Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings

I was married here on July 17 2007.
When you called for an appointment they were very helpful to accommodate to our convenience.
During your sit down, they basically sit you with a manager. She will provide a list of options for the ceremony, food, cake, knees and so on. Somethings you can rent or do with Disney and some things you can do on your own, like flowers.
For food, we chose the buffet option. Back then it was $ 75/​person, which does not include taxes and fees and tips. Not sure if it’s the same today. Your’re provided a list to select different items from. For example, three entrées, two salads, and three side dishes. You can opt for drinks but of course that’s extra.
Keep in mind that everything you purchase with Disney, for your wedding, does not include several fees. There’s a percentage towards tips, another percentage towards Taxes, another percentage towards service or something, so on. But still keep in mind that this is a Disney wedding, and it’s all completely worth it!
The food was amazing! Throughout the wedding reception everybody kept raving about the food. They said that it’s the best they’ve ever been served at a wedding reception. A few items I remember selecting the prime rib, heirloom tomatoes with goat cheese, cioppino, and a selection of tiny sweet desserts (some even decorated with Disney themes). I ordered more different things, but my wedding was almost 9 years ago so my memories and little fuzzy
For our wedding cake, we selected a tear in the Sue. The layers of cake where vanilla sponge, with a mascarpone crème with chocolate frosting infused with espresso. In addition to saving the top layer for us, the chef prepared a small single layer cake that we could freeze for our one year wedding anniversary. Same exact cake but smaller.
Naturally there are certain requirements you must meet, to have a fairy tale wedding. There’s a minimum of of cost. Also you must have 10 total nights at the resort during the wedding. You can divide the nights between yourself and guess. During reservations make sure your guests mentions your wedding.
We selected very minimal table and chair settings for both the ceremony and reception. It’s easy to get carried away and choose to many things, and then you find out that it cost a lot. The one big thing I had to have regardless, was the Cinderella carriage. Pricey, but totally worth it. It’s the big wow that everyone is stunned by and will always remember!
included for us was a storybook that contained a his and her Disney watch. We were also given a complementary night during the eve of our wedding.
The morning of the wedding when we arrived, we were shown the room that we would be staying that night. The room was huge and gorgeous. It even had a great view of the pool and the grand resort. In the middle of preparing for the wedding, we were approached by the planner and were informed that there was a mistake and the room we were shown, it was already reserved. We took time out of getting ready to view the new room. It wasn’t as big and wasn’t as gorgeous. In fact there was no view but a parking lot. We were not happy but hey, is what it is!
The following day we spent at the park. We were so tired from the wedding and from walking all over Disney, so we headed back to our room. When we got there, the room key didn’t want to work. We went back down to the lobby and got a new key card. Still, neither of our cards wanted to work. We were just so tired but thankfully there are courtesy phone in the hallway. It took a while for us to get back into the room. We were pissed because all our things were in the room, all our wedding presents were there and to top it off, we were exhausted!
As a courtesy for the travel, we were given passes to a character breakfast the following morning.
The wedding experience was the best day of my life and I still have friends and family talking about it.
During your own planning make sure to ask as many questions as you can. Don’t forget that everything adds up. Lots of people neglect to include the cost of wardrobe, presents for the wedding party, details and other tidbits.
Remember to have fun and enjoy your day. It goes by so quickly and before you know it, you’re married and your life is now beginning!
Good luck everyone and hope you consider a Disney fairy tale wedding!

My partner and I are getting married at Disneyland in September. Our wedding planner is Michiel Logan. She has literally thought of every last detail for us. We have been very fortunate to work with her. We have had numerous requests and changes throughout our planning. Michiel has been delightful every step of the way and completely patient with us. She has worked hard to accommodate all of our special requests too. We have spared no expense in our wedding and plan to do it big. We did our food tasting in May at The Grand Californian. Our guests are in for a real treat. Never tasted lobster so good before. My only concern is that they may be too full to eat any of the delicious cake. My partner and I love Disneyland and felt this would be the perfect venue. We were delighted to learn Disneyland allowed gay weddings even before it was legal. We are very excited about our upcoming event and could not imagine doing it anywhere else or with anyone other than Michiel.

I am in the process of working with the Disney Wedding team for my Disneyland wedding coming up in September!
Michiel Logan, my wedding planner, and Sue Romano have been super awesome in the planning process! They are very organized, and Michiel has been very patient with my endless questions! I am very happy that they allow us to use outside vendors for DJ and entertainment~!
Honestly, before I even started the planning process with the Disney Wedding team, I imagined the food they serve at the wedding would be like chicken tender and fries from the park with mediocre food, but they proved me wrong!!! We had our menu tasting at Disneyland Hotel, and the food was truly exceptional! I picked the Lobster and Filet Mignon menu for my wedding. The dessert from the pastry chef was heavenly!!! The cake was really nice. Not to mention, their limitless options of Disney-​themed elegant cake designs! ($$$!) Kelly from the floral team was very nice to work with!
The only thing is that they have a very strict guest limit of 50 people for the morning Disneyland castle ceremony, which I had to limit my ceremony guests to immediate relatively only and couldn’t invite my friends. Oh well, but it’s Disneyland wedding! Had to make some sacrifice.
Can’t wait till my big day in September to see how everything will come together!
And yes, getting the Premium DIsney Credit Card and paying off the wedding with it will earn you tons of Disney credits!

Disneyland Fairy Tales Wedding is very Spectacular.
Food is 5 Star World Class. There chiefs are for Europe, very good

My two best friends had their wedding in Disneyland in May 2014 and it was one of the best I’ve been to. We all were born and raised in LA and we all have a history in Disneyland together, so having the wedding at Disneyland was a no-​brainer.
As all other reviews have said, the planning and wedding were top notch, and everything for the bride and groom were taken care of with little worries. The coach during the ceremony was absolutely magical, the reception at Grand Californian was immaculate, and Mojodomo was hilarious.
I take off one star because during the pre-​reception, where guests were taken to enjoy hors d’oeuvres, the wedding party (14 people) was taken to a small holding room with nothing more than an ice bowl with 5 – 6 bottles of water. No food, no other refreshments, not even enough chairs for everyone. By the time guests were seated and the reception actually started, we were all parched and extremely hungry. If it weren’t for that inconvenience, the wedding would have been perfect.
My tip for those having their wedding at Disneyland, have your wedding planner set out hors d’oeuvres and refreshments separately for the bridesmaids and groomsmen when waiting for the reception. It’s a long wait when you haven’t had anything to eat or drink all day.

Was here for friend’s wedding. Literally fairy tale wedding. So happy for our friends. Everything was just so perfect and beautiful, the flowers, the sunshine, the piano, and the carriage… So glad we got invited and so happy for them:)

Hubby and I got married way back in ’09. As one of three weddings that day (also a major Disney holiday that has a themed season) they did a FABULOUS job. I never felt as if we where less then top priority.
My only regret was that my planner we had worked with for almost a year, Traci, was out on doctors ordered bedrest for the rest her pregnancy. I was aware as of the week before our wedding. Not at all her fault. She took notes on EVERYTHING so her replacement had all the info she needed to make everything magical.
We did not have a fluffy princess wedding. we had a DISNEY wedding. We had WALT’S FIRETRUCK as our get away car. A Kilt clad bagpiper led our guests from the rose garden ceremony to the Barisa courtyard cocktail hour, and we had a main street silhouette artist at the reception in the Sequoia ballrom at the grand.
The food served buffet style was to die for, the cake melted in your mouth. Everything Disney touched was perfect.
10/​10, would marry hubby at disney again if I had to do it again. 0 regrets.
***Edited to add it was all planned remotely as we live in the Bay Area except for two trips– first to tour a year prior, second trip to finalize and taste food. It was never an issue AT ALL, Traci was just a phone call or email away and always got back to me promptly with all the information I needed.***

My husband and I held our wedding reception at The Disneyland Hotel and loved it! Every detail was perfect — we felt like we were in capable hands at all times.
The staff kept everything moving like clockwork, and we always had someone handy to ask questions of or to take care of things as they popped up.
Yes you will pay more at Disney than some other locations, but when we were shopping around we decided that the extra money was worth it to get the location, service, and food quality that we received at Disneyland.
We could not have been happier with how the reception went, and would recommend Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings to anyone!

I’m a giant dork and waited to save my 100^th Unilocal review for my wedding venue. So here it goes…
IT WAS AWESOME!
I was never the type of girl to really fantasize about my wedding. When we started our planning, I was really at a loss. I had no idea what I wanted. I had no idea what to do. I didn’t even know what city I wanted my wedding in, since our friends and family were spread out along the west coast. We mulled over it quite a while but in the end I knew that it was just right to do it here. I had so many fond memories of Disney. However, I also had very sad memories, too. My sister had moved down to Burbank to work for Disney while I was in high school, but shortly after passed away due to cancer. After that, going to Disneyland had become very bittersweet.
We were also initially hesitant to get married at Disney because we thought it would be super expensive. But we found that Disney is not inherently cost prohibitive. There are lots of different budget options — in fact it starts off at 5k for around 25 guests and goes up well over 100k if you want a razzle-​dazzle in-​park evening wedding in front of the castle. They even have really cool packages for 30k in-​park weddings if you and your guests don’t mind the odd hours. It’s just that, with any wedding planning, the options start adding up. And when you have options like a horse-​drawn carriage/​Cinderella coach/​Mickey and Minnie showing up at your wedding/​getting to go into the theme park at 5am in your wedding dress, it can be hard to draw the line and say no.
Practically, from a time perspective, we appreciated Disney’s services a lot. I didn’t really have a vision for my wedding to know how to plan all of the little details that go into one. Disney does that for you. You don’t have to use them for anything besides food and drink really — but we got our florist, DJ, and harpist through them. While I stressed about a lot of different things during our wedding planning (like our invitations), I never really stressed about how Disney would be. We just trusted them to take care of it and work their Disney magic. And they did. They listened to our requests (I wanted to walk down the aisle to a video game song, they gave us access to a conference room for free so we could have a private tea ceremony before the wedding), and filled in all the other gaps («What kind of flowers do you want?» «Uh… red?»).
But most importantly, for someone who stopped believing in a lot of that fairy tale magic for a while, Disney gave me a really magical fairy tale wedding. This software developer got to feel like a princess for a day to start her happily ever after. I was blessed to marry the man I love in front of our friends and family. I was happy to see and feel that familiar rush of emotions that we had all felt before, the first time we ever saw Mickey Mouse.
Thank you Traci, Kelly, Gehrta, all the wonderful staff at Disney that make the actual magic happen!

I went to my friend’s Disney wedding as a guest. Let me just say this was the most organized wedding I’ve ever been to. They had everything down to a T. I had a really great time, and if you can afford to go this route, and you are a huge Disney fan, go for it!

My Wife and I had the most amazing Day thanks to Disney Fairy Tale Weddings! We were referred to work with Traci Banister who was so awesome as our Wedding Planner. From the very start we all got along and she was able to help us make my wife’s Dream Fairy Tale wedding come true! She was honest, extremely friendly, professional, helpful and was quick to get back to our calls & emails. She was truly our Fairy God Mother, lol. On the weekend of the wedding, Monica our Wedding Coordinator was with us every step of the way making sure everything ran smoothly along with Traci and the rest of the team. Our ceremony was in May which is perfect for the Rose Court Garden @ the Disneyland Hotel because of all the natural beauty in it. Our reception was in the Sleeping Beauty Pavilion which is one of their smaller rooms which was perfect for us because we only wanted Family and close Friends. The room looks great in the day and night (we recommend to get the cieling draping). All of our guests said the Wedding was beautiful, elegant and that Disney’s service was GREAT!!! The food was DELICIOUS (we had the Love’s First Kiss Menu) and the only negative comment we heard from our guests was that there was Too much food… they didn’t even have room for cake after dessert! lol, Norberto and his staff of Banquet/​Event servers were Friendly & Courteous! My Wife and I are huge Disney fans but I must admit I was hesitant when she told me about a Disney Wedding because I knew it would be pricey, but Traci was able to help us plan a Marvelous Magical Wedding within our Budget and you know that you’re going to get that great quality of details and service that Disney is known for!!! After it was all said and done, I wouldn’t trade our Disney Wedding for anything/​anywhere else in the world because IT WAS WORTH IT!!! We can’t wait to start planning our next event there, our 10 year Anniversary =D
Disney also allows the use of other Vendors for certain things, we used BEVERLY HILLS PHOTOGRAPHY and PETALS BY XAVI
**Food and Beverage MUST be provided by Disney, and trust us… you wont be sorry!!!

Yes! I had a Disney Fairy Tale Wedding with the Cinderella Coach and all on 4−7−12!
I had a blast! I loved my Disney Wedding and so did my Husband along with all of our guests! Sue Romano is wonderful I can truly say that she helped all of my dreams come true! Thank you SUE!!!
Our florist was amazing! We went with Disney’s florist I’m not sure if I can mention her name :(but I loved all of the ballroom décor! So thank you!!!
Our photographer/​videographer we both amazing we went with Disney’s preferred vendor Beverly Hills Photography! Thank you Ruben and Tigran! Without you we wouldn’t have been able to capture every magical moment!
I highly recommend Disney’s Fairy tale Weddings you really will feel like a princess on the day of your wedding and the days leading up to your wedding!!!

Check out this video from an amazing Disneyland wedding:

Yes, I had a big, sparkly, fluffy Fairy Tale Wedding at Disneyland.
Initially we were booking Disneyland because they have a midweek package for a flat rate wedding for 25 guests with ceremony, cake, floral, lunch, etc. included that requires minimal to no planning on the part of the bride. I’m very busy. We’d planned to have an informal cocktail party the evening of the day after the wedding at a different location so we could invite more guests.
During the initial planning stages we were so impressed with the quality and professionalism of the Disney Weddings team that we did away with the idea of having two parties and had a full-​sized Saturday June Wedding with reception at the Grand Californian.
The food was fantastic — really the quality of the food was amazing and so delicious — and our guests were extremely pleased with the open bar. The open bar was the most reasonably priced of anywhere we looked. Some guests have asked us to have another party there already! We had a bunch of different coordinators but primarily dealt with Sue Romano, who was an angel with a Disney perma-​smile. The price was comparable to what we would’ve paid for a wedding at many other venues that just aren’t as fun as Disneyland.
Although some things went wrong or weren’t as ordered, Disney made good on it after we brought up any issues.
For overall experience, we give five stars coated in pixie dust!

Our Happily Ever After was hosted by Disney — Michelle Stein, my wedding planner was AWESOME!!! So helpful, nice and she was able to answer all my questions, and boy did I have a ton. LOL… got married at the Grand Californian Hotel on the 5^th floor at the Parkview Terrace which overlooks the courtyard and part of the Calie Adventure Park. Our wedding reception was downstairs on the 1^st floor in the Wisteria Room. Everything was great! The castmembers were are very friendly, courteous and very helpful. If you love Disney you should definitely get married here!!!

Got married here and it was spectacular! Even with a schedule change of 8 months earlier, they were accomodating with everything. When it started drizzling after ceremony they moved the pre-​reception indoors very quickly. Typically expensive, but very accomodating to your budget. Their recommended vendors are great but their flowers are expensive. Staff made it unforgettable.
Drafted this review in April, now it’s July, and that wedding rocked! Unforgettable!!!

We wanted to get married here but unfortunately it was going to be a bit difficult due to the fact that we don’t live in Anaheim.
We had a tour of the wedding ceremony and reception facilities and it was gorgeous. Our favorite was the Sleeping Beauty Pavilion.
The price isn’t as bad as I thought it would be… it’s average for a wedding nowadays.

My wife and I got married in Disneyland the day after Thanksgiving! We actually had our wedding rehearsal at the Thanksgiving event at Disneyland, at the Disneyland Hotel and the spread there was fantastic. It was a little chaotic in the beginning but once we settled down to eat it was great!
But more about the wedding and the planning: Traci Bannister was our wedding co-​coordinator and she was awesome (even though she had to take maternity leave). She was so helpful and accommodating. Also great were the rest of the staff when Traci went on leave.
Disney has weddings down to a science. We weren’t huge Disney fans, but the packages they offered were so economical and a one stop shopping for the actual event.
We stayed at the California Grand which is a beautiful hotel.
The wedding itself was held at the Rose Court Garden. We then had the wedding at the Trillium Room. The DJs that Disney hired were amazing. They made the wedding. They made people get out of their seats and dance! The food was excellent. And the cake was delicious!
The Disney team are a bunch of professionals. Things happened like clockwork at the actual dinner. It was a joy to have the wedding at Disneyland!