Via the Inspiration Gallery, you can scroll through hundreds of Disney wedding photos, save them to your Dream Boards, and “Love” items. You can select “Disney Picks,” “Popular,” “Categories,” and “Colors.”
Step 1 is to chose your location. Of course for this example we will be going with Disneyland. One thing I noticed is you can only use this for Wishes weddings when selecting Disneyland. I think this is because the Disneyland Escape collection is not very customizable, like it is at WDW. Also no mention of the Couture package so maybe they are doing away with this which I have confirmed is still available but not listed on the website at this time.
Step 2 is some basic information. Because Disney is awesome, you can select Bride & Groom, Bride & Bride, or Groom & Groom. I also noted you can select a wedding month up to 18 months in advance.
Continuing with Step 2, at the very bottom you can select a wedding budget range. Notice it won’t let you go below $12,000 so don’t even think about it!
Step 3 is to select a ceremony location.
Your ceremony location choices are: Brisa Courtyard, Parkview Terrace, Rose Court Garden, Sleeping Beauty Castle Forecourt, GCH Wedding Garden, and Stage 17.
Step 4 is reception location. Like with the ceremony locations, you can click on each location to get a quick overview.
The nine reception locations being offered are: Brisa Courtyard, Stage 17, Disney Animation room, Disneyland Hotel Ballrooms, Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel Ballrooms, Magic Kingdom Lawn, Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel Ballrooms, Small World mall, and Sleeping Beauty Pavilion.
Note the Small World mall is ONLY available as a reception location if you have an evening ceremony at Sleeping Beauty’s Castle.
Step 5 goes over some additional details for your reception, such as food (plated or buffet), rehearsal dinner, farewell brunch, music (band or DJ), entertainment, characters, etc.
Step 6 confirms your selections, including your base price. Please note I selected a Saturday wedding and it’s giving me a base price of $12,000. According to the latest pricing information I have, this is wrong. Saturday minimums are $18,000 now, and that’s with a room block.
At the bottom of Step 6 you can click on a link to send an email to DFTW.
So the same weekend that you debut your fancy new header, DFTW unveils their fancy new website? Hmm…coincidence? 😉
I looked at their site and it’s very nice and definitely an upgrade from their previous incarnations. I would say that I wish this version was around when I was planning, but if it was then I never would’ve sought out the community of Disney Brides that I did and I wouldn’t have made the friends or had the memories that I’ve had. So I guess thanks to DFTW for not having this when I was planning? lol
It still doesn’t give you pricing for every little thing which I think would be more helpful. IF I was a planning bride and wanted to know exactly how much EVERYTHING would cost, I would appreciate knowing what I was going into before even bothering the staff with my questions. They’re so busy over there so you would think that if they’d be more upfront online then they’d have less questions to field.
I also agree with you on the photo credit. CA doesn’t have a Disney Photographic department like FL has so if someone really loves an image from the CA weddings gallery, then they should know which photographer took the image.