stevelamb121
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Hi all,
We've been married over a year now, and I finally got around to uploading some photo's, but I thought I'd post our story on here too.
My (now) wife and I got married on the 30th November 2005, we had our Wedding at the pavillion (which I have to disagree with you and say is a lovely venue) and then a champagne reception at the grand floridian.
First and formost I have to say the customer service received from Thomas cook (the tour operator) and Virgin was absolute rubbish. we like you filled in all the forms which they said they never received and we had to fill in again. I was emailing our so called co-ordinator who couldn't answer my questions so I ended up emailing/speaking to disney direct.
We also booked a Magic Kingdom photo session which we were told could not be confirmed until nearer the time...well nearer the time we were told we could not have the day we had requested as they were shooting the ABC Walt Disney Parade. The only day available was the day before the wedding meaning I would see my wife in her dress before we were married.
Well this to me just wasn't on, so I ended up calling Disney Photographic services direct, and after speaking to the most helpful person ever, she slotted us into the 15th of December, which was our last day there. Though this didleave us in a bit of a rush to get back adn to the airport.
Thankfully I knew that the Disney photography was only 12 photo's, however we did end up getting alot more on the cd. so I deceided to Book Randy Chapman after a lot of researching on the net...I have to say he is the most professional and accomodating person I have ever met, He even delivered my wifes bouquet to her hotel in the morning, as my wife had arranged flowers herslf with a local store.
Luckily for me I had a lot of family out there and I was able to stay in my sisters villa with them the night before the wedding. Little did we know the problems this would cause....Now being a brit I found my way to the villa, which was at bahama bay, not too far from the west end of the 192 in kissimmee...but the limo driver could not find it for love nor money....This ended up with my brother in law jumping in the car drving round looking for a confused limo driver, then coming back and picking me up with about 40 mins to go.
At the same time my wife was back in our room at the Caribbean beach resort. Now she had not met her wedding co-ordinator, and they never bothered calling her until the morning of the wedding, to explain what was going to happan. Not only that but the limo company had also rang to say they would not drive upto the room to pick her up, and they would only goto the reception area. This ended up with my mother being shuved into a taxi and told to take her to the reception, which he ended up taking her to the wedding pavillion. Now i should explain my mother is 75 years old and never been to the US or disney before....she handed him a $50 note, to which he said thanks and gave her no change. Not knowing she thought this was acceptable, of course I knew the fare should have been a LOT less than that, so I rang the taxi company, but never received a callback from them. This also meant my wife, her parents and the bridesmaids also had to get a taxi to the reception. we were not impressed with the limo service!!!
We had the Rev. Jack Day as our officiant and he was brilliant, the wedding itself went off without a hitch and we became Mr & Mrs Lamb.
Now afterwards, we all had our photo's taken by the marvellous Randy Chapman, and then our family was taken to the Grand Floridian whilst we had more photo's taken, and some really artisitc ones too, (my fav being a reflection of the two of us in the limo window).
Now the Wedding Co-Ordinator we had on the day seemed to try and rush things a bit, especially when we got to the Champagne Reception at the GF. We later found out this was because she had to pick her kids up and did not want to be late.
I still think in my mind I have blocked out a lot of it, and to me it was an excellent day. The Magic Kingdom Photo Shoot was perfect, but I do have to admit the quality of Randy's Images were a lot better than the disney photography.
Sorry for the long post guys
Anyway here are some photo's
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/5163438 - My own Edits
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/5153481 - Randys Photo's
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/5153337 - MK Photo Session
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/5153324 - Disney Photographic Services
We've been married over a year now, and I finally got around to uploading some photo's, but I thought I'd post our story on here too.
My (now) wife and I got married on the 30th November 2005, we had our Wedding at the pavillion (which I have to disagree with you and say is a lovely venue) and then a champagne reception at the grand floridian.
First and formost I have to say the customer service received from Thomas cook (the tour operator) and Virgin was absolute rubbish. we like you filled in all the forms which they said they never received and we had to fill in again. I was emailing our so called co-ordinator who couldn't answer my questions so I ended up emailing/speaking to disney direct.
We also booked a Magic Kingdom photo session which we were told could not be confirmed until nearer the time...well nearer the time we were told we could not have the day we had requested as they were shooting the ABC Walt Disney Parade. The only day available was the day before the wedding meaning I would see my wife in her dress before we were married.
Well this to me just wasn't on, so I ended up calling Disney Photographic services direct, and after speaking to the most helpful person ever, she slotted us into the 15th of December, which was our last day there. Though this didleave us in a bit of a rush to get back adn to the airport.
Thankfully I knew that the Disney photography was only 12 photo's, however we did end up getting alot more on the cd. so I deceided to Book Randy Chapman after a lot of researching on the net...I have to say he is the most professional and accomodating person I have ever met, He even delivered my wifes bouquet to her hotel in the morning, as my wife had arranged flowers herslf with a local store.
Luckily for me I had a lot of family out there and I was able to stay in my sisters villa with them the night before the wedding. Little did we know the problems this would cause....Now being a brit I found my way to the villa, which was at bahama bay, not too far from the west end of the 192 in kissimmee...but the limo driver could not find it for love nor money....This ended up with my brother in law jumping in the car drving round looking for a confused limo driver, then coming back and picking me up with about 40 mins to go.
At the same time my wife was back in our room at the Caribbean beach resort. Now she had not met her wedding co-ordinator, and they never bothered calling her until the morning of the wedding, to explain what was going to happan. Not only that but the limo company had also rang to say they would not drive upto the room to pick her up, and they would only goto the reception area. This ended up with my mother being shuved into a taxi and told to take her to the reception, which he ended up taking her to the wedding pavillion. Now i should explain my mother is 75 years old and never been to the US or disney before....she handed him a $50 note, to which he said thanks and gave her no change. Not knowing she thought this was acceptable, of course I knew the fare should have been a LOT less than that, so I rang the taxi company, but never received a callback from them. This also meant my wife, her parents and the bridesmaids also had to get a taxi to the reception. we were not impressed with the limo service!!!
We had the Rev. Jack Day as our officiant and he was brilliant, the wedding itself went off without a hitch and we became Mr & Mrs Lamb.
Now afterwards, we all had our photo's taken by the marvellous Randy Chapman, and then our family was taken to the Grand Floridian whilst we had more photo's taken, and some really artisitc ones too, (my fav being a reflection of the two of us in the limo window).
Now the Wedding Co-Ordinator we had on the day seemed to try and rush things a bit, especially when we got to the Champagne Reception at the GF. We later found out this was because she had to pick her kids up and did not want to be late.
I still think in my mind I have blocked out a lot of it, and to me it was an excellent day. The Magic Kingdom Photo Shoot was perfect, but I do have to admit the quality of Randy's Images were a lot better than the disney photography.
Sorry for the long post guys
Anyway here are some photo's
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/5163438 - My own Edits
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/5153481 - Randys Photo's
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/5153337 - MK Photo Session
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/5153324 - Disney Photographic Services
