I think I lost a post...
I can't seem to find the one of the family portraits, after the ceremony but before the reception. I thought I posted a bunch of pictures. Did I? Or am I going crazy? It ended with Eddie and me running to the limo...
Oh well. Let's wrap this baby up!
Reception continued-
So, after we said "hi" to everyone, I showed Eddie our cakes and then it was time to eat! It seems that we probably were running a little late. They had that food out of the kitchen so fast! We had the goat cheese ravioli as a starter. Everyone loved it! (Except my sister, she said she tried to scrape the taste of it off her tongue using her fork
). While lunch was being served, DJ Steve took our request of playing Billy Joel very seriously. He played only Billy while we ate. And it was obscure Billy Joel songs, not the normal ones.
That was my one little complaint about DJ Steve, but it wasn't really his fault, we said we wanted Billy Joel.
After the ravioli, we got up a little and saw some more people, but before we could even get to one table they had the steak out. We had a steak with fries and salsa on the side. My steak was delicious. Eddie's was disgusting. His was very overcooked. But it was ok, with everything going on, we both couldn't sit still for more than a minute. We made it a point to eat a little of everything, but we couldn't really eat a full meal. As soon as the steaks were cleared away, they brought out the most amazing cheesecake! People are still talking about the cheesecake, it was so good! I was a little disappointed that I couldn't find a waiter anywhere. Apparently they did table wine service, and everyone had a couple of glasses, but I was never offered any. Also, when the cakes went out, a lot of people had coffee. I never was offered any, and I live for coffee. I love it. It's ok, it wasn't that big of a deal, I just thought it was strange that I was never offered anything.
So, as soon as the cheesecake was cleared away, I got up to use the restroom when I saw Amy. As I passed her, I jokingly said "I'm ready to party!". As soon as I said that, Amy went running into the back and got DJ Steve. He was clearly in the middle of eating, I felt so bad I told him to go back to finish lunch, but he refused and went right to the DJ area. I thought that was so amazing, I wasn't even meaning for Amy to do that, I was just kidding around, but once DJ Steve was out there, the party just took off! It was so much fun. He started us off with the "cha cha slide" and another big group dance. Once that started, Eddie and I barely left the dance floor.
Thinking back on it, I guess I should have socialized a bit more, but I was having too much fun dancing and enjoying the day.
Oh yeah, before the dancing started, we did the Father/Daughter, Mother/Son dances. I was glad to get that over with! I danced with my dad to "Lullaby" by Billy Joel, but I had DJ Steve play "Wooly Bully" when he first announced us as a joke. My nickname growing up was wooly bully, and my dad always used to sing that song to me, so it was really nice. My dad was totally surprised, and everyone was cheering so much that later on we had DJ Steve play the entire song and my sister, brother, and I danced with my dad to it. Such a nice memory. Eddie danced with his mom to "Blessed" by Elton John.
The rain slowed a little, so we were able to go out onto the observation deck and we got some really nice pics from that. The one weird part of the day was when they randomly said, "ok time to cut the cake". We didn't really get much help from anyone on that. David & Vicki kind of guided us on how to do it. Oh my gosh, the bottom tier of our cake was red velvet & buttercream. It was SO good. So much better than what we tasted at the planning session. It was so fresh and delicious. Then they had us cut Eddie's grooms cake. That was even better! Chocolate and peanut butter frosting.
It was so good.
Throughout the party the boys kept ordering "shots". They weren't really shots, apparently Disney doesn't serve them, or the California Grill doesn't serve them, so instead they were having Cranberry & Vodka shots. They had about 10. And a lot of people were getting in on it. I was nervous that we'd have a crazy bar bill, but the bill showed we had 86 cocktails..it wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be. We wound up getting around $850 back from our BOC bar.
Before we knew it, the DJ was calling for everyone to get on the dance floor for the last song of the day.
We danced to "Good Life" by OneRepublic. Not many of the guests knew the song, but they all circled around us and danced and sang. It was a perfect ending. A lot of guests sat down after that, and we had to keep asking them to leave, they didn't realize that the restaurant was going to be opening up soon. This is when I met our videographer for the first time. He said that he'd be in touch. I hope we get that video soon! I'm nervous to see it, I really don't like to hear myself and I'm sure I'm never going to dance again after watching our reception.
David & Vicki told us they were going to do a bridal shoot for us the next day, so we made plans for that.
Once we were all ready, my sister, brother in law, and brother followed Eddie and I back to our room. I couldn't believe our wedding was over! It felt like the party had just started. We got to our room, they collected their belongings and left and Bell Services arrived with our things from the wedding. We had a TON of cake left over. We still have the chocolate pieces from the grooms cake and the white chocolate castle sitting in our fridge. The top tier of the cake is in our freezer. Eddie laid down and immediately passed out.
I was too wired, so I went through our stuff to make sure everything had been returned to us and I wrote in my wedding journal. Eventually I fell asleep too. We woke up around 5pm to see that the sun was shining. We opened our gifts (we were surprised to see how generous everyone was!
) and realized that we didn't have our car or Eddie's clothes. All of his stuff was still in my brother's room at Pop. Poor Eddie only had his tux and shoes in our room, so he didn't want to walk to the MK to get on a bus to Pop. So we decided to take the monorail. Man that was a mistake! It took forever for us to get to the MK!!!! We realized we would never make it in time to our 7:30 reservation at Narcoossees, so we decided to go to Friendly's with Eddie's parents and my sister and her husband. It wasn't the most romantic wedding night dinner, but it sure was a lot of fun!
Pictures in next post-