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Ok so we got engaged about a month ago now and are in the process of planning our WDW wedding so I thought I would post a step by step process for others to read when they start planning their wedding
About us, we have been dating for 3 and a half years and starting at 3 months have visited WDW every year of our relationship. Our first trip was on a whim we were going to go to New York and see some shows on Broadway but we decided to spend the two weeks at WDW and have gone back ever sense. WDW is an important part of our relationship and it brought us close together when we first visited and now is something we look forward to doing every year so getting married there was a natural step after I proposed to her our last trip in the Epcot Canada Pavilion where the outdoor weddings can be held. I chose this spot because it was private and beautiful
On to the planning:
Over this past month we have been emailing with Disney Fairy Tail Weddings and first had to reserve our venues and times which we were lucky enough to not have to be part of a lottery for so we got the Wedding Pavilion and a room and balcony at The Grand Floridian We are doing a Wishes wedding so we were able to reserve the venues at 12 months out which just happened to be a few weeks after we were engaged so the timing worked out fairly well.
Our next step a week later was setting up a room block and deciding who would go. We do not live in Florida so this was tough because we know that most of our family will not make it to WDW for our wedding Our solution to this is we are holding a second reception/celebration in our home town for our extended family.
With that decision made we had to select a minimum of 25 room nights spread out around our wedding date at different hotels. 25 room nights is the minimum required for a Wishes wedding and if our guests do not use at least that many nights we will need to pay for the nights up to 25!!! :/ so hopefully this will work out lol... We have 60 nights setup in our room block including our Honeymoon which we want to stay in the Contemporary resort and we will hopefully get a free night at the Polynesian at the end of our honeymoon
Our next step is signing a Letter of Agreement and sending in our deposit which we will be receiving our letter in email in the next week or so and I will post an update when we reach that step
Ok so we got engaged about a month ago now and are in the process of planning our WDW wedding so I thought I would post a step by step process for others to read when they start planning their wedding
About us, we have been dating for 3 and a half years and starting at 3 months have visited WDW every year of our relationship. Our first trip was on a whim we were going to go to New York and see some shows on Broadway but we decided to spend the two weeks at WDW and have gone back ever sense. WDW is an important part of our relationship and it brought us close together when we first visited and now is something we look forward to doing every year so getting married there was a natural step after I proposed to her our last trip in the Epcot Canada Pavilion where the outdoor weddings can be held. I chose this spot because it was private and beautiful
On to the planning:
Over this past month we have been emailing with Disney Fairy Tail Weddings and first had to reserve our venues and times which we were lucky enough to not have to be part of a lottery for so we got the Wedding Pavilion and a room and balcony at The Grand Floridian We are doing a Wishes wedding so we were able to reserve the venues at 12 months out which just happened to be a few weeks after we were engaged so the timing worked out fairly well.
Our next step a week later was setting up a room block and deciding who would go. We do not live in Florida so this was tough because we know that most of our family will not make it to WDW for our wedding Our solution to this is we are holding a second reception/celebration in our home town for our extended family.
With that decision made we had to select a minimum of 25 room nights spread out around our wedding date at different hotels. 25 room nights is the minimum required for a Wishes wedding and if our guests do not use at least that many nights we will need to pay for the nights up to 25!!! :/ so hopefully this will work out lol... We have 60 nights setup in our room block including our Honeymoon which we want to stay in the Contemporary resort and we will hopefully get a free night at the Polynesian at the end of our honeymoon
Our next step is signing a Letter of Agreement and sending in our deposit which we will be receiving our letter in email in the next week or so and I will post an update when we reach that step
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