Disney's Fairy Tale Wedding Pavilion
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Disney's Fairy Tale Wedding Pavilion is an exclusive area of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa for weddings, re-exchanging of vows and proclamations that opened on July 15, 1995. Located on the shores of the Seven Seas Lagoon on its own little island just South of the resort, it serves as the main wedding location in Walt Disney World and one of the most exclusive in the world.
This is not the only place at Walt Disney World Resort where guests can be married. Walt Disney World Fairy Tale Wedding packages include marriages at:
- Cinderella's Royal Court in front of the majestic Cinderella Castle in the Magic Kingdom, with many Disney characters present. Bride and groom arrive in Cinderella's Royal Coach along Main Street, USA from the Grand Floridian. The most expensive (and exclusive) venue.
- Sunset Pointe at Disney's Polynesian Resort, provides a romantic setting overlooking the lake.
- Victoria and Albert's, considered the most exclusive restaurant on the entire Walt Disney World premises. This is also at the Grand Floridian, and many couples who wed at the Pavilion hold their parties in the restaurant.
- The Wedding Gazebo at Disney's Yacht Club Resort is in the middle of a rose garden.
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- Disney Imagineers built the Pavilion so that Cinderella Castle is perfectly framed in two views: through the window behind the altar where the couple is married, and through a hedge archway outside the chapel.
- Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie can be present at all weddings, in their respective wedding outfits. (This may have been true at one time; however, as of 2005, characters can appear/crash your reception but cannot participate in the actual ceremony in any way.) [1]
- At the other Disney resort in the United States, Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, guests can wed in the garden at the Disneyland Hotel, or on the Mark Twain river boat which travels the Rivers of America.
