Leone

Look, speaking as an unbaised Fodorite, here's my take on this thread:

Kelly has asked for help. These are the nice people who have tried to aid Kelley: Kay, Maria, TRoss, Jane and Caitlin; and these people have commented, nicely: Lee, Pam, Anonymous, CM, Annie, Sandy and Regular Gal. And the following have as usual, comported themselves like complete AH's: FedUpWithU and someone who has poached into my territory (marked of course), CiaoKelly. I'll work out the percentages and get back to you if I have time. CiaoLeone ... like Porsche, accept no substitutes.

Jeff

I'm not sure you will get the individual attention you deserve for your special day if you plan a wedding at Disney. I live in Kissimee and my wife tried to plan a birthday party for our daughter on the premises last year. We ended up spending more than I care to tell you to reserve and entire character tea party for daughter and friends complete with guess what her being brought in a coach! My worked on this for months with an event planner and when the day came, it seemed as if we were rushed through like cattle. Almost as if this was insignificant to them (I'm sure it was in the overall scheme of disney). It was very important to us and we had spent well over a thousand dollars which was significant to us.

ilisa

Kelly, you may want to go to the message boards at www.wdwinfo.com. The people on those boards are the biggest Disney fans around, and should have some great advice.

TRoss

My daughter who is also thinking of disney wedding has just found this website www.getawayweddings.com She is now addicted and I will be too I'm afraid for the next several months as the planning begins. This is the Unofficial Disney Wedding Guide on the web.

Matt

I see Kelly has all her bridesmaids posting on here to defend her. You wouldn't be such an easy target Kelly if you wouldn't post so much personl info and if you didn't feel the need to post back. The previous poster is right--you are an airhead. Maybe you should get married in Goofy's Pavilion!

L

Hey, Matt, I can always tell when someone never went to camp or joined the scouts. How were you in kindergarten? A real human inspiration no doubt .. LOL. gt; ... O, you've got me doing that symbol thing again. For shame, cha. Ciao to all.

Calista

I am haevily into wedding planning myself but cannot afford large wedding at Disneyworld. The brochure describes both Disney Intimate Weddings and Disney Fairytale Weddings. I think the intimate wedding is for up to 10 guests and includes cost of musician, minister, flowers, chapel rental for 2 hours and 4 nights accomodations for the couple. The price is $3400 9well within your budget. The catch is that this does not include any reception! You incur cost in renting a reception site and catering at an outrageous price. we are looking into reserving a party room at one of the restaurants and not having a full scale reception, just a meal with cake. also we are only having our parents siblings which puts us under 10!

Topper

Topping!

xxx

Hey LEONE-You are a pompous asshole! You and Kelly belong in Goofy's pavillion together.


CIAO BABY!!!!!!

X

anon

Leone may be pompous, but you are downright MEAN! Nothing worse than being mean to someone for no reason.

Kim

So, Kelly, you don't "want to be like everyone else"? How is having a wedding at Disney World original? If that's your only reason for doing it, it's pretty pathetic.

HMMMM . .

And all this time I thought the majority of people had church weddings. Guess i should have known EVERYONE gets married at WDW. I mean Kim gosh how many people do you know who actually did get married there. And if there are so many why aren't they answering Kelly's question and telling her exactly how it was?

Mom

Kelly-First you say you are meeting with a wedding coordinator then in another post you say you can't afford one. Why are you lying???

Secondly, your family members are making their own travel arrangements and paying for them? What if they don't really want to go there? Have you thought of that?

Thirdly, destination weddings were indeed thought up by travel agents looking to make more money. You are in the minority not using a travel agent.

Kay-What kind of message are we sending to girls when they start wedding planning at age 4? That is the most pathetic thing I have ever heard. No wonder 1/2 of all marriages end up in divorce. Girls want the fairy tale and not reality.

Kelly-Calista answered your question. Obviously you can afford the wedding but not the reception. So, either send your guests to the Magic Kingdom hungry and broke from flying there or back to the drawing board....

Kay

Mom,

I think it's called the Cinderella Syndrome (how appropriate for a Disney themed wedding). When you were a little girl and played with dolls, you probably did play about a fantasy wedding.

My Barbie doll had a wedding dress with a long train, and that was used in fantasy play. (please don't go on about how horrible Barbies are, I was the child, and if I didn't have a Barbie, I would have used another type of doll).

I don't think I was the only one who played "bride" as a child with my dolls.

When we were kids, we dreamed of being grown-ups. Now that we are grown-ups, we shouldn't forget we were once kids.

Yes, it is sad that 1/2 of all marriages end in divorce. However, not all marriages "back then" were perfect. At least now it's okay to leave an abusive partner or lying, cheating scoundrel.

Calista

I think there is a problem in uderstanding for those of you who have never planned a wedidng such as this. There is more than one type of wedding coordinator. Disney does provide for you for free someone employed by disney who is there to coordinate and make your arrangements for you (a wedding planner) Some people whether they are having a disney wedding or a church wedding or whatever hire a professional wedding coordinator who is not employed by any certain entity and yes I know for sure they are VERY expensive.

As I told Kelly earlier, I am planning a wedding at disney too (intimate one) not 20-30 people like she is planning. For the Intimate Wedding you can have a maximum of 8 guests. We are having both sets of parents and some siblings. Of course we are not paying for their travel arrangements and if these people don't want to go then we will ask someone else, but I ASSURE you our parents will want to go just as any parents do! Do you think if I had a Weddingmoon in the Caribbean I would pay for everyones travel arrangements? Of course not! A wedding is about 2 people pledging their love to each other it is not about doing it in a manner so as not to inonvenience the guests. If people want to come they will and if they don't, they won't. the day will not be spoiled for the couple either way!

xxxx

Obviously Kelly can't afford it with her meager amount so she needs to do it somewhere else.

Kelly

Well thank yu so much for those who have actually posted helpful ideas on this board. To the rest of you, why don't you just answer another thread where you can be helpful and lay off the evil barbs? Anyway, As I understand it on my budget I can afford the Intimate Wedding (less than $4k) and can have a reception with the other $14k. The only problem is I can only have 8 guests at the Intimate Wedding when I had hoped for at leat 25. My decision now is to have a bigger wedding close to home or very small wedding at WDW on my budget. Again the comments on the cost and details of this type of affair have been very helpful. Thank you!

anonymous2

Kelly - if you go to WDW for wedding, where will you go gor honeymoon? will you stay at Disneyworld with your whole family? That wouldn't be much fun. wink wink, nudge nudge

xxx

Hopefully we have read the last of Kelly and her stupid wedding plans....

Planner

i don't understand what is wrong with going to this board for wedding advice when you will be traveling for your wedding or honeymoon. I see people do it all the time. MANY questions are about honeymoons, why not weddings? I do see this as a travel question and wonder why Kelly got so muh heat. Did something happen on the board that I missed as i was not actively following this thread?