disneyheaven
Made all our dreams come true at our Disney Weddin
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- Oct 13, 2005
Hi everyone!!!
Well, it's official...My sweetie and I are married!!!!
Our Disney wedding was what wedding dreams are made of (well alright, we had our bumps in the road on the big day - I will let you know all about the limo, or lack there of, later in the report 
) But besides the unexpected occurances that happen on everyones wedding day, it was absolutly magical. I cannot even begin to tell you the feeling I had as I stood beside the love of my life up on the alter of the Wedding Pavilion, looking out at Cinderella's Castle across the lagoon about to say my wedding vows. It was a moment in my life that I will never soon forget. It was worth every penny, every effort, and every pain-in-the-neck hastle of planning a destination wedding!! 
I have so much to tell (but I dont know if I can post pictures yet, or if I know how) so I will do the best I can to tell our story.
Here is goes: Thursday, August 17th, 2006
We had been looking forward to this day for almost 2 years now. That wonderful day, August 17th. Everytime I made an itinerary, it started with August 17th. Everytime I talked about my trip and when I was leaving, it started with August 17th. Everytime I got stressed at work, over the little things in life, I would say to myself, "It's ok! I am leaving for our Disney wedding and honeymoon on August 17th! I can handle this!" It was one of those mysterious dates in life that felt like it would never ever arrive.....and then one day...just when you least expect it....it does! Ready or not, packed or not, it came! It was such a surreal feeling when the day finially arrived!! The day started..umm...let me see...when was it again?! Oh right 3 IN THE MORNING! Ohh no....we were not up that early because of an early flight, no no no. I remember rolling over at 3am and Mark was looking at me through the dark with these big, sad, puppy dog eyes. In my half asleep, groggy voice, I uttered, "Oh my god what's wrong?" My poor baby answered, "I think I have an ear infection" Now for a normal guy, this would be no real big deal...but you have to understand Mark. He was born with terrible terrible ear problems. He spent the first 2-3 years of his life almost deaf. When he was a toddler, he had to go to speach because he never learned to talk properly because of all his hearing problems. Thankfully, the problem never lead to anything serious, and with the exception of the occassional, "Heh? What'd ya say??" and the pain of flying, he is a-ok!
So whenever I rolled over and heard him say something about an ear infection, I knew we had to take care of this ASAP! We got right up, threw on some clothes, and headed to the emergency room. We were the only ones there, so we were seen immediatly! (Helps to have medical problems in the middle of the night! None of this mid-day stuff! You get terrible service that way! Hahahahha 
) So after a quick look in Mark's ear, the doctor confirmed that he had a massive ear infection in his left ear. The doctors words of reassurance..."Well, it is definatly an ear infection. I know it hurts, especially with your past of ear troubles, but hey just think. At least your not flying on a plane anytime soon! Now that would hurt!" To which Mark and I looked at each other, laughed, and said, "Umm...we will be on a plane in 12 hours" The doctor's response? "Ha! Good luck!" So, here we were, now about 4:30am, leaving for our Disney wedding in a matter of hours, at the local 24 hour CVS picking up loads and loads of antibiotics, drops, etc to help make this flight as peaceful as possible for the groom-to-be. And as a worried bride-to-be, I couldn't help but think, "Oh man...is this a sign of things to come?" I guess we would see 
More to come soon!! It is going to take me a bit of time to get through this report because I teach first grade and school started this week but I will update when I can. I know how much fun I had reading everyone elses's trip reports so I definatly want to do my share to help all those future brides!! 
Much love to you all!
Well, it's official...My sweetie and I are married!!!!
Our Disney wedding was what wedding dreams are made of (well alright, we had our bumps in the road on the big day - I will let you know all about the limo, or lack there of, later in the report ) But besides the unexpected occurances that happen on everyones wedding day, it was absolutly magical. I cannot even begin to tell you the feeling I had as I stood beside the love of my life up on the alter of the Wedding Pavilion, looking out at Cinderella's Castle across the lagoon about to say my wedding vows. It was a moment in my life that I will never soon forget. It was worth every penny, every effort, and every pain-in-the-neck hastle of planning a destination wedding!! I have so much to tell (but I dont know if I can post pictures yet, or if I know how) so I will do the best I can to tell our story.Here is goes: Thursday, August 17th, 2006
We had been looking forward to this day for almost 2 years now. That wonderful day, August 17th. Everytime I made an itinerary, it started with August 17th. Everytime I talked about my trip and when I was leaving, it started with August 17th. Everytime I got stressed at work, over the little things in life, I would say to myself, "It's ok! I am leaving for our Disney wedding and honeymoon on August 17th! I can handle this!" It was one of those mysterious dates in life that felt like it would never ever arrive.....and then one day...just when you least expect it....it does! Ready or not, packed or not, it came! It was such a surreal feeling when the day finially arrived!! The day started..umm...let me see...when was it again?! Oh right 3 IN THE MORNING! Ohh no....we were not up that early because of an early flight, no no no. I remember rolling over at 3am and Mark was looking at me through the dark with these big, sad, puppy dog eyes. In my half asleep, groggy voice, I uttered, "Oh my god what's wrong?" My poor baby answered, "I think I have an ear infection" Now for a normal guy, this would be no real big deal...but you have to understand Mark. He was born with terrible terrible ear problems. He spent the first 2-3 years of his life almost deaf. When he was a toddler, he had to go to speach because he never learned to talk properly because of all his hearing problems. Thankfully, the problem never lead to anything serious, and with the exception of the occassional, "Heh? What'd ya say??" and the pain of flying, he is a-ok!
So whenever I rolled over and heard him say something about an ear infection, I knew we had to take care of this ASAP! We got right up, threw on some clothes, and headed to the emergency room. We were the only ones there, so we were seen immediatly! (Helps to have medical problems in the middle of the night! None of this mid-day stuff! You get terrible service that way! Hahahahha ) So after a quick look in Mark's ear, the doctor confirmed that he had a massive ear infection in his left ear. The doctors words of reassurance..."Well, it is definatly an ear infection. I know it hurts, especially with your past of ear troubles, but hey just think. At least your not flying on a plane anytime soon! Now that would hurt!" To which Mark and I looked at each other, laughed, and said, "Umm...we will be on a plane in 12 hours" The doctor's response? "Ha! Good luck!" So, here we were, now about 4:30am, leaving for our Disney wedding in a matter of hours, at the local 24 hour CVS picking up loads and loads of antibiotics, drops, etc to help make this flight as peaceful as possible for the groom-to-be. And as a worried bride-to-be, I couldn't help but think, "Oh man...is this a sign of things to come?" I guess we would see More to come soon!! It is going to take me a bit of time to get through this report because I teach first grade and school started this week but I will update when I can. I know how much fun I had reading everyone elses's trip reports so I definatly want to do my share to help all those future brides!! Much love to you all!
I began writing my trip report from my wedding last summer in September of 06'. I wrote 1 entry, and never ever returned to it! Shame! Shame! Shame! It has been on my list of things to do for the last year of my life! Everytime I had a break from school, I would say, Ok, I am going to work on my TR...and sure enough Christmas vacation, Feb. vacation, and April vacation have all pass me by! BUT...as my one year anniversary is fast approaching (August 21st) I am determined to continue and finish my Disney Wedding Trip Report! 
Reading other TR have brought me so much joy, as I was planning my wedding and even now as my wedding has long since passed. I think it is so amazing that we have a place to come and share our ideas, thoughts, concerns, and successes. 
as well as my ability to now post pictures which I didn't know how to do before 
I was bummed so he helped me find a way to make it work. He had an old Red Sox hat (we are from Boston and are huge fans!) so we carefully took the ears off the Top Hat and stapled them onto his Red Sox hat! Wha-la! He looked fantastic!) 
Ok, I heard every joke in the book for this one! "Oh, Sarah, you bought your dress its' own seat??" "Sarah, did your dress splurge for first class?" "Do you think your dress will argue with you or Mark for the window seat?" Hahaha!! 
I was afraid the bag would catch on something and it would pull my dress into the machine somehow! Thankfully, nothing happened so we headed to our terminal. We were STARVING so we stopped to get a quick lunch. After, we sat down and started talking about our trip. We were just so overcome with excitement. I think I cried once or twice, just realizing that it was really really happening! Here are some pics of us just enjoying the airport as we wait for boarding:
The poor thing, I don't think he was a good flyer and sick in the first place, so the employees made the decision to have him exit the plane and wait for him to feel better and take another flight. My heart went out to him, but I was quite relieved we hadn't had him next to us. The smell of someone getting sick would have made me sick. After a 20 minute delay (they had to clean up the sick man's mess) we were finially being taxied out onto the runway! I was sooooo excited 
and Mark was sooo nervous 
He was afraid that during lift-off his ears would pop right off his head. Thankfully, he had a very smooth take off and landing and he did a-ok with his ears! 
It took a bit for our planes luggage to start coming around the conveyor belt. Our luggage must have been put on the plane towards the end because our bags were one of the first to down down the shoot. After we gathered our stuff, we headed out the doors of the airport to where our towncar was awaiting us! And ohhh!! We smelt that Disney air! It was fantastic! A wave of excitement flooded my body! We were really here!! The man helped us get my dress in the front seat of the car, while Mark and I got settled in the back. He started the car, and we were off! 
We just love it!! The Polynesian would normally never be in our budget. We are a "moderate" sort of couple. We love the middle priced resorts, as they offer enough ammedities without being overcrowded or too expensive. (course, we loved staying at all All-Star as well! How can you beat $79 a night to be in Disney!) Anyhow, we felt very lucky and fortunate that we were able to splurge for the Polynesian for our 10 night stay. The annual passes with the Disney Wedding discount certainly helped as well. We pulled up to the Poly and as we got out, we were greeted with pretty silk flower leis from the Poly staff and lots of help with our stuff, as our hands were quite full! The guys outside told us they would hold our stuff while we went to check in. We walked into the lobby (love that lobby! 
) and went to the check-in counter. We had a very nice man help us get situated. He told us what building we would be staying in, and gave us our room keys. I was excited when I saw my soon-to-be married name on my card! Yipee!!!
It was, though, the HUGE delivery box we had sent a few weeks ago with all our rehearsal dinner gifts, cards, wrappings, etc inside. I was just as happy to see that! The guy called for someone to come and help us with all our stuff. We walked out of the lobby and there was a golf cart waiting with all our luggage and my dress. They helped us put the box in the cart, and we were off! We had payed for a lagoon view, with a special request for a castle view that was put in by our wedding planner. When we finially arrived at our room, we were pretty happy. We werent directly on the lagoon, but our room was very private and we did have a nice view of that INCREDIBLE castle!! By this time, it was almost 8pm and getting pretty dark. We wanted to head to the Magic Kingdom just to walk around and maybe do a ride or two. I had just enough time to take a quick picture or two of our room and our view, and then we were off to the Magic Kindom.
Don't ask me why I took this one!
We had activated our annuel passes previously that year. Mark had suprised me with a long weekend trip to Disney in January (7 months before our wedding day) to do a cake testing and have some fun in Disney together before the big big trip! He knew I was feeling kinda down because MOST of the planning had to be done over the phone and email (and I am a very hands-on person) so he wanted to provide me with in-person planning! That is why he is the most incredible person in the world! So that Christmas, he suprised me with the news that he had booked a weekend trip to Disney! 
(that is my FAVORITE ride in all the world) and at POTC 
(Mark's FAVORITE ride in all the world). We had had a very long day and knew we had an early morning ahead of us (with most of our family and friends coming in the next 2 days) so we headed home and went to bed. (but not after watching an INCREDIBLE showing of Wishes! that we saw from our bed!) It was going to be an amazing vacation!
) Mark and I always joke. You know the line from "A League of their Own" when Tom Hanks says to the girls, "There's no CRYING! There's no CRYING in BASEBALL!" Well, we change that line to "There's no Sleeping! There's no SLEEPING in DISNEY!" 
