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Earning My Ears
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Hello everyone! When I started looking into DFTW I felt like there weren't enough Escape brides doing PJs. Plus, I'm planning it all in less than 6 months, so I'm hoping that will help people out too!
Welcome Dessert Party: UK Lochside
Ceremony: Canada Terrace, Epcot, 9am
Lunch "reception": Morimoto Asia, Disney Springs
Our story
We met in grad school at a wine tasting. I was supposed to be meeting a bunch of people there, but none of them showed and I was biding my time until I didn't feel awkward leaving. Mark was a regular, and he struck up a conversation with me when he overheard I was a grad student as well. We talked for the next 2 hours, and the rest is history.
The proposal
We're very pragmatic people, but have our own sense of romanticism. We picked out a ring together back in March, but he wanted to wait and tell people when our families were together for his graduation. I told him to ask when he was ready. The night before his graduation, he made me a sushi dinner and we were splitting a fancy bottle of wine. He said something about being part of the family, and I joked that I wasn't yet because I wasn't wearing the ring. He immediately pulled the ring out of his pocket and said "Well, do you want to?" We told our families the next day at graduation like he had planned. Like I said, pragmatic, but romantic in our way.
Why DFTW?
I have always been a Disney fan. My aunt was a cast member in the early 00s, so we went a lot with her. Since high school, my best friend and our moms have become even bigger fans and I try to go at least once a year, though I make up for the years I miss by going multiple times the next year. When my brother got married a few years ago, my mom and I joked about a Disney wedding and because I'm a researcher I looked it up. I saw the Escape package and fell in love and I've wanted it ever since.
DF hadn't been to Disney since he was a kid, so when my family went to Food and Wine last fall I made him come. I half-joked that if he didn't like it, I wasn't sure if we could have a future together. Luckily, he loved Food and Wine and agreed that we could get married at Disney!
There are a lot of reasons we chose the Escape package. For me, I've never really dreamed about my wedding and I know nothing of flowers, so I loved the ease of planning where all I have to do is pick from options. As long as it's pretty, I'm good. For both of us, cost was another big thing. We'd like to have money left over to save for a house. We also really liked the numbers limit. Neither of us want a big wedding, but I have a huge extended family and lots of sorority sisters and my parents have lots of close friends, so being able to tell people we can only have 18 at the ceremony is great for us. That being said, we will have some extended family join us for the DP and lunch after the ceremony.
I also looked at doing a Swan and Dolphin wedding with Just Marry, and the conversations my mom and I had with them were great, so I'd highly recommend them to anyone. I couldn't pass up the chance to get married in Epcot- it's always been my favorite park. We only had 1-2 dates we could go down in October for the wedding, and DF's caveat was that we go during Food and Wine, so had we not been able to get the Canada Terrace, I would've gone for Swan and Dolphin hands down.
I'm going to try to split this up into smaller posts as I go on and link them all at the top of this post, so if you know how to link to specific posts, feel free to PM me with instructions. Thanks!
Welcome Dessert Party: UK Lochside
Ceremony: Canada Terrace, Epcot, 9am
Lunch "reception": Morimoto Asia, Disney Springs
Our story
We met in grad school at a wine tasting. I was supposed to be meeting a bunch of people there, but none of them showed and I was biding my time until I didn't feel awkward leaving. Mark was a regular, and he struck up a conversation with me when he overheard I was a grad student as well. We talked for the next 2 hours, and the rest is history.
The proposal
We're very pragmatic people, but have our own sense of romanticism. We picked out a ring together back in March, but he wanted to wait and tell people when our families were together for his graduation. I told him to ask when he was ready. The night before his graduation, he made me a sushi dinner and we were splitting a fancy bottle of wine. He said something about being part of the family, and I joked that I wasn't yet because I wasn't wearing the ring. He immediately pulled the ring out of his pocket and said "Well, do you want to?" We told our families the next day at graduation like he had planned. Like I said, pragmatic, but romantic in our way.
Why DFTW?
I have always been a Disney fan. My aunt was a cast member in the early 00s, so we went a lot with her. Since high school, my best friend and our moms have become even bigger fans and I try to go at least once a year, though I make up for the years I miss by going multiple times the next year. When my brother got married a few years ago, my mom and I joked about a Disney wedding and because I'm a researcher I looked it up. I saw the Escape package and fell in love and I've wanted it ever since.
DF hadn't been to Disney since he was a kid, so when my family went to Food and Wine last fall I made him come. I half-joked that if he didn't like it, I wasn't sure if we could have a future together. Luckily, he loved Food and Wine and agreed that we could get married at Disney!
There are a lot of reasons we chose the Escape package. For me, I've never really dreamed about my wedding and I know nothing of flowers, so I loved the ease of planning where all I have to do is pick from options. As long as it's pretty, I'm good. For both of us, cost was another big thing. We'd like to have money left over to save for a house. We also really liked the numbers limit. Neither of us want a big wedding, but I have a huge extended family and lots of sorority sisters and my parents have lots of close friends, so being able to tell people we can only have 18 at the ceremony is great for us. That being said, we will have some extended family join us for the DP and lunch after the ceremony.
I also looked at doing a Swan and Dolphin wedding with Just Marry, and the conversations my mom and I had with them were great, so I'd highly recommend them to anyone. I couldn't pass up the chance to get married in Epcot- it's always been my favorite park. We only had 1-2 dates we could go down in October for the wedding, and DF's caveat was that we go during Food and Wine, so had we not been able to get the Canada Terrace, I would've gone for Swan and Dolphin hands down.
I'm going to try to split this up into smaller posts as I go on and link them all at the top of this post, so if you know how to link to specific posts, feel free to PM me with instructions. Thanks!
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