Hello!
I've been lurking around DIS for months for my own Disney cruise wedding. I'm very thankful for all the advises and tips from so many Disney brides here on this forum. It really inspired me to start a PJ on my current plannings for my wedding.
I want to give my 2 cents to current and future Disney brides!
Where to begin? I guess from the moment where I started to plan my wedding before I was even engaged! Yes yes, I know, it sounds weird but really to us it wasn't. My fiance and I have been together for 8 years before we were engaged; 9 years now and still going strong!
So we always knew at that time that we were going to go the next step and join our lives together. We always wanted a winter wedding somewhere tropical. We thought it would be a nice escape from the harsh winter we can have in New York. We always talked about having a destination wedding for a while now and decided on a Disney cruise. Both of us are avid cruisers but never been on DCL. I always wanted too but DCL are always so much more expensive than the other cruise liners out there. I never justified spending so much on 1 DCL when I can go cruise with another liner for much less.
Anyways, since this would be a very special and memorable cruise, there was no doubt that we wanted it on DCL and on Castaway Cay.
This all started late last October 2012. I became obsessed with DCL wedding researches and DIS boards. I wanted to know the ins and outs before I even decide to make that call to ask about weddings packages. When I was finally ready to call and just inquire about some days that my then boyfriend have discussed about, I was horrified to find out that our ideal date/ week was already booked and most of the interiors were sold out. This was 13 months into when we wanted to be married. I started freaking out and calling him. Finally he said "find the next available date and book it". My jaw nearly dropped to the ground. Yes I was freaking out but I didn't actually think that he was serious about wanting to book so soon and at that have a set date. We weren't even engaged yet!
He just said, it's going to happen and I want it to happen. AH! So 13 months our we booked out cruise,7 night Western Caribbean Disney's Fantasy and our Castaway Cay wedding package.
After that surprised ordeal, I started to send out personal emails to people and family whom I wanted to join us on our cruise. It was a short little heads up e-mail about saving and booking for our impending cruise wedding. Boy, was everyone surprised and so happy for us. Made me smiled to hear all their happy responds.
Not too long before that, Eric and I had already planned a Florida (Universal Park) trip with our close friends. It was suppose to be a mini getaway for us. But guess what... Yep....
I knew it was going to be that weekend when we would be officially an engaged couple. Only because I have already found our photographer for the wedding and I have scheduled an appointment for our engagement shoot while we were in Florida for that mini vacation. Ha yes, I am doing everything backwards so far. But I was anxious! What a girl to do when I'm worried about things being booked up. I knew I wanted to hire a photographer to bring with us on the ship. More on the photographer a little later
What I didn't know or planned was how my fiance was going to propose to me. Funny thing was, I really thought that he was going to surprise while we were visiting Harry Potter at Universal. Don't know why but I thought it was fitting, haha. He and our friends had booked a dinner reservation at California Grill in Disney's Contemporary Hotel. We ate there 3 years ago and fell in love with the restaurant. I also love that dinner service is suspended while the firework show is on. I knew about the reservation and I also knew that it was booked not too long before our trip. Didn't think that would have been the special place for him to propose to me. What I also didn't know was he had already bought my ring back in August 2012. (No wonder, he had me book our cruise and wedding... tricky tricky)
From our friends account of the night: apparently through out dinner my fiance was nervous. He kept checking his watch and kept wondering when we should head out to the roof for a good spot to view the fire works. Of course I had no idea that he was nervous and I even kept telling him to just enjoy dinner because the waiters will tell us when to out to the roof. Finally the time has arrived and we all headed out 5 mins earlier to scout out a nice spot to view the show. The show started and I was just amazed at the fireworks. So happens that the show was called "A wish come true"
In the middle of the show, my fiance said my name but I waved him away without looking cause I didn't want him to bother me enjoying my show
But something caught my attention and I turned around. He made this lovely speech and proposed! I was so surprised and so excited. All these emotions just flooded out from me. Yes YES YES! and that was how we became an officially engaged couple
you can read more details on our wedding website: http :// yvonne-eric.ourwedding . com/ (no spaces)
I've been lurking around DIS for months for my own Disney cruise wedding. I'm very thankful for all the advises and tips from so many Disney brides here on this forum. It really inspired me to start a PJ on my current plannings for my wedding.
I want to give my 2 cents to current and future Disney brides!
Where to begin? I guess from the moment where I started to plan my wedding before I was even engaged! Yes yes, I know, it sounds weird but really to us it wasn't. My fiance and I have been together for 8 years before we were engaged; 9 years now and still going strong!
So we always knew at that time that we were going to go the next step and join our lives together. We always wanted a winter wedding somewhere tropical. We thought it would be a nice escape from the harsh winter we can have in New York. We always talked about having a destination wedding for a while now and decided on a Disney cruise. Both of us are avid cruisers but never been on DCL. I always wanted too but DCL are always so much more expensive than the other cruise liners out there. I never justified spending so much on 1 DCL when I can go cruise with another liner for much less.
Anyways, since this would be a very special and memorable cruise, there was no doubt that we wanted it on DCL and on Castaway Cay.
This all started late last October 2012. I became obsessed with DCL wedding researches and DIS boards. I wanted to know the ins and outs before I even decide to make that call to ask about weddings packages. When I was finally ready to call and just inquire about some days that my then boyfriend have discussed about, I was horrified to find out that our ideal date/ week was already booked and most of the interiors were sold out. This was 13 months into when we wanted to be married. I started freaking out and calling him. Finally he said "find the next available date and book it". My jaw nearly dropped to the ground. Yes I was freaking out but I didn't actually think that he was serious about wanting to book so soon and at that have a set date. We weren't even engaged yet!
He just said, it's going to happen and I want it to happen. AH! So 13 months our we booked out cruise,7 night Western Caribbean Disney's Fantasy and our Castaway Cay wedding package.
After that surprised ordeal, I started to send out personal emails to people and family whom I wanted to join us on our cruise. It was a short little heads up e-mail about saving and booking for our impending cruise wedding. Boy, was everyone surprised and so happy for us. Made me smiled to hear all their happy responds.
Not too long before that, Eric and I had already planned a Florida (Universal Park) trip with our close friends. It was suppose to be a mini getaway for us. But guess what... Yep....
I knew it was going to be that weekend when we would be officially an engaged couple. Only because I have already found our photographer for the wedding and I have scheduled an appointment for our engagement shoot while we were in Florida for that mini vacation. Ha yes, I am doing everything backwards so far. But I was anxious! What a girl to do when I'm worried about things being booked up. I knew I wanted to hire a photographer to bring with us on the ship. More on the photographer a little later
What I didn't know or planned was how my fiance was going to propose to me. Funny thing was, I really thought that he was going to surprise while we were visiting Harry Potter at Universal. Don't know why but I thought it was fitting, haha. He and our friends had booked a dinner reservation at California Grill in Disney's Contemporary Hotel. We ate there 3 years ago and fell in love with the restaurant. I also love that dinner service is suspended while the firework show is on. I knew about the reservation and I also knew that it was booked not too long before our trip. Didn't think that would have been the special place for him to propose to me. What I also didn't know was he had already bought my ring back in August 2012. (No wonder, he had me book our cruise and wedding... tricky tricky)
From our friends account of the night: apparently through out dinner my fiance was nervous. He kept checking his watch and kept wondering when we should head out to the roof for a good spot to view the fire works. Of course I had no idea that he was nervous and I even kept telling him to just enjoy dinner because the waiters will tell us when to out to the roof. Finally the time has arrived and we all headed out 5 mins earlier to scout out a nice spot to view the show. The show started and I was just amazed at the fireworks. So happens that the show was called "A wish come true"
In the middle of the show, my fiance said my name but I waved him away without looking cause I didn't want him to bother me enjoying my show
But something caught my attention and I turned around. He made this lovely speech and proposed! I was so surprised and so excited. All these emotions just flooded out from me. Yes YES YES! and that was how we became an officially engaged couple
you can read more details on our wedding website: http :// yvonne-eric.ourwedding . com/ (no spaces)
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