Hi Wendy, Disney Fairy Tale Weddings are wayyyy out there in cost...
I have done alot of research and joined another message board devoted to disney weddings. Many of the brides with FTW seem a tad frustrated with the level of service they are rec'ing, calls/emails not returned in good time. I think that if you are spending 3900.00 USD minimum for a plain wedding you deserve some service. For that price you get the ceremony site/officiant,champange,cake for up to 10 people. Not alot of bang for your buck! Of course if you want/need anything extra it is more.If you have more than 10 guests you then need to have a custom wedding which means you have to spend a minimum of 7500.00 USD-can you believe that!!
I then discovered two other options, a company called Just Marry does weddings at the Swan/Dolphin, they are much less but still pricey. There are also a 2 wedding chapels within 1/2 hour of disney that do weddings, they are much more reasonable in the prices, I could have a wedding for about 1500.00 less at one of the chapels. I would still be on my own for our wedding dinner but that is the case with all of the options. I like the Swan ceremony location the best, it is at the cresent terrace,it is beautiful, it on your right hand side just before you go over the bridge walkway to the boardwalk. But the frugal side of me is saying go with the chapel wedding and splurge on a nice dinner onsite and then an illumination cruise for everyone. That is probably what we will do, so it will be like 1/2 a disney wedding!!!!
I am thinking of Spoodles for our wedding dinner,we like the boardwalk and then we can do the cruise.
We just couldn't get excited about a tropical wedding...and then looking at the cost it would still be close to 6000.00 to go where we wanted, plus almost all packages are for 7 days and some immediate family just can't take that type of time off, with disney they can come for how ever many days they are able to. There is so much more to do at disney as well.
I LOVE planning things so it will be fun to plan a wedding somewhat...the fun details anyways as once I choose a place most everything will be taken care of . I plan on doing my own invites, newsletter, welcome bags-need disney facts/hidden mickey info for that!
Ohh I could go on and on!!!
Grover in Winnipeg