ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – Disney is offering a wedding custom designed for Sam’s Club members at Walt Disney World Resort. As part of the package, you will receive celebrity wedding planner David Tutera, a “once-in-a-lifetime” Magic Kingdom ceremony, reception, photographer/videographer and four nights’ deluxe accommodations at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
It can all be yours for the price of $198,000. One wedding package is available for 50 guests.
Your package for two includes:
- A Two (2) Day Planning Session with dedicated Disney’s Fairy Tale Wedding Wedding Planner and a meeting with David Tutera for the Bride and Groom
- Four (4) nights deluxe accommodations at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa for the Bride and Groom, to be used during the wedding event
- Four (4) days Royal Treatment with Disney’s Special Activity Host/Hostess for 8 hours per day, to be used during the Wedding event
- Transportation for the Bride and Groom and Wedding Guests the day of the Wedding for the Ceremony and Reception
- Photography and Videography package for the Wedding Ceremony and Reception from Disney Fine Art Photography
- Save-the-Date and Wedding Invitations
- Custom-designed Ceremony, Dinner Reception and Dessert Party for 50 Guests to include floral, décor, entertainment and menus
Ceremony Details:
- Once-in-a-lifetime wedding ceremony inside Magic Kingdom® Park during park hours with Cinderella Castle as your backdrop
- Everything begins at Swan Boat Landing where draped chiffon, flowers and ribbons create a lovely space. In this charming spot within the Magic Kingdom® Park, with Cinderella Castle as your backdrop, your ceremony is staged.
- Draped chiffon fabric and flower balls grace your ceremony space while swaged chiffon and flower balls adorn the railings. More chiffon and garlands wrap the poles, finishing off the look.
- An alter piece or unity arrangement adorns the ceremony area and topiaries grace either side of the water railing
- Chiavari chairs, decorated with flower balls and trailing ribbons await your Guests. -A “Just Married” sign and flower garland hangs from the back of the landeau coach marketing this momentous occasion
Reception Details:
- Custom-designed dinner reception in a secret location, surrounded by Disney magic
- Set in the mysterious backstage area of Magic Kingdom® Park, your reception will delight and amaze your family and friends. Here, everyone enjoys dinner surrounded by Disney’s magical Parade Floats. Then, to cap it all off, you experience a private viewing of Wishes Nighttime Spectacular!
- The Bride and Groom arrive on a float adorned with parade dancers
- The dancers perform a parade-style musical number created just for the Bride and Groom
- A delicious dinner is prepared by our award-winning Disney Chefs is served backstage at the Magic Kingdom® Park Parade Float Area
- Following dinner, Guests will dance the night away among the Parade Floats
- From the Parade Float Garage, the Bride and Groom, along with their Guests, will be able to step outside to see “Wishes” Fireworks Spectacular from this backstage vantage point!
The wedding package is available, beginning November 18 exclusively for Sam’s Club members.
A NEWLY-WED couple choked with embarrassment when their wedding cake turned out to be made of POLYSTYRENE.
Bride Aimee West had paid £270 in advance for a three tier sponge decorated with white and dark chocolate icing and flowers.
But she was stunned when just as she cut into it with groom Tony, her mum declared: “The cake’s a fake.”
Horrified Aimee, 27, sliced through a layer of chocolate icing — then hit a block of white polystyrene underneath.
She said: “It was a terrible shock – I felt so embarrassed in front of all our family and friends.
“It was a lovely occasion and the ceremony was going to be the icing on the cake – only there was no cake.
Compensation
Bank worker Aimee and Tony, 26, had tied the knot in Cyprus a week earlier then flew home for their reception at a plush hotel.
They had pre-ordered the cake from confectioners Creative Cakes in their hometown of Llanelli, West Wales.
But just four hours before the evening reception was due to start Aimee discovered the cake company had forgotten to bake the cake.
Aimee said: “They admitted their mistake and said: ‘Don’t worry, we’ll get you a cake.’
“They turned up that evening and the cake was put on a table for all to see.
“We were just about to cut it when someone discovered the cake people had left four layers of sponge cake in the hotel reception.
“That set alarm bells ringing and when my mother checked the cake she found it was made of polystyrene.”
Aimee and apprentice plumber Tony said the cake cock-up ruined their reception at Ashburnham Hotel in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire.
The pair took Creative Cakes to the small claims court and were awarded £310 compensation.
District Judge Marjorie Taylor told them they could have made even more if they had filmed the cake cutting ceremony and sold it to TV’s You’ve Been Framed!
After the case Aimee said: “We are delighted to have been given our money back.
“We could have asked for compensation for cutting the cake in front of all our guests but we wouldn’t be able to put a figure on that.”
Karen Williams, who runs Creative Cakes from her home in Llanelli, blamed it all on a mix-up.
She said: “By the time Aimee contacted me it was too late to make the proper cake.
“I would never have the time to bake a cake and ice it in that time.
“I explained I would be delivering an artificial cake – they are quite common at weddings these days.
“I offered them a refund so there was no reason to take me to the Small Claims Court.”
She was given three months to repay the couple plus their costs.
From Elegala.com
Hiring a Florist
Hold the baby’s breath and filler flowers; look no further than a skilled wedding florist for sophisticated and stylish arrangements
Even if you plan to create and arrange your own wedding flowers, consulting with a florist first is still a good idea. A florist’s first-hand knowledge and years of experience can prove extremely useful, ensuring you don’t overlook small but important details and that your floral scheme matches your wedding style.
Don’t know the first thing about hiring a florist? We’re here to help. Follow these steps, and you will be sure to find the florist that suits you.
Do Your Research
It is never too soon to begin exploring your options. If you don’t already have a favorite florist, research and find local florists. Your wedding facility coordinator or recently married friends are a great place to start. Once you have a list of local florists, make appointments to review their work and discuss your floral vision.
Meet with Potential Florists
Plan to review portfolios and discuss your overall vision during your first appointments with potential florists. His/her previous work should match that vision. Remember that these portfolios showcase their best work, so if you don’t like what you see, continue shopping. When potential florists follow-up with proposals for your wedding based on your discussion, you should be able to make a decision on which best suits both your vision and wedding budget.
Determine the Details – Pick your wedding flowers
Now that you have selected your florist, schedule planning meetings at the ceremony and reception locations to determine the wedding flowers you’ll use and their placement (or provide photos so that the florist will have an idea of what the locations look like) Consider your wedding facility as a blank canvas upon which your florist will create his/her work of art. The look and feel of the setting will lead your discussions, determining both the wedding flowers you choose and where they will be placed.
Sara Brady – YourTango.com
What will your favorite star couples dance to on their big days?
We haven’t attended a whole lot of famous people’s weddings, but we imagine they are fantastic affairs with peacocks wandering around and ice sculptures of the happy couple and passed hors d’oeuvres that are never too small or too messy. And of course, given that the famous people are often trained performers, we expect a lot out of their reception dancing. Surely they can do better than that couple from Minnesota! But not every famous couple can be Khlodom, slow-dancing their way into a lifetime of bliss to the dulcet strains of Lionel Richie and Diana Ross singing “Endless Love.” Here are some couples and what we’d like to see them play at their lavish destination weddings.
Madonna & Jesus Luz
Jesus Luz and Madonna
The twice-married Madge has said she’ll never tie the knot again, but if she did make an honest man out of her boytoy, model Jesus Luz, we imagine their reception playlist would go a little something like this:
“Cradle of Love,” Billy Idol
“Grown Woman,” Mary J. Blige
“What Child Is This,” Sarah McLachlan (but only if they get married in December)
“Like a Prayer,” by the blushing bride herself
Justin Timberlake & Rihanna
Justin Timberlake and Rihanna
Justin has dated a basketball team’s worth of beautiful women, and now that he’s moved on from Jessica Biel to Rihanna (um, maybe), we’re wondering if the Bahamian beauty could be the one. Their nuptials would blend blue-eyed soul with reggaeton in a particularly odd way.
“What Goes Around,” J.Tim (we didn’t write the song, he did!)
“On to the Next One,” Jay-Z
“Better Be Good to Me,” Tina Turner
“Southern Man,” Neil Young
Kirstie Alley & Jamie Foxx
Kirstie Alley and Jamie Foxx
Kirstie spent the week tweeting frantically about her torrid affair with Jamie Foxx, which makes us feel weird in ways we cannot explain. Come on, that is a strange pairing. Stranger than Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg. But, you know, we wish them the best, and that Jamie would also take to social media to express his feelings for all the world to see. Their wedding songs would all have titles 140 characters long or fewer.
“Fat Bottomed Girls,” Queen (Kirstie would think it’s funny)
“Digital Girl,” remixed by the groom
“Black or White,” Michael Jackson
Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson
Look, it’s been on the cover of OK!, so obviously the Twilight lovers will be getting hitched any day now. We’re sure that out of deference to their many passionate fans, they’ll choreograph the wedding itself to match every detail so lovingly set down by Stephenie Meyer, right down to the part where Kristen gives birth to a telepathic vampire baby six weeks later. And also, Kristen will ride to the ceremony in a Popemobile in case some addled Twihard takes a shot at her. But before all that nonsense, they’ll dance like the precious undead butterflies they are.
Everything ever written by Vampire Weekend and Muse
“Go All the Way (Into the Twilight),” Perry Farrell
“My Boyfriend’s Back,” The Angels
“Pocketful of Sunshine,” Natasha Bedingfield
“Delilah,” Tom Jones
Kevin Jonas & Danielle Deleasa
Kevin Jonas and Danielle Deleasa
These two actually are getting married, and we’re pretty sure they’re the kind of Christians who wear promise rings but don’t ban all pop music and dancing. (That would be ironic, right?) One thing you can bank on: The reception probably won’t include anything by Miley Cyrus. Or Taylor Swift.
“Like a Virgin,” Madonna
“White Wedding,” Billy Idol
“When You Say Nothing at All,” Allison Krauss
“I’d Rather Dance With You,” Kings of Convenience
Hank Baskett and Kendra Wilkinson
By Mark Gray – People.com
With the backdrop of a sunset and an altar bedecked with white flowers, Kendra Wilkinson’s wedding was “absolutely beautiful,” according to one of the bridesmaids.
As for the bride, “She looked like a princess,” Holly Madison told PEOPLE a few hours after Saturday’s nuptials at the Playboy Mansion. “It was a beautiful setting for a wedding.”
Before some 300 guests, including ex-boyfriend Hugh Hefner, the bride and groom Hank Baskett recited traditional vows. Wilkinson wore a white dress with a “tight bodice and poofy skirt,” Madison said.
“It was a princess dress, which was fitting. It was really pretty and she looked gorgeous,” said Madison. who on Sunday returned to Las Vegas, where she stars in the PEEPSHOW revue.
Baskett and the groomsman also donned white for the wedding.
Though Wilkinson, who is due in December, is “getting more pregnant every day,” there was little sign of baby bump in her bridal gown.
Like the wedding, the reception was very traditional. While Wilkinson and Baskett danced the first dance to George Strait’s “I Cross My Heart,” the bride saved the second dance for Hefner.
“They’re definitely ready for their honeymoon now,” Madison said. “They need a vacation.”
Kendra Wilkinson Wedding at Playboy Mansion
- Richard and Catherine Harding
Heather Greenaway – DailyRecord
Letting the groom organise the entire wedding would be most brides’ worst nightmare, but it turned out to be a dream come true for Scot Catherine Tolland.
The 25-year-old handed over total control of her big day to disorganised fiance, Richard Harding, and he got everything spot on – right down to the wedding dress, piper … and limbo dancers.
The happy couple, who star in the new series of BBC Three’s Don’t Tell the Bride, said taking part in the show was both the scariest and most exciting decision they have ever made.
Catherine, of Kirkintilloch, Lanarkshire, admits giving her laid-back husband-to-be free rein left her panic stricken, especially as he had never been to a wedding before.
Learning mentor Catherine said: “Richard was given three weeks and £12,000 to organise the wedding of our dreams, so naturally I was beside myself for most of that time.
“I’m the one, who organises everything in our lives, down to telling him when he is meeting his friends and what we are having for tea.
“Handing over complete control was terrifying. I nearly caved in two or three times, especially when the wedding invitation arrived covered in purple polkadots and tied with a garish tartan ribbon, which I hated.
“But I needn’t have worried as Richard chose the most beautiful gown and arranged a Scottish Caribbean theme to celebrated both our cultures.
“It was perfect and I will never be able to thank him enough.”
Catherine, who met business manager Richard, 25, on their first day at Derby University, signed up to appear on the show after watching the last series.
She said: “Richard proposed to me three years ago and we had been dying to get married, but all our money was being ploughed in to the house.
“We were watching the last series of Don’t Tell the Bride. Richard boasted he could do better than the grooms on it, so I went on-line and filled in an application form.
“A few months later, I was moving in with a friend and leaving my gorgeous fiance to organise the most important day of our lives.”
For three weeks, the pair had no contact and the first hint Catherine got was when the invite dropped through the letterbox.
She said: “It was at that moment it suddenly became real and the panic set in.
“I had told the producers I hated purple, and the invites were covered in lilac spots. It did not bode well.”
Catherine, who first met Richard when she burned toast and set off the fire alarm in student halls, admits shaking on her way to the bridal shop on the day before the wedding.
She said: “I was so worried about the dress, my dad had given me a credit card in case he had picked me something horrific with lots of flounces.
“I was shocked when the lady produced my gown – but in a good way.
“It was simple, with lots of crystals, although a bit more blingy than I would have chosen. I loved it.
“He even picked out a tiara and a veil, which I felt sure he would forget. I was struggling to hold back the tears when I tried it on for the first time.”
On the big day, Catherine was delighted when her dad John, 52, arrived at her door in a tartan kilt, picked by Richard.
She said: “He had a purple tartan and a matching cravat and looked fab.”
But she was less keen on the bridesmaids’ outfits.
Catherine added: “I was just hoping my bridesmaids would not be in purple and, lo and behold, they were.
“They definitely were not dresses I would have picked but they grew on me as the day went on.”
Richard, whose dad is from Guyana, incorporated thistles into all the bouquets and even hired a piper.
Catherine, who lives with Richard in Solihull, near Birmingham, said: “He had chosen cream roses, my favourite calla lilies and thistles for my bouquet.
“When we got to Wroxhall Abbey, in Warwickshire, there was a piper playing. I couldn’t believe he had managed to get somewhere so beautiful on May bank holiday weekend.”
Catherine, who threw her arms round Richard when she got to the end of the aisle, added: “I was so pleased to see him, I gave him a massive hug. I was so happy I didn’t even think about the reception, which was also perfect.
“The tables had beautiful thistle centrepieces and the cake had little people on top that looked like us. I was in heaven. I realised I was panicking for nothing.”
But the best was yet to come. Richard had arranged a Caribbean-themed surprise for the evening.
Catherine said: “After the meal, we were all called to the terrace where there he was, in a Hawaiian shirt, playing with a steel band. He had been taking secret lessons.
“Next thing I knew, all the guests were limbo dancing and we were setting sky lanterns off into the night sky. It was the perfect end to a perfect day.”
Richard, who has become a hero to all his wife’s female friends, said: “I spent the whole three weeks getting up at 8am and going to bed at 3am. Thank goodness for the internet because I’d never been to a wedding and didn’t know what to do.
“Luckily everything kept falling into place.We got the venue due to a cancellation.
“In the bridal shop all the dresses looked the same to me, so my best man Phil went next door and grabbed a hairdresser to model a few.
“Catherine loved her dress and that made me so happy, even though I think she would have looked good in a paper bag.”
Catherine added: “It was extremely stressful letting the cameras into our lives at such an important time, but it was worth it. The memory will be with us forever.”
Don’t Tell The Bride is on BBC 3 at 8pm on September 1. Catherine’s and Richard’s wedding will feature on September 8.
Geoffrey Edelsten and fiancee Brynne Groden. Picture by Jay Town
Nui Te Koha – HeraldSun
CELEBRITY doctor Geoffrey Edelsten has revealed details of a multi-million dollar wedding spectacular with bride-to-be Brynne Groden.
Dr Edelsten, 66, claims he and Ms Groden, 25, will marry at Crown casino with Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander and The Nanny star Fran Drescher officiating at the reception.
He says ’70s supergroup Fleetwood Mac is in talks to perform at the November ceremony.
“I’m somewhat modest, so I think the wedding will be for others to judge,” Dr Edelsten told the Sunday Herald Sun.
“But I don’t think Melbourne will have seen an event quite like this. I’ve got a good imagination and we have many surprises planned.”
Dr Edelsten said the wedding will also raise money for charity.
In a candid, wide-ranging interview:
Dr Edelsten said he does not notice the 41-year age difference between him and Ms Groden.
Ms Groden said she is not marrying for money.
He proposed with a 5.8-carat diamond ring and a box of doughnuts.
“Brynne has brought stability, fun and a new dimension to my life,” Dr Edelsten said.
“Instead of thinking about work and football, it’s Brynne, football and work in that order. I love her.”
A controversial figure, Dr Edelsten was sentenced to 12 months’ jail after being found guilty of soliciting hitman Christopher Flannery to assault a former patient he claimed had harassed him.
He was released in 1991.
“There are a number of regrets of certain events – some completely beyond my control,” he said.
“But it’s well and truly passed. I’m lucky to have succeeded despite those events. I am lucky I found Brynne.”
Ms Groden, a former fitness trainer and online music producer from West Hollywood, said: “Geoffrey has changed my entire life.
“I’ve never had anyone who makes me feel so special, every day, all through the day. He cares so much. I love him.”
Dr Edelsten and Ms Groden met through mutual friends in Los Angeles last October.
In November, Dr Edelsten called Ms Groden from London asking her to meet him in Las Vegas for their first date.
“I was very nervous,” he said. “I was like a teenager.”
They stayed, and shopped, at Caesars Palace, and saw the Cirque Du Soleil show, Love.
“We were standing in line to get candy and I found her demeanour so attractive,” Dr Edelsten said. “She was tactile, she touched me on the shoulder. I felt so lucky. I’ve never felt like that before. I was a goner.”
Ms Groden added: “He was charming, funny, kind and went out of his way to make me feel special.”
They had follow-up dates in Los Angeles and Melbourne. By December, Dr Edelsten was in love. Soon after, he proposed on bended knee.
But it wasn’t an act of tradition. He was fresh out of hospital after a knee operation and couldn’t stand.
They are inviting 500 guests, including family, friends and Carlton and Sydney football players.
Guests will be asked to donate money to four charities: Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, Australian Sports Foundation, Israeli Red Cross and Cancer Schmancer.
