JBeanBunny
royal purple pigment
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2011
I feel like such a bad DIS bride... I haven't even opened the site since I went on my "research" cruise in January! I've only caught up on about 6 pages of notes, and I miss all of my familiar brides, and it's nice to see new ones too!
I guess it feels like I have nothing new to share! Since everything is so cookie-cutter (pretty much just check the boxes in the wedding packet) that I don't have anything to do... and I feel like I should be doing something! I guess our #1 concern is getting everything paid ontime! I've got two countdowns on my phone, one for the wedding (163 days) and only 87 until final payments are made! Eep! What scares me even further is that I have about 50 guests, which adds another $1,000 to tack onto my cruise payment.
I've noticed that other brides worked with group bookings? How did you go about this? I just had all of my guests book their own rooms, and I guess I need to get working on getting the reservations linked so they have my guest list... I don't know if I should just call DCL to link my rooms with reservation numbers, or if I should work with Shanda... sometimes it feels like working with DCL is easier, but it would be easier to send the names and reservations via e-mail instead of reading about 26-rooms worth of 8-digit confirmation numbers!
It does get on my nerves that you don't get any special treatment for booking LARGE parties on these cruises (lets face it, mid-september is definitely the OFF season! I'm doing them a favor!) especially since my party is SO large, they don't know yet where they're going to put us! But in terms of booking spa appointments or excursions... I'm not doing any of that! My cruise is too short and I'll be trying to spend it with all of my guests! I'll book my free palo night, of course (We're going to do it either our first or our last night since we're getting married in the middle) But I feel for all of your frustrations, especially when booking couples massages! The bride(s) and groom(s) of every sailing SHOULD have first dibs, in my opinion! For whoever was talking about booking Remy- it's PHENOMENAL! But it's about a 3-hour dining experience, so keep that in mind! There's really NO way to shorten it, and nor should you want to! We had Adrien on the Dream and he was a doll!
I'm getting antsy waiting on my dress shop to call me saying that my dress has arrived! I bought it in Illinois and live in Orlando, so I need all the time I can get to plan flying up north for my fittings! I'm also terrified about traveling with my dress since it's a ballgown and I don't want it to de-poof!
I'm also slowly assembling favor bags that we'll hook onto each of our guests rooms. I think I'm going to beg a DIS-igner to design us a DCL wedding logo to tie everything together! I could print that onto iron-on transfer paper for the bags, and also put names on it and turn them into magnets for their doors! I tell you, it's SO much easier to find your door if it's decorated! What is everyone else doing for favors? I'm doing things like lip balm (bulkapothecary.com had super cheap ones), I'm making TWO kinds of mickey soap (One using a Mickey muffin mold, and the other using the Mickey-face ice mold and embedding that into an oval mold) all of that from brambleberry.com with the EASY melt-and-pour soap technique- I seriously learned how to do it with one afternoon and their "soap queen TV" youtube channel! I'm also raiding the Target "dollar spot" for things like glow sticks and mini-lint rollers. We're going to include something like an emergency kit including things like safety pins and band aids, maybe sewing kits or squeeze led-lights... I'm also going to have "Koozies" made for everyone, and fill it with a pretty cellophane package of treats... I have a collection of WDW pens that I'll throw into guest bags with post-it notes, so they can leave notes on other guests doors. I also want to give everybody a welcome note including all of the other guests room and wave-phone numbers.
Wow, I apologize for that last paragraph being one long run-on thought after the other! I guess I'm really trying to make my guest bags something special to show them appreciation for spending their resources and time to share our wedding weekend with us! I'd love to hear what everyone else is doing for guest gifts or favors! I'm a sucker for new ideas! Also, in terms of wedding registry, I registered at Bed Bath & Beyond (for those guests who can't attend as well as wedding showers) and I WAS going to sign up for the Disney Honeymoon registry, but it KILLS me that they charge 7% in service fees! I'd rather just ask guests for Disney gift cards directly with NO charge for the SAME thing!
I hope everyone else is having fun planning!
I guess it feels like I have nothing new to share! Since everything is so cookie-cutter (pretty much just check the boxes in the wedding packet) that I don't have anything to do... and I feel like I should be doing something! I guess our #1 concern is getting everything paid ontime! I've got two countdowns on my phone, one for the wedding (163 days) and only 87 until final payments are made! Eep! What scares me even further is that I have about 50 guests, which adds another $1,000 to tack onto my cruise payment.
I've noticed that other brides worked with group bookings? How did you go about this? I just had all of my guests book their own rooms, and I guess I need to get working on getting the reservations linked so they have my guest list... I don't know if I should just call DCL to link my rooms with reservation numbers, or if I should work with Shanda... sometimes it feels like working with DCL is easier, but it would be easier to send the names and reservations via e-mail instead of reading about 26-rooms worth of 8-digit confirmation numbers!
It does get on my nerves that you don't get any special treatment for booking LARGE parties on these cruises (lets face it, mid-september is definitely the OFF season! I'm doing them a favor!) especially since my party is SO large, they don't know yet where they're going to put us! But in terms of booking spa appointments or excursions... I'm not doing any of that! My cruise is too short and I'll be trying to spend it with all of my guests! I'll book my free palo night, of course (We're going to do it either our first or our last night since we're getting married in the middle) But I feel for all of your frustrations, especially when booking couples massages! The bride(s) and groom(s) of every sailing SHOULD have first dibs, in my opinion! For whoever was talking about booking Remy- it's PHENOMENAL! But it's about a 3-hour dining experience, so keep that in mind! There's really NO way to shorten it, and nor should you want to! We had Adrien on the Dream and he was a doll!
I'm getting antsy waiting on my dress shop to call me saying that my dress has arrived! I bought it in Illinois and live in Orlando, so I need all the time I can get to plan flying up north for my fittings! I'm also terrified about traveling with my dress since it's a ballgown and I don't want it to de-poof!
I'm also slowly assembling favor bags that we'll hook onto each of our guests rooms. I think I'm going to beg a DIS-igner to design us a DCL wedding logo to tie everything together! I could print that onto iron-on transfer paper for the bags, and also put names on it and turn them into magnets for their doors! I tell you, it's SO much easier to find your door if it's decorated! What is everyone else doing for favors? I'm doing things like lip balm (bulkapothecary.com had super cheap ones), I'm making TWO kinds of mickey soap (One using a Mickey muffin mold, and the other using the Mickey-face ice mold and embedding that into an oval mold) all of that from brambleberry.com with the EASY melt-and-pour soap technique- I seriously learned how to do it with one afternoon and their "soap queen TV" youtube channel! I'm also raiding the Target "dollar spot" for things like glow sticks and mini-lint rollers. We're going to include something like an emergency kit including things like safety pins and band aids, maybe sewing kits or squeeze led-lights... I'm also going to have "Koozies" made for everyone, and fill it with a pretty cellophane package of treats... I have a collection of WDW pens that I'll throw into guest bags with post-it notes, so they can leave notes on other guests doors. I also want to give everybody a welcome note including all of the other guests room and wave-phone numbers.
Wow, I apologize for that last paragraph being one long run-on thought after the other! I guess I'm really trying to make my guest bags something special to show them appreciation for spending their resources and time to share our wedding weekend with us! I'd love to hear what everyone else is doing for guest gifts or favors! I'm a sucker for new ideas! Also, in terms of wedding registry, I registered at Bed Bath & Beyond (for those guests who can't attend as well as wedding showers) and I WAS going to sign up for the Disney Honeymoon registry, but it KILLS me that they charge 7% in service fees! I'd rather just ask guests for Disney gift cards directly with NO charge for the SAME thing!
I hope everyone else is having fun planning!