The Inbetween Time : Husband and wife pictures

I have so many husband and wife pictures that it would take me months (if not years!) to post them all. What I'm going to do is pick 15 (roughly) and post them here. I have three really cool stories about things that happened while we were taking pictures. Like I said before we got MANY people yelling "Congrats!" to us but these three things will always stick out in my mind. So sit back, enjoy the pictures, and I hope you enjoy these mini stories.




Our first story begins here...

We have the amazing Atlantic Dance Hall in the background and we're taking rather lovely pictures on the pier. All of a sudden we hear "WAIT!!!!! Don't take that picture yet!!!!" this women and her husband came running (Literally running) down the pier towards us. Randy, Adam and I had this shocked look on our faces. When she finally got to us she said "I'm so sorry, but I'm a mother and if my daughter was having her wedding pictures taken I'd want her train fanned out properly!!" And from there she squatted down and fanned out my train for me! :)


(I love that Randy took these pictures by the way!)
I said thank you to her and we all had a good laugh about it. She told me I looked beautiful and her and her husband were on their way.

I just thought to myself, these people are on vacation! what does she care if my train was fanned out or not? But they took the time to stop and help me out. It was just such an awesome moment.

Ok back to the wedding picture porn





Story number two takes place here....

Randy saw this window display inside "the screen door" which is the gift shop on the boardwalk. He told us to go into the store and stand behind the Mickey and Minnie for some pictures. We walked inside and it was rather busy in there. I felt very out of place in there in my big dress. All of a sudden a super nice cast member came rushing over to us. He said he watched the ceremony from the store and he was hoping we'd come by here to take pictures. We told him Randy's photo idea and he grabbed my hand and pulled me through the store yelling "excuse us! Bride and Groom Coming through!" He set us up in front of the window and kept everyone away from us while we took these pictures.


I thought it was awesome of this cast member to help us out like that! We moved from the Animal Kingdom Lodge to the Boardwalk for our honeymoon and I tried to find him in that gift shop but he wasn't there. Booo!





The last story (and one that may require tissues) happened while we were setting up for this picture...

We were coming up the stairs as a family as coming down. There was a little girl (maybe 6) and a little boy in a stroller who was knocked out lol. The little girl was dressed to the nines as a princess. (I think Ariel I remember her dress being green) She saw me and gasped! She said "Mommy look! A real princess! I want her autograph!" Of course I cried like a baby! (I'm actually crying writing this, how sad!) I waved to her and said "Hi!" her mom bent down and told her that I was a bride which was like being a princess for a day. She was just so cute! Out of all the attention I got that day, this little girl thinking that I was a real princess was my favorite!

Ok enough sappy stuff a couple more pictures before the reception posts begin...

  


And lastly... my favorite!


Hope you enjoyed these. Sorry there wasn't much content (and that I posted more tha 15 pictures) on here for this post. Next one I promise will have more! :)

Ceremony "No really, this is actually the ceremony lol"

After the hand off Pastor Luther took it away with the opening part of the ceremony. He asked all of us if we were ready to CELEBRATE! We all cheered and that set the whole tone for the ceremony. He talked about how love is about celebrating the good times so that when tough times come around, which every marriage has ups and downs, we have memories that help us through. He said that he loved the small ceremonies, like ours, because they were so much more personal and intimate. I really liked that he threw that in there, it made me feel good about having a small wedding. Disney was also incorporated into the wedding, slightly, with references to us sharing our most magical day in the most magical place in the world. Pastor Luther really made me smile and relax at the beginning of the ceremony.

 

When Pastor Luther finished he passed the floor over to Jake. Jake read a beautiful passage about love. It was great that he wanted to be involved during the ceremony and he did an amazing job! :)




After Jake's reading it was time for the vows and the rings. I literally giggled through the whole thing. I'm terrible! I have the worst nervous laugh in the whole world. As poor Adam is trying to say his vows I'm desperately trying to hold in my laughs.



This is me bursting out laughing so everyone else started laughing at me. I was laughing so hard my eyes were tearing up.
Ok back to the seriouse stuff... Rings


After the vows and the rings it was time for something that was near and dear to my heart... the Sand Ceremony. The sand ceremony is just like the unity candle, only difference is instead of using a candle and fire you use two vials of sand and the bride and groom pour each little vial of sand into one big one.





After the sand ceremony we went back to the arch way. We stood infront of all of our guests and Pastor Luther pronounced us Husband and Wife!


Then it was time to kiss the bride!


Oh SNAP! he dipped my bridal butt!!!

All while the violinist was playing "under the sea"... it was perfect!

After the recessional it was time to set up for the "staged exit" I LOVED this part!

Who would've guessed I'd love things being thrown at me so much!


Yup I danced the whole way down that aisle! :)

After this we were set up for family pictures. I'm not going to put you to sleep with all those pictures. It was very much like an assembly line, we stood there and then it was "Ok bring in the moms!", "Ok now the friends!", "Just the bride's family!" ect. Nothing spectacular happened.


Seriously, thank goodness for Amy! Do you see Adams face in that picture? He has no idea how she's doing that! lol After a quick wardrobe change, the guests were brought back to the limo to head back to the Animal Kingdom Lodge while Randy took Adam and I to take Husband and Wife Pictures.

Ceremony "Here comes the Bride!"

Belle Notte started playing and it was time to get this show on the road!

First down the aisle was Jacqui

Next up was Tori, who seriously was LOVING this! I swear other than me and Adam, she did NOT stop smiling! :)


I tried to watch  them all the way down the aisle but I lost them once they went past the guests. The Violinist finished out Belle Notte and then he went right into Cannon in D. Amy gave us the green light and we were on our way down the aisle.



This picture is one of the many pictures that makes me so glad I chose Sea Breeze Point for our ceremony location. When you first talk to your wedding planner about the locations of your ceremony and reception they always emphasise that if you pick an outdoor venue and it rains... you're being moved in! I was 100% obsessed with this location since the beginning and I wasn't budging on my decision. I'm so glad I stuck with it. The boardwalk behind us, the water, the boats going by... I mean where else can you get this backdrop for your wedding?! :)

Almost there!

Finally at the alter, Randy snaps this awesome picture.


Kiss for dad

Now it's time to get married!

Pre Ceremony "The paparazzi"

We all piled into the limo and were on our way to the Boardwalk Inn Resort. We arrived in no time and were greeted by a  whole group of people! Amy, our wedding planner, was there along with Pastor Luther, my parents, and two special people that I was totally psyched to see!

While I was planning my wedding I use to frequent a Disney related forum and I made some AMAZING friends there. One of which was Claire. She happened to be in WDW at the same time as our wedding. I saw here at the entrance to the Boardwalk Inn and I went running over to her!


(The women in the blue dress next to me is Amy)


Claire is from the UK and also a past Disney Bride. I swear that being a Disney bride is almost like joining a sisterhood or a club. If you talk to any Disney brides from the past they'll tell you all the same thing. It was really cool to meet Claire and her husband. I'm so glad they took time out of their vacation to see us!

After talking with Claire briefly we went into the lobby to have everyone sign the marriage license. The whole time we were there the Cast members in the lobby were stopping to say hello, or to compliment my dress. I honestly couldn't stop smiling! We headed outside to take some pictures on the balcony over looking the water.





I love how the back of my dress looks in this one..::sigh::

This is another favorite of mine

Then it was time to start heading over to Sea Breeze Point.
 
I almost fell down the stairs twice... Future brides I have one word of advice, either take your shoes off and go barefoot down stairs or have your groom carry you!

Yay I made it down the stairs!


Another word of advice to future brides... be careful of your heels getting stuck inbetween the boards of the boardwalk.

Everyone on the Boardwalk kept yelling congrats to us! (seriously the amount of attention you get is crazy!)

Love this reflection picture!


We finally arrived at Sea Breeze point. Amy took the boys and got them set up.


I could hear the Violinist tuning the violin and I started to get really nervous.

(yea, I don't look completely horrified right now or anything lol)
Randy noticed I was getting freaked out so he said something here to get my laughing (I forget what he said exactly) and snapped this picture, which I love!


Amy came back after setting up the boys and told us that once the Violinist started playing "belle notte" (from Lady and the Tramp) that Jacqui and Tori would start walking down the aisle. Once they were set up at the alter the violinist would start playing Cannon in D and my mom, dad, and I were to start walking down the aisle.

This concludes the "Pre Ceremony" coverage. I'm going to leave you with a teaser picture for tomorrows installment where we begin "ceremony" coverage.