Trip report - "Dreams do come true" (video complete - pg 45)

[jackdis]

Mary,
Each new post to your report is better than the last! Your wedding was wonderful! Happy 1 month anniversary!
I was married in Hawaii...I'm not complaining...lol...but I've already started to plant the seed in my daughter's head that a Disney wedding would be awesome! (She's in 2nd grade...lol...I showed her Minnie and Mickey at your wedding. That might have sealed the deal for her! LOL)

 

[Octoberbeauty]

That cake looks sooo yummy! Glad you got some strawberries. I would have been "bridal" about it too.

Can't wait to read the next installment!

 

[Jaykeff]

Mary, what a wonderful wedding trip report!! You look so beautiful and like you and Jim were having an amazing time!!

My fiance and I are thinking of perhaps doing our wedding at MGM Studios so I've been reading the wedding forum to see what's up with getting married at Walt Disney World.

Funny enough, while I'm reading your entertaining report, I scream to my fiance, "LARRY!" And then suddenly I say, "Corey! Jeff! Matt! Aris! Autumn! Clare!" How bizarre to be reading the DIS and then seeing pictures of all my friends! I don't post very much, but I felt I had to reply 'cause it seems like such a small world (no pun intended ). I've actually heard them talk of you and Jim and here you are! And you may notice one of my few posts on here was about the Episode III line.

I can't wait to hear about the rest of your trip, keep it coming!

 

[Mommy Poppins]

Mary, once again great installments. You, Jim and your entire party seemed to have a wonderful time at your reception. I have to agree that having Mickey and Minnie was probably some of the best $$ I spent. They just scream "Disney Wedding" to me! Poor Gracie, tho, I hope she recovers!

I know what you mean about feeling weird walking around in your dress after the wedding. When we got back to the Beach Club after our renewal, dinner, etc., I felt weird walking through the lobby with my high heels in my hand, my dress trailing behind me. We went up to our room and then decided we wanted to see Illuminations, so I got out of my dress quick, but kept my tiara in and we went down to watch the fireworks--of course we were too late. The next morning was our MK shoot, so we were waltzing through the lobby at 4:45 in wedding clothing again, back by 6:15, packed up our room--still in wedding clothing--and went over to check into the Contemporary--still in my wedding dress. The looks on the faces of the valets at the Contemporary was priceless as Jim pulled up in an SUV in his dress blues and out I crawled in a wedding dress, tiara and bare feet!! However, the check-in CM at the Contemporary never commented and didn't seem to notice. Funny huh?

Okay now, on to the honeymoon!!!!!

 

[poppinspal]

Poppinspal - I'm glad you like the trip report and I'm so glad someone else has seen that movie! When they were playing the "dont' stop me now" song and everyone was acting out the scene from the movie, Jim shouted to his friend "jeff, kill the queen!" It was a lot of fun Yep, that's his father.. it's funny usually people don't recognize him because he always plays MEAN characters but in real life he's such a sweet guy

I'm totally hooked on your report. Whenever I have down time at work I read your latest adventures. I swear I'm living through you. Your wedding was so perfect. Funny enough my bf and I love this movie and we have a bar very much like the Winchester. So I always say when the world is ending we'll go to our own Winchester. I'm a geek I know. Funny I once read an article on him and he seemed like such a nice guy and I remember thinking he must be a great actor to have played some of the characters he has.

I was laughing when I read about you and Jim dancing. (No, I wasn't laughing at you. More myself.) I consider myself to be a pretty good dancer. (I should thank my mom for forcing me to take dance.) But my bf is a....well he's a typical white guy. So when we dance it's such an obvious mismatch that I end up laughing the whole time. Although we haven't slow danced yet so maybe that'll go better.

 

[RadioFanatic]

Mary, "head over feet" by alanis morrisette is my dh and my song - it was our first dance - we love that song.

And it's so funny - I watch "One tree hill" and didn't even recognize your FIL until someone said something! And to see him dancing with Minnie!

 

[Mary626]

a*lil*bit*goofy - Thank you so so much for your compliments! Many chicken dances to you too!

jackdis - Thank you!! and goodluck with your daughters wedding,, maybe in 15 years I will be reading her trip report about her disney wedding! A wedding in hawaii sounds wonderful too - I bet that was just gorgeous!! We thought about doing that too, but Disney kept calling my name

octoberbeauty - The cake was much better with strawberries in it! I just thought it was so funny that they gave the bride and groom such sad little pieces

Jaykeff - how weird!! It really is a small world! Let us know if you go forward with the wedding in MGM - that would be so cool, how exciting!! I'm telling you.. in five years me and Jim totally want to renew our vows in the ewok village, I'm glad you are enjoying the trip report

Mommy poppins - thank you again !! That story is so funny, I wish I could have seen the look on the bellhop's face!

poppinspal - you'd be laughing at my dancing if you saw it .. our videographer just sent us an internet proof of our wedding and I saw us "dancing" and we were really really awful! weird though, because I really didn't care at the time! I guess the important thing is that we were having fun

radiofanatic - good choice in music! I love the picture of Jim's dad with Minnie, I don't know how she got him to dance with her, but I wish i could thank her for it, that picture is priceless!

 

[Mary626]

Jenny and Kevin went back to the room with us (if anyone else came with us, I seriously have no memory of it!) and dropped off our stuff. Kevin took a few more pictures of us on the balcony in our room – turned out to be one of our favorite amateur pictures of the day.

The last picture of me in my wedding dress

I got out of my dress and changed out of the corset and into some comfortable clothes. I’m usually very modest but I was changing in front of Jenny & Kevin and didn’t care less at that moment in time. I asked Jenny for help taking the tiara and veil out of my hair – it wasn’t too bad, I have very thin hair so she didn’t need to use a lot of bobby pins. The wedding dress that we were so careful with before the wedding was now in a pile on the floor. Lisa and Lynn came up and visited for a few minutes.

I put on the t-shirt my mother had gave to me at my bridal shower, that had Mickey & Minnie in their wedding gear and said “Mary & Jim – April 24, 2006”. Yay I was finally able to wear it!!!

Me and my crazy post-tiara hair

Around 3:30 there was another small surprise for me. There was a knock on the door and a cast member hands me this..

Link to another surprise by Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings:
How very sweet!!
http://static.flickr.com/56/152203539_a38993585f_o.jpg


Jim and I were beyond exhausted and thought we were going to take a nap before doing anything else. Jenny & Kevin said they were going to go hang out with mom, dad, lisa and lynne around stormalong bay. I was sad to see Jenny & Kevin leave though. For some reason in my mind, that signaled the end of the wedding day. That was it. Wedding was over. It was the honeymoon sure, but the wedding was over. I started to get kind of depressed.


We looked through the guestbook and were reading some of the responses. I was so glad I got a “fun” guestbook and not just a blank one to sign your name in. Some of the responses had me laughing so hard!

At about 4 pm, we decided we should try to take a nap. Jim changed into comfy clothes and got into bed and looked ready to fall asleep right away. I laid down and started to think about the wonderful day I had just had. I started to think about how lucky I was – I had just had my dream wedding and married the most wonderful man I had ever met. I was there with most of our friends and family and everything was just so incredibly beautiful.

I can’t explain all the conflicted emotions I was feeling at that moment – I was incredibly happy, everything had been just so wonderful.. I was really sad that everything was over.. what would I obsess about now?.. I was thankful it was over – the pressure was over, no more mentally torturing myself to lose weight as fast as possible for the wedding… I was so happy to be Jim’s wife… but I really wanted to be around my family all of a sudden.. I was exhausted but there was no way I was going to be able to fall asleep then..

It was like when you’re a kid and all December you’re looking forward to Christmas, and it comes and you have a magical day and you have so many new toys you get to play with – but at the end of the day you get really depressed because it’s over. I don’t know, it was a weird feeling and completely unexpected!!

I was so emotional I kind of started to cry and woke up Jim because I didn’t want to be alone. I was being a complete dork and just had so much unwinding I needed to do before I could fall asleep.

I think that going from all the excitement and the beauty of the day to just being by ourselves, closing the curtains, and trying to take a nap was an extremely bad idea. In retrospect, I should have planned something with my family or with jim’s family or something really low-key. Something to talk about the events of the day and to unwind. I really wish we had done that.

The next 45 minutes I stayed kind of emotional. I couldn’t bare to look at any of my wedding things! There was my unity candle… it was so pretty!!! My bouquet – just beautiful!! Awww it was going to die soon, that was so sad! There was my wedding dress that I would never wear again.. stupid wedding dress! My wedding planning binder.. I wouldn’t be needing that again, everything had been planned and done!! I kept crying – it was a happy cry, I was just happy and emotional, but I still felt really stupid about it and didn’t know what the heck was wrong with me, I am definitely not usually like that!! I’m not usually the crying type. At the same time I was laughing at myself for being so dumb and the absurdity of some of the things I was saying.

And I was married!! I never thought it would feel any different. I had been living with Jim for almost 4 years, I figured it would be a lovely day but our relationship would feel the same. But already I felt like things were completely different! It was weird.. I was married.. what a grown-up thing to do..How could I be married I still felt like I was five years old most of the time!!! It was a good feeling, just a “this is so weird” feeling.

Jim kept doing things to try to make me laugh to snap me out of it (like pretending to put on my corset and veil, for starters, which had me laughing so hard I was dying..) .. but finally I realized I needed to get out of the hotel room and be around family.

I called my mom and told her I needed some company. She said she was eating at Beaches n’ Cream with Dad, Jenny & Kevin, and Lisa and Lynn. She puts Jenny on the phone and Jenny said she’d be up in a few minutes.

Ten minutes later, Jenny and Lisa knock on my door. I open it and Jenny says “you look awful!” I said “yeah I know, I always look awful after I’ve been crying”. My sister Lisa says “why have you been crying?” I tell her “I was just really really happy”.

And then my sister Lisa says – and this is a direct quote “Do you want somethign to be depressed about? I can give you something to be depressed about....” and continues to tell me how the happiness doesn’t last and how her and Lynn has just been fighting and now she wasn’t talking to her and --

I cut her off and was like “no, Lisa, I DON’T want something to be depressed about” She kept going on and then I said “bye, Lisa” and kicked her out. I hear her say “fine – EVERYONE HATES LISA!” (that’s another exact quote)..

(that might have sounded like I was being callous if you don’t understand that Lisa is like that ALL the time and everything always has to be about Lisa). Me and Jim kind of laughed about it. Jenny said her and Kevin were going to go eat at the China pavilion at epcot and asked if we wanted to come. It sounded great. My original plan for the day was to eat at Yachtsman Steakhouse that night with Jim, but I wasn’t in the mood for steak or for being by ourselves, so I got dressed and tried to do something about how awful I looked.

 

[Mary626]

We took our time getting dressed and unwinding. Kevin brought up his laptop and cables so he could transfer all the pictures he had taken on the trip and wedding over to us.

I briefly looked through his photos of the wedding day. I hadn’t really seen myself all day, just short glimpses in the mirror once or twice and that was it, so I was really curious to see how I looked. I saw some pictures of myself and said “ugh, my arms look huge, I look like Popeye”.. Jenny started to laugh but Kevin and Jim told me I was crazy and looked great. But I kept making fun of myself and saying “looks like someone’s been eating their spinach.. I yam what I yam!” Jim started to laugh at me, and I was like “see you’re laughing so it must be true!” But he was like “I’m laughing at how ridiculous you’re being, but I still think you’re crazy..”

I made this photoshop later for him and will post it just cuz he told me not to

We got dressed and ready to head to Epcot. While walking past Stormalong bay heading to epcot, we saw Lisa’s friend, Lynn in line at Hurricane Hannah’s and said hi and told her we were headed to epcot. She said “oh we’ll come along, let me go get dressed”. I wasn’t sure how long it would take her and lisa to get dressed so we told them to give us a call when they were in epcot and we’d meet up. I felt kind of bad about it though.


We got into epcot, and I realize I had forgotten both my camera and camcorder at the hotel!! I remember very clearly making sure I had them when I was in the hotel room. Darnit! I hate being without my cameras! I asked Jenny if I could use hers to take pictures, since she takes like maybe three pictures over the course of a day. She lent it to me but said the battery would be dying soon. And her camera really really really sucks, but it was better then nothing.

We walked slower then a snail’s pace at epcot. Jim and I both felt like zombies. I mean, first we had both had less then 2 hours of sleep that night, then it was our wedding and reception and all the excitement and fun that that was, and then there was my little emotional breakdown that left me feeling drained. But I was glad to be out and in epcot with Jenny and Kevin, I just felt kind of dead while we walked.

We got to the American adventure part of the world showcase and we saw that the nelson twins were performing. Hey cool! We didn’t think we’d be able to catch a performance since it was their last day at epcot. We found a seat and watched the last 15 minutes of the show. They were playing oldies songs. I guess that’s why their concert was called “Flower Power”. I think a lot of the songs they were playing were their father’s songs. Darnit, we wanted to hear After the Rain! Oh well,, at least we got to see them for a little bit.

We were walking towards Italy and an older couple came up to us and congratulated us. They asked when we got married and we told them that morning. They were really excited for us and were telling us how wonderful marriage was and how they had been together for over 30 years or something. It was really nice of them, but they kept wanting to talk to us, and after a while me and Jim finally had to excuse ourselves and go find Jenny and Kevin.

We caught up with them and we walked towards Italy. Jim and I wanted to see the isola again and reminisce about that morning, but darnit it was blocked off for a dessert party!!
Oh well, it probably would have set me off crying again lol.

We got to that international border area between Germany and China and we ran into a group of our guests that were out having fun in epcot, Aris and his girlfriend, Corey, Larry and his son Dallas, and Autumn. We talked for a little bit and they asked how we were. I mentioned that I cried for an hour. They looked really worried and I guess they thought something was wrong, so I explained “I was just really happy! Everything was so beautiful and I was just really happy..” I guess I should have mentioned that first lol.
Jenny and Kevin said they were going to go put their names down at the restaurant, we said we would meet up with them. Jim talked to his friends for a while, neither of us can remember for the life of us what we talked about with them.. then we said goodbye and went to catch up with Jenny & Kevin.

 

[Mary626]

They said the wait would be about 20 minutes, so Jim and I went and looked around the China pavilion’s shops and looked at the topiaries they had of a dragon and some pandas, they were too cool! Jim seemed really impressed with the pavilion and wanted a chance to come back later and explore, and I said we had epcot planning for tomorrow. Though unfortunately we never made it back to China!

That dragon topiary was really cool

We went back inside and we were seated pretty quickly. There was a beautiful sunset outside casting a lovely glow on the restaurant. I tried taking some pictures of it, but Jenny’s camera truly truly sucks and they were all very blurry.

Jenny & me in the 9 dragons restaurant

Jim ordered some fried rice and I ordered some honey glazed chicken things, don’t know the name. Jenny had ordered something with bbq chicken. I liked hers better and she liked mine better so we switched. I was in a daze through most of the meal. I remember asking them what their favorite part of the ceremony was, and Jenny said she thought it was really sweet when we kissed for the first time, and Kevin was like “darnit I was just about to say the same thing!”. That was sweet that that part was their favorite. I asked Kevin, since he was a guest and not in the bridal party, if the Spaceship Earth was in the backdrop of our altar.. if it was noticeable, like.. wow there’s spaceship earth! He said he didn’t think so, but looking at his pictures I think he had a really bad angle. Some of the pictures came out great with spaceship earth in the middle.

We finished our meal (jenny and Kevin paid for our meal, awww). It was around 8:40 when we left so we decided to wait for illuminations. We found a seat next to the panda topiaries not realizing that the tree would be blocking our view, again. I never seem to get an unobstructed view of the show. I sat down by Jenny and Jim went off to look around the china gift shops some more.

Where we sat (pictures taken on a different day)

Jim came up behind me and started using this wooden back massager thing on me that he got in the china pavilion. That was really sweet that he got the massager to use on my back, but it didn’t feel very pleasant lol. I thanked him and told him how sweet he was.

Illuminations started and we stood up to watch the show. I didn’t bother with taking pictures of it since I had seen it the other day and I just wanted to enjoy the show with my new husband. It was making me mad that I can never see the images on the globe, so Kevin and Jim were both describing to me what the images were since my vision sucks. Even with their descriptions, I still didn’t understand the globe thing. Oh well, the fireworks are good. As the show came to its conclusion I started to cry again, but didn’t tell anyone that I was crying. It was dark and noone needed to know. I was just still very emotional. I kept thinking how cool it was that I was married and had a husband. It was just the coolest feeling, I had no idea I would feel that way.

We walked back around to the international gateway, taking our time as we exited the park. I was so glad we had gone out again that night, watching illuminations with Jim was a much better way to end the night then just staying in the hotel and relaxing.


We got back to our hotel and Jim saw his dad having a drink in the lounge in the yacht club lobby and went over to say hi. I had told my mom I would come to her room to talk and pick up the anniversary tier of the cake.

I went to my mom’s room and laid on her bed and we talked about the day a little. I asked how my brother and his wife were doing. She said they were good and asked if I wanted to hear the voicemail my brother had left that morning for her, so she played it back.. he started out “hey you guys are probably at the wedding right now, I just thought I’d leave you a message and let you know Rachel had her baby and it’s a girl and….” Here he paused for a few seconds and got really choked up and started to cry and said “and everyone’s healthy.. I miss you guys and can’t wait till you’re home”.. For my brother to show that kind of emotion is something! It was so sweet, I got really choked up just listening to it.


I said goodnight to my parents and took our anniversary tier back to the room with us. I had no intention of trying to save it for next year so thought I’d cut off a few pieces to give to my mom and Jenny the next morning. I only had the cake cutter and server from the wedding though, so it was a little difficult to chop it up into pieces, but I managed. I put the slices into those nifty ziplock bags that come in handy for so many things, and the rest of the cake fit into the fridge.

Jim and I took a small slice of cake for ourselves to try before going to sleep. I had a bite, and was like “Yuck!!”, and then realized I hadn’t taken the fondant layer off. I only had one bite of it and it was so sugary that it gave me a bit of a stomach ache. It was really easy to peel off though.

I was feeling much better this time, I just really had needed to unwind after the wedding. Jim and I decided to sleep in to our heart’s content in the morning. This time I quickly fell asleep, content to be married and sleeping next to my new husband

 

[iggbees]

wow, it looks like you guys had an awesome time! congratulations. everything looks so beautiful!

that guest book was awesome. i loved the replies. especially trogdor!

 

[JJClemson]

Thank you so much Mary! Your wedding day sounds absolutely lovely! You are so beautiful... I do not know how you can compare yourself to Popeye! You're right, you do not have very good vision!

Thank you for all the details. Like others have said, I feel like I know you and Jim and your families. You both seem so personable and fun! I am sorry you felt so emotional after your wedding. I keep thinking about how I am going to feel after THE day is over Being so happy to be married, but having your Disney wedding over, must feel so conflicting. I am sure your lack of sleep did not help your emotions too! Just start planning your vow renewal now!

Congratulations to you and Jim! You look so happy and make such a great couple I cannot wait to hear about the honeymoon!

 

[jackdis]

Congrats, Mary and Jim! Mary, you looked so pretty, even with your post-tiara hairdo!!! It's understandable that you were emotional afterwards. Somehow, I have the feeling that the next days will be wonderful for you and Jim, and what wonderful memories the two of you will have of your spectacular wedding. Can't wait to hear about the honeymoon part of the trip report! Yes, Hawaii was beautiful. We probably would have had it in Disney if it wasn't in Hawaii. Maybe someday we can have a Disney vow renewal!

 

[Beana9802]

Wow, Mary and Jim! Such an awesome trip report. Such a great day. I totally understand what you are talking about Mary. When my cousin got married in Sept, she wed on a friday, and then didn't leave for Ireland until late Saturday evening. We all crashed Fri night, but she didn't want us to leave. We all slept over her house on her wedding night, how funny is that?! Davey didn't mind because he felt like he had a harem! HA!
Congrats again!

 

[pintradingwedding]

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Mary, THANK you for sharing your wedding with us!

And you look like a beautiful, radiant angel ! Like you should be in an oil painting in a museum!

 

[pintradingwedding]

was your (future) husband able to hear the music while people were being seated?

it's important to me for my DF to hear the music! I'm planning it all as a suprise for him -- and like you, one of my music selections is from Superman!!! Except it's the flying theme

 

[Mary626]

iggbees - thank you!

JJclemson - thank you so much you are so sweet!! I'm sure the lack of sleep was a great contributor to how I was feeling - I swear I'm not usually like that!! In the back of my mind I already am planning my vow renewal, and I've only been married a month, how silly is that! Thank you for all your kind words!

jackdis - thank you so much, too! I was glad that I had the Minnie-ears to wear after our wedding, they did a good job of hiding my messy hair-do! How does your husband feel about the idea of a disney vow renewal? I think you should totally go for it!!

Beana - I'm so glad I'm not the only one who's felt that way!! Like I said, I think I just planned it wrong, I should have given myself more time to unwind and decompress after such a beautiful day. My mom had offered to take a few of us out on the Breathless to watch illuminations or to take us out to dinner or something, but while planning I had thought I'd want to be alone with Jim. Instead I wanted to be around as many people as possible.. I guess you can never really plan how you're going to feel!

Pintradingwedding - thank you thank you thank you! That is such a sweet compliment!! I asked my DH and he said he couldn't hear the music while the guests were being seated, but it really depends on your ceremony location site. They had him hiding in the Alfredo's restaurant in the back of the italy pavilion. That is so cool you are using the superman music!! I think the flying theme is pretty similar to the love theme.. my DH made an mp3 file of that song from the ceremony if you want to listen, it's not the best quality but it gives you an idea.. Have fun planning your wedding, the planning is half the fun! ..

http://jimcorbin.homestead.com/files/Superwedding.mp3


I will try to post more trip report tomorrow. Thank you all for reading!

 

[pintradingwedding]

iggbees - Have fun planning your wedding, the planning is half the fun!

I TOTALLY AGREE. ESPECIALLY with a DISNEY wedding!! LIke whenever I am just going to disney on vacation I spent the six months before daydreaming about it, meal planning, anticipating! it's like having a 6 month and 1 week vacation instead of just a 1 week vacation.

same thing with all these disney weddings. it's taking our One Day and stretching it out to a whole year and beyond. FUN!!!

PS. I only said what is true, so no need to thank me! Truly a radiant, ethereal, heaven-lit botticelli angel !

 

[Octoberbeauty]

Reading about you getting all choked up got me all choked up! I remember those feelings. Just wait till after you have a baby. It's even worse!! lol I know how you feel though. You're the bride. You're supposed to be having fun with your loved ones and suddenly you're all alone and they're all out there having fun with each other! You feel left out and like you're missing out on something. So, I'm glad you went out with and had fun with your family.

You looked sooo cute in your Minnie ears! I don't think my honey will wear the hat, but darn it, I'm getting me some bridal ears!! I'll get him a cap that says "Groom" or something.

I have been craving Chinese food all day. I did NOT need to see that. I don't even have Chinese on our list for December. What was I thinking!! My whole family loves it, so I better add it. Was it good Chinese food?

Can't wait to hear about the rest of your honeymoon.

 

[Mary626]

pintradingwedding - you are too sweet!! I do the same thing with planning trips!! I always need SOMETHING to be in the works just so I can have something to plan!!

OctoberBeauty - Yes, you described my feelings exactly!!! Thank you! .The "Groom cap" that jim wore on our trip worked just as well as the groom hat when he didn't feel like wearing it (they make those hats very tight!) The chinese food was pretty good, nothing spectacular, but it was good food and I enjoyed it


I got an internet proof back of the short-edit for our wedding from Stan at STVS... I asked him to make a few changes (like changing the song at the end, and adding a few scenes back in, etc), so it's not complete, but it's up if anyone wants to see it

A few things that I didn't remember until seeing the video.. the part about saying "I do" - completely forgot about that!! My message to jim.. I completely forgot that we were dancing with Mickey and Minnie to "i can't help falling in love with you" and then Jim cuts in with me and mickey so he could dance with me

things that I thought wwere funny or cool...
everyone cheering when mickey and minnie came out
the LOOK on Jim's face when he eats the cake!!
Minnie spinning little mia - too precious!

I'm very happy with the edit!! I watched it this morning by myself and at first I was being critical of how I looked of course.. but later when Jim was watching it he started to cry and was like "you were just so beautiful", what a sweetheart anyway, Stan did a great job! But I'm so happy that we're getting the raw footage back too, there were so many funny candid moments that I know he got.. can't wait to see those too!

http://www.streamload.com/stvs/Corbin