Like my mom, we've all been trying to get back to normal after the flood. Our house did not take on water, but many, many friends and family did. It's been a multi-city-wide recovery effort with split school schedules, sharing football fields, donation centers on every corner, among so many other ways everyone has come together to make it work. There was no one unaffected by the floods, that's for sure. So I apologize for not posting sooner.
More about planning this wedding and realizing I'm not as high maintenance as I thought... (mom, please don't disagree)
To be honest, and I’m sure all would agree, your big day is what you make of it. We had the smallest wedding package and we were able to make it the most special and intimate day of our life together. So there was a lot of planning and purchasing ahead to make the most of what we got. And planning AND purchasing are some of my best work. My mom wanted to do something special, so she had a cake ordered through Disney and ready for us at lunch. I made sure to bring lots of props for the pictures like sunglasses, leis, our Mickey wedding ears, and giant mickey hands (wait till you see what we did with these). We even brought a Beats Pill (portable speaker) to lunch for our “first dance.”
We had great communication with our officiant. We even did a phone rehearsal a week or so before and that certainly put me at ease. Plus, he was just wonderful and charming. We did our Florida mail away marriage license. I pretty much just sent emails to whoever I needed, things were booked, and all I had to do was show up. IT WAS AWESOME!
The hard and not-so-fun part of planning was figuring how to get everything to Florida and make sure nothing was forgotten! Surprisingly, I wasn’t as stressed or worried as I thought I would be.
Even though it was kind of a big secret and a small affair, I tried to keep up with details that my children will one day want such as invitations. We ordered them through Etsy and had them printed at Vista Print. We sent them to our family that was coming and also used that as our big Facebook announcement right before we flew to Disney.
Here's our "invitations". Bear with me, I've never uploaded a picture here before. It has the wedding Chapel in the background since that's where we originally had it planned, but I mean we were just going to be a smidge down the beach, so who cares?! And the back I did myself on Vista Print with a picture I found on google.
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Later, I’ll get more into planning and packing for a Disney wedding with a child that doesn’t know and a husband that is too spoiled to pack himself.