Disney Fan

Novel Idea - My point exactly!!!! If you are not religious it makes no difference where your wedding is. Yes, I want to have a celebration with family, but why NOT have it in a beautiful place like the WDW Wedding Pavillion?

jenni

IMO, the whole "destination wedding" business was cooked up by the travel agencies. With their revenue seriously affected by internet bookings they had to come up with a new gimmick to earn commission $$$$. Almost every travel agency now has a wedding specialist. And WDW pays nice commission on big, packages like weddings.

As to the type of people who want to get married at WDW, I think they are so enamored with the whole Snow White and Cinderella fantasy, with the glass coach etc. they think this is the perfect setting.

If you want to read a good expose on WDW read Carl Hiaasen's "Team Rodent." An enlightening book into WDW's business practices and ethics.

Weddings as Drama

Yes, commitment to another person for the rest of your life with your dearest relatives and friends as witnesses and partakers of your commitment -- this definitely belongs where nothing is real and your hosts are plastic-faced cartoon characters!

When children get married, they think FantasyLand is the ultimate place and Cinderella's castle is where all true love must lead. Roller coasters, spinning teacups, cotton candy -- what a perfect testament to a lifelong partnership no matter how rough things may get! And an excellent basis for mature parenthood, don't you think? Two playmates getting married in a highly commercialized sandbox!

Partay on, among the fantasies and the cash registers! Your idea of marriage is as solid as the papier-mache rocks surrounding the rides.

They don't have to get married in a church, temple, synagogue, etc. if you aren't religious in any traditional sense; but are they really saying their religion is Disney-ism? There are thousands of beautiful or meaningful places to get married. Doesn't have to be a theme park where the theme is entertainment, escape, childishness, and extravagent indulgence.

phil

If someone wants their wedding at Disney, hey that's their business.

But, I couldn't help laughing my a** off when I found out that my knucklehead 30 year old cousin got engaged on "Cinderella's Carriage" at WDW. I guess it is part of the, unfortunate, American notion that gaudy and ostentatious equals class.

J

I opened this post b/c I was curious about the answer too.

To Mickey's answer what these 'Disney fanatics' don't realize is that it's all FAKE. If people like the clean streets, green grass, and smiling faces so much, why don't we see more of that in normal, everyday living?

Yes, you can get married wherever you want. But, I think a bigger question here is, "Why is Disney so popular in the first place?"

Tom

Is the groom a man or a mouse? If the latter then Disney World is the place to tie the knot.

elvis

People get married at WDW because the gondola at the Bellagio was booked. DUH!!!

Eisner

J-Disney is popular because they very cleverly market it. Look at the ads running now featuring the older couples having the time of their lives. People have bought lock stock and barrel into the fantasy because their real lives are pretty pathetic...

Strange

I understand getting married in the Wedding Chapel at Disneyworld. But, why oh why, would soemone get dressed up in full wedding attire to get married on a ROLLEROASTER at Disneyworld or any other theme park? This is not a joke this was on the Travel Channel last Sunday.

curious

Strange, You can understand getting married at the wedding chapel at Disney? Please don't hold back, I think many of us are dying to know why that's appealing. Do tell.

seriously

Seriously, if you want to know more.. I remember reading a post a while ago on Fodors about WDW weddings.

Someone shared their experiences, and listed their (or some, can't remember) web site.

I checked it out out of curiosity. It was someone's wedding site. Pix of couples at the reception. A typical home-made web travel/wedding site.

There were other links to other WDW weddings.. too.. at which time I lost interest.

So.. search for Wedding Pavillion (I think) and look for the web site.

holly

to strange:

i'd rather stick a fork in my eye than get married in WDW. BUT, if i were going to, i'd certainly get married on the roller coaster/tea cup ride/etc before i'd get married in the wedding chapel. if you're going to do something as lame as getting married at WDW don't make it even more pathetic and pedestrian by getting married in the wedding chapel. my mother always said - there's no point in doing anything half-assed,

Ann

I'd be interested to know the divorce rate amongst those married at WDW.

Elvis

The divorce rate probably isn't nearly as high as that of the drive thru wedding chapels in Vegas. Hey, at least planning a wedding at Disney takes palnning and commitment for about a year and is not a spur of the moment kind of thing. Besides after spending that much on a wedding, who can afford attorneys's fees for a divorce?

Blushing

Although we did not get married at Disney, my husband and I did go there on our honeymoon 8 years ago. Besides the fact that we were young and immature when we got married (both 21), going to WDW did have some significance for us. We went there on our first date when we were 17 (lived in the area at the time), held hands for the first time (on the Haunted Mansion ride, awwww...), and had our first kiss later that night. We definitely wouldn't have gotten married there even if it had been an option, and if we were getting married today, we'd choose to honeymoon someplace else, but it was something we enjoyed at the time. And 11 years after our first date, we still hold hands on the Haunted Mansion ride, whenever we take our kids to Disney...

Disney Fan

I actually intended to get married at WDW. I was not planning on having a huge extravagant affair but wanted an intimate wedding with parents and siblings only. we were all going to spend 3 days vaationing together at the park and have wedding on last day. Everything was going to be at the outdoor gazebo on the boardwalk. Hubby and I were were then going to take the 4 day disney cruise for some alone time for our honeymoon. We thought it was a great way to celebrate with the people we love. Problem was extended family who all thought they should be invited. They didn't understand that there was one price which was reasonable for an Intimate Wedding and that it would be crazy expensive to have a big wedding there. Parents were paying for wedding. We (hubby, I was just graduating school at time and not yet employed)bought our own plane tickets and paid for the cruise, all acomodations were included in wedding package to be purchased. We wanted a Disney Wedding but ended up caneling it and having it in parents hometown at historic Victorian Home and grounds. 3 years later we are happily married but still think about the Disney Wedding we would have had.

notdisney

Disney Fan, Do you REALLY still think about the Disney wedding you could have had after 3 years. That sounds alot like regret. Poisonous stuff that regret.

Optimist

People here are very pessimistic, always talking about the divorce rate. This is not a good attitude going into a marriage! Just for laughs though, what makes you think a "church wedding" in the hometown is guaranteed against divorce? Come on. On your wedding plan the type you want, when its tiem for someone else's MYOB and if its at Disney, so be it.

MichaelEisner

People have such pathetic lives that's why they like the artificial, fantasy, everything is happy place of WDW. Keep spending your money you pathetic people because I want more to buy more and more...I love POWER and you people have given it to me!!! I have more power than some 3rd world governments!ROTFLMAO!!!

Where was Daisy?

I've been to a D'land wedding. Found it mostly unbelievably plastic and hokey (didn't tell the pretty bride or her pretty attendants, though). Most horrible moment was having Mickey walk up the aisle to greet the newlyweds and walk them out of the pavillion. What if Mickey had shown up when Princess Di and Charles (aka Dumbo?) were "recessing" out of Westminster? I can see it at a 6-year-old's birthday party, maybe, but a wedding!????

The wedding cake had Mickey silhouettes instead of roses, and the chaste, never-married Mickey and Minnie were on the top. It was hysterical.

HOWEVER: Mickey (who, based on "his" height, the tiny girth of his waist, and the great care with which "he" arranged the bride's train for all the photos with him, makes me think he might actually be a cross-dressing lady) is superb at one significant part of the reception: he kept a couple of obnoxious kids absolutely in line. Whenever one of them started charging around the dance floor, yelling and generally acting up, Mickey would take him by the hand, lead him to a chair, hold one finger up as if to say "wait here, I'll be right back to show you something," and the idiot kid would stay put for quite a while.

Solution: have your wedding in a church, on a hill, in a judge's office, at the beach, or wherever, but invite Mickey to the reception.