Bride-to-be
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 2, 2009
I felt the need to elaborate a bit so here is about us -
My name is Cassie, I just recently finished with school and I have degree in hotel management. I am very whimsical and live my life with my head in the clouds. I grew up going to disney multiple times a year. My dad is especially crazy about disney and sort of instilled the love for it in me. I have been to all of the disneylands around the world. Hong Kong is by far my most favorite of all of the parks. We went last summer and I can't wait to go back. If the flight wasn't so long we would def have our wedding there. Belle is my favorite princess and my favorite halloween costume =O). Overall I want our guests to have the time of their lives at our wedding even though its our day. Planning is tearing me apart trying to figure out what everyone else would want and throwing in a bit of what I like.
My fiance's name is John. He is a few years older than I am and much more based in reality. Before we had met he had never been to disney. It's now one of his most favorite places. We try to go to disney world as often as we can and have done the four day and the 11 day med cruise together. Doing the cruise was originally his idea for a dream wedding - I think to pull me away for the idea of Hong Kong. We decided it would be too expensive to do the cruise and wrote it off. Now we are all booked and super excited! He has turned most of the planning over to me and gets daily "wedding updates". He basically doesn't care as long as we can take off on a jet ski with "just married" on the back.
How we met - We both summered on the island of Nantucket, he worked for USAir and I happened to be flying home at the end of the summer. It was more a comedy of errors but I had my drivers liscense with me in the car and couldn't find it at check in. It was a super long process to get checked in without it and TSA had to go through all of my 10 carry ons (I don't know why I don't like checking luggage..) only to find my license in the last bag they checked. Shortly after that the flight was delayed and then cancelled. So I spent a lot of time sitting around waiting thats when I first met John. I was rescheduled to a flight the next day and was soo excited to have one more day on the island. I felt really bad about all of the trouble I had caused earlier that day with my lack of license and all of my bags - so I went to my favorite smoothie place and ordered a ton of smoothies to be delivered to the USAir and TSA people the next day. Keep in mind that this is a super small island and a very small airport. I think there may have been a total of 15 people who worked there. So anyway as I was about to board my flight he came up to me and said thanks for the smoothies and gave me his number. I gave him my im and said sometime he should im me. Two weeks later I got a message - Hey smoothie girl! That fall I went back to the island to visit and hang out for a weekend. We had a blast! After that we talked for hours and hours and ended up becoming great friends. A year and a half later we were having dinner at one of our favorite restaurants and he said he really wanted me to be his girlfriend. It took off from there and we have now been together as a couple for just over four years. Two years ago we moved together back to my home town.
The proposal - I know I have posted this before so sorry if you are reading it twice. We happened to be at Disney for his birthday in the end of October, as we are every year. We really wanted to do the Keys to the Kingdom tour as neither of us had ever done it. It was sold out for the whole time we were there. I kept calling back to check. My dad then called when we were down there and said he was trying come up with a last min birthday gift for John. He said he had disney on the other line and that the Keys to the Kingdom tour still didn't have any openings, but that there was a last min cancellation for a fireworks cruise. He asked if I thought John would like it and I not completely knowing what it was thought it sounded fun and said to go for it - I told him to hang up and quickly get back to the disney person to book it. He told me that I had to keep it as a complete surprise and that I should make sure we get to the Grand Floridian by a certain time and that the reservation would be in his name. He also mentioned that there would be snacks and drinks and stuff. So I thought it was great. As soon as I got back to my laptop I tried to find out what it was that we were doing and found the group pontoon boat wishes cruises with bagged snacks and soft drinks! I thought it looked really fun. So I secretly lead John in a winding way back to the GF. I didn't want him to guess what we were doing. As we walked into the hotel he thought we were going back to Victoria and Alberts and kept freaking out that we were under dressed. Then we got the marina and he had a rough idea I think of what we were doing. So we went to check in and they asked which boat we were on and I looked back at them sort of clueless. They asked our name and said oh you are on the Grand 1 yacht and pointed to this big boat. We then had to check in and they asked for a credit card. I then went to hand them mine but kept asking because I assumed it would be prepaid. I then saw what the total cost was and nearly lost it- I couldn't believe my dad spent so much on his birthday! I then kept handing them my card trying to fight John saying that he couldn't pay for his own birthday present. The CM refused to take my card and said it had to be John's card. I thought that was strange but quickly forgot about it. We then boarded the boat that was covered in rose petals we were handed glasses of champagne and given the grand tour of the yacht. I kept telling the butler and captain that we picked up on a last min cancellation for Johns birthday and that it was my dads big present. They kept saying that I had such a nice dad. We then sat down to dinner - which really worried me because I am a vegetarian and my dad is totally not considerate of it - he would never think to ask for a special menu. Then the first course was soup - and I thought oh no chicken broth. But decided I would make a scene and I would eat it anyway. Then the butler said specially with vegetable stock - I was super happy. Then the next course was my fav cobb salad from the brown derby specially with the meat on the side. I was really amazed that my dad remembered! Either that or the people who cancelled before us also happend to be vegetarian and have the same favorite salad. So then the courses and dinner went on and on. The captain then came down with something with a napkin over it and said to John - I believe your lady dropped something... He pulled the napkin off and there was a white carnation pillow with blue tulle and a glass slipper with a ring and tiara. John said will you marry me? I was soo shocked not only surprised about the ring but surprised that he was able to coordinate a proposal at the last minute. I was soo confused about how he could have pulled it off - I was stunned. After it came out that he had it planned for months and my dad was just a decoy - it took me the longest time to believe that he was able to plan the entire thing by himself. I was super happy and right at that very moment we were moved outside to the back of the boat for a special engagment dessert and then the wishes fireworks started. I was sooooo happy. It was the perfect unforgetable evening.
Shelley from Impressions did our save the dates - I am very happy with them.
When you open the box this is what you see -
When you squeeze Mickey's tummy he says, "Oh boy hiya pals it's me Mickey! My good friends Cassie and John are getting married on a Disney Cruise and you're invited to join in all the fun! So get your passports ready because we set sail on January 31st and your prepaid stateroom is looking awfully empty without YOU! Hope you can make it! Let my pals know! Hehe. Bye now!"
This is the cover for the card. I always LOVED the television commercial for the cruise line when it first debuted. The one with the mickey and goofy clouds. A few years back I found a deck of playing cards on CC with this image. Then when we were looking for cover art I thought it could work well. I added our initials in the sand.
This is the inside of the card. I photoshopped the image from a disney email and added the sparkles in the left ear. As soon as I heard that Shelley could do Mickey magnets I knew that that was what I wanted. On the right is a poem that she came up with. If you keep turning the pages it just has all of the details of everything.
These are all of the Mickeys piled on top of eachother before they were taged. I thought it was a fun pic.
I will post more as the details fall into place =)
My name is Cassie, I just recently finished with school and I have degree in hotel management. I am very whimsical and live my life with my head in the clouds. I grew up going to disney multiple times a year. My dad is especially crazy about disney and sort of instilled the love for it in me. I have been to all of the disneylands around the world. Hong Kong is by far my most favorite of all of the parks. We went last summer and I can't wait to go back. If the flight wasn't so long we would def have our wedding there. Belle is my favorite princess and my favorite halloween costume =O). Overall I want our guests to have the time of their lives at our wedding even though its our day. Planning is tearing me apart trying to figure out what everyone else would want and throwing in a bit of what I like.
My fiance's name is John. He is a few years older than I am and much more based in reality. Before we had met he had never been to disney. It's now one of his most favorite places. We try to go to disney world as often as we can and have done the four day and the 11 day med cruise together. Doing the cruise was originally his idea for a dream wedding - I think to pull me away for the idea of Hong Kong. We decided it would be too expensive to do the cruise and wrote it off. Now we are all booked and super excited! He has turned most of the planning over to me and gets daily "wedding updates". He basically doesn't care as long as we can take off on a jet ski with "just married" on the back.
How we met - We both summered on the island of Nantucket, he worked for USAir and I happened to be flying home at the end of the summer. It was more a comedy of errors but I had my drivers liscense with me in the car and couldn't find it at check in. It was a super long process to get checked in without it and TSA had to go through all of my 10 carry ons (I don't know why I don't like checking luggage..) only to find my license in the last bag they checked. Shortly after that the flight was delayed and then cancelled. So I spent a lot of time sitting around waiting thats when I first met John. I was rescheduled to a flight the next day and was soo excited to have one more day on the island. I felt really bad about all of the trouble I had caused earlier that day with my lack of license and all of my bags - so I went to my favorite smoothie place and ordered a ton of smoothies to be delivered to the USAir and TSA people the next day. Keep in mind that this is a super small island and a very small airport. I think there may have been a total of 15 people who worked there. So anyway as I was about to board my flight he came up to me and said thanks for the smoothies and gave me his number. I gave him my im and said sometime he should im me. Two weeks later I got a message - Hey smoothie girl! That fall I went back to the island to visit and hang out for a weekend. We had a blast! After that we talked for hours and hours and ended up becoming great friends. A year and a half later we were having dinner at one of our favorite restaurants and he said he really wanted me to be his girlfriend. It took off from there and we have now been together as a couple for just over four years. Two years ago we moved together back to my home town.
The proposal - I know I have posted this before so sorry if you are reading it twice. We happened to be at Disney for his birthday in the end of October, as we are every year. We really wanted to do the Keys to the Kingdom tour as neither of us had ever done it. It was sold out for the whole time we were there. I kept calling back to check. My dad then called when we were down there and said he was trying come up with a last min birthday gift for John. He said he had disney on the other line and that the Keys to the Kingdom tour still didn't have any openings, but that there was a last min cancellation for a fireworks cruise. He asked if I thought John would like it and I not completely knowing what it was thought it sounded fun and said to go for it - I told him to hang up and quickly get back to the disney person to book it. He told me that I had to keep it as a complete surprise and that I should make sure we get to the Grand Floridian by a certain time and that the reservation would be in his name. He also mentioned that there would be snacks and drinks and stuff. So I thought it was great. As soon as I got back to my laptop I tried to find out what it was that we were doing and found the group pontoon boat wishes cruises with bagged snacks and soft drinks! I thought it looked really fun. So I secretly lead John in a winding way back to the GF. I didn't want him to guess what we were doing. As we walked into the hotel he thought we were going back to Victoria and Alberts and kept freaking out that we were under dressed. Then we got the marina and he had a rough idea I think of what we were doing. So we went to check in and they asked which boat we were on and I looked back at them sort of clueless. They asked our name and said oh you are on the Grand 1 yacht and pointed to this big boat. We then had to check in and they asked for a credit card. I then went to hand them mine but kept asking because I assumed it would be prepaid. I then saw what the total cost was and nearly lost it- I couldn't believe my dad spent so much on his birthday! I then kept handing them my card trying to fight John saying that he couldn't pay for his own birthday present. The CM refused to take my card and said it had to be John's card. I thought that was strange but quickly forgot about it. We then boarded the boat that was covered in rose petals we were handed glasses of champagne and given the grand tour of the yacht. I kept telling the butler and captain that we picked up on a last min cancellation for Johns birthday and that it was my dads big present. They kept saying that I had such a nice dad. We then sat down to dinner - which really worried me because I am a vegetarian and my dad is totally not considerate of it - he would never think to ask for a special menu. Then the first course was soup - and I thought oh no chicken broth. But decided I would make a scene and I would eat it anyway. Then the butler said specially with vegetable stock - I was super happy. Then the next course was my fav cobb salad from the brown derby specially with the meat on the side. I was really amazed that my dad remembered! Either that or the people who cancelled before us also happend to be vegetarian and have the same favorite salad. So then the courses and dinner went on and on. The captain then came down with something with a napkin over it and said to John - I believe your lady dropped something... He pulled the napkin off and there was a white carnation pillow with blue tulle and a glass slipper with a ring and tiara. John said will you marry me? I was soo shocked not only surprised about the ring but surprised that he was able to coordinate a proposal at the last minute. I was soo confused about how he could have pulled it off - I was stunned. After it came out that he had it planned for months and my dad was just a decoy - it took me the longest time to believe that he was able to plan the entire thing by himself. I was super happy and right at that very moment we were moved outside to the back of the boat for a special engagment dessert and then the wishes fireworks started. I was sooooo happy. It was the perfect unforgetable evening.
Shelley from Impressions did our save the dates - I am very happy with them.
When you open the box this is what you see -
When you squeeze Mickey's tummy he says, "Oh boy hiya pals it's me Mickey! My good friends Cassie and John are getting married on a Disney Cruise and you're invited to join in all the fun! So get your passports ready because we set sail on January 31st and your prepaid stateroom is looking awfully empty without YOU! Hope you can make it! Let my pals know! Hehe. Bye now!"
This is the cover for the card. I always LOVED the television commercial for the cruise line when it first debuted. The one with the mickey and goofy clouds. A few years back I found a deck of playing cards on CC with this image. Then when we were looking for cover art I thought it could work well. I added our initials in the sand.
This is the inside of the card. I photoshopped the image from a disney email and added the sparkles in the left ear. As soon as I heard that Shelley could do Mickey magnets I knew that that was what I wanted. On the right is a poem that she came up with. If you keep turning the pages it just has all of the details of everything.
These are all of the Mickeys piled on top of eachother before they were taged. I thought it was a fun pic.
I will post more as the details fall into place =)
I am keeping my fingers crossed that you get an answer soon
