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So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
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We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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02-18-2006, 11:26 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Virginia - a day's drive to WDW
Posts: 3,317
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What did you do with your wedding dress?
Here's the deal ... I've heard and read so many different things about what to do with your dress after the wedding that I've done ... nothing. Some say take it to the dry cleaners. Some say they won't give it the attention it needs and it should go to a preservation specialist. They claim to go over it by hand (which isn't cheap). It does have champagne on it, which you can't see now but I"ve heard years from now it will look really bad. (the champagne story is below - for kicks). I've also heard that the "preservation" people just say that and they throw it in a washing machine. I'm afraid to try to wash it myself, and I'm afraid to give it to the dry cleaner - what if they lose it?
So - do I take it to the cleaners?
send it to the preservationissts (or whatever they call themselves)?
wash it myself?
another idea?
I'm neurotic - can you tell? I'm also very aware that the chances that anyone will wear it ever again are slim, but I can't bring myself to part with it quite yet.
So...any advice is appreciated.
The Champagne Bath: I'd had a margarita, a few glasses of champagne (I dunno, the waiter kept refilling it), 3 hours sleep the night before, and - oh, the most emotional day of my life. So, I went to throw the bouquet and I had the bouquet in one hand and the glass in the other and everyone started counting " 3, 2, 1 " and I threw - both of them! HAaaaaa.... I realized immediately that the glass was airborne and caught it, but not before I was showered in the sticky stuff. Graceful.
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02-18-2006, 11:29 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Niagara Falls
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
First of all...hilarious story! LOL
Second of all...my wedding dress is in my closet...never took it to the cleaners...I forgot. They say you should within the first 6 months...and that was over two years ago now.
I wouldn't allow anyone else to wear it. IT'S MINE!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
Jennifer
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02-18-2006, 11:45 PM
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But why is the rum gone?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Needville, Texas
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
I am with Jennifer. I wouldn't allow anyone to wear mine. My DSIL spent 3 months making it. It is hanging in the guest room closet and I still haven't taken it to the cleaners. I keep swearing that I will.
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02-18-2006, 11:58 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Virginia - a day's drive to WDW
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
OMG well I don't feel so bad. Its been 6 months.
The only people who would ever wear it would be my niece, or my future daughter. At the rate we're going on the child-making, that won't happen either. I hear about 9 months before the baby comes, you have to do something where you are both home at the same time ... something like that [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
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02-19-2006, 12:13 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
My first wedding dress went to a shop where they rented out dresses. The "donated" dresses went on a special rack that girls could choose from *cheap* (or free if the owner saw fit), which I really liked that idea. It didn't do much for me since I had married a jerk. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
My second wedding dress was actually an evening dress that I'd bought to chaperone prom where I was teaching and for my college graduation. It just happened to be a lovely ivory lace affair that was perfect to get married in, too! It is still in the closet, waiting for me to lose 2 babies' worth of weight (the youngest is 7, ya think it's time??? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]) so I can wear it again in 4 years when DH and I renew our vows at WDW. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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02-19-2006, 12:36 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
It poured rain the day of my wedding so the bottom of my dress was a little dirty and then my DH got the bright idea of going to our neighborhood bar after the wedding and wouldn't let me go home to get changed. I had a great time but the back of my dress actually has sneaker and shoe prints on it. I never got it cleaned because I was too embarrassed but I still have it and everytime I see it I remember what a great time I had the day of my wedding [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]!!
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02-19-2006, 12:42 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
Funny Story!
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02-19-2006, 12:58 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Virginia - a day's drive to WDW
Posts: 3,317
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
haa thats funny but a good way to look at it. Mine has shoe prints on it too cause DH's cousin's boyfriend stepped on it like 5 times. Dude - I'm wearing a big dress - keep your distance! Geesh.
I thought I was the only person who didn't get the dress cleaned the day after the wedding. I still don't know what to do but at least I feel better and I'm having fun reading about everyone's weddings.
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02-19-2006, 01:29 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Peoria IL
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Posts: 6,423
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
Okay, sad, but mabye true story here. I haven't had the guts to confirm it yet.
About a year and a half ago, DH and I did a major clean of the attic. We rented a 5 yard dumpster to throw stuff in. I mean, it was a major clean of ten years of junk that had found it's way to the attic. One of the things I ran across in the "Big clean of 04" was the train of my sister's wedding dress. I have no idea why it was in my house and figured since it hadn't been inquired about in the last eight years, it was fair game for the pitch pile. (If I had asked her if she wanted it, and she said yes, it would have sat in my house for another eight years) It was in a black plastic dry cleaner's bag. The same type of bag that my wedding dress was in.........
So I pitched it. Or so I though. But that Christmas, I went up for some boxes of decorations and stumbled across a black plastic bag. Thinking it was my wedding dress, I picked it up and looked inside. It was my sister's train! I know I threw away a bag that looked just like it.
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif[/img]
I haven't had the heart to look again. So, whatever you decide to do, just do it. And make sure it is in a safe place and you know what it is in!
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02-19-2006, 06:42 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
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Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
I got married over six years ago and mine was never cleaned after our wedding. I just didn't think about doing it. I'm not aware that I spilt anything on it, although I haven't looked at it since. It went back into its original packaging, but I guess I should check on how it's doing.
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02-19-2006, 07:56 AM
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Community Rank: Passenger 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: SC
Posts: 35
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
I had mine cleaned and preserved for several years. I have 2 daughters and initially thought oh, maybe they could use it. Not. SO I had it made into a crib blanket and used it at their christening. My mother smocked a beautiful christening gown and it completed the picture.
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02-19-2006, 08:36 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Massachusetts/ near Boston
Posts: 738
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
I never had my dress cleaned either. I just put in the bag it came in. I remember that it looked great at the end of our wedding, aside from a little dirt at the bottom. I really meant to take it to a professional to be cleaned, but.... you all know how that turns out.
I do have two DD's so maybe one will want to wear it one day. I guess I will have it cleaned then. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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02-19-2006, 08:44 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Massachusetts
Concierge Level: 10
Posts: 5,054
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
My dress was a "Cinderella style", I was married 34 years ago. The dress was so beautiful (at that time in history) with lace and pearls and small bows, just like Cinderella's at the Ball....well.........my sister, sister-in law, cousin, and then 2 other friends of the family all wore the dress at their weddings......it really was beautiful. It was professionally taken care of, but then......we had a really bad "house fire" and it was lost. No matter what you do with a special "possession", you'll always have the memories and pictures of it.......I was able to save the pictures......the gown was just too smoke damaged and singed to even try to restore. I got my "rella" from my granddaughter.....when she saw a wedding picture (she was 2 1/2 or 3 at the time) she said that I looked like rella....that's what she called Cinderella(at the time) who is our favorite Princess. rella [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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02-19-2006, 09:24 AM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
Posts: 42,304
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
I had mine professionally cleaned and boxed up.
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02-19-2006, 09:40 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
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Re: What did you do with your wedding dress?
Mine got TRASHED...it snowed on my wedding day and the snow mixed with the street and I walked all over it, but that was my intention anyway...to wear the HECK out of it b/c it'd never be worn again. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] I also got the champagne spills, and it's pretty stained. I ended up shoving it in a wicker hamper that was in my family's bathroom ever since the dawn of time. I think of it as my mother's hamper and she died when I was 12, so I kinda like that my crumpled mangly wedding dress is in there with her hamper. They reside in my walk-in closet, with a blanket on top where my kitties sometimes nap.
If you're gonna get yours cleaned, I'd do it fast. Alcohol stains everything.
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