Julie and lisa
the day was just about us and our little family. My best friend
of 31 years spent the morning with me in my suite, just eating
breakfast, jamming out to songs from our past, drinking
mimosas, and helping me get dressed.
lisa’s sister and her wife spent the morning doing the same
things with her in her suite, eating, drinking and laughing. My
mom was also very helpful, bounding back and forth between
the suites doing pretty much anything and everything including
making sure the boys were dressed and ready to go. When all
was done, she even finished off our mimosas!
We held our reception at The House of Blues at disney
springs, in a private room with a brunch buffet. it was perfect!
We had a playlist of our favourite songs playing in the
background and didn’t plan to dance, but we couldn’t help
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ourselves when eva Cassidy’s You Take My Breath Away came
on. We had a cake delivered from Party Flavors in Orlando and
as we cut it, i promptly dropped it on the floor. We had to
laugh about that too.
i think our guests really loved our day. They talked a lot
about our vows, they thought our ceremony was cute, and
they enjoyed laughing along with us. lisa and i pretty much
giggled though our entire ceremony. We laughed during our
vows, we laughed as we spilled a lot of our sand during our
sand ceremony, we laughed when a half-naked man ran across
the front of our ceremony and yelled ‘excuse me’ just as we
were exchanging rings, and we laughed when lisa’s ring
wouldn’t go onto her finger as if she was scared to be married.
Our guests seemed to enjoy that laughter and love that lisa