When is it too late

[SuzeQ]

I'm planning a vow renewal for my parents and I think we are going to do an Escape but add the two hour reception dinner. The more we add I think we might be better off just doing a Wishes. Sorry, I guess I'm no help at all.

 

[FutureMrs.B]

You can add around 5 people to a Wishes wedding for around $500 (I would have to look it up to be exact). I think we had 21 guests. I suppose it seems weird but I didn't send out invitations until it was all confirmed as to who was coming. I wouldn't say I was rude but did tell my guests I needed to know if they were coming or not. The first guests I invited all came. There are others I would have like to have been there but it wasn't financially possible for most people. Maybe if I would have pursued it more others would have come down.

Maybe I shouldn't say but our lunch was 3 hours. Maybe because we spent so much they let us have hours. Maybe we paid extra for the 3rd hour. We had lunch at the Napa Room. 3 hours went by quickly between eating, hanging out on the observation deck and watching the caricature artists. I have two left feet so dancing didn't interest us thus I can't comment regarding the DJ. We could have had an IPOD hook up. We did have a Key West style guitarist at SBP and the Napa Room.

Do you already know the price for a DJ for 3 hours?

We (bride and groom) had a dance after the cake cutting at SBP. We danced with Mickey and Minnie too. I can't see why you couldn't do a father and daughter dance. We paid for the guitarist and he just kept playing while the guests took pictures with Mickey and Minnie. This is something I wanted but I would think we could have spent that time however we wanted. I wold think if we had the cake cutting at the Napa Room we could have danced with whoever we wanted. The time at SBP was limited because there was another wedding right after ours. I don't think being a Wishes wedding would have changed any of this.

We also had a dessert party which was a huge hit.

I am sure you can make it work. Have you talked to your planner about having a DJ at an Escape wedding? I stressed regarding $$ right up until the end. I was probably a planners worst nightmare as I just kept adding on.

If a Disney wedding and a DJ are at the top of your list I would say that to your planner.

Where are you planning to have the DJ?

About the $500 for adding more people I've seen on other boards here that they are no longer doing that. I haven't asked the planner yet. I feel like i've been driving him nuts going back and forth. He's been nothing but nice to me..and also I heard back from him today and he said that I could start out with wishes and than switch to escape or vice versa..so I guess we'll see. I feel like every other day I change my mind. But good news was that I was able to tentatively hold my date..yey!! Now i really gotta figure it out..haha

 

[Sarah84]

No, you cant switch from Wishes to Escape after the LOA, because then Disney would be losing money. The other way around is fine though! Thats what my consultant has said.

I thought that was probably the case, ah well I won't risk it.

 

[Sarah84]

About the $500 for adding more people I've seen on other boards here that they are no longer doing that. I haven't asked the planner yet. I feel like i've been driving him nuts going back and forth. He's been nothing but nice to me..and also I heard back from him today and he said that I could start out with wishes and than switch to escape or vice versa..so I guess we'll see. I feel like every other day I change my mind. But good news was that I was able to tentatively hold my date..yey!! Now i really gotta figure it out..haha

Umm you were told you can switch from Wishes to an Escape? arghh wish they would tell everyone the same thing, somebody else was told they couldn't
Was you told you'd loose the Wishes deposit money though?

yay for tentatively holding your date

 

[FutureMrs.B]

Umm you were told you can switch from Wishes to an Escape? arghh wish they would tell everyone the same thing, somebody else was told they couldn't
Was you told you'd loose the Wishes deposit money though?

yay for tentatively holding your date

Well technically I haven't given the deposit i think in Feb. is when i'll have to do that. He didn't say anything about that. "If you book a Wishes Wedding you can always switch to an Escape and vice versa. "

The only thing is I don't see why you'd lose the deposit. I mean at least for me if I do the escape I'm going to have so many add ons I wouldn't see why they couldn't just apply it.

 

[Sarah84]

Well technically I haven't given the deposit i think in Feb. is when i'll have to do that. He didn't say anything about that. "If you book a Wishes Wedding you can always switch to an Escape and vice versa. "

The only thing is I don't see why you'd lose the deposit. I mean at least for me if I do the escape I'm going to have so many add ons I wouldn't see why they couldn't just apply it.

Maybe you're able to switch until the contract is signed & deposit is paid then
Umm maybe I could call and see, there is a slight chance we could stretch to a Wishes but it's just slight atm and will also depend on the $$ rate against the £ and I wouldn't want to risk paying the deposit (how far out is it paid?) and then having to switch to an Escape and loosing what we have already paid. At the moment we're only thinking of spending around $8,500 with the Escape so less than Wishes minimum, but if you were spending more on the Escape than the Wishes min maybe then they would be happy to just switch it over without loosing anything.

 

[FutureMrs.B]

Maybe you're able to switch until the contract is signed & deposit is paid then
Umm maybe I could call and see, there is a slight chance we could stretch to a Wishes but it's just slight atm and will also depend on the $$ rate against the £ and I wouldn't want to risk paying the deposit (how far out is it paid?) and then having to switch to an Escape and loosing what we have already paid. At the moment we're only thinking of spending around $8,500 with the Escape so less than Wishes minimum, but if you were spending more on the Escape than the Wishes min maybe then they would be happy to just switch it over without loosing anything.

You might be right. I guess it might be up to I sign the contract. He knows we were going with wishes but than we keep going back and forth. So I guess I can keep doing that until it comes time to sign. Hopefully i'll be able to make up my mind soon.