Well we had our planning session with Disney on Friday last week and everything went really well. It was nothing too exciting, we pretty much sat around and talked about wedding plans.
We are considering changing to a plated meal because frankly, it's cheaper, and at this point we are looking to cut costs where we can, because I don't know if anyone noticed, but the economy kind of sucks. It's not a real great time to be in business for yourself, which half of our happy couple is. We're also going to bring in our wine and pay the corkage fee, which will save us a bit of money as well.
We have scheduled a food tasting for March 3rd to taste our plated menu choice, and if we don't like it, we'll just go back to our original buffet plan. Also we will get to try some cake choices at this time. I think I'm going to love lemon pound cake with cream cheese filling and fresh raspberries.
In addition we met with our soon to be confirmed florist at
Disneyland because he wanted to check out the space. It looks like we are going to two types of centerpieces, one of which will be a variation of this, only using bright lanterns of differing shapes and sizes:
And a second which will be low and will be in a box he will build himself to mirror the shape and colors of our cake:
(I know some of these pictures are repeats, but I find it so annoying to have to go back through people's journals sometimes to find a picture)
Also, rather than hang lanterns all over the room, we are going to do a bunch of them in the center, that along with the tall centerpieces around the room should make for a visually interesting presentation.
Also, we've received the dresses for the women in our party, which there will be three of. Trying to be as sensible as possible, we bought them from jcrew when they were on sale, and we all agreed it was definitely a dress they could all wear again. We will exchange the sash for something bright to liven it a little, and they will be carrying brightly colored floral creations of some sort.
Finally we move on the question of chair covers.
This is the room without:
And Lurkyloo posted this photo of the room with:
Those dark blue chairs really stand out in the room without the covers, and not in a good way I think, but covers through Disney would set us back $8 ++ per chair. We can get them closer to $4 through an outside vendor, but it still seems like a lot of dough to me. The florist says he would do the chair covers just for the neutrality. I guess in the grand scheme of things it's not that much more money, but oy!
