Each year more than 1600 couples plan their wedding for Walt Disney World Resort. Starting in 1991, the Orlando theme park has hosted over 30,000 weddings. Many wedding industry experts cite Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida as one of the top wedding and honeymoon destinations in the world.

The first Disney wedding to be hosted in the Wedding Pavilion (1995) was televised on Lifetime Television. Today, the Wedding Pavilion at Walt Disney World can host up to six weddings a day, but couples can choose to be married at many other locations throughout the resort. Park services easily handle up to 12 weddings per day within the resort’s four theme parks.

In addition to Cinderella’s Castle as a wedding backdrop, other popular themed weddings at the park include a safari theme at Disney’s Animal Kingdom; a Hollywood extravaganza at Disney’s Hollywood Studios; and international themes at Epcot. One couple even said their vows on Disney’s The Twilight Zone™ Tower of Terror.

A Disney Timeshare for a Lifetime of Magic Moments

A Disney themed wedding starts at just over $4000 and Disney offers several add-on honeymoon packages. But no one has money to throw around these days and a Disney timeshare resale offers a couple an excellent way to begin a lifetime of memorable vacations. For couples taking the plunge but who aren’t quite ready to plunge into becoming a timeshare owner, there are also excellent opportunities in right-priced Disney timeshare rentals.

The Disney timeshare resale a couple buys today would make a perfect anniversary destination for living happily ever after.

Check this video for more information from Disney Wedding planner Kori McFann.

Highlighting another great blog on The Timeshare Authority Blog Roll, we thank our friends at the Mousekingdom Blog, an excellent resource for anyone who loves Disney and the Walt Disney World theme parks.

The update on the Mousekingdom Blog last week is fair warning to Star Wars fans to plan their Orlando timeshare vacation to include a weekend in late May or early June. Disney’s Hollywood Studios will be celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the first release of the original Star Wars movie along with the new animated series The Clone Wars. During a month of weekend celebrations, park visitors will have the opportunity to met original cast members from the film series. Be on the lookout for Ewoks, Wookiees, Stormtroopers, and Jawas invading the park! You and your family can join Star Wars celebrities, Jedi Masters, and Sith Lords for special shows, presentations, memorabilia, and a chance to rub shoulders and gain autographs from the characters you know and love.

Hosting events for each of the four weekends will be Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett) and Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka). From May 21-23, you’ll find Daniel Logan, Temuera Morrison, and Dee Bradley Baker at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Logan played both Boba Fett and all of the clone cadets in Episode II. Morrison starred as Jango Fett and as the clone troopers, and Baker is the voice of all the clone troopers (including Captain Rex) in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

From May 28-30 look for Tom Kane, Lorne Peterson, and Matthew Wood in the theme park. Tom Kane is the voice of Yoda in The Clone Wars, and also the narrator who begins each show. Lorne Peterson is an ILM model-maker who worked behind the scenes on each of the six Star Wars movies. Matthew Wood was a sound editor on the Star Wars prequels and The Clone Wars and provided the voice of General Grievous and his battle droids.

Billy Dee Williams, Ray Park, and Dave Filoni will appear at the Hollywood Studios Park from June 4-6. Williams was Lando Calrissian. Ray Park is the villain Darth Maul from Episode I, and Dave Filoni is the supervising director of The Clone Wars.

And to wrap up the month-long event, on June 11-13, Peter Mayhew and James Arnold Taylor will be at the theme park, along with Ray Park who will be there for his second weekend. Mayhew was the beloved Chewbacca the Wookiee and Taylor is the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Clone Wars, as well as Plo Koon.

Plan Your Disney Timeshare or Orlando Timeshare Vacation

Just a reminder, Disney’s Hollywood Studios in NOT in Hollywood, so don’t schedule a California timeshare if you want to take in the Star Wars event. Instead, plan on a Disney timeshare in Florida or any of the great Orlando timeshares in order to be among the starry-eyed Star Wars fans who take part in this special celebration. Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park admission is required.

Again, thank you Mousekeeping for the head’s up!

Watch this video for a look at last year’s 2009 Disney Star Wars celebration courtesy of WDW Radio:

David Siegel, founder of Westgate timeshare, will reportedly attempt to sell some $350 million in assets. On the “for sale” list is the former Grenelefe Resort, near Haines City, Florida, which includes 432 condominium units, two golf courses, a marina, and 277 acres of undeveloped land.

Grenelefe Golf and Tennis Resort was, not so many years ago, as a popular Florida vacation destination. With a 50,000 square foot conference center, Grenelefe was a favorite site for smaller convention and meeting groups, boasted golf courses of such quality that they were frequently early stage qualifying sites for the PGA and Champions Tour events, and offered a tennis venue where Martina Navratilova and Andrea Jaeger both competed.

But time has not been kind to the resort since it was purchased by Westgate Resorts in a 2002 U.S. Bankruptcy Court proceeding from Sports Shinko, a Japanese company, for $12.75 million. During Westgate timeshare resort’ ownership there have been buyers interested in purchasing the property, but none has been able to gain sufficient backing and close the deal. As if to add insult to injury, Grenelefe Resort was hit by tornado-like winds last week, damaging 28 condo units and leaving 5 uninhabitable.

Westgate Resorts to Focus on Timeshare

Among other properties and assets scheduled to be sold by Westgate timeshares are River Ranch, which is a 1,700-acre dude ranch on the Kissimmee River (south of Orlando); real estate in Nevada, Missouri and Tennessee; a 500-room Ramada hotel in Kissimmee, FL; two private aircraft; and the rights to develop lodging on land near the entrance to Disneyland, Anaheim, California.

David Siegel was quoted by the Orlando Sentinel as saying, “We’re selling our non-time-share assets to raise cash for our time-share operations. We’re selling anything that we don’t currently need for our time-share [business].”

Adding to all the excitement about this coming week’s TATOC (The Timeshare Association) Conference in Nottingham Belfry, England, is this week’s release that Ramy Filo the President of the Australian Timeshare and Holiday Ownership Council, will be attending and speaking at the conference.

Filo is the CEO of Classic Group, which includes Classic Holidays; a timeshare resort management and timeshare sales company in Australia and Dial an Exchange, which is the third largest timeshare exchange company in the world.

Ramy Filo is also President of the Australian Timeshare and Holiday Ownership Council (ATHOC) representing the timeshare industry in Australia, and is Chairman of the Global Alliance for Timeshare Excellence (GATE), an alliance created by leaders of trade associations in Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe, Argentina, the Middle East, South Africa, and Australia.

Harry Taylor, CEO of TATOC, says, “The response for the conference has been overwhelming and we are delighted that Ramy had seen able to find the time to come and be able to inform the delegates about the industry in Australia”.

To learn more about The Timeshare Association (TATOC) contact: [email protected] or telephone: 00 44 (0)161 237 3611

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