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

[Mary626]

Jackdis - thank you so much!! I'm a house-hold name now, woohoo! That's too funny!

Diznycherly - congratulations on your wedding!!! That's so sweet that he's "blaming it on the sun"! Glad you are both enjoying the pictures, even of the "girls in blue" .. I should have made them all wear ugly poofy dresses so they wouldn't upstage me


I'm ready to post some more of the reception, but my picture choice is VERY limited through most of it until I get the professional pictures back!! I had to depend on some of the disposable camera pictures to fill in the story gaps!! Other places I had no material to work with.. I will make short posts so I can go back later and edit some more photos in!!

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We head back into the Beach Club and I could see everyone hanging out at Martha’s Vineyard. Before we said hello to anyone, the coordinator wanted to show us around Ariel’s first before the guests were seated. As we were walking by the pre-reception, she said “just ignore those people over there, pretend they can’t see you” and she took me into Ariel’s.

a sign at the entrance to ariel's

Everything looked so beautiful!! After all the planning and trying to imagine in my head how everything I talked about with the florist would look, I could finally see it!! Everything was just beautiful and so elegant, I couldn’t believe it was MY wedding reception, it was far too pretty! I loved the centerpieces they were beautiful and just right for my wedding.. nothing fancy, very simple and beautiful… small “aquarium bowl/vases” with blue sea glass and floating lilies with more blue seaglass scattered about with a few votive candles. Beautiful! The cake, there was our cake!! It was just like we pictured it, the flowers were beautiful too – matched the ones in my bouquet perfectly just like I had requested!


My bouquet and the bridesmaids bouquet

They put my bouquet on the cake table – you can kind of see some of the hidden mickeys in this picture

The cake and the new cake topper

We had two chair covers with royal blue bows for the head table but none for any of the other chairs. I’m so glad we saved the money in this department, I thought the generic chairs that were in the room matched fine and I knew no-one would really notice the chair covers if we had had them. I liked having them at our table though, since it was the head table it made more sense to have the chair covers.

Our head “sweetheart” table was very pretty too. Though I was actually a tad bit disappointed in it. It wasn’t exactly like I pictured it, I thought the color of the overlay was a little off, and had asked for “scattered rose petals around the table” and thought it looked like they kind of skimped on the rose petals. But maybe they used their best judgement and went with what looked best. It was still pretty though! They had also moved the big flower arrangements over from the altar at our ceremony and put them on each side of our head table. I don’t think anyone ever really noticed the flower arrangements either at the reception or the ceremony, actually. Of course, it might have looked really empty without them, so I’m not sure if they were a good idea or not.

The flowers that were to both sides of our head table

You can see pictures of the head table and centerpieces in pictures coming up, i don't have any "basic shots" of them at the moment....

 

[Mary626]

I was glad we moved our sweetheart table to the location by the dance floor. The original diagram the coordinator sent me had our table off in the corner in the back so we’d have our backs to a big mural painting in the back of the room. I had emailed her and told her I didn’t want to be in the corner and told her where I wanted the head-table. While walking around at Ariel’s, I mentioned to her that it was much better then the corner position, and she laughed and said “nobody puts Mary in the corner!” Jim and I laughed, of course if I hadn’t known it was a line from dirty dancing I would have been kind of confused

The chandeliers in the room

I saw the guestbook table and they set it up just like I asked them too. The coordinator mentioned how much the picture of my mother at her wedding in the frame looked like me at my wedding that morning. I thought that was sweet! Stan the videographer later mentioned the exact same thing actually.

They moved the guestbook table over, put some left over programs on it and I guess the placecards (or just the ones that noone took? Not sure)

The coordinator introduced me to the waitstaff and the bartender and to the DJ, then she took me back to the hallway so we could be “announced” as we walked into the reception..

 

[Mary626]

We waited there with the parents and bridal party while the other guests took their placecards and found their seats. I asked my mom for the wedding slippers to change into… it felt really good to take off my uncomfortable high heels and put on the comfy slppers instead.. though it made me feel a little shorter and made it a little harder to walk around without tripping on the front of my dress, but I didn’t want to put the high heels back on, no way!

The coordinator asked if I wanted to bustle up my dress - oh yeah I forgot about that! My dress didn’t have a bustle but it had a strap with a loop around it to put around my wrist so I could dance without tripping over the train of the dress. The coordinator helped me find my bustle strap and somewhere along the line I gave someone my bouquet so they could put it by the cake table, although I have no memory of this of course.

I also can’t remember anything that was said or talked about while we were in the hallway waiting to be announced. I heard the music start to play that I had requested – the Star Wars Throne Room music (when Luke and han are getting their medals at the end of the original star wars movie.. yes I know we’re dorks lol).. anyway it starts to play and the DJ announces the parents… then the bridesmaids.. then the groomsmen.. then me and Jim..

The parents of the bride…Charles & Sharon Adams..

Parents of the groom…. Susan Berger & Barry Corbin!

Maid of honor, Jenny..

Lisa

Jo & Janiece

Best man, Matt

Chris

Corey

Josh & Gracie trying to fly or reach the fish chandeliers

love the chandeliers!

 

[Mary626]

There were three steps that led up to the main dining area of Ariel’s from the entrance. Since I had my slippers on and my dress was a little longer now I was taking those steps very very slowly and carefully!!! Everyone cheered and clapped as we took our seats and we smiled at everyone as we sat down. The DJ announced that brunch would be available and someone would come by to let them know when it was their table’s turn to head to the buffet table.

My enemy of the day… stairs

woo, made it again!

we find our seats

where did my arm go? You can kind of sea our chair covers in this picture

Disney Fairy Tale wedding spoiler, skip to the next post if you don’t want any surprises spoiled for you!

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Jim & I were seated at the head of the table and I notice a box from Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings for us.. I had seen “spoilers” of this on this messageboard but had forgotten about them, so they were just as much as a surprise for me as they were for jim… We open the box and there are two very lovely watches – one for jim and one for me, with “Disney’s fairy tale weddings” logo inscripted on the back, and a card from our coordinator. I thanked her for them, it was really a lovely gift, I love our watches!

Me showing Jenny our watches

 

[Mary626]

I heard the DJ start playing some Disney love music that I had requested. I asked my sister Jenny if she could give me my wedding purse that had my camera in it. I knew the photographer and videographer were around, but sometimes you just feel better having your own camera on hand just in case!!

us at the headtable, taken with a disposable camera

My family’s table (taken with disposable camera) you can kind of see the centerpieces – the aquarium like vases with three white floating lilies and blue sea glass on the bottom, with votive candles and more sea glass around the base.. and the favors and napkins, etc.

 

[Mary626]

One of the head waiters came to our sweetheart table and asked if we were ready to head to the brunch buffet. One of the waiters escorted me up to the table and another waiter escorted Jim. They held our plate and showed us what was available. I would tell him if I wanted one of the items and he’d put it on the plate for us, it was pretty cool! (They did that for Jim and me but not for the guests fyi). There were so many things to choose from!!! This was an awesome buffet! There were so many choices, I didn’t know what to pick. I wanted to try a little bit of everything just to see what it tasted like, but I didn’t want to look like a pig lol. He pointed out the choices – the breads, the fruit, the veggies, a cobb salad…. There was cobb salad?? That wasn’t even on the menu, how cool!!

A scan of the disposable camera picture of the buffet table.. croissants and danishes, asparagus salad, fruit tray, veggie tray, not sure what the brown souppy thing is maybe grits?, cobb salad.. shrimp tortellini, bacon and sausage..

*edited to add some professional photos of the buffet

The waiter holding my plate and showing me the omelet making station,.. with bowls of mushroom, ham, tomatoes, cheese, etc..

Jim’s waiter picking up a crepe (there were apple crepes and blueberry crepes) and some fresh chantilly whipped cream

I got some fruit, a raspberry Danish, some cheesey hash browns, some shrimp tortellini salad, a tiny amount of asparagus salad, and an apple crepe with whipped cream. He took me to the omelet making station and at first I said I’d pass, but then he said Edmond makes very good omelets, so I was like “okay why not!” and asked for an omelet with cheese and bell peppers and tomatoes. The waiter said he would bring it to me when he was done, then escorted me back to the sweetheart table, put my plate down, and asked what I would like to drink. Jim sat down right after me, and we were both like “fancy buffet!” The waiter brought me back a mini dasani bottle and poured some into my glass for me, and also brought me Edmond’s omelet

My meal, complete with omelet

Jim’s meal, very similar to my own

The view from our table

A few minutes later, the waiter came by again and apologized and said he completely forgot to take me to the second table and asked if I wanted anything from that table such as some filet mignon. I was like, sure okay! I planned the brunch and knew what was on the menu but even I was completely blown away by the variety of foods.. we had filet mignon?? I was impressed! And it was cheaper then the regular sit-down meal of your regular chicken-or-salmon that I was originally going to have. I really enjoyed this buffet!!

I just looked at our menu, and this was what was available…

Selection of Juices
Fresh Sliced Fruit Display
Marinated Asparagus Salad
Roasated Vegetable platter with Parmesan & Cracked pepper dressing
Shrimp & Tri-colored tortellini salad
House Smoked salmon with Classic garnitures
Chef prepared omelets & eggs to order (with smoked ham, tomatoes, shredded cheddar cheese, mushrooms, peppers, and onions)
Bacon & Sausage
Fresh fruit crepes with Chantilly whipped cream
Hash brown potatoes tossed with sundried tomatoes and asiago cheese
CHEF TO CARVE: tenderloid of beef with Pommery mustard Sauce
Breakfast breads to include: Assorted Muffins, buttery Croissants, Raspberry Danish, and cinnamon buns
Assorted Butters, preserves, & marmalade
Coffee and decaffeinated coffee & selection of teas



I guess the filet mignon we had was the tenderloin of beef? Is that the same thing? I don’t know, but it was delicious whatever it was!!! I couldn’t’ have been happier.

*edited to add some professional photos

 

[Mary626]

You can sort of see the meat carving station in the back

I had planned to do some socializing after the meal and during the dancing, just wanted to rest my feet for a while , talk to jim a little, and eat some food, especially since I had socialized with everyone at the dessert party. I sat down and was determined to at least enjoy my food for ten minutes and then I would go socialize or do whatever – but I at least wanted to give myself ten minutes to see what the food tasted like! Oh my god, everything was divine!!! It really was some of the most delicious food I’ve ever tasted!

It was funny though, everyone kept coming up to me and talking each time I was about to take a bite of food. Which was fine, I’m not complaining, but I thought it was funny, it really is hard to eat at your own wedding! But once all the tables had been called and everyone had a chance to get some food on their plate, we were able to eat.

My mom getting a plate of food

Table #1 getting in line for the buffet

My family’s table again after they went up to eat. A better shot of the centerpieces

Lisa, Lynne, my aunt pat

Jim’s friend Jeff at the buffet table

I tasted some of the shrimp tortellini and it was SO GOOD – I have to find this recipe, the shrimp were huge and fresh and de-veined and no tales, the pasta was delicious and it was just so good! The crepes were divine – I’ve never had crepes before in my life so I don’t know if all crepes are this good or if these were just especially good – but they were GOOD! Everyone raved about the shrimp tortellini salad and the crepes – those were hands down the winners of the meal! If you’re having a brunch buffet menu I highly highly recommend upgrading to include these items!

More pictures from our viewpoint

us eating our food

 

[Mary626]

Around 11:20, our coordinator came up to us and told us she was leaving but that we were in good hands at Ariel’s. She said “I wish I had known you guys were star wars fans – I’ve always wanted to do a wedding or reception at the ewok village at MGM”… the look on Jim’s face when the coordinator said this was priceless (Jim hadn’t known it was an option).. his jaw just kind of dropped and he looked at me like “why was I not informed of this??” It was really funny. The coordinator told us she’d love to help us have a vow renewal there. I was like “sounds good!!” Jim was like “that would have been so cool!” I told him you could only do something there after the park closed and I wanted my ceremony & reception during the day. I didn’t want to keep all of our guests up till 2 am or something. But hey, now we have an idea for our first vow renewal, so in five years who knows!

The coordinator told us to keep in touch and then left the reception. She was probably coordinating 17 other weddings that same day, I think Disney really keeps their coordinators busy!! I later realized I had forgotten to give her the thank you card and gift we had for her. I had meant to mail it to her, then decided to write out a new thank you card to thank her for specific things she did for us at our wedding. I was a bad person and didn’t mail it out till a week ago. Ah well better late then never, I hope!

Jim and I would talk a little bit to people as they passed by us and walked towards the buffet table. We saw Jim’s mom, Sue get in line. She asked how the food was and Jim and I both said “Delicious!! Try the crepes – whatever you do you must try the crepes!!”
Sue went to the fruit tray, picked up a GRAPE and put it in her mouth “mmm that is good!” She said….. Jim and I couldn’t stop laughing, and I noticed one of the waiters at the buffet table was trying really hard not to laugh too.. I explained what I had meant but that I understood how they sound exactly alike, and she said she would try one. It’s totally something I would do too, but I just thought it was really funny.

I didn’t have a chance to go back up to the buffet table, but the waiter did come by and asked Jim and I if we wanted any seconds of anything. I decided to have a second Crepe and some more shrimp tortellini. There was so much I hadn’t tried but those two items were so good!! I could really feel my corset doing it’s job towards the end of my meal.

Once everyone had a chance to put some food on their plate, Jim and I got to enjoy our food and actually taste it. Though the sound “clang clang clang” of fork against glass started ringing in the air prompting Jim and I to kiss. Then we would hear the clanging sound again, and again, and it seemed to happen every time either one of us took a bite of our food… we looked over at the “nerd table” and noticed they were watching us and strategically waiting for us to take a bite before clanging the glass. Darn you, nerd table!

I was really enjoying listening to the music while we sat and ate. I was actually singing along to most of the music (I love Disney music), I didn’t care if anyone could hear me or not. Then the song “When somebody loved me” from Toy Story II came on. Jim can NEVER hear this song and NOT cry, so he looked at me and was like “great!” and started going “ lalallalaa..” to block out the music.. of course I didn’t help matters as I started to sing it to him. Jim tried covering his ears and la la la’ing but he started to tear up, so then he put a napkin over his face so I wouldn’t see him to tease him about it. Then I jokingly said “oh you’ll cry for this song but not at your own wedding?” I’m so nice to him

Jim hiding his face under a napkin

The waiters were fantastic and never let my water or jim’s soda run low.

The dj also played some of the non-disney music I had requested like “for the longest time” and “just the way you are”, and some queen music like “Don’t stop me now”.. we looked over at the nerd table again when this song was playing and saw them re-creating the scene from “Shawn of the Dead” that used this song as the members were killing off zombies in their tavern (I’m guessing not many people here have heard of that movie, but it’s actually a really funny parody of zombie movies.. anyway..)

I remember things from the reception in bits and pieces but I can’t always remember the order that things happened. I remember Jim’s 3 year old niece Mia coming up to us early in the reception and asking if she could keep one of the blue marbles on the table – I said sure why not. She later came up and asked if she could have a white marble from our table and we told her okay. She kept smiling at us and just standing there – she was so cute! Unfortunately I don’t speak child-ese, and couldn’t understand a lot of the things she said to us.

Darn blurry picture.. but you can get a good overview of Ariel’s

I remember Jim’s friend Larry and his 13 year old son Dallas came by to talk to us and Dallas thanked us for the CD’s we made and said they were really cool. That was so nice to hear, I wasn’t sure if people would actually like them or not. And I was so impressed with Larry’s kids – they were so nice and well behaved, they were more mature and classy then most adults I know even, I just thought they were all really cool.

Jeff came up and took this picture with us, I thought it was scary but funny

 

[Mary626]

The flat marble/sea glass on the tables seemed to be a real hit!! Everyone was using them and re-arranging them to make shapes or write messages out. It was kind of fun to go around and see what everyone had done. I loved the superman one that the “nerd table” had done.. Jim made a heart out of our white marbles.. I later re-arranged them to shape mickey mouse.

the nerd table’s design

Jim and I got up towards the end of the meal to socialize a bit. I can’t remember for the life of me who all we got to speak with and what was said. Hopefully I did an okay job of socializing. Since I don’t’ remember most of it I was worried I might have accidentally ignored some of my guests.

Me talking to somebody. You can see the DJ in the back, and our flower arrangement to the side of our table

I don’t remember when exactly – but at one point I was over at one of the tables to say hello to Jim’s cousin Alex, who was the only guest that couldn’t make it to the dessert party but made it to the wedding – so I wanted to make sure I said hello to him. He was also at the table with Donna, Bob, and Erica, so I talked to them for a minute. Erica said something like “so is it winter weight?” which is an expression I’ve NEVER heard of, so I was really confused. I asked her “what?” thinking I heard her wrong, she repeated it. I knew there was something I wasn’t understanding – winter weight? What was she talking about? I asked her “what?” one more time (must have looked retarded again lol), and finally Jim sees that I’m confused so he says to me “the dress, Mary!” and explained that she was asking if the dress was really heavy to wear. And I’m like “Oooooohhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” and I start laughing. I said “I was like, what is she saying? I tried my best to lose weight!” but was laughing about it. Erica was like “oh no! you look great! What an awful thing that would have been to say – and on your wedding day!” I knew she would never say something about my weight (especially on my wedding day) - it was just the only thing my mind could come up with as an explanation for what she had meant – which is why I kept asking “what”.

Me laughing about the winter weight thing

wow two angles of the same shot lol

a third shot of the same thing

You can see our headtable pretty well in this shot, along with the chair covers and two flower arrangements to the sides… meanwhile Mia eats her Hershey bar as William attacks his father

One of Jim’s nephews running around the chairs

maybe you can see the centerpiece in this one better

 

[Mary626]

Somewhere along the line, towards the end of I think, the DJ came by and let us know they would be announcing the speeches. I think it was around 12:00 at this point. We sat down and made sure to have something in our toasting flutes (water in mine, soda in jim’s).

Our toasting flutes

The DJ announced that Matt and Lisa would be giving their speeches. The coordinator had asked me who would be giving speeches, that’s a hard one to answer… you don’t want to just assume that certain people have nice things to say about you, and you don’t want to say “hey Matt, give us a speech!” But I figured.. okay Matt’s the best man he should give a speech…” I knew my maid of honor (my sister Jenny) wasn’t about to get up in front of everyone and give a speech though, so I had to guess that my other sister Lisa might (she’s the sister that isn’t embarrassed by anything).. and hey I had given a speech at her wedding so it was a fair assumption.. So anyway…

Jim’s bestman Matt gets up.. I notice he doesn’t have any notes or anything, so I was worried that it might have been a surprise to him that his name would be called. I asked jim later about it and he said he had told Matt that they would call his name during speech time.. so I guess he was trying to wing it.. matt started talking about how he met Jim when he was 3 years old.. and then kind of ran through a few anecdotes about their friendship together..

My sister Lisa came up and did her speech – she had it written down, whooh good, she was prepared lol. She started out mentioning something about how glad I was that the wedding had gotten here so she could go off atkins.. I didn’t want people to think now that the wedding was over I was going to just completely “let myself go” or anything though, so I remember saying “I’m going to go back on after the honeymoon!” or something…Her speech was sweet, she was comparing relationships to a day at a theme park.. I’ll have to wait to the video to remember the exact analogies, but I think it was like.. some times it’s full of excitement and fun like a ride on space mountain, other times it can test your patience and make you want to go home, etc.. I can’t remember exactly but it was cute.

Jim’s brother Chris completely surprised us as he got up and announced “I have a few things to say about Jim!”.. It was funny everyone in the room was jokingly pretending to be worried like “uhoh… no, please, really!” But he got up with his notes and made the sweetest, most heart warming speech I’d heard. It was such a surprise! I knew Chris was a sweet guy but I had no idea he was going to say anything or how good of a speech he was going to give. Chris talked about what a good brother Jim was and about how he only wished he would find someone that made him as happy as I made jim.. the whole thing was really sweet. A little while after the speech we looked over at Jim’s family’s table and saw Jim’s dad crying, like really crying.. I never thought Jim’s dad to be the type of guy to cry, I was so touched by it! I knew how Jim must have felt to see his dad crying, so I was really glad to see it, it was very sweet.

Jim looks like “I am pleased with what you are saying!”

 

[Mary626]

Before I knew it the dj came over and told us he would be calling us up for our first dance song in a few minutes Wow that was quick, everything was going by so fast. I was nervous about our first dance and wasn’t looking forward to having to dance in front of everyone…

I decided now would be a good time to use the bathroom before we got on the dance floor. I wasn’t sure how that was going to work with my wedding dress on. My mother and sister Jenny went with me, and I had my mom wait outside the bathroom door making so no-one else came in, and I completely stepped out of my wedding dress and petticoat. Then I got back into it and Jenny helped zip me up. Okay that wasn’t too hard. I was wondering how that was going to work!

When I was leaving the bathroom, a little girl of about five walking with her family pointed and said “LOOK DADDY! It’s a lady in a wedding dress!!” And her dad was like “Yeah she must be getting married today” or something. I smiled at them and the little girl kind of stared at me as they walked past us – it was really cute!

We go back in the room and sit down. Around 12:15, the DJ calls the guests up to watch us dance – I was pretty nervous about it, and was like “this should be interesting to watch”



Coming up another day.... the dance.. a suprise visit by some mice.. and more And the next installment will actually have GOOD quality photos in it, I promise!

 

[Jesussavedme]

First of all...Dang! You must have been exhausted with all of the wedding planning! You thought of EVERYthing and it was all perfect! Ariel's was so pretty, your cake was beautiful, loved the guestbook, the centerpieces, the champagne flutes, all of it.

Gracie as anime...very funny!

Jim on page 13, 1st picture...he looks like Bruce Springsteen!

What is YOUR prediction on your first child? Seems like everyone thinks you'll start your family right away. That's exciting!

YES you better post pictures of the honeymoon! And then we want baby shower, etc...!
It's like Mary & Jim's reality board, he he!


Thanks for taking the time to post all these. Do you work during the day? I'm guessing this gets time consuming for you, but we just love it! So don't stop!

Have a great day!

 

[Jesussavedme]

Page 15...Is Corey crying? He looks like he is sad or going to be sick!

 

[Mommy Poppins]

Again Mary, your trip report is awesome! Everything--especially the bride!--is absolutely beautiful!

Thanks so much for sharing your fairy tale wedding day with us!

 

[2BWEDDNDIS]

Mary-
wow this is so addicting, after an hour and a half im back to reality again. i am getting so excited for my own wedding in less than a month now. i am feeling a lot more relaxed about disney doing the wedding now (they were so nice coming to the rescue with your cake topper breaking), i keep worrying that maybe i am missing some details to tell my coordinator, but im sure no matter what everything will turn out beautiful just as yours did. and thanks for making me feel more at ease
congratulations mary!!

 

[poppinspal]

Okay I've been lurking around a bit but finally decided to comment. I LOVE your report. I'm not sure how or why I decided to read it but it's great. You were such a beautiful bride.

I love that I'm not the only one who knows what Shaun of the Dead is. Such a funny movie.

I have a question, not to take away from your wedding but Jim's father. It just hit me.... is that Barry Corbin as in the actor who is never without a cowboy hat?

 

[a*lil*bit*goofy]

i am in love! great report!!!!

 

[Octoberbeauty]

I have a question, not to take away from your wedding but Jim's father. It just hit me.... is that Barry Corbin as in the actor who is never without a cowboy hat?

I thought he looked familiar!! Found his webpage and he talks about his son Jim. Awww. :

 

[Beana9802]

I thought he looked familiar!! Found his webpage and he talks about his son Jim. Awww. :

Wait...Mary...your Father in Law is Maurice Minnifield? That is so cool!

By the way, absolutely beautiful idea for having a brunch. Is that what most dis weddings are? This was a great great great idea! Beauti-ous!

 

[Mary626]

Jesussavedme - Thank you again I don't know when we'll start planning for kids, I'm thinking maybe five years or so.. I'm entering a ph.d program this fall and it will probably take at least five years to complete, so right now I'm focusing on that! Since I'm about to enter school I'm not working at the moment. Jim and I are preparing to move back to michigan in a month (it is where I will be going to school), so I am trying to prepare for that, although I must admit I have been very lazy lately! I won't be able to be lazy for much longer though, so I am just going to enjoy the moment while I can

I don't think Corey was crying in that pic, I think he was just being silly.. i have a few pretty silly pics of him later on too.. A friend of ours had sent us a slideshow of his photos and me and jim were watching them.. we were like "aww there's the bouquet toss... there's us dancing... there's the cake..." and then randomly out of nowhere we see this picture...

and we couldnt' stop laughing for like ten minutes

Mommy poppins - thank you again so much!! YOU are the beautiful one from what i've seen of your pictures - they are gorgeous!! I can't wait to hear more about your trip!!

2BWEDDNDISNEY - I'm glad I could help put you at ease, yep Disney is REALLY good at what they do!! There were a lot of little behind-the-scenes things that I didn't even find out about until later.. Like my dad had forgotten to take a tag off of his suit, and the coordinator noticed it, radio'ed for a pair of scissors, and cut it off for him.. My mom just told me the other day that her corsage wouldn't stay on her outfit because it was made of silk, so they radio'ed for someone to come and turn it into a wristband for her to wear around her wrist. I'm sure there were a lot more stories like this that I haven't heard about yet!

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