What is the typical day range for a disney wedding?

[BelleandMeridaoftheball]

So I'm a writer ( for fun ), and I'm writing a story where the main characters get married at Disney world. How many days should I allocate for it? Welcome event, wedding, Dessert party. farewell brunch. Are there other potential events that I should add?

 

[fla4fun]

So I'm a writer ( for fun ), and I'm writing a story where the main characters get married at Disney world. How many days should I allocate for it? Welcome event, wedding, Dessert party. farewell brunch. Are there other potential events that I should add?

If your characters have enough money, anything is possible. Just because something isn’t listed as bookable in real life doesn’t mean your characters can’t do it, unless your writing is non-fiction. It is acceptable to use real life locations in a fictional way when writing a fictional story.

I think a romantic fireworks cruise would be nice . . .

 

[Karin1984]

I am sure you have found Carrie's (on here known as Lurkyloo) guidebook, website and podcasts in your search. That should give plenty options about what is possible.

I second the previous poster. Work from your character: what makes sense for their level of income. But also what do they like or not like? If you have a quiet homely couple, then an over the top 3 day wedding with all the bells and whistles does not make sense. And if you have an extremely extraverted couple with loads of friends and family, having a secluded beach wedding with 4 people is not making sense. You can book rides, characters, musicians, Cinderella's carriage, you can do all, or nothing.

Stories work best if the characters' decisions are logical. If you insist on writing a Disney wedding in your story, what kind of people want that? What has happened in the years/decades before that they want to get married at Disney? Motivations need to make sense.

And if you decide that the couple wants it all and going to book it all, who is going to pay? If one or both of the couple are born rich, that is going to change their entire backstory from if they were middle or lower class. What if only one of them is born rich, how does that influence their relationship?

If one or both have a well paying job, and pay for it themselves, then probably they worked hard to earn that success. Then they might be a little bit older, probanly dedicated to their study to get where they are in life.

When you know who your characters are, you know what kind of wedding will work for them.

 

[lurkyloo]

From interviewing 600+ couples on the Disney Wedding Podcast, I would say that people who can afford to have extra events around their Walt Disney World wedding generally have a welcome party or rehearsal dinner 1 or 2 days before the event—often this is a dessert party or a full dinner during fireworks.

Then they have the ceremony + reception and (instead of or sometimes in addition to the welcome party) they might have a dessert party in the evening on the wedding day. If they're using American Adventure Rotunda for the reception, they usually have a cocktail hour at Italy Isola during fireworks instead of adding a dessert party later.

And then occasionally couples will have a farewell brunch the following day (but, if your characters like to sleep, I'd advise against it!). So 3 or 4 days total.

Please don't hesitate to ask research questions about Disney weddings here. I recently tried to read a novel that began with a wedding at WDW, and I ended up tossing it aside in frustration after only a few pages due to the patronizing and frankly clueless depiction of a Disney wedding!

 

[BelleandMeridaoftheball]

From interviewing 600+ couples on the Disney Wedding Podcast, I would say that people who can afford to have extra events around their Walt Disney World wedding generally have a welcome party or rehearsal dinner 1 or 2 days before the event—often this is a dessert party or a full dinner during fireworks.

Then they have the ceremony + reception and (instead of or sometimes in addition to the welcome party) they might have a dessert party in the evening on the wedding day. If they're using American Adventure Rotunda for the reception, they usually have a cocktail hour at Italy Isola during fireworks instead of adding a dessert party later.

And then occasionally couples will have a farewell brunch the following day (but, if your characters like to sleep, I'd advise against it!). So 3 or 4 days total.

Please don't hesitate to ask research questions about Disney weddings here. I recently tried to read a novel that began with a wedding at WDW, and I ended up tossing it aside in frustration after only a few pages due to the patronizing and frankly clueless depiction of a Disney wedding!

I bought your guidebook because i at least wanted to portray it as accurately as I could write it without actually going through the process myself , the podcasts are a little less accesable to me as I'm hard of hearing, so sometimes it's hard to just have the audio!

 

[JCCalistri]

For my fiancé and I getting married this October our event is two days in total from a Welcome Party at Animal Kingdom to the actually wedding at Sea Breeze Point with fireworks the next day at Epcot. Most of our guests will come for three days but many like us are arriving three days before any event starts to deliver welcome bags etc and staying after to have fun.