photographer has more on the website.

Then they did the Mother-son dance except it ended only being the Step-mom-son dance because Brandon's mom apparently thought it would be appropriate to go to Perkins in between the ceremony and the reception because they thought there wouldn't be enough food, I am still pissed at her for doing it but whatever, so I will post the real mother-son dance and then the fake mother-son dance.

fake

fake

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[tlhbdm]

So after all of the parent dances went on we had dancing for a while. While the dancing was going on Brandon and I went and mingled with all of our guests. At our reception we had chicken strips, meatballs, mashed potatoe bar, cheese platter, and fruit, there may have been one more hot appetizer. The whole night Brandon and I had mashed potatoes. The mashed potatoes got sooooo...many comments. They had two different kinds of mashed potatoes and then any topping you could think of and instead of putting them on a plate they had two types of drinking glasses you could put them in, one was a martini glass and the other was like a glass that a bloody mary would come in. After a while we did the bouquet toss and garter toss, which I don't have pictures of but they are on the professional website. The bouquet toss was funny because the girl who caught it was my old neighbor before we moved to AZ. Her dad gave me specific instructions for her NOT to catch it, and who caught it, she did so that was pretty funny. Then when we did the garter toss he accidently took off both my garters, oops oh well. There were only three guys who did the garter toss so that was kind of disappointing. Then we did some more dancing

Then later after DH and I did some more mingling we did the dollar dance and made I think $37 which is pretty good because by that time everyone had pretty much left. I danced with the same little girl pretty much all the time but she kept paying so I kept dancing Oh yea I forgot to add by this time I was burning up, I had taken off my jacket gone up to my mom's room and taken my crinolin off, and put my hair up and I was still warm. I almost passed out before the ceremony while taking pictures I was so warm.

Then The Last Dollar by Tim McGraw came on so my aunt (moh) and I danced to it because her and I are pretty big Tim fans we have gone to their concert two years in a row, not together but we went together this last year and it was soooo...much fun.

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[tlhbdm]

I am just going to post some random pictures from the night:

This is our friend who drove from Kansas just to come to our wedding and his date. He is in the armed forces and has been oversees twice so it was a blessing he was there.

This is a pic of him and DH

This is DHs dad, stepmom, and sister
The reception went on and DH left to go get our car because we didn't have a car there and we would have to get to my gma's hosue the next morning for our gift opening. So he left and did that and finally everyone left at about 12:00. Once DH got back we went up to my mom's room to get my stuff that I had left there from the night before. Then we went to our room and no joke all we did was went through our cards and opened the gift cards and monetary gifts we got so we could take them to the bank the next day, then we went to sleep because we were soooo...tired and just wanted to sleep. We were asleep within like 15 minutes. Here was our room for the night. We were supposed to get the whirlpool sleep but the hotel was oversold so they ended up giving us a regular king sized bed room and they gave us a complimentary night stay in the whirlpool suite whenever we want to use it. We are planning on having a romantic night on March 7 to celebrate our 3 month anniversary.

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[tlhbdm]

December 8, 2007

DH and I woke up for the first time as a married couple. We woke at about 7:00 so I could take a shower and so we would have time to go to the bank before the gift opening. After I took my shower I called up to my mom's room to find out when she was planning on leaving. She said she didn't know but she knew that all of our stuff would not fit in the two cars we had there because DH and I had our luggage for Disney World all ready in my car and my mom had to hall five girls plus my sister home so we called my aunt (moh) to ask her if she could come get a load of stuff in her Honda Pilot and she said sure so she made it down to the hotel and we packed her car full. Then eventually we were all ready to go and went and checked out and called valet to get our cars.

DH and I left the hotel and went to the bank. In the car I tried to take a picture of us and turned the camera on and guess what it broke. We only had it for like three months and the screen had gotten stepped on or something by my sister and so we were really pissed that we were going to have to buy a new camera before we left for Disney World. Anyway, we left the bank and went to my gma's hosue for the gift opening, it was actually at the clubhouse by her townhouse and it was really nice. Here are some pictures of the inside and the gifts we got. I am going to let the pictures tell the story.

Cake table decoration (this was our alter arrangment from the wedding)

regular table decorations
Someone had gotten the kissing bells and by the end I was SOOOOO... annoyed with all of the bells ringing I don't know who bought them but grrr... sorry rant over

our really cool clock my grandparents got us.
When we were done we went to Target to exchange the 5 crockpots we got and bought a new camera with that money and our Target gift cards. We got the same camera that we had before because we really liked it. Then we went to my gma's house and said goodbye to my mom and my aunts and cousins. When we were there my gma gave me my early x-mas present I knew I was getting. She gave me Nike Shox which were awesome in Disney World

Here is my luggage ready to go:

Then we were off to Kansas City so we could fly out early the next morning. We drove there in freezing the rain the whole way there and I have a nervous thing about riding in the car when the weather is bad. It shoudl have taken us 2.5 hours to get there and it took us 5 so by the end of the trip we were so tired. When we got to the hotel we checked in and went up to our room for the night. We were trying to decide what we wanted for dinner but we didn't want to drive because the roads were really icy. So then we tried to call someone to deliver but there really wasn't anything good around our hotel. So we decided to go down to restaurant at the hotel but the service was really bad that night because they were under staffed because of the weather. The chef was doing double duty and was being a waiter and cooking so we decided to go out to the front desk to ask them what is a good place to get food delivered. I was wearing my minnie bridal ears and they were like ohhh... you just got married and they asked us what kind of wine we wanted but I said that we had champagne from last night from the hotel. So then they are like ok we will give you free room service so we took them up on that offer. It took about an hour to get our food and it wasn't that good but it was free so can't really complain. When we were done with dinner we got into bed but didn't go to sleep if y'all know what I mean. We wanted to go to sleep early because we had an early flight the next morning.

 

[tlhbdm]

December 9, 2007

We woke up at like 5:45 because we had to be downstairs at 6:00 to catch our flight. We went down to the lobby and found out the flight was cancelled! OMG, I started freaking out because it was only an hour before our flight was going to take off. So they rush us to the airport and we get to the Southwest ticket counter and they say we have two options OPTION a.) we can take a 9:30 flight to Dallas, then go to Houston, and then to Orlando getting there at 5:20 or OPTION b.) take a 10:00 flight from KC to Nashville and get to Orlando at 6:20. We ended up taking the first option because we would get there sooner even though we had more stops to make. We were supposed to leave KC at 7:05am and get to MCO at 10:20 so we were not happy because that was our first day pretty much wasted.

Waiting in KC airport

My wedding band
Finally our plane came and it was time to go to Dallas.

DH sleeping
The flight to Dallas was uneventful and was only like an hour and half so it was short and sweet. When we got to Dallas we got to stay on the plane because the plane we were on was continuing on to Houston. We moved up a couple of rows and then finally the new passengers started loading and finally we were off to Houston. The flight to Houston was only like 30 minutes so it didn't even feel like we were in the air very long. When we landed in Houston we had to get off the plane this time. So we went and found something to eat because we were starving by this time. We eneded up getting Wendy's. The Houston airport is pretty nice but the people are not friendly, I don't want to offend anyone from Houston but I was NOT impressed with the people there. When we were sitting there we had someone who was supposed to be on the original flight with us and I got to talking to them and they offered to take our picture

Eventually we got onto the plane after being 30 minutes late.

Since we were on Southwest we had a boarding letter and number and guess what we were like last. We got onto the plane and by then almost every seat was full and there were a lot of single people but they were like window and aisle. So easily someone could have moved to one of the single seats in the back so my new DH and I could sit together, but no. Everyone was being rude so we didn't even get to sit together on the longest flight of the day. So after the long flight being away from each other we landed at MCO. I sat almost in the back of the plane and DH was pretty much in the middle and he was so sweet and waited for me to get to where he was to get off. We rushed through the terminal and got on the tram thingy to go to Terminal B to catch Magical Express. We knew exactly where we were going because we had done this two times before. So I got in line and there was maybe two people in front of me so it went really fast. After I checked in they told us what line to go to. We went to the Contemporary line. We didn't even have to wait in line and got right on the bus. We sat there for about 15 minutes waiting for more passengers then finally we were off!

DH and I on ME

Once we took off the driver told us we would be going to WL and then onto to Contemporary. Which was a nice surprise because I thought we would go WL, Poly, GF, then Contemporary. Soon the driver started the cute little movie, which btw, needs to be updated. Soon we were passing through the WDW main gate! Finally we were there. By this time it was 6:30 and we had dining reservations at 7:30 at Concourse Steakhouse. So I was hoping the stop at WL would be quick. Well it was, only two families got off! So now we were off the the Contemporary. When we pulled up we could see the dream lights on the castle! Wow! We got off the bus and rushed for the lobby so we wouldn't have to wait in line to check in. We walked right up. I asked if they had a King bed for us and they said that they didn't but I didn't really care because we still had our MK view room and it was two Queens. So they gave us our Just Married buttons and our packet of stuff and we were on our way upstairs. We were on the sixth floor. Our room number was 4228.

We walked in the room and wow! It was so awesome. We opened the curtains and holy crap, beautiful it made me cry.

Our Beds

Futon and TV

Flat panel TV

Desk w/Computer w/free internet

Closet with safe and ironing board

Fridge

Dresser

Headboard

Closet

Shower

Sink

Toilet

Bathroom door

We put our buttons on and went downstairs to the fourth floor to check into dinnner. We were early so we decided to get our picture in front of the pinnochio (sp?) chocolate sculpture for Christmas time.

up next...Dinner at Concourse Steakhouse.

 

[tlhbdm]

I forgot to add, this is the doggie DH and I are getting. Her name is Maggie.

Isn't she the cutest thing ever. She is going to be our baby until we have a baby in the next couple of years. Oh yea and also we are moving into a new WAY nicer apartment March 1!
I have some pics from the website but we will take pics on Monday when we go sign our lease agreement.

Main Apartments

Office/Guest bedroom

Master Bedroom

Family room/dining area
Also there are two bathrooms with a full sized washer/dryer. If you can't tell we are super excited about having our own washer/dryer because right now we either have to go to my mom's house which is across town or use the one in our building for 3.50 a load!

 

[kmab00]

GREAT update!! I love your puppy dog! How ADORABLE!!! Can't wait to hear more about Disney World!

 

[mla1977]

I'm loving your TR so far. Congrats on everything.

 

[disneediva]

love your report

 

[tlhbdm]

Ok so I left off right before we went to dinner.

We checked in and they said it would take about 15 minutes. So we went over and sat in the bar area right next to Chef Mickey's. After about 7 minutes they paged us. Our table was ready. Dinner was sooooooo...good. Sadly Concourse Steakhouse is closing in May . We were on the DDP so we got an appetizer, main course, and a dessert.

GRADE:
Food: A++++
Service: B
Restaurant overall: A- (Service was really not that good)

I believe we spent about $120 on this meal if it would've been OOP. For my appetizer I had the French Onion Soup, it was so so, not the best French Onion Soup I have ever had but I would eat it again.

DH had the Honey Seasme Wings, they were sooooooo...good. DH loved them too. I would definitely eat them again.

For our main course we both had the Grilled Beef Tenderloin. OMG! it was good. It was the best steak I have ever eaten. It fell apart in my mouth and the flavor was so good. I could eat that every night of the year it was so good. The side I got with it was gross but I ordered first and didn't know you could get mashed potatoes with it like DH got. The tenderloin was kind of small but again sooooooo...good.

Mine

DH got his with mashed potatoes

DH and I at dinner.
For dessert I got the vanilla bean creme brulee. It was so rich that I couldn't eat all of it but it was tasty.

DH for dessert had the triple chocolate cake. It also was very rich and we didn't finish that either. The cake was pretty moist.

After dinner we went to MGM because it was EMH. By the time we got finished with dinner it was all ready 9:00 and the park closed at 11:00. We went out to the bus stop, the bus came pretty quickly, in fact we had good luck with transportation all week long. The bus ride went pretty quickly and we were at MGM by 9:30. We walked up and we got pictures by the tree outside the park. It was our first photopass experience of the week and it was a good experience.

We walked into the park. Neither one of us had a bag that night. I just put the camera in my pocket, so we went passed security. We walked into the park and got our picture taken on the main street at MGM with the photopass people.

apparently we only took one picture.
We tried to decide what we wanted to do first. We looked at the time board and decided to go do The Great Movie Ride. By the time we got to the ride it was 10:00 and the park closed at 11:00. So we got in line and waited for 20 minutes.

When we got done with the ride we left the park because it would have been closing soon and we wanted to beat the rush. We got out to the bus stop and only waited about 10 minutes. We got on the bus and actually got a seat on the bus. We got back to the hotel and went straight to bed. Considering the day we had we were really tired and just wanted to get some sleep to spend our next day at EPCOT.

Up next....Day 2 at WDW (first full day) EPCOT and new restaurant in Japan.

 

[Lizby]

Everything looks great so far! You looked beautiful on your wedding day and it sounds like your trip was great!

BTW, your puppy is ADORABLE!!! Is she a Jack Russell? I am so jealous!