Planning a Wedding + Law School = No Wedding

Happy Thanksgiving btw...I have been MIA on this blog for a while. Law school finally sucked me in for the semester in November. Once the smell of finals hits the hallways, its hard to find time for anything else besides wondering how many ways you can possibly fail each of your classes.

But the semester is finally over! Well, it was over a week and a half ago, but I am finally recuperated and ready to move on with life. AKA getting the wedding date finalized. Stacey (Disney wedding contract person extraordinaire) and I have been shooting emails back and forth. She is out of the office until Monday, but I am hoping that we may be able to sign the Letter of Agreement on Monday! Everything is a go as of now for 12/12/11, but it will be nice to know 100% that the date is ours.

Besides that, I officially have a Maid of Honor. I just asked her a few days ago, and she said yes! Like she said, it is basically the blind leading the blind since I have no idea what MOHs do...and neither does she. But she is great, so I know whatever it is she does will be perfect.

I am concentrating right now on the guest list. Yeah...That is not going so well, but I will get it done. My way. Sorry mom. People will be invited. There will be food. There will be wine (well maybe not wine...) BUT, all will have a great time.

I'll be back soon with more wedding details, as the wedding is officially less than a year away now. EEK! Better get to planning!

It's Official! 12-12-11

Disney - Grand Floridian From High Above
Originally uploaded by Express Monorail

I have the email back from Disney, and we officially have our date next year.

Put this on your calendars everyone: 12-12-2011 in Orlando, Florida at the Grand Floridian Resort! (see picture to the right for a lovely look at the resort from the monorail stop near the Magic Kingdom. If you click on the picture to enlarge it, the small, low building to the left of the resort is the wedding chapel.)

Disney changed their booking procedures, and they can now hold dates up to 16 months in advance. So when I sent my "please keep us in mind" email about reserving our date this December, Stacey (our wonderful Disney contact) said that we were on the books already! She just needs the green light in terms of exact ballrooms, but we definitely have the chapel for the morning. I am sure everything else will fall into place perfectly.

Apparently the next steps start happening in November/December, which is exciting. Can't wait to pass on more news about the process.

All I know is that I better start working on that guest list so we can get the save the date cards out ASAP!

It's Official! 12-12-11

I have the email back from Disney, and we officially have our date next year.

Put this on your calendars everyone: 12-12-2011 in Orlando, Florida at the Grand Floridian Resort!

Disney changed their booking procedures, and they can now hold dates up to 16 months in advance. So when I sent my "please keep us in mind" email about reserving our date this December, Stacey (our wonderful Disney contact) said that we were on the books already! She just needs the green light in terms of exact ballrooms, but we definitely have the chapel for the morning. I am sure everything else will fall into place perfectly.

Apparently the next steps start happening in November/December, which is exciting. Can't wait to pass on more news about the process.

All I know is that I better start working on that guest list so we can get the save the date cards out ASAP!

100 Guests???

I have a secret to admit. I have been procrastinating a little bit in getting in touch with Disney to confirm the date. The main reason is that my parents and I have differing opinions on the amount of guests that should be attending my wedding. (And by my parents I mean cough cough Linda Prager cough cough). I envision a smaller wedding, while my mom thinks we need to invite everyone I have ever met and she has ever met in our entire lives. So I might be exaggerating a wee bit, but figuring out a guest total has stalled this process on my end.

You cannot reserve a Disney wedding before one year out. So since I want a December 12, 2011 wedding, I cannot put in my name for that date until December 12th of this year. But in order to reserve the chapel and ballrooms, I need a guest estimate so that we are booked into the appropriately sized room. If I had my vision, it would just be Don and I, our parents, and the small bridal party. Seriously, I actually would love a smaller, more intimate, more extravagant setting. More of a quality over quantity type of situation.

But alas, my mother is vicariously living through this wedding and insists we invite my grandma, aunts, and cousins. (kidding mom) In reality, we have had a few fights about the guest total, but we have come to a mutual understanding at this point.

So long story short, today I finally contacted Stacey at Disney Weddings to tell her that we are sure that we want the wedding in Disney next December. I told her to keep all of the other details the same from the original "faux" contract, and that our guest attendance would be 50-100. I cc-ed my dad on the email.

Here is his response:

100 guests?

My reply:

Blame your wife.