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This Couple Secretly Threw A Wedding At Disneyland
Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland just so happened to be this couple's wedding venue (Photo by Sam Howzit via the Creative Commons on Flickr)
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If you want to get married at the Happiest Place on Earth and don't want to shell out tens of thousands of dollars, then you're going to have to do it in a stealthy, sneaky way.
How to make the happiest place happier: Oakland couple sneaked their wedding into Disneyland. http://t.co/3Snha01tKO pic.twitter.com/mSXZP6FCO7
— SFGATE (@SFGate) July 29, 2015
An Oakland couple quietly ushered in their 25 wedding guests, including seven children, into Disneyland on July 19 for their secret wedding at the Enchanted Tiki Room, according to a writer at San Francisco Magazine, who also just happened to be the best man. It was complete with an officiator, photographer, vows, and "I do's" amongst the Animatronic birds in the Polynesian hut. The bride was dressed in a cream-colored dress and the groom in a white suit. Everyone even helped themselves to some pre-wedding Dole Whip right outside at the fruit stand.
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It was a short wedding since the couple only had a four-minute window between the end of the last performance and the beginning of the next one. But they did it and security was none the wiser.
San Francisco Magazine reports that Disneyland wedding venue rentals for the most basic package already start at $12,000, so this was definitely a major price cut for the couple. They could use the money they saved for more Dole Whip because that's what we'd do.
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