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

[Mary626]

I absolutely LOVE all the candid, goofy shots. They add so much personality to your wedding memories that you'll cherish forever.

I'm going to be sad when you actually get done with your report. lol

I think I will be sad too! I was thinking of continuing the trip report to include our disney honeymoon too, not sure if anyone will continue to read it, ... but I've been enjoying writing the trip report and remembering all these things so much that even if noone else reads it I think I'll write it for myself lol!



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Meanwhile, our guests & bridal party are all at Martha’s Vineyard at the Beach club for the pre-reception. We had a big fruit & fruit dip plate out as appetizers and we were paying for unlimited soda, water, and juices for the guests. Their was a cash bar if anyone really wanted to be drinking at 10 in the morning (which I guess a few people did!). Our guestbook was out for everyone to sign of they wanted, and I had a basket of Hershey bars that had a home-made wrapper around them….

Martha’s Vineyard, right next door to Ariel’s..

The fruit tray with dip… you can see some of our custom-made napkins we brought with us – with mickey and Minnie and “Jim & Mary – April 24th, 2006” written on it…

Jo, her fiancé Jim, and my brother in law Kevin… It was funny how well Kevin and (Jo’s) Jim got along. I had asked Kevin if he could hang out with Jim, since Jo and Jenny were with us most of the day and neither of them really knew any of the other guests. Since they were both dressed similarly I had a hard time telling them apart too!

At first I thought the person in the purple shirt was a wedding crasher, but then I realized it must have been Gracie’s professional babysitter that they hired.

I often wonder what Lisa & Matt found to talk about

The guestbook table.. I have some better shots of this later… Most people read the note and knew to take one of the pages and pen’s back to their table to fill out. Other’s just tried to fill it out as quickly as they could at the table.. nobody reads lol

Sue successfully finishes her guestbook page

Jo & Jim (also working on their guestbook page), and Jenny

A nice shot of Jenny & Kevin – and one of the few pictures that exist of Kevin smiling!

Jim’s niece and nephew being cute

Mia likes to stick her tongue out in pictures

Gracie looks like an Anime character in this picture

Jim’s cousin Alex, who Chris had loudly and happily proclaimed to be sober earlier in the day

William and Sammy working on their guestbook pages

edited to add some professional photos of some of our favors and stuff:

our napkins

our cutting knive/server (you can't see the mickey minnie pattern in the handle)

pens for the guest book

toasting glasses:

the back

 

[Mary626]

I took these back home before we left..
My guestbook cover..

The pens I put out

The frame I put out.. on the left side was my family (top – my parent’s wedding.. middle both of my grandparent’s wedding, the bottom, a family picture of us when we were young)… on the right side was Jim’s family – (top – his parent’s wedding, middle, 2 pictures of his grandparents, they had both eloped so there were no wedding photos,, and the bottom was a family photo of them when Jim was younger)… The middle was a note to the guests saying we hoped they were enjoying the pre-reception,, brunch would be served soon, please take a guestbook page and a pen and help yourself to a candy bar, etc..

The candy bar wrapper I made

At the reception tables were more Hershey bars with custom made CD’s with music to remind them of our wedding, including the Fantasmic theme and the music played during the ceremony and our first dance, etc..

 

[Mary626]

We didn't read these till later, but I was cracking up when I read most of them, and of course some made me cry... Here were a few of our favorite guestbook pages... Btw, I am so glad I got this guestbook!! It was so much fun to read people's responses...

I love the Trogdor the Burninator drawing

From Jim's friend Aris

Here's a link to a higher resolution pic, I love the thing about the cows!
http://static.flickr.com/54/148827714_ecd7686f73_o.jpg

I liked the ewok drawing of us

I saw this one and had to have Jim reassure me that that's not how I looked at the wedding - I look like the incredible hulk here lol

LOVE the drawing in this one!!

Chris's (jim's brother) guestbook page was pretty funny too

My mom's guestbook page - so sweet

Jim's mother's guestbook page - very sweet too!

Jim's half brother's kids helped to write this one.. I especially love 9 year old William's advice to us lol

Jo & Jim's guestbook page

Some of the other ones were personal or not appropriate for this website (my sister lisa's for example )

The general concensus seems to be that our children will be named Luke & leia - although leia will be spelled leah, leya, leila, and a variety of other ways lol

 

[Mary626]

Meanwhile, back in the limo with me and Jim...


Being in the limo with Jim was my first time alone with him since we got married!! There was a million things I wanted to tell and ask him. I asked if he cried when he saw me and he said no… but later that night he admitted that he started to get choked up and had to look away a few times so he wouldn’t.. I don’t know why he denied it at first, weirdo! On the video you can almost see him getting choked up. Darnit though, I wanted some tears, I had a bet going with my sister that he would cry lol. He cries all the time in movies so I thought it was a sure thing . I asked how his night without me was, and he said he’s never sleeping in the same room as Matt again. Well let’s hope not, that would be a weird habit to form lol. Jim said “oh the coordinator said the cake topper broke”. I was like “what? When?” and he told me it had broken when they opened the box up this morning… how weird I had packaged it very carefully. Jim told me that the mickey and Minnie were fine and they were trying to do something with that. At first I was picturing them put it on the cake with these shards of glass sticking out lol… but then I was like, this is Disney, I’m sure they’ll do what they need to do to make it look good, so I left my trust in Disney and didn’t worry about it!

The limo ride was short so we didn’t get a chance to talk as much as I wanted to alone with him, but that was okay, I wanted those pictures by the lighthouse!

The limo pulls up to the beach club and the coordinator meets us as we get out. She gives us both our glass of water which I was very thankful for. While drinking some water, the coordinator said “I have some news for you..” I thought she was going to mention the cake topper so I said “oh Jim already told me about the cake topper and that’s fine”, she looked momentarily confused and then said “oh yes, the cake topper did break, but also your brother and his wife had their baby!”. I told her that Lisa had given us the news earlier and how she had shouted it out to everyone after the ceremony, but thought it was very sweet of her to let us know! Then she explained about the cake topper and said they weren’t satisfied with how it looked so they had someone go to the Arribas brothers store in Downtown Disney and bought us a new one. It wasn’t the exact one she said, but it looked better then the broken one. Well that was very sweet!! I was sorry our original one had broken, it really was beautiful – and very expensive! But that was so nice of them to go buy us a whole new cake topper for us! The coordinator got on her walkie talkie and told “elvis” to come to the entrance, which was the codename for her assistant. Jim and I got a kick out of that. The coordinator left us to make sure everything was going okay at the reception, and left us with Elvis.

Pretty soon Randy arrives and we double-time it to take some pictures by the lighthouse. Elvis offered to carry my flowers for me, but I was enjoying carrying them, they were so pretty and I wanted to enjoy them as much as I could before they died. I’ve heard a lot of brides say that the bouquets are heavy and start to weigh you down after a while, but that never once bothered me for even a second. I think I was either having too much fun or was too busy thinking about how much my feet hurt lol.

Right before we got to the lighthouse, Randy told us to walk on the sandy beach so he could take some pictures there. Jim and I went close to the water and Randy snapped away. While taking some pictures, one of the “Friendship” boats came by to dock and hocked their horn at us and got on the blowhorn and said “congratulations!” Jim and I waved back at them! Randy said “wait I want to get that shot, wave to them again.. keep your hands up.. one more second..”, so me and Jim put our hands up pretending to wave again until Randy said it was okay. We kept our arms up for what seemed like quite a while waving to the boat, and I said to jim “the people on that boat are going to think we’re friggin idiots! Like.. okay we see you, you can stop waving now!” Jim said he was thinking the same thing. Ah well, we won’t see those people again but we’ll have the pictures lol.


Edit to include the pic (it didn't turn out very good)

The ten minutes that we were taking pictures by the lighthouse was really the only time Jim and I were in “public” while in our wedding garb, and it was kind of cool to see everyone kind of staring at us! A lot of people said “congratulations” to us while we were taking pictures, it was really nice!

We finished up the pictures and headed back. Jim pointed out how Randy was carrying two huge cameras, not just one, and I asked him about it. He said one was telephoto and that it was a lot easier to carry two cameras instead of having to switch lenses all the time.. ahh that was cool!

We headed back to the Beach Club to attend our reception at Ariel's



That's all for today, I need to upload more pics tonight before I can post more.. and hopefully Jim will finish his side of the story for the ceremony so I can post that tomorrow as well

**edited 5/7/07 to include some professional photos

 

[My2Cinderellas]

Thanks for sharing your special day with us all! It's a delight to read and see all the events as they unfold. Even us old married folk like to see a great love story!

I'm now regretting that I didn't catch a glimpse of your ceremony from across the lagoon - my family and I were in Epcot at opening that morning! Totally clueless about the beautiful ceremony going on in Italy, all our focus was on getting FP for Soarin'.

 

[Mary626]

Thanks for sharing your special day with us all! It's a delight to read and see all the events as they unfold. Even us old married folk like to see a great love story!

I'm now regretting that I didn't catch a glimpse of your ceremony from across the lagoon - my family and I were in Epcot at opening that morning! Totally clueless about the beautiful ceremony going on in Italy, all our focus was on getting FP for Soarin'.

Thank you! That's cool that you were in epcot at the same time, getting those fastpasses is important! That would have been cool if someone had snapped a picture of my wedding from futureworld! But then i's pretty hard to see Italy from futureworld without a telephoto lens...

While I was at the Yacht Club I took some pictures of the three weddings we saw at the gazebo just in case one of the brides was a member here, but I don't think any of them post here. Ah well

 

[MissDisneyTeach]

Congratulations! I am enjoying your trip report!

 

[Mary626]

Congratulations! I am enjoying your trip report!

Thank you!


Here is the second installment of Jim's side of the story - for the ceremony, sorry it makes the report a little out of order but ah well

Jim's Story Part II

Stan puts a wireless microphone on me, and the coordinator takes me and my groomsmen out of our prison to the bridge in front of the Isola.
From this point on, I don't remember much. I remember my dad walking across the bridge and sitting down, then my mom and Mary's mom walking across, lighting the unity candle, and sitting down, then the love theme from Superman starting, and walking down with the officiant and my groomsmen behind me.
Then, Mary's limo pulled up. Mary is not a tall person so when she got out of the limo I couldn't see her. And it was perfectly placed so I wouldn't be able to see her 'till she walked over the bridge. I kept looking down at my mom who kept saying "Don't look yet!" Finally, Mary starts to walk over the bridge, and I looked. Now, that whole thing about men not experiencing emotions that I said earlier, that didn't hold true.
I have never seen anything as beautiful as Mary walking down those stairs, and down the isle. It took everything inside me not to start crying a little bit. My jaw hit the floor (Stupid leprosy!) So, Mary finally got to the altar (Took her long enough.) And I got to look into her eyes.
Mary's eyes are kinda like the Ark of the Covenant. Once you start staring, you can't look away (And eventually you'll melt and die. But hopefully we'll be really old when that happens) One thing I noticed though was that Mary couldn't look into my eyes. The sun was brutally attacking my future wife. STUPID SUN! So I did what any sun hating man would do. I stood between the sun and her, making sure my shadow was completely covering her face so she could see, at least a little bit.
So, with the sun vanquished it was time for the vows to begin. We didn't have a sound system, and I didn't want my vows to go unheard by the crowd. So, calling upon the acting powers of my mother and father, I made sure to repeat them in a loud newscaster like tone.
Then it was Mary's turn to do her vows. I knew Mary couldn't see me well, so I took this great opportunity to nod quickly at everything she said, just so she wouldn't accidentally say "No," or "I don't." Man, I sure am helpful!
With the vows over, I finally got to kiss Mary. Something I'd wanted to do from the second I saw her.
Something about that must have angered the crowd, because as we started down the isle, ever single person started reaching for things to throw at us. Luckily, all they could find were rose pedals. But I could swear I saw at least one bottled water, a chair, and one baby being thrown in our direction. I guess luck was on our side because we got away with only minor injuries. Our wedding coordinator risked her life by jumping between us and the rioting crowd, forcing them onto a bus that would hopefully play soothing music to calm their angry, rioting nerves.
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[Octoberbeauty]

Great installments!! How sweet Jim's was. You lucky girl, you!

Oh, and I definitely think you should do the whole honeymoon! I know I'd love to read it.

 

[DisneyJen]

I am so your report Mary ... and Jim's too

Hope that you do post your Honeymoon Trip Report as well ... maybe not the WHOLE thing as this is a family thread

 

[JJClemson]

Once again, I LOVED reading and seeing your beautiful pictures! I definitely think you should post your honeymoon report! I would rather read your wonderful report than these boring scientific journals for work

Where did you get that guest book? It's so cute

 

[disneyheaven]

Incredible! Incredible! Incredible!! Both you and your DH's retelling of your magical day is fantastic!!!! I am loving every moment of it!! You know your addicted when my DF says when I am glued to the laptop screen, "Um...Babe? Are you reading Mary's report again?" Hahah!! When my fiance knows your name and what I am doing just by the concentration on my face, you know its bad!! Our recent conversation at dinner....me - " So hunny....Mary updated her page again! Its great!!! The wedding pictures in Italy are awesome! Kinda makes me wish we did a park wedding! Wedding Pavilion will be great, but her pics are sooo incredible! " Mark - "That's great - so how was your day at work?" Me - "And they had great weather, except the sun was shining in her eyes and her husband was so cute! He actually stood a different way as to help block the sun! What a great guy! " Mark - "Babe...how was your day" Me - "And then, their bridesmaids dresses are like the same color as mine and they photographed so well! What are the chances! Like the same color! Unbelieveable! THey looked so nice in al the pics! Im excited to see my girls in that color! " Mark - "So I just saw an elephant go by the window. Great huh? " Me - "Yeah that is great. So anyways, they also found out that their neice was born! What a great suprise! (not reliazing when he said this about the elephant he was trying to catch me not listening) Hahaha!! We laughed when I finially realized I spent most of dinner recaping your entire ceremony!! I guess thats the magic and wonder of Disney! We all just get so excited about each others events! Anyway, Im babbling and I should get back to work! Cant wait to read about the reception and ceremony!!!

 

[Marty Moose]

Great report!! And please post the rest of the trip!!!! This will be my first time to WDW (been to DL tons)...so I'd love to hear about the parks, etc.

Oh...and Leia is a great name...but I think I prefer Bob, Bob & Bob.

 

[hellokitty86]

I love this report! It's excellent. And do write about your honeymoon!

Congratulations by the way- my parents anniversary is April 24th and they were in Disney that day celebrating it!

 

[RadioFanatic]

love, love, LOVE your report - thanks for sharing your special day.

and you're probably going to think I'm crazy but I've been in the process of determining what tattoo to get - I knew I wanted Disney, but not sure what other than it had to be a couple so I could put my dh and my name under it. lo and behold, I was reading your report and saw your invitation and LOVED the mickey and minnie holding hands with the heart and I think I'm going to get it as a tattoo! it's between that design and another mickey/minnie design - in fact, I'm going to do a poll on the community board to see which one wins.

thanks again!

 

[Mary626]

OctoberBeauty - thank you so much!! I think I'm pretty lucky myself too

DisneyJen - thank you too!! I think I will do a honeymoon trip report, but of course it will be family friendly

JJClemson - Thank you! I ordered the guestbook from http://www.guestbookstore.com/ I found the link on this forum!

DisneyHeaven - you are so funny!! And that is so funny about the elephtant outside of your window! I was doing pretty much the same thing before our wedding too. Jim would look over at me and I'd be crying, and he'd be like "why are you crying"? and I'd be like "this girl's wedding.. it was just so sweet!!" He would be like "Do you know this person??" ... I guess we're just saps that way, but oh well. I'm sooo glad to hear you are enjoying my trip report!!! And tell Mark I said hello!

MartyMoose - How exciting that must be to be going to WDW for your first time, you're going to have a great time!! And I think I will have to name at least one of our kid's Bob in Chris's honor!

Hellokitty - that is so cool that your parents were down there celebrating their anniversary the same day we were getting married! And now it's my neice's birthday, and Chris informed me the other day his dog was born April 24th of last year So April 24th is a pretty popular day!

Radiofanatic - that is awesome!!! You'll have to link us to that thread!! Guess which design I am going to vote for!! I have an R2D2 tattoo on my right ankle.. Jim was thinking about getting C-3PO on his ankle so they can match! Much more romantic then getting our names tattoo'ed . That is so cute though!! Let me konw if you need any high resolution scans of the image or anything. Let us know what you decide!!


Thanks again everyone! I think I will continue it into the honeymoon as well, since there appears to be a target audience for it! I am hoping to post some of the reception later tonite, just working on copying and pasting the links to teh pictures into the trip report right now.

 

[RadioFanatic]

thanks Mary- it's over at the CB board and I also told everyone over there that your report is a must read. And my dh is also a HUGE Star Wars Fanatic - he's into "the dark side". Absolutely loves Darth Vader. For Christmas, he got the darth vader bank, darth vader lightsaber, many star wars tshirts, lightsaber tv game, star wars playstation game, etc. for easter, I got him spudtrooper and darth tater potato heads. We recently went to the Boston Science Museum to see the Star Wars exhibit by Lucas Films and he thought he had died and gone to heaven. I'll have to tell him about your tattoo!

If you could get me a high resolution scan, I would totally appreciate it - do you want me to pm you my address?

 

[Mary626]

thanks Mary- it's over at the CB board and I also told everyone over there that your report is a must read. And my dh is also a HUGE Star Wars Fanatic - he's into "the dark side". Absolutely loves Darth Vader. For Christmas, he got the darth vader bank, darth vader lightsaber, many star wars tshirts, lightsaber tv game, star wars playstation game, etc. for easter, I got him spudtrooper and darth tater potato heads. We recently went to the Boston Science Museum to see the Star Wars exhibit by Lucas Films and he thought he had died and gone to heaven. I'll have to tell him about your tattoo!

If you could get me a high resolution scan, I would totally appreciate it - do you want me to pm you my address?

Thanks for plugging my trip report lol! That's cool that your DH is into SW! I love those potato head figures! Since SW was sort of how me and Jim met each other most people were surprised we didn't have more star wars stuff in our wedding. But I am first and foremost a Disney fan!!

If you PM me your email addy I will send you some of our high-res scans. Though actually me and Jim used photoshop to kind of "clean them up" a bit and increase the contrast, etc. But I will see what I have that I can send you!

 

[jackdis]

Mary,
I can't wait to read more and see more pictures!! I love your guestbooks. What a special keepsake for you to have. And the cd's were such a great keepsake for your guests. When my husband came home from work today, I was sitting with the laptop looking at your pictures. He walked over and asked what I was looking at and I said, "This is my friend Mary and these are her wedding pictures!" He just looked at me and laughed. You've got a lot of households mentioning your name around the dinner hour!!!! I was telling him how beautiful everything was.

 

[DIZNYCHERYL]

Mary, thank you again for all the updates! With our wedding being the day after yours you have helped us remember so much that happened. The bright sunshine in our eyes, the feeling that it was over so fast and most of all the sudden watering in my husbands eyes when he first turned and saw me walking to Sunset Pointe, of course he said it was that darn sun in his eyes! We both enjoy the pictures so much, but Keith has enjoyed the "girls in blue"! He may be married now but he's still the same!!