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-Nobodies and Heartless-

We oddly had a few people asking to be villains when we did the color concepts but the bridal party are the only folks that got what everyone else asked for!

Groomsmen as our heartless, bridesmaids as our nobodies and our officiant as our Xehanort!

All my bridesmaids are Kingdom Hearts fans so there wasn’t a battle to go for the Dusk color palette. If anything, I just got sent a lot of black leather and jokes about who should be what Organization XIII member :3

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-Sora-

We’ve mentioned our whole color concepts thing before and will probably keep doing so but for both David and myself, we went with Sora.

It seems more obvious to go Sora+Kairi but one--I like red better than purple-- and two, we both adore Sora and what he stands for so we wanted to represent that. We mentioned in earlier posts that I’m lovely based off KH1 Sora and David is KH2 Sora. This way we could also share our Kingdom Key and have a united color theme of red and gold. 

Since I couldn’t get too much red in my outfit, I decided to sell my ‘Sora’ by crying over my best friend a lot. I think that counts. 

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-Donald and Goofy-

Out of all the color concepts for the characters, these are the two we were sure of from day one. If not mostly because my dad is an actual goof. Okay, entirely. Did I mention he fell off the stage? 

So here we have David’s step-dad as our Donald and my dad as Goofy! I felt like I saw our Donald on the dance floor all night but I could barely find any photos of him. our Goofy on the other hand hammed it up all night for the cameras and it was hard to slim down his pickings. 

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-Our Riku-

Going down the list of the characters that we used as color concept, here is my big brother as our Riku! We wanted to make sure immediate family got to be involved with the theme and there was no way my brother was gunna get left out. I’m this video game nerd I am today thanks to him and David who is an only child was pretty excited to inherit a big brother. 

Some of the photo edits make the blue look more grey or black sadly but hey, we all knew what he stood for and that’s the important part. If anyone doubts it, we’ll have a race and you can see how he always wins. 

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-Minnie and Mickey Mouse-

Since we did everyone’s color themes based off characters, we landed on our ring bearer and flower girl being Minnie and Mickey! 

Flower girl’s basket was lined with Mickey silhouette printed fabric and the ring bearer’s pillow we wanted to be like the sorcerer’s hat so we went with star printed fabric.

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-Our Union of Hearts ceremony-

Our officiant [wearing colors styled after Xehanort] did a lovely ceremony for us and the opening statement he made was actually Kairi’s letter. He also had us “Press Start to Begin” at the beginning and “Press Triangle to Activate” before kissing the bride at the end. He did an amazing job paying homage to both us and our Kingdom Hearts theme. 

Our union ceremony was us splitting a paopu fruit--which you can see me taking far too big of a bite. It was a fondant wrapped cookie and was not the most tasty thing but hey, it looked the part!

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Some scenery from around the wedding!

Our paopu and keyblade as they were up on stage with us and our ‘Door to Light’, Jiminy’s Journal display, our wedding favors ‘item shop’ set up as well as all the games we had on display in the same room where we had the cake. [We lost our Chain of Memories GBA case so Re:Chain stood in it’s spot. The GBA cartridge itself is in the Re:Coded box which we only realized the night before]

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Music!

For the music we wanted to make sure we had some of the more iconic songs from the game as well as have some Disney music sprinkled throughout the reception. It could have gone two ways: Very well or complete and total mess. Luckily it wasn’t the latter. That said, all the music for the reception wasn’t actually composed entirely of Disney/Kingdom Hearts music. We did have music from all different genres, but throughout the night different Disney/Kingdom Hearts songs were played.

All the music from the games came from soundtracks we purchased off of Amazon and the Disney music we bought off of iTunes.

Here’s a list of the music used and when it they were used.

All the songs are from Kingdom Hearts, unless it’s specified as a Disney song.

Guest Arrival Music:

Mickey Mouse Club March

A Walk in Andante

Traverse Town

Blast Away! -Gummi Ship I

Holy Bananas

Precious Stars in the Sky

Never Land Sky

March Caprice of Piano and Orchestra

Having a Wild Time -Previous Version-

Lazy Afternoons

Sora

Working Together

Friends in My Heart

Ceremony Music:

Processional

光 -KINGDOM Orchestra Instrumental Version-

Bride’s Entrance

Dearly Beloved (KH 1 version)

Recessional

Hand in Hand

Reception Music

Wedding Party Introductions

Sanctuary

Party Music

光 -PLANITb Remix- [Short Edit] (first song of the reception after intros, but not “our first dance song” as we didn’t do a first dance)

 I Just Can't Wait to Be King [Lion King]

I'll Make a Man Out of You (Soundtrack Version) [Mulan]

Under the Sea [Little Mermaid]

What's This [Nightmare Before Christmas]

Prince Ali (Soundtrack Version) [Aladdin] 

Zero to Hero [Hercules]

Slow Music

Reflection (Soundtrack Version) [Mulan]

A Whole New World (Soundtrack Version) [Aladdin] *Father/Daughter Dance

Beauty and the Beast (Soundtrack Version) [Beauty and the Beast]

Kiss the Girl [Little Mermaid]

Can You Feel the Love Tonight [Lion King] *Mother/Son Dance

Last Song

光 (Hikaru) 

Bouquet Toss

Go for It!

Cake Cutting

Destiny Islands