Originally posted by disneydudette
Although its a long way till my honey-moon in disney...
I was just wondering some things...
1) did you guys just book the regular package...or splurged for the romance plan with it...
2) how much can a wedding AND honey moon cost there...sry don't meen to be nosiey....
It seemes as if the weddings there have been incrediable...from what I have seen in pics...
thanx for the info...
DD:kiss:
My wife and I got married there in May of 1999 and had our honeymoon there as well. We stayed at the Boardwalk. Our coordinator with Fairy Tale Weddings arranged to get us an upgraded room to the concierge wing already and the front desk CM bumped us to a 2 floor cottage suite in the courtyard area. That was one awesome room that also gave us the concierge level access. Pretty cool to have a private little lounge with snacks and such open all the time.
As far as the cost, it can literally cost as much as you want, depending on what you want to do. Over $100,000 would not be difficult if you tried and had a large number of guests. We pretty much found the cost to be comparable to just slightly higher than what you would get for the same level of hotel facility in any other city. Obviously, you can do it much cheaper if you want but doing a sit down dinner reception of the quality you can get at a place like WDW and hiring a wedding planner is only so cheap. Also, in my estimation we had about half to 2/3 the number of people come that would have otherwise if we had held the wedding in Raleigh but the people who did not come were mostly more distant relatives and whatnot that in all honesty was not a huge deal if they were not there obviously, fewer people = less cost. If you want to do a small wedding, they also have packages and chapels for just the 2 of you or just a few friends and family as well.l
We had a wonderfull, magical time and as I have had freinds and my brother get married since then, it was such a treat to have everything arranged ahead of time and have to have a professional planner and staff to handle any issues that might have come up.
I cannot emphasize enough the problems and last minute little details that I have seen people have to deal with that we did not. All we did was show up at the time the planner gave us on our itenerary and everything was taken care of and went 100% as smooth as it possibly could.
We also used a DJ that worked with Fairy Tale Weddings and used Disney Photographic Services, that way the planner just seamlessly worked with them to deal with everything. Also since Disney Photographic Services can take pics inside the parks, on my desk I have an awesome picture of my wife and myself infront of Cinderella Castle at just after daybreak where the sky is lit and blue but the lights are still on. The other one of my wife on the carousel in her wedding dress looks pretty darn cool too. Heck, we have an whole album of once in a lifetime pictures like that.
All I can do is tell you to call Fairy Tale Weddings and talk to them or drop by the next time you are donw there. The are super helpfull.
