After the ceremony, we'll be heading over to
Todd English's bluezoo for cocktail hour and a reception dinner. The guests will hang out in the lounge while Pug and I take some photos, then we'll head to the private dining room for dinner. Here's a photo of just a portion of their super-cool bar area, which has, in my opinion, the best bartenders and most delicious drinks on Disney property:
We won't have a finalized menu until September, but we've enjoyed everything we've ever had there. The current private dining menus sound so good too! This is a photo of the room where our group will be dining:
We have an option of either using the olive-colored chairs pictured (in person, they're not as beige as they look in the photo), or switching them out for other chairs that are a deep orange leather. We saw them both in person when we toured ceremony and reception sites on our last visit and I think we're going to opt for the orange. We're keeping the decor here simple. The restaurant offers votive candles either in the blue holders you see in this photo or orange. We haven't decided if we're using those or brining our own candles. We'll also add a few vases and use them to hold my bouquet and those of the two maids of honor.
The Zagat guide calls Bluezoo "elegant but not stuffy" and lauds its "top-shelf ambiance." I totally agree with these statements. Everything about the place is so modern and chic, and the food is outstanding. I'm really happy with our choice.
The private dining menus come with their own dessert, but we're also ordering a wedding cake from
It's Tasty Too. Pug doesn't really care about cake, but I love it, and I argued that it wouldn't hurt him to have a wedding cake, but I'd be sad if I didn't get to have one. He was finally convinced when I told him the flavor options and that we could keep the top tier in our villa to much on during the honeymoon. The cool thing about It's Tasty Too is that they give all their wedding clients a complimentary anniversary cake, so when we go back to WDW for our first anniversary, we'll get a replica of our top tier. Talk about having your cake and eating it too! Here's the inspiration photo of the cake they'll be making for us:
The top tier was Pug's choice as it's the one that we'll take with us after the reception. It will be banana cake with dulce de leche filling. The bottom tier, which we'll serve with dessert, is amaretto cake with cherry filling.
I'm told that we'll have a view of the aerial fireworks of the IllumiNations show from our dining room, but I don't think we'll stay at the restaurant long enough to see them. Dinner starts at 5:30 PM and they say it usually only takes about 3 hours from soup to nuts. Afterward, we plan to head over to Jellyrolls for our after-party. Anyone who will be there that night is welcome to stop by and celebrate with us! I'll be the one in the blush pink wedding dress. I promise, our group is lots of fun.