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[DisneyDreaming]

Hi
Anyone have re-hitchin stories.

I think I want to do this.

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Marylee

[Bert & Sully]

Well I personally don't; but I bumped a Travel Report up for you called "The PARTEE Report".....

[Wondcat]

I do, I do!! To make this easier than reading the whole report, which I do recommend because I still laugh when I read it, this is edited from "The PARTEE" report. But, if you want to know what happened before and why I call it 'the thing' you will have to read the report.

As previously written by Wondcat

By now I had given up all hope on the 'thing' and after we went to the gift shop and had to go back to the room to pack the boxes, Richard picked up our wedding ears to pack them and said lets take them with us, maybe we can do the 'thing' today. So after taking the boxes back downstairs we decided that we would drive today, so that we could go where we wanted when we wanted. Now, where my favorite things in Epcot are the countries, Richard's are in future world, so we spent a good bit of time there playing games and doing the stuff that is available there. We had our photo taken there, the one that is posted on the BB. By then it was around noon and we were getting hungry so we headed over to the Land. The Garden Grill didn't look busy, so we went up and told the CM there that we had missed the thing on Saturday and could we do it today? She said that of course we could and we headed into the restaurant. We walked and walked past many empty tables, I can only guess that she wanted to make sure that we were seated in the area that was governed by Rick, a yet another flamboyant-Elton John sort of looking, not so young CM. After we were seated with our ears on, he came over and took our drink orders, beer for Richard, wine for me. He asked us if we wanted to 'git' re-hitched and we said yes and he said OK! But, first we had to have our lunch. Which was pretty good, we had salad, sunflower seed bread and cinnamon-honey butter, Mickey Mouse came over and kissed my hand with a real kissing sound and touched my ears and Chip and Dale kept sneaking by and acting wierd, but didn't really stop to talk with us. Then we had catfish, BBQ flanksteak, turkey with stuffing, mashed potaotes, carrots and string beans, and Mickey came over again. whew! Just when we were feeling more than full, Rick bounced over, he was a really sort of bouncey fellow, with Mickey and Chip & Dale and a couple of cm's, which we gave our camera to since we had forgotten the video camera and He said, get up! Which we did immediately and he started yelling at the top of his voice, Mr. & Mrs. Chandler, (I don't ever remember telling them our names, so they must have gotten it from the PS from Saturday, because we were shocked!) you have been living in sin for 27 years. I just wanted to crawl under the table, but I was laughing so hard, that he said "this is serious!" He then jumped up on the bench of the booth and started shouting " Mr. & Mrs. Chandler, you have been living in sin for 27 years, you are not really married until I, Rick, your Preacher, perform this fancy, spiffed up, go-to-town rehitchin ceremonie! Then he said, Mrs. do you? and Richard said I do, and Rick said are you Mrs.? and we laughed and Rick said Mrs. do you? and I said I do, and Rick said Mr. do you, and Richard said I do, and Rick said now you have to kiss for 100 seconds, so we did and we started laughing, and Rick said no laughing, this is serious, start over, so we did and after he was satisfied and had counted to 100, we stopped kissing and my ears fell off and over the railing of the spining scenes that spin around as you are eating. I started to lean over the railing to get them and he said, allow me and he leaped over the railing and picked them up. At that time another CM, whom I assume was the manager hurried over and said, what are you doing? and Rick said she dropped her wedding ears and I went to get them, so he turned around and went back to where ever he had been. So, then they let us sit back down and the characters came back and hugged us and patted our ears. Rick came back and asked us if we were ready for dessert, we said yes, expecting strawberry shortcake and they bought us a little cake with Mickey on it and congratulations!, so we took a photo of it and cut it and we each ate a piece and it was very good, they put it in box and we took it with us. I really only took it so that I could keep the thing that was on top of it with Mickey on it, but it melted and I had to throw it away. They also gave us a certificate with Mickey & Minnie dressed in their go to town, re-hitchin outfits which says:
"To all them thar that reads this Mr & Mrs. Chandler had one fancy, spiff'd up go-to-town, re-hitchin ceremonie at the Garden Grill "
signed by Rick, the Preacher, Mickey the Best Man and Minnie the Maid of Honor. Too funny! We then left the Garden Grill and took off our ears, Richard didn't want to wear his and mine were really too small.

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[ 08-17-2002, 11:35 PM: Message edited by: Wondcat ]

[DisneyDreaming]

Thanks for the info

I had email guest services and I got an email back today. It said Yes you can get remarried in WDW and directed me to the wedding web sit or gave me their number.

It looks like even guest services is in the dark on this one. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Glad I heard about it from the boards. You guys know it all [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

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Marylee

[kecall]

Can someone help Marylee out here?? I seem to remember someone else recently having a problem with this....

Didn't they change the name of the "ceremony"??? Just can't remember the details...

[patty c.]

All you have to do is tell the CM making your Garden Grill PS reservation to make a note that says you want the Re-Hitching ceremony. The CM'S will say they are not familiar with it. Some will say that they don't know if it is available. Some will even refer you to people who arrange weddings. **** (see below) Just tell the CM that you really didn't expect them to know about it, and tell them you were instructed to ask for them to put "Rehitchin Ceremony" in the notes of your PS. Just leave it at that and the people at GG will take it from there. Believe me, it will confuse everyone and be a frustrating experience for you if you try to find a CM at WDW dining who knows about it.

****(By the way, this is not a wedding, or even a formal re-commitment, and sometimes it really isn't a ceremony. Ours was similar to having the waiters sing happy birthday to you at Applebee's, nothing more. Your experience depends entirely on your waiter, and frankly, I was embarassed for having invited friends to witness our "ceremony" . I was terribly disappointed. But in light of so many others having a wonderful experience, you should go through with it and hope for the best. You might try requesting the waiter Pat and her DH had if he is still there. If you e-mail me I'll tell you who NOT to ask for, but I don't want to publically say anything bad about a WDW CM.

[ 08-19-2002, 11:57 PM: Message edited by: patty c. ]

[Skatetigger]

Is this rehitching ceremony only done at the Garden Grill. It's my parents annivesary while we are there and would love to see that, even if it is only a birthday type thing.

[reinstructor]

Will they do the re-hitching ceremony at the ice cream social, or is it just at mealtimes?

[patty c.]

As far as I have been able to tell, it's only at lunch and dinner and only at Garden Grille. It's a fun thing, I don't want my experience to talk anybody out of it. I just don't want to see anyone disappointed -- it's better to expect less and be pleasantly surprised, right? I'd say the best way to do it would be like Skatetigger has suggested, just an impromptu event with out a lot of prior fanfare. Go for it! The meal at Garden Grille is a pre-plated and absolutely wonderful. It was a lot for us to eat at lunch, I think next time we'd do it for dinner.

[didi]

Yes, you can do it at the Ice Cream Social. Again, tell the CM and if they don't know, tell them to call the restaurant directly AND remind them when you come in!

Sounds like fun, anyway!

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