Joanne and Paul's VR - 4th May 2011

[tinkerbell 766]

Gorgeous photos Joanne!! You can really tell how much fun you're having. It was such a nice day outside for you!!

Great pictures! You're so brave in that water (and you crack me up about your hubby!!) I love the picture with the special effects around the edges, the 5th one down I think! I can't wait to see more in the ppol!

I love love love the newest photos! Just gorgeous!! You're braver than I for getting in the lake!

I love ALL your TTD pictures Joanne! You both look so happy!

Yet again, the photos are so amazing and you look like you had so much fun. I particularly like the one that has been edited to be blurred round the edges.

Corinna

looking foward to the pool shots.

I seriously couldnt even contemplate doing a TTD session (even saying the name of it makes me shudder), but i very much enjoy seeing others. Yours looks great - even if i was shuddering at the thought of damaging the dress and Pete Warners voice screaming in my head "Stay out of the Damn Lakes"

Thanks for sharing am looking forward to seeing more

Right girls let's get one thing straight!!

DOING OUR TTD SESSION, DID NOT RUIN MY DRESS!!!

My dress was cleaner when I exited the pool than it was at the end of the VR day. I have since had my dress professionally cleaned and it is as good as new!! It has come up so well that I am even considering selling it!! Although, I am not sure if I am ready to part with it just yet!!

Therefore, no courage is required. Believe me if it were, I would not have done it!!! I am really not confident in water!!

Jennifer sweetie - Thank you!!! We had the greatest fun and it was a lovely hot day!!

Andrea sweetie - Thanks hun!! Believe me, I am not brave at all (see note above ). I like that 'special effects' picture too!!!

Faith sweetie - Thank you!! I am not brave at all (see note above )

April sweetie - Thank you so much!! We were so very happy and were having the greatest fun!!

Corinna sweetie - Thanks so much!!! It is the greatest fun you can have in a wedding dress!!!

Claire sweetie - Pool piccies next!!!

Sweet Rachey - It doesn't damage your dress at all (well at least it didn't damage mine at all - see note above ). Excuse my ignorance, but who is Pete Warner and why does he scream that?

 

[clarabella]

OMG I know im late to read this but wow your wedding was amazing and I love all the DIY bits your truely an inspiration!

 

[brer rabbit 28]

Bring on the pool piccies!!!!

 

[Jilian]

Bring on the pool piccies!!!!

Yeah!

 

[Tinker Bell Fan]

You and your hubby are just so cute together! I love the TTD photos - they look like so much fun! Can't wait to see the pool pics!

 

[J.ThaddeusToad]

Mark is so handsome! I'm so glad to hear that he is doing well and that he has been to Disneyland Paris! My uncle was the same way about food! He was always quite upset if you were eating and he wasn't - even if he had just finished eating! They definitely are so loving and we could all take a page out of their book.

These TTD pictures just keep getting better and better - although I have a feeling the pool at the Polynesian pics are going to be amazing!

 

[DoomBuggy0922]

Joanne, there is nothing YAWN about your TTD pics at all! I love them all. You can tell how much you and your hubby truly love each other in all of these pictures--- it gives me goosebumps. I hope I still love Chris after 11 years like you love Paul.

And I think my favorite one is the last one of you lounging and looking like Ariel when she had the sheet on (except your dress is prettier than a sheet LOL!). Randy Chapman is pretty much a god.

 

[wiserabbit]

So much fun in the lake!!! Great pics of you both - you two definitely have a chemistry that shines through in all the pics....you must have spent a fortune on extra prints.... They are all keepers!!!! Can't wait for the pool pics....

You guys didn't have any patrol boats come by and tell you get out of the water? That (and the supposed flesh eating bacteria in the water) would be enough to keep me out - I'm such a chicken.....

 

[ladyemz]

Thank you so much for your PM Joanne, I have now added TTD session to our list of things to consider if the budget can stretch to it. Really excited to see the Poly pool photos, I love that resort!!! xxx

 

[disneemama]

Hi Joanne, just returned from WDW this week so needed to catch up on your TTD photos. They are awesome, the more pictures I see, the more I understand how you could do it. It looks like it was so much fun. I love the picture of Mark, he must be so sweet. My sister doesn't have Downs but she suffered braindamage when she was a few weeks old. The two of us went to Disney last Dec. for her 60th B'day and it was pricless as she had never flown or been to Disney.

 

[Groom Mickey]

You are just so sweet. Not to steal your thread about my now defunct thread (LOL). I have uploaded a ton of pictures and the boys are in school. House projects continue so we can sell our home and buy the farm. I can promise though that next week you will see some activity on my thread. Thanks so much for your support. You two are such an adorable couple. The DIS boards are so lucky to have you as a part of it.

 

[dolphingirl47]

Corinna sweetie - Thanks so much!!! It is the greatest fun you can have in a wedding dress!!!

You may well be right. However, I think disembarking the ship and clearing immigration in the wedding dress and seeing people's reactions will also be a lot of fun.

My dream of a perfect Trash the Trash photo was playing in a fountain. However, this is unfortunately not going to happen.

Corinna

 

[gertiesquidge]

lol Corinna I'd love to see the immigration officer's faces as you go through customs

And a trash the dress in a fountain sounds like a lovely idea, even if its not going to happen.

Gertiesquidge x

You may well be right. However, I think disembarking the ship and clearing immigration in the wedding dress and seeing people's reactions will also be a lot of fun.

My dream of a perfect Trash the Trash photo was playing in a fountain. However, this is unfortunately not going to happen.

Corinna

 

[NicknNancy]

Those pictures are awesome! It looks like you guys are having so much fun!

 

[Disney9.9.10]

Joanne, your TTD shots are gorgeous!! They are some of the best that I have ever seen. You guys really look like you are enjoying yourselves, and the location is so beautiful! Love, love, love them!

 

[tinkerbell 766]

OMG I know im late to read this but wow your wedding was amazing and I love all the DIY bits your truely an inspiration!

Bring on the pool piccies!!!!

Yeah!

You and your hubby are just so cute together! I love the TTD photos - they look like so much fun! Can't wait to see the pool pics!

Mark is so handsome! I'm so glad to hear that he is doing well and that he has been to Disneyland Paris! My uncle was the same way about food! He was always quite upset if you were eating and he wasn't - even if he had just finished eating! They definitely are so loving and we could all take a page out of their book.

These TTD pictures just keep getting better and better - although I have a feeling the pool at the Polynesian pics are going to be amazing!

Joanne, there is nothing YAWN about your TTD pics at all! I love them all. You can tell how much you and your hubby truly love each other in all of these pictures--- it gives me goosebumps. I hope I still love Chris after 11 years like you love Paul.

And I think my favorite one is the last one of you lounging and looking like Ariel when she had the sheet on (except your dress is prettier than a sheet LOL!). Randy Chapman is pretty much a god.

So much fun in the lake!!! Great pics of you both - you two definitely have a chemistry that shines through in all the pics....you must have spent a fortune on extra prints.... They are all keepers!!!! Can't wait for the pool pics....

You guys didn't have any patrol boats come by and tell you get out of the water? That (and the supposed flesh eating bacteria in the water) would be enough to keep me out - I'm such a chicken.....

Thank you so much for your PM Joanne, I have now added TTD session to our list of things to consider if the budget can stretch to it. Really excited to see the Poly pool photos, I love that resort!!! xxx

Hi Joanne, just returned from WDW this week so needed to catch up on your TTD photos. They are awesome, the more pictures I see, the more I understand how you could do it. It looks like it was so much fun. I love the picture of Mark, he must be so sweet. My sister doesn't have Downs but she suffered braindamage when she was a few weeks old. The two of us went to Disney last Dec. for her 60th B'day and it was pricless as she had never flown or been to Disney.

You are just so sweet. Not to steal your thread about my now defunct thread (LOL). I have uploaded a ton of pictures and the boys are in school. House projects continue so we can sell our home and buy the farm. I can promise though that next week you will see some activity on my thread. Thanks so much for your support. You two are such an adorable couple. The DIS boards are so lucky to have you as a part of it.

You may well be right. However, I think disembarking the ship and clearing immigration in the wedding dress and seeing people's reactions will also be a lot of fun.

My dream of a perfect Trash the Trash photo was playing in a fountain. However, this is unfortunately not going to happen.

Corinna

Those pictures are awesome! It looks like you guys are having so much fun!

Joanne, your TTD shots are gorgeous!! They are some of the best that I have ever seen. You guys really look like you are enjoying yourselves, and the location is so beautiful! Love, love, love them!

Sorry I have been AWOL lately. I have been busy with work and preparing Alfie (and his vast amount of expensive uniform ) for his first day at high school!! he is all settled and enjoying it!!

Sweet Clarabella - Thank you for your lovely comments!! Glad to have you following along!!

Claire sweetie - Pool piccies to follow. I have a fear that they may be a disappointment!!! Everybody seems to be looking forward to them, and they are not that interesting!!!

Jilian sweetie - Thanks, but see above note!!

Michelle sweetie - We had the best fun!!! Oh dear, somebody else looking forward to the pool pictures

Catherine sweetie - Bless you!!! It was Mark's birthday last week. He had a great time but then he enjoys anything which has the slightest connection to cake!!!. I agree we could all learn from these special and happy people!!
Oh goodness!!! You know the pool pictures are not amazing (they are not among my favourites at all) - I fear all my sweet girls will be bitterly disappointed!!

Sweet Jackie - you really are a darling!!! Paul and I are very blessed in the fact that our relationship seems to grow better with time. I am sure you and Chris will be exactly the same!!! You can see the beginnings of it in your gorgeous E pics!!!
Thank you for the Ariel comment!! I love Ariel and she is DD's favourite princess. I guess mine is Snow White because she is the first one that Walt (bless him ) created and she is so innocent and sweet!!
I agree about Randy - I think I might write to Her Majesty and see about a knighthood for him!!! Arise Sir Randy Chapman!!

Sweet Monarabbit - Thank you!! I guess we do have a chemistry. Luckily, we have the rights to Randy's photos, so prints have been easy and cheap. Digital photo frames are a godsend too!!
No, no patrol boats asking us to leave the water. The only boats which commented were shouting good wishes!! I think Randy has a pretty good idea what he can get away with and what he can't!! I didn't get my flesh eaten by bacteria either!! I had no idea about it it was a possibility Not that it would have prevented us doing the session. I am pretty laid back about these kind of rumours and things things!! You are not a chicken, just more sensible than me probably!!

Emma sweetie - Thank you. Another friend with high expectations of the pool photos!!

My sweet Mary - Lovely to hear from you!!! I hope you had a lovely trip!! i am so envious you got to go to WDW again. It will be the backend of 2012 before I can do another trip to Florida!! I am making do with a short 'fix' to DLRP at the end of November, but it is not the same at all!!
We truly had a ball at our TTD session!!! I highly recommend it!!!
I am so glad your sister got to visit our magical place. It must have been quite something to share that with her!! Much love sweetie xxxx

My dearest James - Thank you my dear friend. I am excited to see the photos of your gorgeous day, but understand that you are so busy, so please don't stress. It is great to hear your news though!! A farm eh? How exciting!! Will it be a working farm? What a great place for the kids to grow up!!
Thank you for your lovely words, but I truly feel that it is I who is the lucky one, to have such sweet and loyal friends here on the boards!! I am grateful for every one of them
Much love to you, James, and to Geoff, the boys and Boo xxxx

Corinna sweetie - I agree that clearing immigration in your dress is going to be priceless!!! I wish I was going to be there!!!

Nancy sweetie - Thank you. We really had the time of our lives!!!

Krysten sweetie - Thank you for your sweet comments. We did really enjoy our session and I am so glad it is apparent in the pictures!!

 

[dolphingirl47]

Corinna sweetie - I agree that clearing immigration in your dress is going to be priceless!!! I wish I was going to be there!!!

Even Graham won't see it. We will disembark separately. I will get off the ship as soon as I can and my photographer will get me from the port and take me back to her place where the person who will do my hair and make up will wait to work her Magic. Graham will have a leisurely breakfast on the ship and will then be collected by friends of ours that live near the port. We will then meet up again at Crystal Cathedral.

Corinna

 

[tinkerbell 766]

So on to the long-awaited pool pictures!! Oh, I really hope you guys will not be disappointed!!

We decided not to shoot in the Volcano pool as a) it was very crowded that morning as it was such a hot day, and b) I had made it clear that I was NOT going to have anything to do with pool slides etc. I can swim, but I am not over confident in the water, and pool slides and me aren't the best of friends!!! I am the one at TL and BB who spends all day on the Lazy River and the family raft rides!!! That is about as daring as it gets for me. Strange, because I will go on any ride in the parks (Mission Space, spinning version - bring it on!!), but I will not do watery things!! See, who is chicken now!!!
So, we made for the smaller, quiet pool at the Poly, and luckily, it was almost empty. The few guests that were in it were very surprised to see a bride jump into the water!!

My Mum, who is in the background of this shot, was determined not to look the slightest bit interested!! She thought the whole thing rather silly and pointless, so sat and read her book and pretended that she didn't know us!!!

We swam about a bit

My dear hubby always tries to sneak up on me in swimming pools, whilst humming the 'Jaws' music!! This time was no exception. Bless him, he can be a bit predictable!!

I have to humour him and pretend to be scared!!! Oh the little things which please boys!!!

So we got some shots around the pool

Before getting out and taking these last couple of shots

We sat in the sun for a bit, drying off and chatting to Randy. All to soon it was time to kiss Randy goodbye!! We were so sad as we had had such an amazing time with him at our VR and our TTD session, and he had been such a big part of our wonderful celebration!!
We called a cab to go back to the resort to change. The cab driver gave this very bedraggled looking bride some puzzled looks, I can tell you!!!
We showered, changed and took the bus to Epcot to meet with the rest of our friends and family!!

Next up:- The last couple of days!!

 

[dolphingirl47]

I love those pictures and I hear you about the slides. I am not overly keen on those either and there would be no way I would get on a slide in a wedding dress.

Corinna

 

[DoomBuggy0922]

I LOVE the one of you looking afraid of him--- it's SO cute. This should definitely be blown up to life size and put onto a canvas! (But it really is adorable!)

You guys just keep getting cuter and cuter. Can't you go do this again so I can look at more pictures?!