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Just beautiful.. I completely understand it was just the two of us for a moment as well at my wedding.
I know it must happen to all brides, but it's not like you plan on it happening, you know? So, I think it's soooo cool the way it just does...
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Stunning!!!!! I'm so glad you were happy with your revised bouquet--it was beautiful.
Thanks! It was pretty much just what I wanted!
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Oh, wow! It sounds so amazing!
It was an awesome day! And there's lots left to tell! (Hope you'll all enjoy sticking around for the rest!)
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OMG!!!! How beautiful, romantic, special, elegant................ I could go on and on....... and I was totally humming "So This Is Love" while I was reading Can't wait for more!!! I'm so excited that I get to meet you!!! I would have sooooo stalked your wedding if I were there.
Thanks! It really was all those things! tee hee. Happy to hear you were humming along!
Can't wait to meet you as well! I'll have to update that thread with what I'll be wearing/how we can all spot each other etc..
You would have been welcome to stalk our wedding!
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More great pictures! I'm glad it worked out with the bouquet in the end!
Me too! And thanks for the wine toasting smiley!
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All your photos are stunning.
Thanks! Randy Chapman our photographer was amazing! (And very well priced!) He does family portraits, anniversary and engagement shoots etc..perhaps an engagement shoot is in the cards for a future trip?
How gorgeous! I know what you mean about mentally shutting everyone else out of the picture. I did the same thing on our wedding day and believe me- it helped immensely!!
It just happened so naturally! I wasn't expecting it to happen, and I kind of didn't realize it until during the day, but it was a great feeling!
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I love how everyone was waving to you and pointing. J We went to our zoo for pictures on our wedding day and the same thing happened to me – it did make you feel really special! The shot of you when you saw/realized it was Carrie – fantastic! So great they caught that on film! It’s funny you mentioned to start humming ‘so this is love’ because I started to do it before I even read that part! J So sweet that from the point you saw DH at the end of the aisle and he was all you saw the rest of the day! It made me teary! Oh – and the bouquet – gorgeous!!
Are you loving writing this so you can relive this whole experience over?!
Thanks for your great comments! When you said "It made me teary" I just got all teary!! LOL...
I am loving writing this TR! I can't get enough of looking at our pictures and our video (Is that normal?)
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Let's start off with a couple of pics, shall we?
Ok, so what can I tell you about the ceremony? I’ll tell you about the main parts of the ceremony, but of course, interspersed were the words from our amazingly cool and well-spoken officiant, Rev.Miller. (Uniquely United - Wedding Ceremonies Officiated With Competence and Care). Well, we started off with a mentioning of both my father and DH’s brother. Both of whom are deceased. DH’s brother passed away as a child from cancer. We had 2 memorial candles (one for each) placed on a table in hurricane holders (due to the breeze at Sea Breeze Point). Neither of our moms knew we were going to have the candles and I know they were happy we did.
Here's a pic of the table with the memorial candles:
Next, one of my nephews did a reading. “Apache Marriage Blessing” Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be the shelter for each other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth for the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before. Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your life together. And may your days be good and long upon the earth.
Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together. Give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves. When frustration, difficulty and fear assail your relationship - as they threaten all relationships at one time or another - remember to focus on what is right between you, not only the part which seems wrong. In this way, you can ride out the storms when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives - remembering that even if you lose sight of it for a moment, the sun is still there. And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight.
Next, was the giving away of….ME! LOL….Now, this was kind of funny. For months and months before the wedding, my mom kept asking me who was giving me away. (It seemed that all her friends kept asking her!). Well, I had wanted to walk down the aisle by myself. It was a decision I had made actually while watching some other DISbride videos (one in particular) and besides I just felt if my dad wasn’t there to do it, I didn’t want anyone else doing it. (This is interesting in and of itself though, because I had always thought after my dad passed away that I would have my brothers walk me down the aisle). Many people asked if I would have my mom do it and that just didn’t feel right to me, to each his own, you know? Anyway, so when my mom asked me who was giving me away, I told her she was of course! But then she would get all confused because she knew I was walking down the aisle by myself. I told her that was correct, but when Rev. Miller asked who was giving the bride away, that she was to answer “ME!” LOL (or whatever she felt like saying)
So, now we’re up to the giving away part and the Reverend asks “Who gives this beautiful bride etc…?” And there is complete silence! I look over at my mom and she is like totally clueless! (Bless my 84 yr old mom! LOL). Thanks goodness my nephew’s fiancé was sitting next to her and nudged her and said quietly something to the effect of “Mimi, that’s you…” And still I swear I heard my mom say “What?” It was like she wasn’t even paying attention! It was soo funny! It doesn’t sound it I know, but believe me, it totally was! So, anyway, my mom finally calls out “I do!” and everyone laughs…my mom is so cute sometimes (when she's not driving me crazy!) everyone loves her...anyway, it was a very nice moment actually.
DF and I had decided we wanted to do the “Presentation of Roses” to our moms. So, that came next. Then my niece (the other one, not the MOH) did a reading. She’s a bit shy and doesn’t especially like reading in front of people, so I tried to pick something short but something that we really liked: THE MOST WONDERFUL OF ALL THINGS IN LIFE
~ By Sir Hugh Walpole ~ The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.
After some more awesome words from Rev. Miller, my other nephew did his reading: EXCERPT FROM "A SONG FOR HIAWATHA" Come join us in celebration, those who love sunshine on meadow
Who love shadow of the forest,
love the wind among the branches and the palacades of pine trees,
and the thunder in the mountains whose innumerable echoes flap like eagles in their eries.
Listen to this song of marriage. How, from another tribe and country came a young man, “give me as my wife this maiden, and our hands be clasped more closely, and our hearts be more united.
Thus it is, our daughters leave us, those we love and those who love us. When a youth with flaunting feathers beckons to the fairest maiden.
From the sky the sun benignant looked upon them through the branches, Saying to them, “oh, my children life is checkered shade and sunshine.”
The two figures man and woman Standing hand in hand together, with their hands so clasped together that they seem in one united. And the words thus represented are, “I see your heart within you.”
Sing them songs of love and longing
Now, let's feast and be more joyous.
Next we did our vows and the exchange of rings…immediately followed by….the Irish Loving Cup Ceremony. See, I guess in most modern weddings these days, there seems to be an extra part of the ceremony added in. The two most popular are the sand ceremony and the unity candle. Well, neither DF nor I liked those. So I did research as to what else we could do…first I found the handfasting ceremony which I liked but had trouble finding a ceremony which wasn’t too obviously pagan or wiccan in feel. If I could, we probably would have done it though. I was beginning to rack my brain…maybe we just wouldn’t do anything else? Then I remembered there is a Scottish drinking vessel with two handles…couldn’t remember the name of it and of course DF is Irish, not Scottish, but you know how the internet works, I searched for Scottish Drinking Cup and got the name “Quaich”. Then I searched for “Quaich” with wedding ceremony or something…I didn’t really come up with much. It seems it’s not really used for weddings. Hmmm….just for the heck of it I searched for Irish Loving Cup (because I had found out that the Quaich is called a Loving Cup). There was only one place I could find something, but it was PERFECT!!!! It was in some bride’s blog I found randomly on the internet...I loved the wording and so did DF (plus he liked the fact that he could have a drink! LOL). I had found a nice, pewter Irish Loving Cup online and had bought it months ago
…so without further delay I give you…. The Irish Loving Cup Ceremony Rev. Miller: On this your wedding day, we celebrate the Celtic spirit of the Anam Cara. Anam Cara is translated from the Gaelic as “soul friend”. By entering in a partnership with your anam cara, you are joined in an ancient and eternal way with this person whom you most cherish. In everyone’s life there is a great need for an anam cara and so I ask you to toast one another by repeating in unison the following: (Repeat in unison)Today I recognize you, my anam cara and ask that you become a part of me, in sacred kinship. With you, I have lost all fear and have found the greatest courage. I have learned to love and let myself be loved. With you, I have found a rhythm of grace and gracefulness. Love has reawakened in my life; a rebirth; a new beginning. With you my anam cara, I am understood, I am home. Rev. Miller: And now, please drink to the love you have shared in the past.
(We each take a sip or in DF’s case, a gulp) Rev. Miller: Drink to your love in the present, on this your wedding day. (Another sip) Rev. Miller: And drink to your love in the future and forever more…
(One more sip) Rev. Miller: The Celts believed that the way you view your future actually shapes it. I now ask everyone here to take a moment to visualize a future for Lori and Eoghan. As a group, let’s think of the happiness in store for Lori and Eoghan. Let’s put their joyous future out to the universe.
After that, we do the declaration etc. and of course, the kissing!
And we are presented to our guests as Mr. and Mrs.!
Now, let’s see if I can remember this correctly…because a lot happens right after the ceremony. Hmmm…
I think the champagne toast was next…
then we had some wedding crashers drop by…That’s right, you guessed it, the big cheese and his lady! Tee hee.
Mickey and Minnie arrived to help us cut our cake, dance with us, take pics and mingle a bit. I have to just say here and now, the things that we added on to our wedding, though perhaps a bit expensive considering, I thought were totally worth it. First of all, with the MK and EPCOT photos, I mean, you’re having your wedding in WDW, it’s the only chance you would have to be the only guests in the park, get your photo taken in your wedding attire in front of Cinderella’s Castle, and really, you will never be able to have characters at a private event if you don’t have them at your wedding, I don’t know…I just felt like these were the things that were important to me to have, some girls spend the big $ on the dress, some the flowers, some the invites etc. I’ve said this before in an earlier post I know…
Anyway, when we first informed our families of our Disney Wedding and how we were going to have Mickey and Minnie there, of course we were laughed at. My SIL especially was like a stick in the mud about it (but that’s how she is sometimes). But I’ll tell you when the mice were there and for weeks afterwards she was saying how cute it was, how cute they were…
I think even though our families knew they were coming, they didn’t really know what to expect from the mice.
So, I don’t know what it was that initially made everyone turn around, but all of a sudden, here they come up the same “aisle” I walked up! Everyone started cheering and they were waving at everyone. To be honest I just wanted to run over to them and give Mickey a huge hug, but before I knew it, they were right there with us behind our cake table…We made some small “talk”
and then we did the cake cutting/feeding (and no, we did not do the smoosh it all over each other’s faces). After the cake cutting, we did our first dance to “A Whole New World”
and took lots of pics basically. Here are some of the best ones…remember…you asked for pics!
Mickey and Minnie kept helping out!! Mickey (pictured here) and Minnie kept fixing my train!
And it was Minnie who remembered I needed my bouquet for the pics!
LOVE THEM!!!!
While we were taking all these pics, I really have no idea what everyone else was doing! LOL…I think just mingling and drinking champagne maybe? I know eventually everyone was led down to the grassy area to have cake. I LOVED the way the chair covers and sashes came out!
You wouldn’t believe all the details that needed to be decided, I actually found it humorous at times, but I realize Disney Fairytale Weddings knows EXACTLY what they’re doing and why they do it (and why they asked me such detailed questions while planning!) We finally finish taking pics with Mickey and Minnie (we only have them for 30 mins total.) It’s really plenty of time, but seriously, when it was time to say “Good bye” I got all choked up and really would have preferred to just hang with them all day.
Next Up: Even MORE pics and the dinner reception at Jiko!
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Man Lori!! I need a box of tissues while I'm reading all these updates! I don't 'know' you know you, but I'm SO happy for you!!! The Irish Loving Cup was beautiful! What a nice thing to do amongst yourselves and brings a little tradition from DH's background.
I love that you had Mickey & MInnie - how great! And I don't think I knew this or saw this before ever, but they dressed to match your colors!! How neat and in detail is that?! I absolutely LOVE that picture of you & DH and Mickey & Minnie walking away in B&W.
And by the way - I submitted a request for some info from your photographer as I've been thinking about doing a family portait with my in-laws when we go in December. Thanks for the link!
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What wonderful updates!! As someone planning her wedding - it is wonderful to hear that all of the effort will result in a beautiful day! I wish mine could be at Disney, but that just didn't work. I love living your WDW wedding through your TR!
THE MOST WONDERFUL OF ALL THINGS IN LIFE ~ By Sir Hugh Walpole ~ The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.
This is so beautiful. The ceremony sounds so, so, amazing. I can't think of any other words.
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Oh Lori. The wedding was beautiful. I had to stop reading to go get tissues since I was crying. I felt like I was there with you. It was an amazing ceremony. I loved the Irish Drinking Cup ceremony.
I loved that Mickey and Minnie were in purple to match your colors. The pics are great.
You two make a great couple. You are so cute together.
I can't wait to meet you two! Not much longer.
What a beautiful ceremony! I had to grab a tissue too while reading. DH and I will celebrate our 28th wedding anniversary next month and I'm as nuts about him now as I was back then. I wish you both a lifetime of love! I just loved all the pics. I especially got a kick out of the one with Mickey, your DH and his brother all posing together with their one foot crossed over the other! Too cute!
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The shot of you when you saw/realized it was Carrie – fantastic! So great they caught that on film! It’s funny you mentioned to start humming ‘so this is love’ because I started to do it before I even read that part! J So sweet that from the point you saw DH at the end of the aisle and he was all you saw the rest of the day! 
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