Jackie-ella093015
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2017
Looking for some thoughts and advice!
We thought that the price increases would price us out of the "mini-wishes" DFTW we were "planning", but after crunching the new numbers in Passporter, it looks like it a Wishes wedding is still in the cards for us!
What has changed: We are going from "planning" a late-January 2019 wedding to an early December 2019 wedding, we think and are looking to request SBP instead of the WP. Why? To save more $$$ prior to the big day and to cut ceremony fee costs.
Our thoughts: We think January/February of 2019 is just a bit early ($$$ wise), and all of my research is pointing to staying away from March-October (flight/resort prices, hurricane season, Halloween decor, general crowdedness of WDW and the resorts all are factors). Our families are coming from Oregon, Illinois, and North Carolina and DF and I are coming from Arizona. We are both more familiar with Disneyland, and neither of us have visited WDW in December.
We are currently leaning toward an early December date, but are open to early November...or possibly late-January of 2020. We have read about some December blackout dates affecting DP availability in Epcot and MK photo shoot availability.... (both are HUGE reasons why we are "planning" a DFTW).
Looking for thoughts and opinions regarding some challenges to having an early December wedding, pros and cons we may not be considering to November 2019 or January 2020, any thoughts about March-October, and any other thoughts/ideas you have to offer.
We know we have tons of time to decide...but since we were almost ready to make our first call to Disney when the new pricing was announced...we are just still in "planning" mode. Any thoughts you have will be helpful for us! Thank you!
We thought that the price increases would price us out of the "mini-wishes" DFTW we were "planning", but after crunching the new numbers in Passporter, it looks like it a Wishes wedding is still in the cards for us!
What has changed: We are going from "planning" a late-January 2019 wedding to an early December 2019 wedding, we think and are looking to request SBP instead of the WP. Why? To save more $$$ prior to the big day and to cut ceremony fee costs.
Our thoughts: We think January/February of 2019 is just a bit early ($$$ wise), and all of my research is pointing to staying away from March-October (flight/resort prices, hurricane season, Halloween decor, general crowdedness of WDW and the resorts all are factors). Our families are coming from Oregon, Illinois, and North Carolina and DF and I are coming from Arizona. We are both more familiar with Disneyland, and neither of us have visited WDW in December.
We are currently leaning toward an early December date, but are open to early November...or possibly late-January of 2020. We have read about some December blackout dates affecting DP availability in Epcot and MK photo shoot availability.... (both are HUGE reasons why we are "planning" a DFTW).
Looking for thoughts and opinions regarding some challenges to having an early December wedding, pros and cons we may not be considering to November 2019 or January 2020, any thoughts about March-October, and any other thoughts/ideas you have to offer.
We know we have tons of time to decide...but since we were almost ready to make our first call to Disney when the new pricing was announced...we are just still in "planning" mode. Any thoughts you have will be helpful for us! Thank you!