Calling to Book the Wedding! Kind of...

Well, that was...huh.

Today is 8 months to the day from when we want to get married at Disney World. Despite Girl Scout Fiancée's grumpy early morning protestations, we got up at 5:25 AM to be able to call right when the phone lines open for Disney Weddings at 8:30 AM Eastern time (Girl Scout Fiancée actually made me wait until 8:35 to "give them time to turn on their computers," and I acquiesced). Is it early? Sure. But given that we're going with the Escape package, I wanted to call so someone having a more expensive wedding doesn't swoop in and grab the time and place we want for either the wedding or the dessert party.

We used our phones to do a three-way call and spoke to a very nice man named Cory (or Corey, or Korree, or however the kids are spelling it these days) who took our basic information and then told us that a Wedding Consultant would be in touch with us in two to three business days. Er, what? Everything I'd read up to this point indicated that we would be handed off to the Wedding Consultant and would need to call back within three days with confirmation of our resort stay (which we already have), but apparently now we end up having to wait for them to call us back? That could be awkward, given the time shift and the fact that I'm going to be at work most likely when they call back. Not to mention that I wanted Girl Scout Fiancée to be in on the call; what if they call back when she is unavailable?

I am really rooting for our Wedding Consultant to be named Topanga now.

In fact, I had to specifically ask if there was any way to put a reservation on the time and venue we want for the wedding, and though Cory took the information down and noted it in our file, he couldn't guarantee any kind of reservation. I asked if he wanted the reservation number for the resort, and he said he had no need of it.

All that said, Cory also indicated that we should be in good shape calling this far out to get the reservation we want, so there's that at least. I do feel sheepish getting up this early, because I could have made this call at noon and the outcome would have been the same.