Our Wedding Trip Report

Our Wedding Trip Report
We spent a week in Walt Disney World with friends and family, with our wedding occurring mid-trip. These posts have been organized accordingly...

~Enjoying WDW with friends and family~
Day One, Part One (Delta tries to ruin the wedding)
Day One, Part Two (Pop Century and Splash Mountain)
Day Two, Part One (My family discovers the Magic Kingdom)
Day Two, Part Two (10 adults on a flume ride)
Day Three, Part One (4 wheelchairs and 400 pins)
Day Three, Part Two (Evening in Epcot)
Day Four, Part One (On Safari)
Day Four, Part Two (Luau at the Polynesian)

~The Day Before the Wedding~
Day Five, Part One (Deathly Ill at Pop Century)
Day Five, Part Two (Rehearsal and Bridal Tea at the Grand Floridian)
Day Five, Part Three (I'm getting married tomorrow and I want my mother)
Day Five, Part Three Cont. (Fireworks from our room at the Grand Floridian)

~Our Wedding Day~
Part One (A rocky start to a lovely day)
Part Two (Getting ready to go)
Part Three (Picture time)
Part Four (Just us and the Roots)
Part Five (It's almost time...)
Part Six (It begins)
Part Seven (Walking down the aisle)
Our Ceremony
Part Eight (So this is getting married)
Part Nine (Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Morgan)
Part Ten (Bubbles and group photos)
Part Eleven (Just us and our 15 attendants)
Part Twelve (Post-wedding portraits at the Grand Floridian)
Part Thirteen (Sneak peek at the reception)
Part Fourteen (The pre-reception)
Part Fifteen (Video of our entrance and first dance)
Part Fifteen Cont. (The story of our first dance)
Part Sixteen (The incredible buffet)
Part Seventeen (Father/Daughter dance)
Part Eighteen (Reflections and Mother/Son dance)
Part Nineteen (On the dance floor)
Part Twenty (A special dance for my grandparents)
Part Twenty-one (Top ten things I learned about receptions)
Part Twenty-two (Top ten things I learned about receptions cont.)
Part Twenty-three (A magical end to an incredible party)
Just a few more pictures
Part Twenty-four (Taking the bus in my wedding gown)
Part Twenty-five (Ending the night at Raglan Road)

~After the Wedding~
Day Seven, Part One (Hollywood Studios)
Day Seven, Part Two (Friends, family, and a painted niece at Epcot)
Day Eight (Grandpa goes to the hospital and we go to Epcot)
The End

~Our Home Receptions~
Our California Reception
Our Ohio Reception


Can you believe I wrote all that about one week? I think it might have taken me longer to blog about the wedding and reception than it took us to have the wedding and reception, but I will say this: write everything down as soon as you can after the wedding! There are so many things I know I would have forgotten if I hadn't taken notes and then written everything out in this blog. These recaps are better than video for me because it's like re-living the day all over again! (Yes, I'm guilty. I've read them all the way through since the wedding...twice.)

Sometimes life just needs a little Disney

It's been a rough week...but certainly nothing a little WDW couldn't cure! Since we can't escape to Florida right now, I guess I'll have to settle with doing a little time traveling and reminiscing about our incredible trip last summer.

Luckily I have our amazing engagement pictures from the Roots to help me remember!...





















Benefit #230 of having a Disney wedding = being able to take that ten-minute perfect Disney vacation just by pulling up the wedding pictures (of course, it helps if your photographers are amazing...)

Disney Wedding Cakes

I love the show Unwrapped and they did a special on Walt Disney World, with a behind-the-scenes look at the Disney wedding cakes.

Grand Floridian's Shrimp and Prosciutto Pasta

Hey, remember that comfort meal that I had delivered to our hotel room the night before the wedding?

Words From the Groom

I've had a lot of opportunity to share my thoughts on the wedding, but the whole circus wasn't a one-woman show. Since I was home sick yesterday, Kyle and I took the opportunity to make a short video about his thoughts on the wedding...which were much funnier than I thought they would be! I thought he was going to complain about the cost and say other typical groom things, but he actually had some pretty good insights...

Six Month Checkup

Today is our six-month anniversary, so I thought I'd do a little sum-up...

A lot of people have told me that the first year of marriage is the hardest, but I no longer think that this is true. Kyle and I are bound to have our ups and downs over the next sixty years and unless we're unbelievably lucky, there's no way this is a low point for us.

Marriage rocks. The last six months have quite honestly been the happiest six months of my life. (I know...mush...sorry...) What kills me is that we have so many things that really should be stressing us out - moving, layoffs, job searches, credit card debt, student debt, car problems, etc. - and instead we really are enjoying our nice, little life. Now that it's summer, we back to eating early dinners and then spending the evenings taking walks around our apartment complex or reading library books. We've also been getting out more on the weekends and spent the last couple of days at the art festival and swimming at a friend's house.

For future brides, I would say this. Don't be nervous about the doomsday prophecies from people who have been married. Kyle and I didn't go through a rocky adjustment period, I've never thought that getting married was a bad idea, and I didn't experience any sense of loss because the wedding planning was over. Everything has just been really happy and nice, so look forward to that first year of marriage! There's really nothing like being a newlywed...

Ceremony Location: Epcot Canda

Photo by Disney Fine Art Photography & Video

The Canada Pavilion in Epcot offers a few unique ceremony venues. If you are interested in using one of them, contact your Disney wedding consultant to discuss your options.

Ceremony Location: Epcot China

The China Pavilion in Epcot offers a few unique ceremony venues. If you are interested in using one of them, contact your Disney wedding consultant to discuss your options.

• Epcot ceremonies must start by 9 AM.

• If you use a venue inside of Epcot for your ceremony location, you are required to charter at least one motor coach through Disney for a minimum of 5 hours at $98 per hour. Each motor coach holds 50 people.

• Couples who used Epcot China:

Free Gift with Wedding

Perk #461: being able to wear these ears in public.

I'm happy that so many people found the budget breakdown that we did for our wedding to be helpful in their own planning. I know it talked a couple of people out of having a Disney wedding, but I suppose that I shouldn't feel bad about that, since an informed decision was probably a good thing.

Ceremony Location: Epcot France

Photo by Photography by Taz

The France Pavilion in Epcot offers a few unique ceremony venues. If you are interested in using one of them, contact your Disney wedding consultant to discuss your options.

• Epcot ceremonies must start by 9 AM.

• If you use a venue inside of Epcot for your ceremony location, you are required to charter at least one motor coach through Disney for a minimum of 5 hours at $98 per hour. Each motor coach holds 50 people.

• Couples who used Epcot France

Disney Wedding Clip Art

I'm emptying my computer of all the weddingness and wanted to share these with you. I got these from a number of sources (mostly other Disney brides) and I thought maybe someone out there was also looking for Disney bride clip art. We used a lot of them in our newsletters and what not, so hopefully you'll be able to incorporate them into your day if you want. If not, they're just lovely to look at!