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I LOVE YOUR CAKE!! I think it is a very cool idea about the hidden Mickeys. I look forward to seeing pictures of that and hearing more about your plans. We also Honeymooned in Disney World and that was my DH first trip. He's hooked now. We have been back 4 about to be 5 times since we have been married. We just celebrated our 7th anniversary in March.
Thats great! I love hearing about everyone else's Disneymoons...it will be DFi first trip to Disney so im really hoping he enjoys and we can keep going back for our anniversary....congrats on 7 years!!
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The cake is beautiful! And it sounds very, very ! Well done!
Thanks so much! I LOVE my cakes and sweet stuff so I think this has been my favourite part so far taste testing cake flavours.
Your plans sound great and I love the cake! I took now DH to Disney for his first trip in 2007. We went again in 2008 where he surprised me and proposed. When we got married last August, we had our honeymoon at Disney too. It only took that first trip for DH to 'get it'.
Your cake will look beautiful! Those hidden Mickeys will be perfect in there. We did 2 different flavors for our wedding cake, so I naturally I like the idea of your 3 different flavors too!
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Ooh - I think your cake is going to be gorgeous! I love the black and white scheme. Somehow seems fitting for some Hidden Mickeys. And the flavors....you've got me hungry right now for a taste!
Thanks everyone for your compliments on the cake!!
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Your plans sound great and I love the cake! I took now DH to Disney for his first trip in 2007. We went again in 2008 where he surprised me and proposed. When we got married last August, we had our honeymoon at Disney too. It only took that first trip for DH to 'get it'.
Thats so great to hear it only took one trip im hoping the same thing happens for DFi i'd love to go back again in April 2011 for the Flower and Garden Show
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Your cake will look beautiful! Those hidden Mickeys will be perfect in there. We did 2 different flavors for our wedding cake, so I naturally I like the idea of your 3 different flavors too!
Im hoping that now everyone can find something they like...what flavours did you have?
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Ooh - I think your cake is going to be gorgeous! I love the black and white scheme. Somehow seems fitting for some Hidden Mickeys. And the flavors....you've got me hungry right now for a taste!
Well I will have a TON of cake left over...its going to feed approx 160 people and we're only having 120..so maybe i'll send some your way!
Im hoping that now everyone can find something they like...what flavours did you have?
We had banana cake and boring vanilla. Not too adventurous!! But the cake itself was delicious, so vanilla was actually quite tasty.
I also forgot to mention that we also did black and white too, with red roses and accents. I wish I would have thought of throwing in a Disney element though......
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Before I add anymore wedding updates I figured it was about time to start talking about the honeymoon.
We originally booked this trip back in August of last year as soon as the 2010 rates were released. We decided to book a standard room at WL. And oh how the trip has changed in the last year ...
Back in January I stayed at WL for my solo trip and was a little under impressed. It has a beautiful lobby and décor just felt the rooms were lacking a little bit. And the bed bugs. I know this can happen at any level resort anywhere and the chances of it happening again are very slim but I don’t want to experience that again – especially on our honeymoon. It was after this trip I started to look at our other options. Dfi liked the look of AKL so we switched to a Savannah View room for not much difference in $$. I was thrilled. I started to do a lot of research on AKL and really began falling in love. Then around the end of January we signed DFi account on the Disney website and after less than a week (I have still not seen one yet and it’s been years) we received a 40% pin that could be used in September. WooHoo!! My dreams of CL were about to come true...DFi agreed that with the pin code we could upgrade to AKL CL. I was on the phone that very morning but all of the AKL CL rooms were booked – so were the savannah view rooms. Now on this call I had the most amazing CM she was very knowledgeable and was really good about offering up other suggestions. Now she must of read my mind because the first thing she said after checking AKL was “we have a GV CL room at the Polynesian available”. I was ecstatic!
A little side note: Ever since my family started taking me to Disney when I was younger we would always visit the beach at Poly. Yes. My parents are notorious pool/beach hoppers. Only at Poly – but I was like between the ages of 5-10 and had no idea that this was “illegal”. So it’s always been a dream of mine to stay here. It’s just always been out of our price range. Poly goers don’t worry my mother is now a die-hard Hilton fan and stays and uses the pool at only the Hilton in DTD or Hilton Bonnet Creek.
After a quick call to DFi rambling on as fast as I could before the Poly room was gone he agreed. We were still saving money with the pin code (about 400) versus paying the rack rate savannah view room at AKL so this was perfect. Since then we haven’t had any resort changes (let’s hope that’s it) and this is how our trip will look
Since then there have been some additions though. We have since added the trip insurance (it is hurricane season after all) and the basic DDP (we do have a lot of signature dining so we figured going with the dining plan will help us “pre-pay” for meals).
Last week we were actually able to book our flights too. Now we typically fly out of Toronto but the rates are ridiculous right now for both AC and WJ. But I did find an amazing rate with Southwest. $398 total roundtrip for 2 adults from Buffalo. I was floored that’s almost 500 cheaper than flying out of Toronto and only an hour more drive from the wedding venue. Sold! But to get the cheap rate we would be flying out Sunday afternoon rather than Monday morning so we would need a place to stay for Sunday night and I wasn't about to pay the $$ for an extra night CL when we really won’t be arriving at the resort until around 8 pm (flight arriving at 6:30 pm). I decided to check out Travelocity and I got a wicked rate for a savannah view for one night for 200$ CDN when on the Disney site with the 40% off they wanted 235$ US. So here is the new plan up to today:
Animal Kingdom Lodge – Savannah View September 19th-20th
Polynesian Resort – Garden View Club Level September 20th – 27th
7 Day Park Hopper (may upgrade to 8 day now)
Disney Dining Plan
Trip Insurance
Up next our ADR’s ....and how many princess meals can I drag Ken too???
Glad I came across your PTR. Weddings and honeymoons are so fun to read about. I LOVE your cake! I wanted a little Disney for my wedding too so my ring bearer carried a Pooh stuffed animal instead of a pillow. I had a couple of other Poohs and Tiggers set up at the reception too. I'm glad you'll get to share Disney with your DF! I'm sure he'll love it.
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Only at Poly – but I was like between the ages of 5-10 and had no idea that this was “illegal”. So it’s always been a dream of mine to stay here. It’s just always been out of our price range. Poly goers don’t worry my mother is now a die-hard Hilton fan and stays and uses the pool at only the Hilton in DTD or Hilton Bonnet Creek. 
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