Ok, I've tried to avoid WDW Magic since I got back from WDW in June for fear of getting depressed that my next trip isn't planned...but I happened in and saw this thread...great story to tell:
I got engaged at the Castle in March 1996 at King Stefan's. Cinderella comes out with the dessert tray...I grab the glass slipper off the tray that has the engagement ring inside...kneel down and propose...she says yes...hysteria ensues.
My brother was on the trip with us (though not at that dinner with us) and worked for MetLife. He knew the lady who worked in their lounge at the Wonders of Life pavilion and told her all about it.
We were married in June 1997 and had zero money. I was starting law school and my wife was paying for it by teaching elementary school. So my parents paid for us to go back to WDW and stay in a suite at the Wilderness Lodge. Which was amazing.
But my brother got the lady at the Wonders of Life pavilion to get us passes to ALLLL the corporate lounges around WDW. It was amazing! It was hot as Hades in June 97 and it was the anniversary of the park where they put up that God-forsaken cake crap around the castle. So we'd head to a corporate lounge somewhere..get a drink..cool off..and then jump ahead in line at whatever attraction was attached to the lounge. That was particularly cool at the FedEx lounge at Space Mountain. I wish we would have taken pictures I could share here now. Good memories, though!...thanks for reminding me with this thread.
And yes..still married to the same girl. Two kids and about 8 trips to WDW since.
