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MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Gabe1 said:
I've been in the parks when tap to pay is broken. I've been at Kiosks when they only took cash because of tech error the were having. Then what people?
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figmentfan423 said:
I was wondering about that. I saw it twice last trip both at gift shops.
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So, their Plan B is cash, if the electronics go down. Okaaayyy . . . yet, their message to guests is no cash--bring your Magic Band, credit or debit cards, or gift cards. Would prefer a more realistic message such as: Although WDW is moving toward electronic transactions at all outlets in the parks and hotels, it is suggested that guests still bring some cash, in the event that our electronic sales systems temporarily malfunction.

Yah, I know . . . :facepalm: :banghead:
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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ajrwdwgirl said:
My husband talked to my parents before he proposed to me and if he hadn't I think I would have been disappointed for some of the reasons you talked about. I think with him talking to both of my parents (which he did in person) it showed a lot of respect for my parents, family, and me. It was like he was more seeking their acceptance to join the family and reassure them of how much he cared for and respected me. To me it was a very manly move for him to be able to express his love for me to my family. My parents were very touched that he came to talk to them, they already liked him but they liked that they were included in such a momentous moment.

For our wedding we/I was pretty traditional. I love flowers so I wouldn't have dreamed of having a wedding without a bouquet. My dress, I had a nice one but it was simple and really not that important to me. I also wanted a really great cake, because I like cake. I wore a veil, not over my face, but because it helped me feel like a "princess" on my special day. My husband didn't care what his ring looked like and encouraged me to get him the cheapest one possible! I wanted it at Disney and he was adamant it be in a church, we compromised and had it at my home church and took our honeymoon in WDW. So as someone said (@dryerlintfan) some things have to be compromised.

It is interesting to hear about how everyone sees the different elements of a wedding and nice that everyone has their own beliefs. And that is totally fine for people do start new traditions and disregard others, it is their wedding.

But what I totally disagree or can't with is how much money people spend on wedding and how crazy some brides and grooms get about it. My wedding was small and we kept it to a very tight budget and we had a fantastic time. Sometimes I think people get so caught up in the wedding part that they forget to spend time and money on what actually matters.....the marriage and the partnership of the two people dedicating themselves to loving and caring for one another. :)
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Our pastor told us to focus on the marriage, not on the wedding. You'll still be just as married if uncle Earl falls asleep in his dinner plate. Our biggest issue was my mom, who REALLY wanted me to have the wedding in my hometown, which consisted of about 1200 people, did not have a single hotel, and had 2 very poor quality restaurants and no bakeries. I told her it was a logistical nightmare....where would we have the reception? The only place big enough was the town hall auditorium which was basically a big room with a stage and a concrete floor. No way. And hardly any of the guest list was from Wyoming even....they would have to stay in a hotel...where was THAT going to be? I was not going to ask my guests to stay in a hotel 40 miles away, and commute to my wedding, nor was I willing to commute in a wedding dress and get married in the next town where there were hotels and restaurants. So I insisted that we get married in Laramie, where we were living at the time, and where I had gone to college. There were reception halls, hotels, restaurants, my home, salons....everything right there. My mom says "But my friends won't all be able to drive down there!" Yeah....and MY friends wouldn't be able to make it to Wright....and whose wedding IS it?? Not to mention DH's family coming from the Netherlands....no international airport in Wyoming, so they had to fly into Denver, which was already 4 hours drive from Laramie, but SIX hours to Wright. Like I'm going to make them fly for 14 hours and then get in a car for another 6 hours to Wright...no, make that 7 hours to Gillette since there are no hotels in Wright, when they could drive across their entire COUNTRY in about 1/3 of that time!? They aren't used to those distances. We did everything small scale, it was pretty low key and inexpensive, which was fortunate since a week before our wedding, Sept 11th happened and everything went topsy turvey with people not being able to fly, or things we had ordered not being able to be delivered...suddenly everyone had to change plans and drive, which meant longer trips and more time off, so about half our guest list ended up not being able to make it. But we still had a blast, and my brother invited a few more of his friends and we had a big ol' party. The small things didn't matter...like the dress and the veil and the bouquet....it was more a celebration of us finally not having to live in different countries. You think all those things are going to make or break the wedding, but they don't.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Yikes!! The wind!! We have our windows closed, but they have a kind of latch on them and they are a bit loose....we have a code red warning for wind today...gusts up to 90 mph, so it keeps gusting and I'm afraid it's going to rip the window off the hinges!! It blew the trampoline over and against the back door...I couldn't have opened the door. But then it blew it back upright. And the neighbors have a satelite mounted on a pole above their shed and it is bent at an almost 90 degree angle now....bet the neighbors aren't watching any TV today!! DH has already arranged to pick both kids up from school, because there is no way they could bike in this. As much as I need the exercise, I don't know that -I- could bike in this. Yesterday it hailed on me and today it's windy enough to bend a metal pole....ENOUGH, Mother nature!! Snow if you will, but please stop with the theatrics!!
 
Mr Ferret 75

Mr Ferret 75

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Songbird76 said:
Yikes!! The wind!! We have our windows closed, but they have a kind of latch on them and they are a bit loose....we have a code red warning for wind today...gusts up to 90 mph, so it keeps gusting and I'm afraid it's going to rip the window off the hinges!! It blew the trampoline over and against the back door...I couldn't have opened the door. But then it blew it back upright. And the neighbors have a satelite mounted on a pole above their shed and it is bent at an almost 90 degree angle now....bet the neighbors aren't watching any TV today!! DH has already arranged to pick both kids up from school, because there is no way they could bike in this. As much as I need the exercise, I don't know that -I- could bike in this. Yesterday it hailed on me and today it's windy enough to bend a metal pole....ENOUGH, Mother nature!! Snow if you will, but please stop with the theatrics!!
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We had up to force 9 last night. Cold i can do but the wind is horrible.
 
DryerLintFan

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Songbird76 said:
Our pastor told us to focus on the marriage, not on the wedding. You'll still be just as married if uncle Earl falls asleep in his dinner plate. Our biggest issue was my mom, who REALLY wanted me to have the wedding in my hometown, which consisted of about 1200 people, did not have a single hotel, and had 2 very poor quality restaurants and no bakeries. I told her it was a logistical nightmare....where would we have the reception? The only place big enough was the town hall auditorium which was basically a big room with a stage and a concrete floor. No way. And hardly any of the guest list was from Wyoming even....they would have to stay in a hotel...where was THAT going to be? I was not going to ask my guests to stay in a hotel 40 miles away, and commute to my wedding, nor was I willing to commute in a wedding dress and get married in the next town where there were hotels and restaurants. So I insisted that we get married in Laramie, where we were living at the time, and where I had gone to college. There were reception halls, hotels, restaurants, my home, salons....everything right there. My mom says "But my friends won't all be able to drive down there!" Yeah....and MY friends wouldn't be able to make it to Wright....and whose wedding IS it?? Not to mention DH's family coming from the Netherlands....no international airport in Wyoming, so they had to fly into Denver, which was already 4 hours drive from Laramie, but SIX hours to Wright. Like I'm going to make them fly for 14 hours and then get in a car for another 6 hours to Wright...no, make that 7 hours to Gillette since there are no hotels in Wright, when they could drive across their entire COUNTRY in about 1/3 of that time!? They aren't used to those distances. We did everything small scale, it was pretty low key and inexpensive, which was fortunate since a week before our wedding, Sept 11th happened and everything went topsy turvey with people not being able to fly, or things we had ordered not being able to be delivered...suddenly everyone had to change plans and drive, which meant longer trips and more time off, so about half our guest list ended up not being able to make it. But we still had a blast, and my brother invited a few more of his friends and we had a big ol' party. The small things didn't matter...like the dress and the veil and the bouquet....it was more a celebration of us finally not having to live in different countries. You think all those things are going to make or break the wedding, but they don't.
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I used to watch a show called Bridezillas, which was an amazing reality show about women going absolutely crazy planning their weddings. They were terrible. One thing they had in common though was that they OBSESSED over the chairs. What chairs would look the best and classiest at their wedding. I've gone to a LOT of weddings, but I cannot for the life of me remember what the chairs looked like at any of them. All the guests care about are three things: 1) does the couple look happy/ in love; 2) is the food good; 3) did they have fun.

That's it, though. Everything else just doesn't matter.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Songbird76 said:
Yikes!! The wind!! We have our windows closed, but they have a kind of latch on them and they are a bit loose....we have a code red warning for wind today...gusts up to 90 mph, so it keeps gusting and I'm afraid it's going to rip the window off the hinges!! It blew the trampoline over and against the back door...I couldn't have opened the door. But then it blew it back upright. And the neighbors have a satelite mounted on a pole above their shed and it is bent at an almost 90 degree angle now....bet the neighbors aren't watching any TV today!! DH has already arranged to pick both kids up from school, because there is no way they could bike in this. As much as I need the exercise, I don't know that -I- could bike in this. Yesterday it hailed on me and today it's windy enough to bend a metal pole....ENOUGH, Mother nature!! Snow if you will, but please stop with the theatrics!!
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You rode in hail? Ouch!!!:eek: 90mph winds are like tropical force winds. Stay safe. Surprised they wouldn't have closed schools considering so many probably ride bikes. Unsafe for kids who even walk with possible flying projectiles.:oops::rolleyes:
 
DryerLintFan

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Songbird76 said:
Our pastor told us to focus on the marriage, not on the wedding. You'll still be just as married if uncle Earl falls asleep in his dinner plate. Our biggest issue was my mom, who REALLY wanted me to have the wedding in my hometown, which consisted of about 1200 people, did not have a single hotel, and had 2 very poor quality restaurants and no bakeries. I told her it was a logistical nightmare....where would we have the reception? The only place big enough was the town hall auditorium which was basically a big room with a stage and a concrete floor. No way. And hardly any of the guest list was from Wyoming even....they would have to stay in a hotel...where was THAT going to be? I was not going to ask my guests to stay in a hotel 40 miles away, and commute to my wedding, nor was I willing to commute in a wedding dress and get married in the next town where there were hotels and restaurants. So I insisted that we get married in Laramie, where we were living at the time, and where I had gone to college. There were reception halls, hotels, restaurants, my home, salons....everything right there. My mom says "But my friends won't all be able to drive down there!" Yeah....and MY friends wouldn't be able to make it to Wright....and whose wedding IS it?? Not to mention DH's family coming from the Netherlands....no international airport in Wyoming, so they had to fly into Denver, which was already 4 hours drive from Laramie, but SIX hours to Wright. Like I'm going to make them fly for 14 hours and then get in a car for another 6 hours to Wright...no, make that 7 hours to Gillette since there are no hotels in Wright, when they could drive across their entire COUNTRY in about 1/3 of that time!? They aren't used to those distances. We did everything small scale, it was pretty low key and inexpensive, which was fortunate since a week before our wedding, Sept 11th happened and everything went topsy turvey with people not being able to fly, or things we had ordered not being able to be delivered...suddenly everyone had to change plans and drive, which meant longer trips and more time off, so about half our guest list ended up not being able to make it. But we still had a blast, and my brother invited a few more of his friends and we had a big ol' party. The small things didn't matter...like the dress and the veil and the bouquet....it was more a celebration of us finally not having to live in different countries. You think all those things are going to make or break the wedding, but they don't.
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We woke up to a freak snowstorm on our wedding day. We got married in early December and it almost never snowed that early. I was devastated. Lots of our guests had to cancel their drives. One of my bridesmaids was flying in from New York and had her flight delayed and delayed and delayed. We ended up walking down the aisle late because she was frantically driving from the airport. She had to change into her dress in the car :hilarious::hilarious: And one of our groomsmen almost didn't make it because he had to drive up from NC and hadn't been prepared for snow in the mountains at all.

But they say rain on your wedding day is good luck, so snow must be too. It made for some really beautiful pictures :inlove::inlove:

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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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dryerlintfan said:
We woke up to a freak snowstorm on our wedding day. We got married in early December and it almost never snowed that early. I was devastated. Lots of our guests had to cancel their drives. One of my bridesmaids was flying in from New York and had her flight delayed and delayed and delayed. We ended up walking down the aisle late because she was frantically driving from the airport. She had to change into her dress in the car :hilarious::hilarious: And one of our groomsmen almost didn't make it because he had to drive up from NC and hadn't been prepared for snow in the mountains at all.

But they say rain on your wedding day is good luck, so snow must be too. It made for some really beautiful pictures :inlove::inlove:

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Very pretty! :)I bet this is right up @MinnieM123 alley.;) But weren't your arms cold?
 

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