Festival of Fantasy Parade

Earlier this month Magic Kingdom was given a new afternoon parade!  It's been a while since the afternoon parade saw change which is why it never really fell on our itinerary when we hit the park.  However, that will definitely change now!  The new parade is called Festival of Fantasy and is a beautiful display of creativity and magic.  The parade includes characters from many beloved Disney movies, including Tangled, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, Frozen, The Little Mermaid, and Pinocchio!  The parade floats are full of bright colors, flowers, and little Disney touches. You will definitely need to watch it a few times before you see all the detail that went into these floats.  Not only are the giant floats amazing, but the costumes of the performers are incredible.  My favorite section is Tangled which finds Flynn flying high above the crowds! 

Enjoy some pictures of the parade along with some fun facts!

The parade features a cast of over 100!

Characters from over a dozen Disney classics are represented over the nine floats.

The are forty more characters present in animated or sculptural form. Can you spot them all?

The lead float is over 50 feet long!

It takes 27 different fabrics to make 1 Swing Thug costume.

Some costume pieces were designed, sculpted and then grown to size with a 3D printer!

The socks worn by the Lost Boys are custom designs that were knitted to order in Hong Kong

The Jolly Roger sails 28 feet above the parade route

Performers appear on swings, stilts, and pendulums!

Maleficent stretches 53 feet and reaches 26 feet in the air!

The trio of finale floats span 90 feet along the parade route

Mickey's float is the tallest at 32 feet!

Derek and I enjoyed the new parade and cannot wait to catch it again on our next visit to the park! Make sure you stop to watch when you are at the Magic Kingdom! You will not be disappointed. 

Wedding Update!

As many of you know, Derek and I got engaged this past July and are currently planning our Disney Wedding! Things have started to move a long in the wedding planning process.  We have been talking with a sales consultant at Disney Weddings, Joe, since September. He has been so great to work with. We met with him for a site visit in September and bugged him with questions since then while we waited to get our date confirmed.  For anyone looking at having a Disney Wedding, I highly recommend a Site Visit! It allows you to see possible ceremony and reception locations and your consultant can share so much information and knowledge with you. 

Then earlier this year, the day we've been waiting for arrived; we got our date confirmed! Derek and I will be getting married on January 2, 2015 at the Wedding Pavilion in Walt Disney World!  It has been my dream since I was a little girl to get married there and it is now all coming true.  We are both excited to start the planning process now with Disney!  We are slowly planning all the details for the wedding and in a few months we will get to have a planning session with our planner where it will all hopefully come together!

We have also attended a couple Wedding Shows to help gather inspiration for the wedding, I found my dress at Alfred Angelo (we have some bridesmaid dress contenders too!), and we sent out Save the Dates! 

There is still so much planning to do but I am so happy with how everything is coming together so far! Look for another update after our planning session! Until then I present my amazing Bridal Party:

Maid of Honor: Brenna, Bridesmaids: Lindsey, Megan and Alyssa, and Flower Girl: Mary!