Hello, hello! Long time lurker, seldom poster here! My name's Santina and I've been away from Disney World for ... 3 months 
This upcoming trip will be my third this year. I went in June with my cousin, read the pre-trip report here, as a last-minute trip and then went again on another unplanned trip with my brother and mom in July/August! This trip however has been planned for quite some time so let's dig in!
Who: Myself and my wonderful fiancé, soon to be husband Dillon! This picture is from our trip last December to see the Osborne lights one last time. Unfortunately I had emergency surgery 1.5 weeks before our trip but I was still able to go! (I just felt dead, lol)
When: Originally December 15 - December 23, but now December 14 - December 23
Where: Bay Lake Tower, the Polynesian, and Animal Kingdom Lodge (there's a story!)
Why: We're getting married!! After 7.5 years of dating, we're finally tying the knot on December 10, 2016. It's only fitting that our honeymoon include Disney World as we love it so much so we'll be cruising around the Bahamas from December 11-14 and then coming home where we belong
A little bit about us. Dillon and I are long-time Disney lovers. I've been going with my family since I was 8 years old and probably have 20+ trips in the books. Dillon also went to Disney as a child, just not as frequently! We've been to Disney together 5 times (I take a lot of trips without him
) and we just bought into DVC earlier this year! We have this trip planned as well as one in May but that might be it for a year or so 
. I'm a grad student and will be going on a year-long internship next year and whether or not I get vacation time will depend upon where I get an internship at. Sooo we may very well not be going back to Disney until mid-to-late 2018, which makes me sad so this one will be great!
Stay tuned for our plans!
This upcoming trip will be my third this year. I went in June with my cousin, read the pre-trip report here, as a last-minute trip and then went again on another unplanned trip with my brother and mom in July/August! This trip however has been planned for quite some time so let's dig in!Who: Myself and my wonderful fiancé, soon to be husband Dillon! This picture is from our trip last December to see the Osborne lights one last time. Unfortunately I had emergency surgery 1.5 weeks before our trip but I was still able to go! (I just felt dead, lol)
When: Originally December 15 - December 23, but now December 14 - December 23
Where: Bay Lake Tower, the Polynesian, and Animal Kingdom Lodge (there's a story!)
Why: We're getting married!! After 7.5 years of dating, we're finally tying the knot on December 10, 2016. It's only fitting that our honeymoon include Disney World as we love it so much so we'll be cruising around the Bahamas from December 11-14 and then coming home where we belong
A little bit about us. Dillon and I are long-time Disney lovers. I've been going with my family since I was 8 years old and probably have 20+ trips in the books. Dillon also went to Disney as a child, just not as frequently! We've been to Disney together 5 times (I take a lot of trips without him
) and we just bought into DVC earlier this year! We have this trip planned as well as one in May but that might be it for a year or so . I'm a grad student and will be going on a year-long internship next year and whether or not I get vacation time will depend upon where I get an internship at. Sooo we may very well not be going back to Disney until mid-to-late 2018, which makes me sad so this one will be great!Stay tuned for our plans!
Of course there was Thanksgiving, then it was my birthday, I'm trying to wrap up school work, hosting a fundraiser Friday, and I'm getting married in less than 2 weeks 
Our final magic band package shipped out much later than the other 2 and the tracking says it's currently in my mailbox - I wonder if the delay was due to the new band design that's supposed to roll out later this year? I guess we'll see tonight if I am stuck with a new, ugly band (just my opinion)!
Whatever. Another Disney Day! However we were now left with being a few weeks out and not having a room to stay in nor the vacation points to book one (I'm looking at you May 2017 trip!!) Sooo what to do? Buy one time use points! I called DVC to check availability and they had studios open at Bay Lake Tower, Saratoga Springs, and Old Key West. Personally, none of these options are appealing to me, but Dillon always wanted to stay at the Contemporary (even if it is Bay Lake Tower) so that's where we wound up! While not in our original plans, I think it'll be a nice addition to our trip and we'll probably just spend our extra time in the Magic Kingdom 
I don't know what I was doing!! Actually, after reading what I just typed I'm definitely going to try to make some changes to this day because I just can't deal with being on this much of a schedule!
We have late reservations for Le Cellier and it will be Dillon's first time dining there! I personally think Yachtsman's is the better steakhouse choice, however, the last time we dined there, Dillon did not like the atmosphere and we had a somewhat rude waitress so Le Cellier it is!