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10 things I wish I knew before planning my $25,000 Disney World wedding
07.03.2024 - 14:35 / insider.com
Getting married at Disney World was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
I was able to create my own fairy tale, but I realized how different the planning process is from a traditional wedding.
Read on for the most important things to know before planning a Disney wedding.
Disney World offers wedding venues for just about every aesthetic — the castle, a beachfront, a trip around the world.
We had our welcome dinner at Tamu Tamu in Animal Kingdom, which transported our guests to another corner of the world. We then had a picturesque wedding in the Italy pavilion at Epcot and reception at Sea Breeze Point at the BoardWalk, which gave us a feeling of being lakeside. For our dessert party, we chose Whitehall Patio at the Grand Floridian, which transformed our night with swinging jazz.
There was no limit to how we wanted our wedding to feel, and we definitely never felt like we were in a theme park.
Disney's event minimums can be extremely complicated, so it's important to research and be aware of them when you start planning.
Your main event minimum is calculated by your ceremony and reception locations. As you can imagine, getting married at the castle has a much larger minimum. Additionally, getting married on a weekday instead of a weekend can lower the minimum.
For example, we got married in Epcot's Italy Isola on a Tuesday, and our minimum was $7,000.
But your reception venue may come with a food-and-beverage minimum as well. Ours was $1,000, which we had to spend on food, alcohol, and cake.
Brunch, lunch, and dinner options also come with different per-person minimums. We threw a brunch, and we had to spend $140 a person on food and alcohol.
Essentially you either have to hit the food-and-beverage minimum or the per-person minimum, whichever ends up being higher.
Our welcome dinner and dessert party didn't count toward our main event minimum, and they each came with their own food-and-beverage minimums, too.
We took advantage of a ride mix-in, which allowed our guests to skip the line of one of the most popular attractions at Disney World, Avatar Flight of Passage.
You can also watch a private performance of shows, request an animal encounter, or even have "random" tourists show up to your wedding and quiz everyone on their Disney knowledge.
The most popular of all the entertainment options though is inviting characters. We had Steamboat Willie come to our dessert party and everyone loved him.
No bride wants to plan for rain, but it's super common in Florida.
It's important to familiarize yourself with your backup location, and I'm going to be honest, it's not always ideal.
For example, the backup for Cinderella Castle is the Wedding Pavilion, which is breathtaking, but you still have to
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