Flowers, Cake, and sell-your-kidney-priced Dom Perignon
I loved the idea of taking several minutes tops to decide on things like flowers and cake. If we'd gone our original route and done the Escape or Wishes wedding on land, we'd have had more choices, and that would've been fine, too. But it's been awesome not having to blow my mind hole on specific stuff, especially right now since I'm working full-time and just went back to school for my 2nd masters (because I'm a masochist). DF is doing the same, so at the end of the day the last thing we want to discuss is the pantone color chart in relation to ceremony floral.
Flowers were pretty easy. Since it's winter time during the ceremony, I didn't want something too island-y. My family's from Hawaii, so orchids and other tropical flowers to me are a little meh. They're beautiful flowers, but classic won out in this case, so we went with the calla lilies. I liked the deep purple/red color they offer ("majestic red"), but I'm afraid it'll look a little goth/death-like. I also liked the lighter purple/pink ("garnet glow"), but only if it was more purple than pink. Our wedding planner sent me a picture to get a better idea of the colors.
I'm not sure if this helped. The color choices written in our ceremony planning guide were crystal white, garnet glow, majestic red, orange mango, and florex gold. So what the DEUCE is that orangey-red colored one on the right?! Either way, DF said the purple or dark ones I wanted would clash with his navy blue tux so we forfeited all color and chose the crystal white calla lilies.
The cake was pretty simple. The options were chocolate, vanilla, and marble cake, and cake filling was vanilla bean buttercream, lemon buttercream, raspberry buttercream, chocolate truffle buttercream, white chocolate truffle mouse, and milk chocolate caramel ganache. They also had a specialty option with chocolate fudge cake and chocolate ganache. For the top tier we chose vanilla with lemon buttercream, and chocolate with raspberry buttercream for the bottom tier. I was thinking chocolate truffle mouse with the chocolate cake, but DF vetoed arguing the case for "too much chocolate".... I never realized there could be such a thing as too much chocolate. But he likes cake more than I do, so raspberry buttercream it is.
We also got our own cake topper to bring with us. The wedding package comes with a cute Mickey and Minnie topper, but I'd always wanted to choose my cake topper, and I ended up using my credit card points to get this pretty one:
When I got it in the mail, it was a lot bigger than I thought. I laughed because the dimensions say it's 1lb and 6inches (which is the max height and weight allowed for the topper for the
DCL wedding cakes), but DAMN, it was big. Luckily I found a pic of another DCL bride with the same idea, and I think it'll be fine.
And instead of the roses and braid around the tier bases, we chose the one with the hidden Mickeys...
One of the easiest choices we made was champagne.
Dom Perignon is expensive. I've never had it, but when I googled it, the prices ranged from $200 to $2000!!! I'm thinking the price per bottle on the boat may be well around $300-400. And that's US dollars, not Venezuelan dollars. DF's and my tastebuds are striving for middle class at this point in our lives, so who knows if we'd even be able to tell apart a cheap bottle of champagne from an expensive one. And half our parents (meaning half our guest list) don't really drink at all. So pour me some comes-with-the-package Fairy Tale Cuvee, dear sir, because if I'm going to sell my kidney for something I can't afford, it won't be Dom Perignon. It'll be a pony. And Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
So close though! Keep your spirits up! Where are you trying to move to in NC? Sending happy, calm thoughts from Minnesota! 
Still so much to do and we leave on Sunday! BAHH!
Yea I wasn't thrilled. I didn't know potato sacks came in white satin. Sad thing, it was my size too. 
