Now you can book your wedding on the hub in front of Cinderella Castle in the Magic Kingdom. Walt Disney World long has offered on-property weddings for couples looking to tie the knot Disney-style, but its most iconic location remained off limits to wedding ceremonies. (At least, for Disney-sanctioned weddings. Sneaky people can find ways to get married just about anywhere.) You could book your ceremony at the wedding pavilion on the Seven Seas Lagoon, or even at the Main Street train station, but getting married in front of the castle remained, well, a dream.
Until now. But there's often a high price to making a fairy tale come true in Disney's world, and this is no exception. According to the Disney Weddings webpage for this East Plaza Garden location, booking a wedding on the hub in front of the castle requires a $25,000+ venue fee. With other required components of the Disney Wedding package for the East Plaza Garden (including hosting up to 100 guests), the total price for a castle-front wedding will run at least $75,000, according to a Disney press release.
(In case you are wondering, that price does not include a spouse. You must provide your own. And there's no half-price single rider option here, either.) Disney will accommodate one ceremony in the East Plaza Garden a day, at 9:30am, so don't expect a glowing sunset or exploding fireworks as you exchange vows. Unless you're talking about the expression of the face of whoever's paying for this gig.
If this is a bit too rich for you, other in-park wedding venue include courtyards and plazas in most World Showcase national pavilions, the rotunda of the American Adventure, and Living Seas Salon in Epcot. But expect to lay down five figures for any of those locations, too.
And if this is just too much romance for your cold, cynical heart, warm yourself with the thought that, at some point, perhaps some ambitious manager will propose that Disney could make even more money by... hosting divorces in City Hall. Hey, it's just the Circle of Life, right?
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True story - my ex-wife and I honeymooned at WDW and were chosen as Grand Marshals for the parade. And it didn't cost 5-figures.
This company will do anything imaginable just to wring yet more money from its favorite cash cow, the parks.
Why not just build a big circular room with 360 degree video (like France or Canada - whichever. I can't remember) and let the wedding participants feel like they're in front of the castle? They could even have two versions. Daytime and dusk. This way, they can hold 5+ Cinderella Castle weddings per day. Charge maybe $10k. Less per wedding, but more overall, and no park distuption or worries about the weather.
Afterward, they can actually go to the castle, and get photos taken.
By the way, for $25k, they really should get to sleep in the castle suite. That could be worth it.
Maybe it will be enough to open a park in China! /s
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