WDW/DCL Western Caribbean Honeymoon Extravaganza!! 7/19-8/1 PTR

[Jennifer48]

That tank is soooooo cute! May I ask where you ordered it from?

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

That tank is soooooo cute! May I ask where you ordered it from?

disneystore.com!!!

 

[my3m]

Hi Nikki,

Looks like you will be in the same sailing as I am. We are having FE and DIS Meet. Visit us in the DISMeets and let us know if you wanna join in...

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Hi Nikki,

Looks like you will be in the same sailing as I am. We are having FE and DIS Meet. Visit us in the DISMeets and let us know if you wanna join in...

Thanks!!! I actually was posting on that thread in the beginning but didn't know about participating in the FE. I really don't need another thing to remember to do before the wedding/honeymoon!! I just feel so swamped right now!

But I'm still following the thread, I didn't know there was going to be a DIS Meet onboard! I'd might be interested in that but it's my first cruise so I don't really know how things are going to go and where I'm going to be or what I'm going to be doing so I don't want to commit to anything, ya know what I mean?? I appreciate you including me!!

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Okay! Got my Mickey Mail the other day, sooo exciting!! Now that school is out, I have lists and lists of things to do!! Well yesterday's plan was to go shopping with my sister and niece to get shoes for her for the wedding! The shoe part was unsuccessful but any excuse to see "that baby" (as we call her) is a good thing! Here are some pictures of her. She turns a year old on July 9th, where has the time gone!? These are from about a month or so ago. She already looks so different. But isn't she just the cutest!!!

I love this one because since she was born, I've been called "Aunt Paparazzi" for taking so many pictures of her. This is such a paparazzi, "don't take my picture" shot!!

So today I was busy busy busy!! I had a long list and accomplished almost all of it. The only things I didn't do was go to the bank, call the baker and call the priest...eh, I'll do it Monday....

But I did....call the DJ, print pictures, erase memory cards, cleaned out closets, brought old clothes/towels to good will, wrote thank you notes from my shower gifts, made an appoinment for a pre-wedding waxing (ouch!) and bought an overdue christening card. phew.

On top of all that...I went shopping for the vacation!!!!!!!! Not clothes and fun stuff, like I've been doing the past year but the essentials, which was still king of fun! So here's what I got...underwear, t-shirts for Tom, toothbrushes, AA batteries, video camera tapes (yes, I'm old school), wet wipes, shower poof, deodorant, sunscreen, chapstick, razors, hairties, foot powder and dramamine!

Now I have two giant bags in my living room...one filled with wedding stuff and the other filled with honeymoon stuff.

Lastly...tomorrow is my bachelorette party! Because I'm not the "drunken party all night long, dance club, male strippers and cakes in the shape of a part of the male anatomy" type of girl, we are going to Great Adventure!! Sounds awesome right?? Well apparently, not to my "friends" all of whom "can't go." So...it's just going to be me, my sister and my other two bridesmaids, which I'd kind of almost rather! Too many people always make it difficult to make decisions. So I'll have pictures and updates from that soon!!

Soooo close now!!

 

[anetnmike]

your niece IS darling! have a great time at your party!

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

So yesterday was the big day at Six Flags Great Adventure!! It was fun, but it was NOT disney!! I took a picture with Robin (of Batman and Robin) and then he asked me what time it was. Can you imagine Aladdin asking you the time? Then we past by, who I assume was the Riddler and some cat woman (not Catwoman, she was in some sort of tan leapard outfit) and they were BSing about people they work with or whatever. You would NEVER see anyone break character at Disney!! The bathrooms were disgusting, we had to pay $25 for a "Flash Pass" and we waited 30 mins on the entrance line, which were so poorly organized, people were just squeezing in around us. Oh AND, my, almost 1 year old, niece came with and she wasn't allowed to ride ANYTHING because she can't walk yet, which apparently is a requirment. I mean, even the carousel, which, if she could walk or not, my sister was going to hold her up on the horse. Oh well....here are some pics!

My niece's very first character picture

Me with Robin and Green Lantern...I'm not sure I like where GL's eyes are...

My two bridesmaids with my niece.

And us with the Great Adventure creepy man. Even our smiles look like we are kind of unsure about taking a picture with this weird looking costumed person...

 

[knewton64]

So yesterday was the big day at Six Flags Great Adventure!! It was fun, but it was NOT disney!! I took a picture with Robin (of Batman and Robin) and then he asked me what time it was. Can you imagine Aladdin asking you the time? Then we past by, who I assume was the Riddler and some cat woman (not Catwoman, she was in some sort of tan leapard outfit) and they were BSing about people they work with or whatever. You would NEVER see anyone break character at Disney!! The bathrooms were disgusting, we had to pay $25 for a "Flash Pass" and we waited 30 mins on the entrance line, which were so poorly organized, people were just squeezing in around us. Oh AND, my, almost 1 year old, niece came with and she wasn't allowed to ride ANYTHING because she can't walk yet, which apparently is a requirment. I mean, even the carousel, which, if she could walk or not, my sister was going to hold her up on the horse. Oh well....here are some pics!

My niece's very first character picture

Me with Robin and Green Lantern...I'm not sure I like where GL's eyes are...

My two bridesmaids with my niece.

And us with the Great Adventure creepy man. Even our smiles look like we are kind of unsure about taking a picture with this weird looking costumed person...

....the "Creepy Man." Yikes! - put an ax in his hands during Halloween and he wud even give me a bad case of the "heebie - jeebies!"




p.s. have fun on your cruise!

 

[knewton64]

how was your trip??

details - details --- we wanna details!!!!!!.


cant wait - hope ya had fun.

 

[MagicMe]

how was your trip??

details - details --- we wanna details!!!!!!.


cant wait - hope ya had fun.

I don't think she's back until next Saturday. I believe they left yesterday on the cruise part of their Disneymoon.

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

HEY!! I'm back!!! We had an AWESEOME vacation and with a mini-trip planned for October, we didn't even feel too sad about coming home!!!

As soon as I can see my apartment again through all this laundry, I will start my official TR. I have over 1100 pictures over the past two weeks, and that doesn't even include pics from the wedding!! I also have 108 photopass pics that I need to go through and made the book and put in the order for that and the cd.

When I turned my phone back on after the cruise, I got a message from the wedding photographer that my pictures are ready to be picked up! I also want to transfer my vaca pics onto a CD asap because I have this fear that I'm going to somehow lose all my pictures...which are AWESEOME, by the way.

I have pics of almost every meal we've eaten, pics of me with all the Disers I met and of course, the famous "arm out" technique pics that I have mastered to get a pic of the both of us. I was even able to do some with some great backgrounds.

Okay, Big Brother After Dark is now on a three hour loop in my living room....time to get started. Be back (hopefully) soon with a link to a TR.

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Okay, okay, since my sister already has her pics from my wedding on snapfish, I can share some of those now! I'm concerned about the transition from PRE TR to actual TR so I will post some of them here to give you a little tease and then more in the actual TR!!

Okay, I woke up early on the 18th and I had surprisingly slept well. It was nice that my sister was in the bed with me and one of my bridesmaids was on the floor so we had some nice chit chat in the morning.

We needed to be at the hair place at 9:00 and the make-up place at 10. Here's me getting my hair done.

The smile was a little forced because we were running late on time. It was about 10:30 by the time we got to make up and the photographer was going to be at the house at noon. (That is what was going through my mind in this picture.)

I LOVED how my hair came out! It was so ME!

After makeup, we got back to the house a little after 12. The photographer was there but at that point, I was not concerned with us being late for her. SORRY! Can't please everyone today, just gotta go with whatever happens.

We all got dressed and the most adorable baby you've ever seen somehow was even cuter than ever! My niece, Emma, who just turned a year old on July 9th, was my flower girl.

Here is my sister with Emma.

By this time, I got dressed and the photographer was already starting to piss me off. After I had my dress on, she asked me to lay on the bed for a picture. Um, first of all, this is my mother's bed and why would I lay on a bed in my wedding dress?? Ohhhh, you're the artsy fartsy kind of photographer....sorry, but I'm not! I LOVE pictures, as you will see from the over 1100 I took on vacation, but I don't like made up pictures, I like "fun, in the moment, smile the camera" pictures.

So I told her, no I'm not laying on the bed. Strike 1 Doreen! She took a few pics going down the stairs and we got into the living room for family pics.

So I get next to my mom and she tells us to face each other and hold each others hands. Uhhhhhh....can't we just look at the camera and smile? I told her I was not comfortable with that. Strike 2 Doreen! By the time she told my mom to wrap her arms around me and hold me like she did when I was a baby, I lost it!!! I think my exact words were "YOU HAVE TO STOP!" I was very upset and had a shaky "I'm about to cry" voice. She sort of said, "Well I don't know what to do with you then" and I suggest "how about I look at the camera and smile."

I'm sure a lot of people LOVE her photoshoot style, feeling like a model for a day but I am NOT a model and don't want to play the role of a bride, I just want to be the bride that I am. Does that make sense?

So after the mini-freak out, she really did back off a lot and consulted with my bridesmaids on any shot she was unsure if I would go for or not.

If you want to see more pics from the wedding you HAVE to read my official TR!!!!!!!!!

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?p=32997549#post32997549

 

[anetnmike]

First of all... congratulations married girl!!!!!
You look beautiful in the few pictures up there- I can't wait to see the rest!
I am so excited that you had an awesome trip! Wedding plus Disney trip- just doesn't get any better than that!
Second of all- how did you keep from reaching over and throttling the photog? Is she kidding - lay down on the bed? In your gown? With your hair done? And the arms around you like a baby? Do people really do that kind of thing-seriously? It's been 12 years since I planned a wedding but I told the photog straight out- none of that crap! Point and shoot buddy!
Can't wait to hear and see more!!!

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

First of all... congratulations married girl!!!!!
You look beautiful in the few pictures up there- I can't wait to see the rest!
I am so excited that you had an awesome trip! Wedding plus Disney trip- just doesn't get any better than that!
Second of all- how did you keep from reaching over and throttling the photog? Is she kidding - lay down on the bed? In your gown? With your hair done? And the arms around you like a baby? Do people really do that kind of thing-seriously? It's been 12 years since I planned a wedding but I told the photog straight out- none of that crap! Point and shoot buddy!
Can't wait to hear and see more!!!

Yes! Ugh, I'm so glad you understand! It was like it was more about HER photography than MY wedding pictures, ya know what I mean?

 

[Jennifer48]

Oooh tease!! I'm heading over now!

 

[knewton64]

....can't wait for the tr.

mini trip for oct eh??? where?? WDW?

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

....can't wait for the tr.

mini trip for oct eh??? where?? WDW?

Link to the TR in my sig! WDW mini trip of course!!! Food and Wine, MNSSHP...lower crowds and temps than in July...sounds heavenly!