Our last Disney DIY project completed!

 

Just in time our final Disney DIY project completed!  A personalised travel journal and passport cover

 

 

 

 

The travel journal is split up into 2 sections, section one is each family’s trip plan with their itinerary, travel confirmations, day trips and tours, important information and contact numbers.

 

 

  

 

Section 2  is a travel journal, with journal pages for each place & port we visit, a place to keep tickets, receipts and mementos of our trip.

 

 

 

Disney Floral & Photography

Very exciting day today!

Rosie from Disney Floral & Photography called to discuss our cruise favors and also my bouquet and DF’s buttonhole for our Magic Kingdom photos.

She is just gorgeous! So helpful and she let me put in an order for the items from Frank’s studio I wanted as well.

These are the chocolate favor options I have 

or we can choose a Mickey Bottle Stopper $6.95

Or Mickey Ornament $10

I think we will go with the chocolate Mickey Ears & Mickey Rice Krispies.

Rosie also sent me the Mickey Pin-tuck accessory list, now to decide on just one!



Wedding Guests ~ USA Trip Planning

While we only have a small number of family & friends joining us in the US for our Disney wedding, each family wants to do and see different things and make the most of the trip.

Getting a happy median for all is important as it’s a big trip for each of them and it’s so important to us that they have a lovely time and get to see and do as much as they wish in the time they can spend away.

We look to have agreed on an initial itinerary where everyone will....

 

fly into Las Vegas & spend a week before travelling

 

to Walt Disney World and staying a week

then departing on the Cruise




Most have decided to head back to Australia on returning from the Cruise but one group may stay in WDW a little longer.

Now that we have a basic plan we need to narrow down flights and accommodation options for all, as well as day trips & sightseeing. Knowing the airline preference each group has will determine the airfares and we have an agreed budget for accommodation, which makes it easy for me to select a few options and then the group can decide.

We have given everyone lots of information on the sights & things to do in each of the three stops and once everyone gets back to us with some selections we can begin to make the bookings.

  

  

Wedding Style Guide Goes Digital !

One of my absolutely favourite wedding magazines, Wedding Style Guide has just gone digital !!

WSG is one of the most creative and distinctive wedding mags available. A lot of the popular bridal mags just replicate last months issue with a few new articles and an idea or two. Not WSG each issue is a fresh new set of ideas, style tips, stationery, wedding lines, pictures and resources. It also has an awesome website & blog with loads more information & pictures and heaps of free downloads.

Now they have added all of their back issues to the site and you can download the lot for $4.95 ! Which is incredible and the best part …..I will never have to tear out a page or cut up my WSG ever again!!!!

If you haven’t checkout their site & blog before, it’s well worth a visit, you won’t be disappointed! www.styleguide.com.au

Secret Brides Business

I have been waiting very patiently for today and the Secret Brides Business Event. I booked tickets to it months ago and have been counting down the days.

With no real idea what to expect, my wonderful BM and I made our way to the Shangri-La Hotel for our 2pm session. When we arrived we were given a booklet on the afternoon’s events and our makeup & nail appointment times.

We made our way down to the entrance of the grand ballroom to find a handpicked selection of Sydney wedding experts. Each area of your wedding planning was covered with a single expert supplier, for you to meet with & see their work. All the while collecting little gifts from the suppliers and champagne freely flowing all around.

After the vendor showing we all went into the grand ballroom to enjoy a champagne high tea while we watched a bridal runway show.

The show had gowns from Alex Perry, Joanne Panzarino, Louise Alvarez, Mark Holt and several othes. The room was gorgeously themed by Michael Cartwright in several different styles, which was great to see in real life.

The entertainment was average, but as we had a great group of people at our table we didn’t really mind.

After our high tea we went up to the 36th floor and WOW! talk about spectacular views! more champagne, chocolates, topless waiters and our makeup & nail appointments.

One of the big stuff ups was that both our make up appointments were scheduled for after 5pm. But luckily my BM was able to be squeezed in (as we wanted her make up done for a big night out) and she looked Fantastic!

I will contact Secret Brides Business on Monday and see what can be done about my trial.

As things started to wind down we collected our gift bags full of treats, gifts, magazines, make up samples and discounts.

While a few things could be improved upon for next year’s event, all in all we had a fantastic time and left feeling quite pampered

My Favorite Websites

A spot to keep track of the best websites I come across

Planning

Wedding style Guide
The Knot

Once Wed

Wedding Chicks
Polka Dot Bride

Martha Stewart Weddings 
The Wedding Co 

Merci New York
Snippet & Ink
 
Photo's
 

Project Wedding

 
 
Favors & Supplies
 
 Beau Coup
 Pink Frosting
 
 
 Disney Planning
 
 David Tutera
 Preston Baily
Disney Weddings
Disney Cruise Line
Mouse Savers
 
 Blogs
 
Wedding Bee
Style Me Pretty
Disboards
 Darcy Miller  
1001 Layer Cake
Ruffled

The Wedding Planning Suitcase!

The ultimate planning bag! after my journals this is my most valuable planning possession

I love this bag I got it on our trip to Disneyland last year (along with “Disney Fairy Tale Weddings" dvd) & it is our wedding stuff all in the one place. Inside I keep my Hunter Valley & Knot Wedding Planner, Journals, stationery supplies, note cards, small photo album (supplier business cards & photos of things I’m looking for), colour wheel, my favourite “Sometimes Brides Forget” Post-its & as always my emergency chocolate supply!!

Only one final piece is still needed in my planning pack....the new edition WDW travel guides !

  

FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2008

Woo Hoo my planning books finally arrived !!!!!

My Planning Notebook

The best piece of wedding planning advice I received was to get the biggest blank notebook I could find and keep it as my planning journal. It's so much more useful than any fill in journal I have seen; I adore both of mine and don’t know how I would survive without them now.

 All the thousands of moments that you don’t want to forget, plus it’s a great place to keep ideas, inspirations, magazine cut-outs & articles, material & paper samples, supplier details, checklists, wish list (the if money was no object I would choose), cards, letters and photo’s. I found a blank notebook on sale and covered it in paper & ribbon to make it my own. Originally mine started as a collection of notes, things I liked, things I didn’t want to forget, thoughts and a place to keep all our letters & cards we had been given.

 

 

Then we were given a fantastic selection of stickers as an engagement present, and my inner scrapbooking took over. Now I am keeping it as a Wedding Journal and I have a separate one for checklists, scribbling and all the paraphernalia you collect along the way.

My Inspiration Board

I have been working on mood/inspiration boards, to try out the ideas, colours, themes and styles I like and see what works well together.

We're finally getting married

10 years & 24 days later WERE ENGAGED .….. seriously Matt & Ness ... getting Married 2009 !

 So welcome to my adventures & misadventures of planning 2 wedding celebrations, 2 weeks apart, on different sides of the world !!

First is our home weekend celebration in the Hunter Valley and then our Destination Wedding in Disneyland.

Our budget is tight, so we will track down every contact we have, call in ever favour we can, and work hard to come up with clever & creative DIY ideas & alternatives to make the budget last !