JenandJosh2009
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2008
I'm really excited to be starting a PJ! I've wanted to do one ever since I joined the boards but with school, I was always too busy. Now that I'm on a break, I figured this would be a good time to start! 
A little about us: I am 25 and am currently a law student at Stetson in Gulfport, FL. I just finished my 2nd year and can't wait to be done!
I moved to Florida from New York when I was 5, so I've basically been a Floridian my whole life. My family took vacations to Disney every year when I was little, which is how the Disney obsession began, as you can see from this photo (don't mind my brother who was all about the Ninja Turtles )
Josh is 26 and is originally from upstate New York. He is currently a student at USF studying to be either a middle school or high school teacher. He graduates a week before our wedding!
Well, I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to put up here or what I'm supposed to talk about, so if you have any suggestions, they will be greatly appreciated
I guess I'll start with the most important thing to every bride, the dress!
The train:
With one of my jr. bm's:
Here are my shoes:
And my garter (of course both of us are Yankees fans
):
Ok, here is the bridesmaid's dress, but it will be all red/cranberry w/out the black:
My mom is actually my Matron of Honor, so we're still trying to decide whether she will wear this as well with some sort of bolero jacket over it. The only problem is, I also have a Maid of Honor, so I didn't want her to feel bad if I put my mom in something else. Any thoughts on that situation or if you have seen any nice MOB dresses that would go nicely with this dress would be great
I guess the last picture I'll post is the Save the Date we sent out. This was some project!!! I actually saw this idea on here and we loved it, so used it and added our own touches to it. We made them into magnets (many hours of cutting
) Nobody knew that we made them, they thought Disney did, which I guess was a compliment, but it kind of stunk because we didn't get any feedback on them unless we asked and then had to inform the people that we actually made them.
Finally, I'll quickly post about our plans right now for the weekend of our wedding. The Friday before the wedding, we will be having our Rehearsal and then our Rehearsal Dinner at the California Grill in the Napa Room from 6-10 (so we can see the fireworks) and then we're going out for our Bachelor/Bachelorette party!
On Saturday night, we are planning to have a Welcome Dinner at Chef Mickey's (hopefully). The problem with this is that they limit the party size to 50 people, it has to be at I think 5 pm, and I can't book it until September. I'm hoping this does work out, though, because Josh and I love it there. We go every year for my birthday. 
Sunday, we get married! The ceremony is at 5 pm at the WP, the Pre-Reception at 6 pm in the Whitehall Room & Patio, and the Reception from 7-11 pm in the GF ballrooms.
Even though, at times, planning this wedding has been very stressful, we are both so excited for it and I am very excited to share the planning process with all of you! You have all been so helpful so far, I just hope I can return the favor to new brides once this is all over!
A little about us: I am 25 and am currently a law student at Stetson in Gulfport, FL. I just finished my 2nd year and can't wait to be done!
I moved to Florida from New York when I was 5, so I've basically been a Floridian my whole life. My family took vacations to Disney every year when I was little, which is how the Disney obsession began, as you can see from this photo (don't mind my brother who was all about the Ninja Turtles )
Josh is 26 and is originally from upstate New York. He is currently a student at USF studying to be either a middle school or high school teacher. He graduates a week before our wedding!
Well, I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to put up here or what I'm supposed to talk about, so if you have any suggestions, they will be greatly appreciated
I guess I'll start with the most important thing to every bride, the dress!
The train:
With one of my jr. bm's:
Here are my shoes:
And my garter (of course both of us are Yankees fans
):
Ok, here is the bridesmaid's dress, but it will be all red/cranberry w/out the black:
My mom is actually my Matron of Honor, so we're still trying to decide whether she will wear this as well with some sort of bolero jacket over it. The only problem is, I also have a Maid of Honor, so I didn't want her to feel bad if I put my mom in something else. Any thoughts on that situation or if you have seen any nice MOB dresses that would go nicely with this dress would be great
I guess the last picture I'll post is the Save the Date we sent out. This was some project!!! I actually saw this idea on here and we loved it, so used it and added our own touches to it. We made them into magnets (many hours of cutting
) Nobody knew that we made them, they thought Disney did, which I guess was a compliment, but it kind of stunk because we didn't get any feedback on them unless we asked and then had to inform the people that we actually made them.
Finally, I'll quickly post about our plans right now for the weekend of our wedding. The Friday before the wedding, we will be having our Rehearsal and then our Rehearsal Dinner at the California Grill in the Napa Room from 6-10 (so we can see the fireworks) and then we're going out for our Bachelor/Bachelorette party!
On Saturday night, we are planning to have a Welcome Dinner at Chef Mickey's (hopefully). The problem with this is that they limit the party size to 50 people, it has to be at I think 5 pm, and I can't book it until September. I'm hoping this does work out, though, because Josh and I love it there. We go every year for my birthday. Sunday, we get married! The ceremony is at 5 pm at the WP, the Pre-Reception at 6 pm in the Whitehall Room & Patio, and the Reception from 7-11 pm in the GF ballrooms.
Even though, at times, planning this wedding has been very stressful, we are both so excited for it and I am very excited to share the planning process with all of you! You have all been so helpful so far, I just hope I can return the favor to new brides once this is all over!
I definitely have much more to come including our planning session last Friday! 
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), Josh in the ivory vest and tie and the groomsmen in silver/platinum.
Guys always procrastinate! Anyway, she gave us a really hard time about putting the guys in silver. First she wanted us to put them in cranberry to match the girls but when we said no to that, she tried to make a strong case that we really shouldn't be doing silver with ivory and that usually ivory goes with gold. I understand that those colors are more similar, but can't ivory and silver look nice together too? 
I was worried about what type of favors to get our guests that they would actually enjoy and use. After browsing the internet for many hours, we decided to instead go with a candy buffet! I'm so glad we chose to do it, because it has been so much fun picking out different containers for the candy and picking out the candy too! We are definitely going to do some sort of candy cane sticks and we also chose to do Hershey's Hugs and Kisses and M&M's. (Unfortunately, I bought like 10 bags of M&M's before Disney informed me that all candies had to be individually wrapped so I'm going to have to wrap the M&M's in little bags) On the bottom of the kisses, I created a design with Minnie kissing Mickey and then put our initials on the sides of the picture and printed them on 3/4" round labels. Here is the picture I used:
Welcome and congrats! I love everything so far! You look so beautiful in your dress, and your BM dress is so classy and lovely!! 
