XSeabiscuitX
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- Mar 3, 2012
So I realize planning journals seem to be way less popular than they once were, but honestly I'm mostly hoping typing all this up will help me sort some stuff out that I'm still trying to decide. And I'm purposely leaving most everything off my blog until the wedding's over for a variety of reasons, but maybe this will help out some other Disney Cruise Line brides in the meantime. Reading other bride's, even when they're several years old, has helped me a lot. I even randomly found out one of my friends was at someone's wedding on a cruise a couple years ago because a picture of him was in their planning journal.
Update: I have now moved everything over to my blog Twenty Something in Orlando. So if you'd like to keep up with this, please check out this link.
Backstory: I grew up in East Tennessee and moved to Orlando on the Disney College Program in 2013. Jay has lived quite literally all over the world (Italy, Oman, Australia, New Orleans, Colorado, and more) before he came to Florida in 2015. We met while working at the World Famous Jungle Cruise. Let me tell you, when you put two Skippers together, the puns NEVER STOP, even though I hung up my mic a while ago.
Fast forward to March 21st, 2019. He tells me we're going to Magic Kingdom for a tour. Well, there was a tour, but first this happened.
Please note the Duffy Bear, that'll be important later.
I have never particularly wanted a big wedding or had a dream wedding in mind. I've always said I only cared about the dress, the cake, and the pictures. Even then, I was going to forget the dress and the pictures and we had this whole idea semi planned for when we eventually were ready at our favorite restaurant in Orlando. Well, the manager left the restaurant and then the stars aligned where I realized I would be able to get my dream dress at a fraction of the cost. (I'll explain that at some point.) This put me on a path to inquiring about the Magic Kingdom bridal photo shoot, because that's all I've wanted for as long as I can remember and now that I had the ability to afford the dress, it was suddenly a possibility.
Well, fun fact, they won't let you do a Magic Kingdom bridal shoot unless you have a Disney Fairy Tale Wedding. You can do any of the other parks, but you can't do MK. So now I was on a mission to find the most cost effective option for a Disney Fairy Tale Wedding.
Oddly enough, the answer is Disney Cruise Line. The least expensive Disney World wedding starts at $3,500, and you only get four guests. Now the Disney Cruise Line weddings have gone up to $3,500, but when I started booking it was $3,000 for an on ship wedding, and it included up to sixteen guests. You can add additional guests as needed for $20 a head. While we never had a huge guest list, this solved a lot of problems for us. There's also a lot less customization with a DCL wedding so that's unfortunate, and I've had to accept that I'll never get the cake I've always wanted, but for a Disney wedding in our price range that lets us have basically everything else we could ever want, I'll live.
For two people who have spent a lot of their lives on boats, getting married on one just makes sense.
We are getting married on the Disney Dream, sailing out of Port Canaveral, March 2020. The wedding is set to take place on the ship on Nassau Day, most likely in the Outlook. I've never been on a cruise, and Jay's never been on a Disney Cruise, which is why you might have seen me on the cruise line forum with a lot of questions. So welcome to my planning journal.
Update: I have now moved everything over to my blog Twenty Something in Orlando. So if you'd like to keep up with this, please check out this link.
Backstory: I grew up in East Tennessee and moved to Orlando on the Disney College Program in 2013. Jay has lived quite literally all over the world (Italy, Oman, Australia, New Orleans, Colorado, and more) before he came to Florida in 2015. We met while working at the World Famous Jungle Cruise. Let me tell you, when you put two Skippers together, the puns NEVER STOP, even though I hung up my mic a while ago.
Fast forward to March 21st, 2019. He tells me we're going to Magic Kingdom for a tour. Well, there was a tour, but first this happened.
Please note the Duffy Bear, that'll be important later.
I have never particularly wanted a big wedding or had a dream wedding in mind. I've always said I only cared about the dress, the cake, and the pictures. Even then, I was going to forget the dress and the pictures and we had this whole idea semi planned for when we eventually were ready at our favorite restaurant in Orlando. Well, the manager left the restaurant and then the stars aligned where I realized I would be able to get my dream dress at a fraction of the cost. (I'll explain that at some point.) This put me on a path to inquiring about the Magic Kingdom bridal photo shoot, because that's all I've wanted for as long as I can remember and now that I had the ability to afford the dress, it was suddenly a possibility.
Well, fun fact, they won't let you do a Magic Kingdom bridal shoot unless you have a Disney Fairy Tale Wedding. You can do any of the other parks, but you can't do MK. So now I was on a mission to find the most cost effective option for a Disney Fairy Tale Wedding.
Oddly enough, the answer is Disney Cruise Line. The least expensive Disney World wedding starts at $3,500, and you only get four guests. Now the Disney Cruise Line weddings have gone up to $3,500, but when I started booking it was $3,000 for an on ship wedding, and it included up to sixteen guests. You can add additional guests as needed for $20 a head. While we never had a huge guest list, this solved a lot of problems for us. There's also a lot less customization with a DCL wedding so that's unfortunate, and I've had to accept that I'll never get the cake I've always wanted, but for a Disney wedding in our price range that lets us have basically everything else we could ever want, I'll live.
For two people who have spent a lot of their lives on boats, getting married on one just makes sense.
We are getting married on the Disney Dream, sailing out of Port Canaveral, March 2020. The wedding is set to take place on the ship on Nassau Day, most likely in the Outlook. I've never been on a cruise, and Jay's never been on a Disney Cruise, which is why you might have seen me on the cruise line forum with a lot of questions. So welcome to my planning journal.
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