Vanessa- figmentfan814 ~ Happily Ever Wedding & 10th Anniversary VR Brunch #1 Added 8-10

[keenercam]

Vanessa-- Everything was so beautiful! Thank you for sharing your vows with us. They seem so perfect for you and Kris. Oh and Howard and I used "The Wedding Song" at our wedding in 1984. I think the words are beautiful.

 

[DisneyLaura]

Yeah you're married. Everything "sounds" great. I think the guys looked nice standing that way.

 

[figmentfan814]

Aww I loved your vows! I did watch your video, I think on Stan's site? It was so cute!!

Yes, our sneak peek video is still up on his site. The final video is out of this world, he did a rushed version for our reception and is now finishing some of the add-ons like our credits

What a lovely ceremony Vanessa!!! everything was beautiful,your vows and readings,amazing

Thank you, Lynn, we went pretty traditional with everything and I’m really happy with how it came out. I remember at one point during the planning Kris asked me we don’t have to write our own vows do we? There was this look of fright on his face. Thankfully for him, I just wanted to go the traditional route

So beautiful! Great pics, beautiful ceremony, and a fabulous Bride & Groom!

Such a beautiful ceremony for such a beautiful couple! Congrats again, and I can't wait to read more!

What a beautiful ceremony!!!

Beautiful!

Thanks everyone, it was so amazing to see everything come together. The day just gets better with the reception and dessert party

We're playing The Wedding Song during our sand ceremony too! I thought it might be a nice nod to my parents because they used the song in their ceremony (my parents renewed their vows when I was little, so I could see them get married).

I was worried about the time too... I'm thinking I might have people do the sign of peace or something to try and pass the time.

The ceremony was beautiful!

My mom had always planned to use that song for a vow renewal and it just never happened; they will be celebrating their 30th anniversary this November, so I thought I would incorporate it instead. We played through the end of the chorus after the first verse and that timing worked out okay. It seemed to flow pretty good. I’ll see if I can post a clip of that for you.

Such a beautiful ceremony!! HOw does your sand vase look now?? Dh and I did a trial run when i was looking at colors, and I poured much faster than he did too! It looks so uneven! He said life isn't perfect, so the sand shouldn't be either.

After traveling back from Florida it is thoroughly mixed up. I have a picture from our at-home reception that I’ll have to upload. We even put some packing material inside the jar to try to keep things from moving too much, but it didn’t really do any good, so I wouldn’t worry about being uneven it ends up all mixed in the end

That's awesome

How true, with ours now that it is so mixed you wouldn’t be able to separate it just like our reading said during the ceremony.

Vanessa-- Everything was so beautiful! Thank you for sharing your vows with us. They seem so perfect for you and Kris. Oh and Howard and I used "The Wedding Song" at our wedding in 1984. I think the words are beautiful.

Awe, that’s so neat how you and Howard used the same song. We really struggle trying to decide on our musical selections and when I remembered this song I knew I had to use it

Yeah you're married. Everything "sounds" great. I think the guys looked nice standing that way.

That’s so funny I know some people prefer a more relaxed stance, but to get that many guys standing at attention is a feat in itself

 

[padisneyfour]

Vanessa-- Everything was so beautiful! Thank you for sharing your vows with us. They seem so perfect for you and Kris. Oh and Howard and I used "The Wedding Song" at our wedding in 1984. I think the words are beautiful.

Hey, Vanessa and Cam We used it at our wedding as well! It is a beautiful song imo. Vanessa your wedding was beautiful! best wishes for a long and happy life together!

 

[Flurbee]

Vanessa,

What a beautiful wedding!!! I love that song too!!! I am seriously considering using it during our vow renewal.....I might have my friend sing it though....was there any kind of fee to have someone not from Disney do a special song?? I am considering having my one friend sing and my other friend accompany him on the guitar....

 

[alissa2008]

I love how the bridesmaids dresses matched the groomsmen's flowers! And your bouquet to boot! Very nice!!

 

[DisneyMissy318]

Vanessa - everything you did for your wedding was absolutely gorgeous! I *kinda* wish I had mine to do over again! Your attention to the smallest details - just amazing! I've made it through your planning journal and now the wedding report - wanted to post so I would know when you updated!

Just wonderful! Thanks for taking the time to share the details of your special day with your Dis friends!

 

[figmentfan814]

Vanessa,

What a beautiful wedding!!! I love that song too!!! I am seriously considering using it during our vow renewal.....I might have my friend sing it though....was there any kind of fee to have someone not from Disney do a special song?? I am considering having my one friend sing and my other friend accompany him on the guitar....

It really was such a great song, I'm glad that we went with it

For the singer, our friend was listed as a guest soloist on our BEO. As long as it is a family member or friend doing it you don't have to pay a fee. The only time you pay that outside entertainer fee is if you are paying someone to come in for your wedding.

 

[figmentfan814]

Vanessa - everything you did for your wedding was absolutely gorgeous! I *kinda* wish I had mine to do over again! Your attention to the smallest details - just amazing! I've made it through your planning journal and now the wedding report - wanted to post so I would know when you updated!

Just wonderful! Thanks for taking the time to share the details of your special day with your Dis friends!

It's funny because I think the same thing. I keep seeing all these great ideas for new things that we could've done. I guess there's always a vow renewal

Thank you for following along on my report; I'm glad you're enjoying it

I love how the bridesmaids dresses matched the groomsmen's flowers! And your bouquet to boot! Very nice!!

I know, I loved how the flowers came together. I just got an email yesterday, my bouquet was shipped from Keepsake I can't wait to see how the preservation turned out!

 

[dizneyfreak]

Vanessa,
Your wedding was absolutely beautiful! Brad and I had part of the same reading that you did...the love is patient, love is kind one...that is my favorite verse in the Bible. I am soooooooooooooo excited now! Wanna know why? Now I finally get to see your reception that I was so disappointed I missed seeing while my Mom and I were at Disney! Woohoo! I'll be waiting! Oh, and BTW, you will definietly have to help me with the vow renewal. We will have such a good time planning and crafting together.

Anna Marie

 

[dizneyfreak]

I forgot to mention in my last post that I didn't get a PM from you with the info. for the STVS preview. I don't know if you forgot or it just didn't come through, but I wanted to let you know. Thanks!

Anna Marie

 

[figmentfan814]

Vanessa,
Your wedding was absolutely beautiful! Brad and I had part of the same reading that you did...the love is patient, love is kind one...that is my favorite verse in the Bible. I am soooooooooooooo excited now! Wanna know why? Now I finally get to see your reception that I was so disappointed I missed seeing while my Mom and I were at Disney! Woohoo! I'll be waiting! Oh, and BTW, you will definietly have to help me with the vow renewal. We will have such a good time planning and crafting together.

Anna Marie

Definitely sounds like a plan So, do you think you would ever get Brad to go for a vow renewal? I think Kris might do it, but I'm better it would have to be at 25 years.

I am getting excited to get through the reception too. It's hard to believe that I'm not even halfway through the wedding day yet between the reception and dessert party

Sorry about the info for Stan; I'll PM you right now.

 

[lov2b@disney]

Hi Vanessa! Just caught up with your TR! your ceremony was beautiful! Absolutely gorgeous! I was glad to see some early pix before we left since AAR was our rain backup= we did not need it but if we had I can now see how beautiful things still would have been! I am definately very pleased with out choice to have our ceremony in Epcot-it was fabulous!
I thought of you several times- we did a picture or 2... by AAR the morning of the wedding and again when we rode Figment for the 1st time! We love EPCOT but had never rode it We enjoyed it, FIgment is very cute-I see why you like him!

Keep it coming!

 

[figmentfan814]

Vanessa - Here are some photos from our honeymoon in Hawaii. I don't know what happened when I scanned them but there is a big space in between pictures. I tried to fix them in photobucket but couldn't sorry.

this is one when we were in Maui, there was a path to walk along the beach from each hotel.

This vase was in our hotel lobby in Oahu. I thought it was beautiful so I told DH to stand next to it so you can see how big it was.

This was our hotel in Oahu

Laura~ I was looking through my TR for something and realized that I missed these pictures before. Your hotel was right next to the one that we stayed at in Oahu on Waikiki Beach, how cool, what a coincidence

 

[figmentfan814]

Hi Vanessa! Just caught up with your TR! your ceremony was beautiful! Absolutely gorgeous! I was glad to see some early pix before we left since AAR was our rain backup= we did not need it but if we had I can now see how beautiful things still would have been! I am definately very pleased with out choice to have our ceremony in Epcot-it was fabulous!
I thought of you several times- we did a picture or 2... by AAR the morning of the wedding and again when we rode Figment for the 1st time! We love EPCOT but had never rode it We enjoyed it, FIgment is very cute-I see why you like him!

Keep it coming!

Sandy~ Thanks for getting caught up so far and for thinking of me on your trip to Disney It's good to hear that your wedding was fantastic! I can't wait to see pictures!

I'm glad you had a chance to ride Figment; if only you would have had the chance to ride the original, oh how I miss the Dreamfinder The ride always takes me back to my childhood.

 

[dizneyfreak]

Vanessa,
So I just watched the sneak peak video again...and yes of course I cried again! It was so beautiful...I so wish I would have been able to see at least the reception. Dummy me, loosing track of dates when I get all excited about visiting the world.
I agree about the old Journey Into the Imagination Ride. I miss the Dreamfinder too, but at least they put Figment back into the ride. I was so ticked when they took him out completely. I have a feeling that too many people complained and Disney had to bring him back.
As for the 5 year vow renewal...I think I have a chance because all of our guests asked us if we would have one in 5 years so they could come back and play with us again. Only time will tell...

Anna Marie

 

[Jennifer48]

Vanessa,

I just finished reading through your whole TR. Thank you for sharing your wonderful day! You are a beautiful bride and all your little touches were fabulous!

Jennifer

 

[figmentfan814]

Vanessa,
So I just watched the sneak peak video again...and yes of course I cried again! It was so beautiful...I so wish I would have been able to see at least the reception. Dummy me, loosing track of dates when I get all excited about visiting the world.
I agree about the old Journey Into the Imagination Ride. I miss the Dreamfinder too, but at least they put Figment back into the ride. I was so ticked when they took him out completely. I have a feeling that too many people complained and Disney had to bring him back.
As for the 5 year vow renewal...I think I have a chance because all of our guests asked us if we would have one in 5 years so they could come back and play with us again. Only time will tell...

Anna Marie

I'm so glad you liked the video; I'm trying to figure out a way to upload a longer version online.

I was so upset when they removed Figment too; I filed a complaint with guest relations So, thankfully he was brought back

We've already had requests for a renewal too, although our guests are willing to wait a little longer; they mentioned a 10 year one! I guess Kris and I will have to be guests at your 5 year

Vanessa,

I just finished reading through your whole TR. Thank you for sharing your wonderful day! You are a beautiful bride and all your little touches were fabulous!

Jennifer

Thank you, Jennifer, I know it's pretty long, so I appreciate that you took the time to read through the entire thing! I hope you keep reading because there is still a lot more to come!

 

[figmentfan814]

Here are some shots of everyone else as they were exiting.

It worked out perfect with Kris’ cousin as the extra groomsman to walk his mom out.

My parents are smiling here instead of crying, I think we were all relieved to have the wedding over, so we could have some fun!

Everything at that point was a whirlwind. I remember people from the wedding party and our parents giving us hugs and wishing us congratulations, but I don’t remember Kris and I really having a minute to talk. Oh well, I knew we would have a lifetime for each other! We really only all had a few seconds before we were all ushered back into the rotunda.

Marion had the guests stay put in their seats because we wanted to get a group shot looking up to the second floor and we were on a tight schedule for everyone to make it to the pre-reception that was to start at 10:30 a.m. For some reason we were told that we only had a few minutes left in the rotunda period, I think they needed time to clear the chairs, etc. before the opening of the park.

Here is one of the shots from the group photos. I love these pictures because they show everyone who was a part of our important day. Of course, with 52 people we don’t have any where everyone is looking, but it is still a great keepsake. It was actually so great to see this photo from Randy; it was touching to know that all these people cared enough about us to make the trip down to Florida to spend our wedding with us. For some of our guests it was a big sacrifice, so that made it all the more special.

Randy took a couple of shots and then Marion got everyone right out the door for our staged exit because we were starting to run behind on our schedule. She was so great at keeping track of everything!

I really wanted something different besides bubbles for our exit, but with an in-park ceremony our only options were bubbles or ribbon wands. I had originally wanted to go with the wands, but the cost was kind of high and we weren’t very successful in trying to track down the materials to do them ourselves. In the end, I settled for the Mickey bubbles. I bought them at Walmart and then personalized them with everyone’s name.

I had two baskets for the bubbles and we had them sorted by men in one and women in the other plus they were in alphabetical order. The plan was for the hostesses to hand them out by calling out names, etc. Since it got so rushed no one ended up with the right set for the exit. They all ended up exchanging them on the bus or at the pre-reception.

Actually, this was pretty easy to do and people really like it. I bought the Sharpie paint pens and it only took about 30 minutes to do all of them.

Here is a shot when I was doing them in case anyone is interested in getting these bubbles you can see the boxes in the picture. By the way if you want them and are having a small guest count send me a PM because I have a few extra boxes. I know Laura from Disney Floral said that these were licensed out to another company, so they are trying to get them as something that they can provide directly.

And our grand exit as the newly married couple!

Our guests were then quickly sent off to the buses to head to the Living Seas.

Before we headed off for our bridal party shots I told Randy that I wanted to have a few pictures inside the rotunda. Marion said that was fine, but we only had 5 minutes!

Our parents:

My grandma (she’s 85 and loves Disney; her first trip was in 2006 when a group of about 10 of us went down!)

There are quotes on the wall and one of Kris’ favorite authors is Ayn Rand, so we had to get this picture:

We ended up having enough time to get some individual shots with our parents and we also got some amazing shots of the two of us; I know I posted this already, but it is one of my favorites! Randy and Stan also had us do a reenactment of putting our rings on our fingers, so they could get close up shots too!

Up next we journey around the world… first up Japan!

 

[Jennifer48]

Cute bubbles! I've never seen those before. You have a great eye for all your details