Vow Renewal - March 13, 2018
I took a quick shower when I got up and was ready by the time Jenn from Fairy Tale Hair and Makeup. Here is the decoration I put on the door in honor of the day. I was glad we had upgraded to a Royal Room at Port Orleans-Riverside because I love how it added to the photos that morning.
A funny side note, for our wedding I totally forgot pajamas that buttoned up for my hair, so I had to wear a zip-up hoodie. This time around I remembered to bring something to wear for getting ready pictures. I was doing my hair off to the side because I had a custom fastener made by an amazing milliner in our area.
I had my dress custom designed by a local seamstress who took the lace and appliques from my mom’s wedding dress to create a totally custom design for me. I was inspired by the old TLC Show “Something Borrowed, Something New” from a few years ago. Plus, I had a really hard time finding a wedding dress. I tried on over 100 dresses and while I really liked mine I never had the crying, this is the one moment.
Here are some photos of her dress and my dress in progress.
My dress was completely covered using the lace from around the bottom of the dress.
The designer created several designs and allowed me to pick the one I liked the best. I also wanted blue on my wedding dress the first time, so we were able to include it this time around.
This year will be my parent’s 40th anniversary, so it was extra special that the dress represented over 50 years of marriage between all of us.
I reused a lot of accessories from our wedding including my earrings, garter and his cufflinks. I splurged and bought a custom hanger and we had custom buttons made for the week.
I love all the little accessory photos done by Randy.
Here’s my watch from our wedding. This used to be a gift from DFTW.
We decided to just do a blessing of the rings and didn’t get anything new. It’s hard to tell in this photo, but I have a really deep blue sapphire. Also, the weird gold balls on the inside are because I had a spider bite a few years ago that left scar tissue on the knuckle of my ring finger, so those ensure my ring stays on at all times!
While we were engaged I had a serious car accident and I still suffer some back and hip problems related to my injuries, so I don’t do heels anymore. I found these super cute princess shoes the summer before at Target and added a pair of clip-on earrings from my late great-aunt to add some bling.
Here are the handkerchiefs Disney sends you in advance too.
Going along with our travel theme I had map inserts for my shoes from our hometown near Flint, Michigan. These were more photo props and I didn’t keep them in my shoe all day.
Here were Kris’ cute Mickey socks he had bought a few months earlier at TJ Max.
It was fun getting ready together although Kris didn’t want to see the dress until that day, so he left right before I got dressed.
We sent him outside to wait for us and my cousin who was going to be singing at our ceremony helped zip me up into my dress.
We didn’t do a first look for our wedding, so it was a fun twist to do it this time. It really didn’t shock me when Kris hadn’t wanted to see the dress ahead of time.
To be honest I didn’t think he would be very surprised, so I was pleasantly surprised at his reaction.
Here he is asking questions about which parts were from my mom’s dress and which parts were new.
Then the three of us along with Randy were taken by one of the vans to Epcot. My cousin was going early to practice with the guitarist in advance of the ceremony. Transportation costs were a big negotiation point for me with my planner, so I’ll go into more detail with all of that in a later post. Up next photos in the World Showcase and at our wedding location (American Adventure Rotunda) before heading to Italy for our ceremony.