After all this time I am finally starting a planning journal! I found this board after I got engaged last January and I've been reading all your wonderful ideas since then. Now that I'm getting more & more into my planning, I'm more inspired to begin this journal. I hope you all enjoy reading it and for any of you new DIS brides I hope something in here can help you in your planning.
A Little History...
My DF and I met in high school in band. We started dating in January of 1997. DF is actually the reason I love Disney World. He had been many times growing up and I had never been. When I graduated college in 2002 I wanted us to go somewhere special to celebrate. As per his suggestion, we went to Disney World!!! It only took that one time and I was completely hooked. We stayed at the Contemporary and had a view of the MK - it was great!!
This past January (2007) we celebrated our 10-year anniversary (of being together) and our engagement in WDW! 2 days before our actual anniversary (which was the day we left for WDW) I was trying on clothes while I packed. He came into the room and I asked him if he thought I could get away with wearing white pants in January and that's when he proposed! I was totally surprised and excited!
It was very sweet and special and since he did it before we left, it turned our trip into an engagment celebration! The picture of us with Pooh in my signature is from that trip.
Because we loved Disney so much we had already talked about having our wedding in Disney once we got engaged so our family knew it was coming.
The Wedding
We decided October would be a good month and we wanted October 17, 2008. We got October 18, 2008 which isn't a big deal since it's just the next day. Our ceremony will be at 7:30pm in the Wedding Pavilion. We'll have the cocktail hour on the Italy Isola from 8:30 to 9:30pm to watch Illuminations and the reception in the American Rotunda from 9:30pm to 1:30am. We are inviting 180+ guests but hoping for 120. We each have 9 attendants 2 MOHs/Best Men and 7 Bridesmaids/Groomsmen.
We went to Disney this past October (25th - 29th) for a site visit and met with Pam Pearce. I'll post pictures from that visit shortly. She's so awesome! I wish I could keep her throughout this whole process. I just sent my room block in last week and I'm patiently waiting for my contract. I feel like I may be a little behind especially from reading some of the other planning journals so I may need to get on the ball here!
I did send newsletters to all my guests this week with information on the hotels we're blocking (Contemporary, Yacht, Port Orleans - Riverside, and All Star Music) and tickets. I wanted them to have some information before the Save the Dates were sent so they wouldn't totally be confused as to where to stay.
Hopefully I'll get the contract this week and hopefully my guests will get their Save the Dates by the end of this month. I plan on trying on dresses this month as well - I haven't even done that yet! Bear with me!!