When Can We Sign Up?

After so many amazing trips, favorite meals and rides decided upon, I was feeling like a Disney veteran. We knew we wanted to get married at Disney. So, now that he gave me a ring and I said yes, what do we do?

We started by picking a date. We wanted to get married in the Spring. Note, Disney's busiest Wedding time is the Fall. (Not really the best time for us based on our jobs, and I didn't want to run into 50 other brides on my "big day".) We also wanted to pick a time that avoids the crowds as much as possible, and also avoid melting in the Florida heat with a summer wedding.

We picked our actual date randomly. We wanted a Sunday, and were thinking March or April, so we ended up on March 1st as our first choice. We contacted Disney and were assigned a Wedding Coordinator, Heidi. She submitted our request for our date. At Disney World, you cannot hold your date prior to 1 year from the date you choose (at least that's the official rule- I've heard of brides planning a big wedding with dates confirmed as much at 16 months out).

We requested our date in January of 2008, and then waited impatiently to hear if we would get our requested date and time- Sunday March 1st, 5PM ceremony. Two days after March 1st, we heard back from Heidi (Ok, I admit it- I called her on the 1st but she couldn't confirm for sure yet) and we had our date and time, and also our reception location choice was held- the Napa room in the California Grill! Now it was time to sign our initial contract.