Sunday was a first for Creative Memories Entertainment as I packed up the trailer and made the eight hour drive to Anaheim to perform at the beautiful Disneyland Hotel. Planning for this wedding started in April. The bride Summer, her mother Susan, and her family drove up to interview me to be their Wedding Entertainment Director. They explained that after spending hours on my website they knew that I was the entertainment they wanted for their once in a life time celebration. During the meeting I asked Summer to tell me about some of the ideas she had for her wedding. She explained to me that the reception would be taking place in the Sleeping Beauty Pavilion, and wanted to incorporate that theme into the reception. I suggested that for the first dance we cover the dance floor with a bed of clouds and as they danced, I would use lighting to change the color of her dress from white to Blue, and then to Purple. To help her with more ideas I sent her home with a copy of my favorite book “The Best Wedding Reception…Ever” – by Peter Merry. It only took two weeks for her to send me an email full of ideas from the book that she wanted to incorporate into her celebration.

Ceremony was in true Disney Style. Once the bridesmaids took their position, one of the largest crystal Cinderella Carriages slowly came into view and Summer step out of it with her father. I created a custom edit of the song Butterfly kisses so that as the two walked down, the wedding chorus of the song began to play. There wasn’t a dry eye in the garden. There seemed to be a theme to the tears that day as time after time, we brought out the emotions of the wedding throughout the reception.

The moment was building when Summer and Michael would step out on that hard wood floor to share their first dance. As I introduced them, it seemed to the guests that this would be just like any other first dance that they had seen before. As the song changed from making memories of us to the theme from Sleeping Beauty, the room was transformed. The clouds began to roll out at their feet, and the dress seemed to magically change colors. The room was completely silent aside from the gasp you heard as this ballroom changed in true Disney spirit before their eyes.

During the father daughter dance, no one knew that Summer paid me a special visit to record a personal message to her father. I was able to place this message at the beginning of their dance and I found myself tearing up when I saw the excitement and emotion in her father’s eyes as he heard his daughter’s voice speaking to him. Her mother Susan seemed to be holding her breath in amazement but later on told me that she was simply in the moment and amazed that she did that for her father.
I try to challenge everyone of my clients during our meetings to bring out their personality in the wedding. Summer and Michael were a very sentimental and loving couple who wanted a fairy tale style reception that began with the Disneyland Hotel, and ended with me as their Wedding Entertainment Director. The combination of the two made for an unforgettable afternoon that I for one will never forget. Thank you to Summer, Michael and their families for letting me be a part of their celebration!