LURKYLOO's Wedding Trippie: Morocco/Attic/Lower UK: Wedding Album + Gown Preservation
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angel*lady
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Heidi - that is just hysterical!!! 
I found the funniest video on YouTube that has to do with Brazilian waxes. Hope this link works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKRKo113xwA
Carrie - you were just stunning!
I love your necklace!!! 
Your brother and his wife were just plain rude! If they were going to complain so much why did they even bother to come?
Good grief!
Did you say that they only invited college friends to their own wedding? They didn't invite family? That's strange!
Can't wait until the next update!
I found the funniest video on YouTube that has to do with Brazilian waxes. Hope this link works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKRKo113xwA
Carrie - you were just stunning!
I love your necklace!!! Your brother and his wife were just plain rude! If they were going to complain so much why did they even bother to come?
Good grief!Did you say that they only invited college friends to their own wedding? They didn't invite family? That's strange!
Can't wait until the next update!
lurkyloo
The Attic was just perfect!
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Ok - you know what? Don't worry about it, Carrie. I got Day 3 covered for you
DAY 3: STUFF HAPPENS!
OK, Heidi, you have WAY too much time on your hands! 
Believe me, I would love to do nothing but write my trip report all day, but I have three jobs! And each TR installment seems to take hours to write! And the dog ate my homework!!
Your brother and his wife were just plain rude! If they were going to complain so much why did they even bother to come?
Exactly! I kept giving him every opportunity to back out, but he made it sound like he wanted to be there cuz we're family. Now I find out the whole time he was "being there" for me he was bagging on me behind my back!
Yeah, I can't figure it out either... I think maybe there were certain family members they didn't want to invite, so they just nixed all of us? Hey, maybe I was one of them and didn't even know it!
I found your trip report and I am caught up! I can't wait to read more! Fantastic format and pictures!
Thanks! And now.... please keeps your hands, arms, feet and legs inside the vehicle and get ready for.... Day Three!!!
romymichelle21
Why should I sail with any of you? Four of you hav
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Believe me, I would love to do nothing but write my trip report all day, but I have three jobs! And each TR installment seems to take hours to write! And the dog ate my homework!!
Muahahaha...
lurkyloo
The Attic was just perfect!
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Another long day. I got up at 6am to check out of the glamorous Sheraton Safari and go pick up my dad, brother, and SIL for the rehearsal in Epcot. I didn’t mind getting up that early because I wanted to practice for getting up at 4am for the wedding the next day. I know that the early ceremony times required for an Epcot wedding (9am, usually) are a deterrent to some people, but the way I see it, surely I can manage to get myself out of bed early on just one day in my entire life in order to experience something that special! (Make that two days if you wanna do the Magic Kingdom photo shoot...). The O Mobile’s windshield kept fogging up on the outside (??) and this was the first time I noticed the tire fwapping, so I crept down the highway. As usual, I got lost, this time on my way to get Mo'H and SIL at All-Star Sports. Once I found them, we went over to Port Orleans French Quarter to get my dad. Meanwhile, DF’s parents were taking him to pick up our officiant at All-Star Music (we flew DF’s childhood pastor out from California to officiate – it was one the best decisions we made!). We were all to meet in the lobby of the Beach Club for our walk to Epcot.
It was so weird to see DF’s parents walk out to meet us in front of the hotel. I got that wonderful comforting feeling you get when you recognize someone familiar in a strange place. It was the first of many times over the trip that my mind boggled to see friends and relatives at WDW. (I know lots of brides go there with their families all the time, but DF and I had only ever been there for our planning session and on one trip apiece when we were in high school.) Before we set off for the rehearsal, I checked into my room at the Beach Club Villas and checked my luggage with Bell Services. It was so cute – the two women at the check-in desk just beamed when they found out I was getting married in Epcot the next day. I said I knew that check-in for DVC resorts isn’t until 4pm, but if there was any way they could get me a room earlier, I’d be so grateful because I could start setting up my base of wedding operations. They said they’d see what they could do, and they handed me two WDW “Just Married” buttons (I saved them for later).
REHEARSAL
Because we didn’t have any attendants, readers, ushers, etc. for our ceremony, the rehearsal group was small: me & DF, the officiant, the Best Man, the Man of Honor (& SIL), and my dad. We were joined by our videographers, Sage and Wheat (really!!) from Starfruit Productions, at the International Gateway. We paid them a $100 travel fee to come the day before the wedding so they could attend the rehearsal to line up shots and get the lay of the land. I haven’t seen my video yet, but I think it was prolly a good idea since they hadn’t done an Epcot wedding before.
The Man o’ Honor transports the bride’s wedding shower bow-quet
A guide escorted us to Morocco to meet our wedding planner and her entourage of assistants. I made sure to meet both of them because I’d learned from reading trip reports that I’d be seeing a lot more of them than the WP on the wedding day. As expected, the rehearsal was run very efficiently. The WP told everyone where to stand and what to do. When the Man of Honor started cracking wise, my WP totally put the smack down – it was fantastic! She was like “[Hater]! Right now I need your attention right here!” [snaps fingers] I wanted to high-five her – it was awesome... There were chairs set up between the fountain and the arch, and we all started out standing in the altar area. The WP had the pastor explain how the service would go, and then I made a little spiel to the BM and Mo’H about one of my huge pet peeves: I hate it when the groomsmen stand up at the altar facing the audience with their hands clasped below their waists – it looks like they have to go to the bathroom! So I tried to make it abundantly clear that Bridezilla wanted their hands at their sides at all times. (Later I found out that the BM was feeling ill during the ceremony and kept saying to himself, “Don’t throw up, don’t clasp your hands!”)
Next we got to practice walking in. This part alone made me SO glad we’d decided to pay for a rehearsal (well, the rehearsal was free, but it was $90 for a guide to get us all in to Epcot instead of rehearsing in a ballroom somewhere). I had been worried about how the songs I picked for the processional would time out, since the distance from the edge of Morocco to the altar area at the arch was about 30 seconds at a normal walking pace. For a while I considered editing the songs down, but I couldn’t cut enough from them. So what we did was start the processional from further back and, in some cases, hold people a bit while the music started. I brought my iPod Shuffle to the rehearsal so I could listen to the songs and figure out where and when we needed to start walking for each one. I got kind of flustered because everyone had to stand around while I found the playlist – you can only go forward or backward, you can’t select songs on a screen – and I’d forgotten to cue it up. But no one seemed to mind waiting, even my WP. It was the first time I had someone tell me, “It’s OK – you’re the bride!”
The road to Morocco – deserted and underexposed...
We decided to time my entrance song with my dad by starting at the altar and walking back out of Morocco to see where we would end up as a starting place. Well, it turned out to be practically to Japan! So we decided to pick a line in the pavement closer to Morocco and just hold me and my dad back until about 30 seconds into the song.
The line!
That was about it for the rehearsal. Sage & Wheat took off and the wedding party walked over to the BoardWalk for brunch at Spoodles with the rest of DF’s family. It wasn’t until later that I realized I’d left the rehearsal without two crucial pieces of information: my WP’s cell number and where we were supposed to meet on the wedding day. (That’s right – after all that freaking out the week before the wedding, I never did get my WP’s number. After the honeymoon I discovered it in an email sent after we’d left for WDW. Unfortunately, this didn’t help me the next day when I was panicking because I didn’t know she wouldn’t be at the hotel on the morning of the wedding...)
REHEARSAL BRUNCH
We did not plan to have any kind of welcome/rehearsal dinner the night before our wedding. This was partly because we’d originally thought doing this kind of event through Disney would count toward our minimums and, when we found out that wasn’t the case, it was an easy thing to cut. But it was mostly because I had an absolute phobia of over-scheduling our guests. Most people were only coming out for 3 or 4 days, and I didn’t want them to feel pressured to attend a bazillion different wedding events when they’d rather be enjoying the parks. (See “No-Pressure, Come-if-You-Want-to Meet ‘n’ Greet,” below.) DF and I planned to have brunch at Spoodles on the BoardWalk after the rehearsal, and when I asked his parents if they’d like to come along, suddenly we had 12 people attending (did I mention DF has a big family?). It was really nice, though, and an opportunity for my dad and the Haters to meet DF’s immediate family. And the food was really good! I’d heard mixed reviews of Spoodles’ food, but it was very tasty (perhaps proving my theory that it’s impossible to screw up breakfast). Spoodles has one big table that seats something like 15 people, and I didn’t have to call WDW Group Dining to reserve it – I just made a regular ADR. We were ready at 9:30am, and though originally they hadn’t been able to give me a reservation til 9:50am, the table was ready within minutes of our checking in. They also had no trouble splitting the checks up among the group members – at Olivia’s the night before we had to do the thing where everyone throws in more money than they prolly owe ‘cuz no one has change... ugh!
After brunch, I had a message from the room assigner at Beach Club Villas saying they’d found me a room – at 10am! – and it was a really nice one that lots of people request. I was so happy. After brunch, DF went over to the hotel, had my luggage delivered to the room, and set everything up for me – what a sweetie! I took a Friendship boat from the BoardWalk to the Dolphin for Round Two at Mandara Spa. I’ll spare you the gory details on that one... Well, OK, just for Heidi, I’ll put them here in spoiler mode so nobody loses their lunch: HOLY CRAP WHAT WAS I THINKING?! Somewhere I got the idea that a Brazilian wax was THE honeymoon accessory. I’d had one before, but I must’ve been smoking crack (as we used to say in the ‘90s – what is it now, meth?) because this was THE most painful thing I have ever experienced. And the results were not sexy at all. They were burn-y, sting-y and itchy, and when that subsided they were just plain creepy... Now back to your regularly scheduled trip report!
DF picked me up at the Dolphin and took me to the Yacht and Beach Club for my manicure at Perriwig’s. He was so cute – he insisted on going with me, even though I warned him he’d be bored. The girl who did my nails (Xiomara, I think), was very sweet and did a thorough job. I loved the first color I picked out, but my nails were practically fluorescent, so she went over them with another color and got the perfect shade. We talked about her wedding in Cuba – apparently they invited about 200 people, but so many party crashers showed up they had close to 300 guests! Yikes!
Manicure: Three Days Later
When my nails had cooked in the little, uh, nail oven, DF escorted me up to my room in the Villas wing at the Beach Club. It was SO cool! It was in its own alcove off the elevator lobby, so it was both quiet and convenient. It had lots of drawers and closet space, and a huge balcony overlooking the not-so “quiet” pool. But the best part we didn’t find out about until a few nights into our honeymoon: We were sitting on the balcony eating leftover wedding cake when all of a sudden we discovered we could see the Magic Kingdom’s Pirate & Princess fireworks from our balcony! Very cool...
Looking off toward MK
NO-PRESSURE, COME-IF-YOU-WANT-TO MEET ‘N’ GREET
A few weeks before the wedding, we began to agree that – even though we didn’t want to over-schedule them - some of our guests, especially family members, would want to meet and catch up before the wedding. At that point, we didn’t have room in the budget to host a dinner, and we didn’t want to put people through the Dance of a Million Separate Checks, so we settled on a late-afternoon/early-evening meet ‘n’ greet between lunch and dinner. We encouraged people to drop in when they wanted or not drop in at all, if they had plans already. As it turns out, several groups made their own dinner plans for after the meet ‘n’ greet, so it worked out really nicely.
What we didn’t know was where to hold it. I got the idea from another bride to have everyone meet in the Solarium at Beach Club Villas. It looked great in pictures and seemed large enough to host our event.
The Solarium
However, two weeks before the wedding, I found out that the Beach Club was probably going to show the Super Bowl in the Solarium on the day of our meet ‘n’ greet – imagine the nerve, scheduling the Super Bowl for the day of our meet ‘n’ greet! I freaked out, posted all over, got tons of great suggestions. In the end, because I was cracked on the idea of meeting at the Beach Club, we used its other common room, the Drawing Room, and it turned out to be PERFECT! Unlike the Solarium, it is enclosed and has only one door, so it was like we had our own private room. We must’ve had 15-20 people there – mostly just family members – and we ended up rearranging all the furniture in a big circle as more people showed up. DF got a little twitchy about this. He kept saying, “Maybe we should arrange conversational groupings!” It did look a little like an AA meeting, I guess... That’s OK, I got twitchy when my FMIL announced she was going to be taking pictures at the reception. She is a shutterbug and has her camera going constantly at every gathering. We’d had a conversation with her months before about how we were hiring professional photographers and we wanted her to just enjoy our wedding from in *front* of a camera. So when she said that I got kinda worked up and made a fool of myself, pouting that I was the bride and I wanted to control the photos of our wedding day and I didn’t care if it made me Bridezilla! (Imagine my dismay when, on the wedding day, I found that FMIL was the only guest who didn’t have a camera – d’oh! In fact, this is probably totally out of line, but I wish I had told guests they weren’t allowed to bring cameras into Epcot – hee hee!)
The Drawing Room
After the meet ‘n’ greet, our pastor suggested we all go to Cape May for dinner. I felt guilty about bowing out, but DF and I each wanted to have a mellow, early night, and I still had lots to unpack. We went up to my room and tried to order room service, but the wait was like 90 minutes – prolly cuz of the Super Bowl. Curses – foiled again! We decided to hit Beaches & Cream, which meant walking right by the open seating area at Cape May where our family and friends were eating – we tried to sneak past so no one would see us. Beaches & Cream hit the spot! I made a half-hearted attempt to eat light by ordering the chicken sandwich, but it was pretty greasy… greasily delicious! And I felt like a rebel for ordering a (kids’) sundae the night before my wedding – take that, Brides magazine!
Yes, that’s extra peanut butter sauce in the background
After dinner DF said goodnight and went off to bunk with his cousin (the one who introduced us!) at the Contemporary, and I began a lengthy series of beauty preparations. I washed and straightened my hair with the blow dryer because when Patricia straightened it with a flat iron at the trial in September, my curly hair no longer held a curl. I didn’t want to have to do that in the morning. I gave myself a crappy pedicure (meh – I hadn’t brought any sandals) and hit the rack around 11:30 – not good when you have a 4 am wake-up call!
It was so weird to see DF’s parents walk out to meet us in front of the hotel. I got that wonderful comforting feeling you get when you recognize someone familiar in a strange place. It was the first of many times over the trip that my mind boggled to see friends and relatives at WDW. (I know lots of brides go there with their families all the time, but DF and I had only ever been there for our planning session and on one trip apiece when we were in high school.) Before we set off for the rehearsal, I checked into my room at the Beach Club Villas and checked my luggage with Bell Services. It was so cute – the two women at the check-in desk just beamed when they found out I was getting married in Epcot the next day. I said I knew that check-in for DVC resorts isn’t until 4pm, but if there was any way they could get me a room earlier, I’d be so grateful because I could start setting up my base of wedding operations. They said they’d see what they could do, and they handed me two WDW “Just Married” buttons (I saved them for later).
REHEARSAL
Because we didn’t have any attendants, readers, ushers, etc. for our ceremony, the rehearsal group was small: me & DF, the officiant, the Best Man, the Man of Honor (& SIL), and my dad. We were joined by our videographers, Sage and Wheat (really!!) from Starfruit Productions, at the International Gateway. We paid them a $100 travel fee to come the day before the wedding so they could attend the rehearsal to line up shots and get the lay of the land. I haven’t seen my video yet, but I think it was prolly a good idea since they hadn’t done an Epcot wedding before.
The Man o’ Honor transports the bride’s wedding shower bow-quet
A guide escorted us to Morocco to meet our wedding planner and her entourage of assistants. I made sure to meet both of them because I’d learned from reading trip reports that I’d be seeing a lot more of them than the WP on the wedding day. As expected, the rehearsal was run very efficiently. The WP told everyone where to stand and what to do. When the Man of Honor started cracking wise, my WP totally put the smack down – it was fantastic! She was like “[Hater]! Right now I need your attention right here!” [snaps fingers] I wanted to high-five her – it was awesome... There were chairs set up between the fountain and the arch, and we all started out standing in the altar area. The WP had the pastor explain how the service would go, and then I made a little spiel to the BM and Mo’H about one of my huge pet peeves: I hate it when the groomsmen stand up at the altar facing the audience with their hands clasped below their waists – it looks like they have to go to the bathroom! So I tried to make it abundantly clear that Bridezilla wanted their hands at their sides at all times. (Later I found out that the BM was feeling ill during the ceremony and kept saying to himself, “Don’t throw up, don’t clasp your hands!”)
Next we got to practice walking in. This part alone made me SO glad we’d decided to pay for a rehearsal (well, the rehearsal was free, but it was $90 for a guide to get us all in to Epcot instead of rehearsing in a ballroom somewhere). I had been worried about how the songs I picked for the processional would time out, since the distance from the edge of Morocco to the altar area at the arch was about 30 seconds at a normal walking pace. For a while I considered editing the songs down, but I couldn’t cut enough from them. So what we did was start the processional from further back and, in some cases, hold people a bit while the music started. I brought my iPod Shuffle to the rehearsal so I could listen to the songs and figure out where and when we needed to start walking for each one. I got kind of flustered because everyone had to stand around while I found the playlist – you can only go forward or backward, you can’t select songs on a screen – and I’d forgotten to cue it up. But no one seemed to mind waiting, even my WP. It was the first time I had someone tell me, “It’s OK – you’re the bride!”
The road to Morocco – deserted and underexposed...
We decided to time my entrance song with my dad by starting at the altar and walking back out of Morocco to see where we would end up as a starting place. Well, it turned out to be practically to Japan! So we decided to pick a line in the pavement closer to Morocco and just hold me and my dad back until about 30 seconds into the song.
The line!
That was about it for the rehearsal. Sage & Wheat took off and the wedding party walked over to the BoardWalk for brunch at Spoodles with the rest of DF’s family. It wasn’t until later that I realized I’d left the rehearsal without two crucial pieces of information: my WP’s cell number and where we were supposed to meet on the wedding day. (That’s right – after all that freaking out the week before the wedding, I never did get my WP’s number. After the honeymoon I discovered it in an email sent after we’d left for WDW. Unfortunately, this didn’t help me the next day when I was panicking because I didn’t know she wouldn’t be at the hotel on the morning of the wedding...)
REHEARSAL BRUNCH
We did not plan to have any kind of welcome/rehearsal dinner the night before our wedding. This was partly because we’d originally thought doing this kind of event through Disney would count toward our minimums and, when we found out that wasn’t the case, it was an easy thing to cut. But it was mostly because I had an absolute phobia of over-scheduling our guests. Most people were only coming out for 3 or 4 days, and I didn’t want them to feel pressured to attend a bazillion different wedding events when they’d rather be enjoying the parks. (See “No-Pressure, Come-if-You-Want-to Meet ‘n’ Greet,” below.) DF and I planned to have brunch at Spoodles on the BoardWalk after the rehearsal, and when I asked his parents if they’d like to come along, suddenly we had 12 people attending (did I mention DF has a big family?). It was really nice, though, and an opportunity for my dad and the Haters to meet DF’s immediate family. And the food was really good! I’d heard mixed reviews of Spoodles’ food, but it was very tasty (perhaps proving my theory that it’s impossible to screw up breakfast). Spoodles has one big table that seats something like 15 people, and I didn’t have to call WDW Group Dining to reserve it – I just made a regular ADR. We were ready at 9:30am, and though originally they hadn’t been able to give me a reservation til 9:50am, the table was ready within minutes of our checking in. They also had no trouble splitting the checks up among the group members – at Olivia’s the night before we had to do the thing where everyone throws in more money than they prolly owe ‘cuz no one has change... ugh!
After brunch, I had a message from the room assigner at Beach Club Villas saying they’d found me a room – at 10am! – and it was a really nice one that lots of people request. I was so happy. After brunch, DF went over to the hotel, had my luggage delivered to the room, and set everything up for me – what a sweetie! I took a Friendship boat from the BoardWalk to the Dolphin for Round Two at Mandara Spa. I’ll spare you the gory details on that one... Well, OK, just for Heidi, I’ll put them here in spoiler mode so nobody loses their lunch: HOLY CRAP WHAT WAS I THINKING?! Somewhere I got the idea that a Brazilian wax was THE honeymoon accessory. I’d had one before, but I must’ve been smoking crack (as we used to say in the ‘90s – what is it now, meth?) because this was THE most painful thing I have ever experienced. And the results were not sexy at all. They were burn-y, sting-y and itchy, and when that subsided they were just plain creepy... Now back to your regularly scheduled trip report!
DF picked me up at the Dolphin and took me to the Yacht and Beach Club for my manicure at Perriwig’s. He was so cute – he insisted on going with me, even though I warned him he’d be bored. The girl who did my nails (Xiomara, I think), was very sweet and did a thorough job. I loved the first color I picked out, but my nails were practically fluorescent, so she went over them with another color and got the perfect shade. We talked about her wedding in Cuba – apparently they invited about 200 people, but so many party crashers showed up they had close to 300 guests! Yikes!
Manicure: Three Days Later
When my nails had cooked in the little, uh, nail oven, DF escorted me up to my room in the Villas wing at the Beach Club. It was SO cool! It was in its own alcove off the elevator lobby, so it was both quiet and convenient. It had lots of drawers and closet space, and a huge balcony overlooking the not-so “quiet” pool. But the best part we didn’t find out about until a few nights into our honeymoon: We were sitting on the balcony eating leftover wedding cake when all of a sudden we discovered we could see the Magic Kingdom’s Pirate & Princess fireworks from our balcony! Very cool...
Looking off toward MK
NO-PRESSURE, COME-IF-YOU-WANT-TO MEET ‘N’ GREET
A few weeks before the wedding, we began to agree that – even though we didn’t want to over-schedule them - some of our guests, especially family members, would want to meet and catch up before the wedding. At that point, we didn’t have room in the budget to host a dinner, and we didn’t want to put people through the Dance of a Million Separate Checks, so we settled on a late-afternoon/early-evening meet ‘n’ greet between lunch and dinner. We encouraged people to drop in when they wanted or not drop in at all, if they had plans already. As it turns out, several groups made their own dinner plans for after the meet ‘n’ greet, so it worked out really nicely.
What we didn’t know was where to hold it. I got the idea from another bride to have everyone meet in the Solarium at Beach Club Villas. It looked great in pictures and seemed large enough to host our event.
The Solarium
However, two weeks before the wedding, I found out that the Beach Club was probably going to show the Super Bowl in the Solarium on the day of our meet ‘n’ greet – imagine the nerve, scheduling the Super Bowl for the day of our meet ‘n’ greet! I freaked out, posted all over, got tons of great suggestions. In the end, because I was cracked on the idea of meeting at the Beach Club, we used its other common room, the Drawing Room, and it turned out to be PERFECT! Unlike the Solarium, it is enclosed and has only one door, so it was like we had our own private room. We must’ve had 15-20 people there – mostly just family members – and we ended up rearranging all the furniture in a big circle as more people showed up. DF got a little twitchy about this. He kept saying, “Maybe we should arrange conversational groupings!” It did look a little like an AA meeting, I guess... That’s OK, I got twitchy when my FMIL announced she was going to be taking pictures at the reception. She is a shutterbug and has her camera going constantly at every gathering. We’d had a conversation with her months before about how we were hiring professional photographers and we wanted her to just enjoy our wedding from in *front* of a camera. So when she said that I got kinda worked up and made a fool of myself, pouting that I was the bride and I wanted to control the photos of our wedding day and I didn’t care if it made me Bridezilla! (Imagine my dismay when, on the wedding day, I found that FMIL was the only guest who didn’t have a camera – d’oh! In fact, this is probably totally out of line, but I wish I had told guests they weren’t allowed to bring cameras into Epcot – hee hee!)
The Drawing Room
After the meet ‘n’ greet, our pastor suggested we all go to Cape May for dinner. I felt guilty about bowing out, but DF and I each wanted to have a mellow, early night, and I still had lots to unpack. We went up to my room and tried to order room service, but the wait was like 90 minutes – prolly cuz of the Super Bowl. Curses – foiled again! We decided to hit Beaches & Cream, which meant walking right by the open seating area at Cape May where our family and friends were eating – we tried to sneak past so no one would see us. Beaches & Cream hit the spot! I made a half-hearted attempt to eat light by ordering the chicken sandwich, but it was pretty greasy… greasily delicious! And I felt like a rebel for ordering a (kids’) sundae the night before my wedding – take that, Brides magazine!
Yes, that’s extra peanut butter sauce in the background
After dinner DF said goodnight and went off to bunk with his cousin (the one who introduced us!) at the Contemporary, and I began a lengthy series of beauty preparations. I washed and straightened my hair with the blow dryer because when Patricia straightened it with a flat iron at the trial in September, my curly hair no longer held a curl. I didn’t want to have to do that in the morning. I gave myself a crappy pedicure (meh – I hadn’t brought any sandals) and hit the rack around 11:30 – not good when you have a 4 am wake-up call!
romymichelle21
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lov2b@disney
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Ok - you know what? Don't worry about it, Carrie. I got Day 3 covered for you
lov2b@disney
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Sounds like its all going well, love the meet and greet idea, how did you find out about the room?- cant wait for more!!!
They charge for the rehearsal to be in Epcot??? I dont remember that coming up in our ps
We got the option of ballroom/Italy- no brainer- not getting married in a ballroom, why rehearse there?! 
: But no mention of $$$$$- no BEO yet to check!
They charge for the rehearsal to be in Epcot??? I dont remember that coming up in our ps
We got the option of ballroom/Italy- no brainer- not getting married in a ballroom, why rehearse there?! : But no mention of $$$$$- no BEO yet to check!
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Loving this report so far and I love the idea of your Meet n Greet. We will be staying at The Boardwalk Villas the night before and our wedding night - I wonder if they have a room like the one you used.
As far as a fee to have a rehersal in Epcot, we had our first phone planning meeting with Meri this past Monday and she did mention that there would be a fee - don't rember how much - I thought she said $100.00 - but I am not sure. We will probably reherse in a ballroom but as it gets closer we might consider paying for Italy. We will be down in May or June for our onsite visit so maybe I can do a mini rehersal there and bring my music so i can see how long it takes me to walk. The people around me will probably think I'm crazy.
Linda
As far as a fee to have a rehersal in Epcot, we had our first phone planning meeting with Meri this past Monday and she did mention that there would be a fee - don't rember how much - I thought she said $100.00 - but I am not sure. We will probably reherse in a ballroom but as it gets closer we might consider paying for Italy. We will be down in May or June for our onsite visit so maybe I can do a mini rehersal there and bring my music so i can see how long it takes me to walk. The people around me will probably think I'm crazy.
Linda
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you are so funny! imagine the freaking nerve of disney to ruin your pre-wedding festivities with the stupid bowl...
i'm glad your nails turned out better than mine. we did spoodles too for dinner and it wasn't good. you're right, breakfast is hard to mess up...
i'm glad your nails turned out better than mine. we did spoodles too for dinner and it wasn't good. you're right, breakfast is hard to mess up...
MistressOfAllEvil
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 10, 2007
Whew... first of all, I know how much effort you're putting into this! The amount of time it takes to recall, organize and type this all out. Sort pictures and upload and embed! Man-o-man Carrie! I think you're pretty spectacular for even doing it! 
This seems like it was a GREAT day, a lot better than Saturday! I'm glad to hear that everything started to find it's course leading up to the wedding.
By the time we actually got married I had 10 of these pins. I kept tossing them in a pile. The day after the wedding Chuck went to his conference in Orlando and Jenna, Beth, Christie and I all wore the Just Married pins!!
LOOOOVE IT! Sounds like your planner really came thru for you??
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Although my bigger worry should have been how to hold my bouquet. If you look at all my pictures, I'm holding it up by my chest, even though Kathleen told me to hold it lower (once, right before we started walking.) I cringe every time I look at the the pics.
Can't wait to hear how this played out...
This seems like it was a GREAT day, a lot better than Saturday! I'm glad to hear that everything started to find it's course leading up to the wedding.
By the time we actually got married I had 10 of these pins. I kept tossing them in a pile. The day after the wedding Chuck went to his conference in Orlando and Jenna, Beth, Christie and I all wore the Just Married pins!!
LOOOOVE IT! Sounds like your planner really came thru for you?? Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Although my bigger worry should have been how to hold my bouquet. If you look at all my pictures, I'm holding it up by my chest, even though Kathleen told me to hold it lower (once, right before we started walking.) I cringe every time I look at the the pics.
Can't wait to hear how this played out...but I mustve been smoking crack (as we used to say in the 90s what is it now, meth?)[/COLOR]
Isn't it funny the things we dwell on? Or the people we focus on? And what about everything else. I can tell you that I focused waaaaay too much on MIL and SIL. Things I learned from the wedding: You can't control everything, and that's okay. (Okay, maybe I haven't learned this, but I'm becoming more comfortable with the fact that the theory exists!)
lurkyloo
The Attic was just perfect!
- Joined
- Aug 24, 2006
I remember seeing a girl's trip report where she met a bunch of friends for a get-together in the Solarium at BCV, so I went to AllEarsNet to look at pix. They also had pix of the Drawing Room. It was hard to figure it all out without seeing the rooms in person, but the Drawing Room turned out to be perfect. Nobody else came in there the whole time we used it.
The rehearsal is free, but they make you pay for a guide to escort you from International Gateway to the site. That was $90 in our BEO.
There is the Bellvue Lounge at BWI - it's not enclosed, but it's very cozy and a gorgeous-looking space. I'll bet Caryn knows a good place at BWI!
If timing the music is as important to you as it was me, I highly recommend having yoru rehearsal in Italy. I tried to time the walk on my own in September and I just couldn't figure it all out. At the rehearsal you see exactly where the WP wants you to walk, and you can practice without feeling silly.
Notice how I stopped bugging you to write your report? Never again! It is fun - just time-consuming.... That is a FABULOUS idea! I think we ended up with about six of them, which was good cuz many of them were made wrong and hung sideways....Photoshop, baby!!!
disneychickforever
Queen of Disney Elephants
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2006
Yay for day 3!
Glad to here your WP put DB in his place! The look on his face must have been priceless!
And I totally understand the comment about having hands cupped in front, it does look like they need to...um...well take a whiz. It would have double sucked if it was by a fountain that squirted outward and the camera was at just the right angle...goodness that would have been a nightmare. Sorry I'm a theater major, and we think of things a little differently lol.
So the next day is THE WEDDING DAY! So excited for this one! These things are great medicine when you are sick! *cozies up with a box of tissues and a blanket and waits for the next installment*
Glad to here your WP put DB in his place! The look on his face must have been priceless!
And I totally understand the comment about having hands cupped in front, it does look like they need to...um...well take a whiz. It would have double sucked if it was by a fountain that squirted outward and the camera was at just the right angle...goodness that would have been a nightmare. Sorry I'm a theater major, and we think of things a little differently lol.
So the next day is THE WEDDING DAY! So excited for this one! These things are great medicine when you are sick! *cozies up with a box of tissues and a blanket and waits for the next installment*
Goldeelox9
Our Disney Cruise Line Wedding ~ November 4, 2008
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2003
My Mom is also not with me anymore and this is a great Idea...I am thinking maybe a locket braclet, then she can be with me on my special day!
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