Additional Floral
I just realized that I’ve only posted about our personal floral and (lack of ) centerpieces. There are a few other things on our floral proposal, so, to be a completist, here they are…
Chair Covers
%#$@! chair covers! I didn’t want the black plastic Wal*Mart-lookin’ chairs they give you at Epcot, so my plan was to sub in Disney’s classy-looking wooden chairs at a reasonable $5 apiece. But then I found out they charge you something like $250 just to deliver the wooden chairs – whatever it was, in my case it worked out to nearly twice as much as the cost of the chairs! Grrr…. So I had to do chair covers at $8.50 per chair. I always used to cite chair covers as an example of something ridiculous I would never pay to have at my wedding…sigh…But at least I get to have pretty turquoise and orange gauze sashes on them!
Aisle Petals
One thing I have insisted on this whole time is fuchsia rose petals scattered in the aisle – not mounds and mounds, just a scattering. I think it will look really nice in pictures. Everybody keeps telling me they will blow away before the ceremony, but I don’t care. If I want to throw away 50 bucks on MIA rose petals, I can! [stamps foot]
Toss Petals
Another frivolous thing I should probably cut out but insisted upon because I think they’ll look cool in pictures... I considered doing these and the aisle petals myself by ordering freeze-dried petals from
www.flyboynaturals.com, but they sell them in such large quantities that I would only have saved a few bucks. Disney is charging me $3.50 each for little chiffon bags to be placed on each seat, and I won’t have to make the bags myself in the days leading up to the wedding.
Cake Table Sashes
They’re going to lay two flat sashes – one turquoise, one orange – in a cross pattern on the cake table. I am not a big fan of “clouding” as they call it – the big swirls of gauzy material one often sees on cake tables. I’m hoping it looks something like this:
I've asked for banana leaves. At first they had me with spindly-lookin' potted palms, but I wanted giamormous. My suggestion was that they cut a few from the banana plants on the Jungle Cruise and give them to me for FREE! 
I'm sure it will be beautiful with covers!
considering people will be balancing canapés in their hands while they write in the book at the reception
I'm a HUGE scrapbooker (I should post pics of my pages in my PJ) but I'm only so-so compared to what some people can do. Some times I daydream about the photoshop skills I wish I had 
(that's a graphic designer reading the Help Wanteds) 
