Tokyo Disney Weddings

I had an opportunity to tour the wedding facilities at Tokyo Disney Resort in March 2010 during our crazy last-minute trip, and thought I’d share what I learned. The Director of Resort Operations and the General Manager of Hotel Mira Costa led me on a fast-paced, expertly timed tour of the wedding sites at Hotel Mira Costa and the Ambassador Hotel, including stops to see parts of actual weddings!

Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings in Tokyo are a bit different. Rather than building your wedding from the ground up, you are required to choose from several packages (the ones at the Ambassador Hotel are themed to each of the princesses), and you can’t really change elements or provide your own, well, anything—even the dress! You have to rent a dress (or two or three) from them. (When I asked how it would work for a Godzilla-sized bride such as myself, they said they’d make it work.) But, like they kept saying, Disney provides a certain kind of wedding, and only people who want that kind of wedding choose Disney, so no one’s upset that they can’t modify the packages. (Don’t get any ideas, DFTW Orlando…)

They do up to eight weddings a day, and they are carefully programmed. Each hotel contains all the facilities you could possibly need, including a bridal salon (like a miniature, crowded Franck’s), a beauty salon, the bridal gown salon, a photo studio, and various waiting rooms. Each wedding party makes the same circuit of the various rooms on their way to the altar and then the reception, one group after another. It’s a pretty slick operation, and I was impressed by how many services they provide.

The average wedding size is 60 or 70 guests, with prices starting around ¥1.5 million ($16,090) for 20 people. I can’t remember if they said the annual number of weddings at Tokyo Disney Resort is 1,400 or 1,800 – must be the latter because they said there are 840 at Mira Costa alone and the Ambassador is actually the more popular venue. So far they have decided not to hold weddings at the new Tokyo Disneyland Hotel, partly because it’s feared that people will stop booking at the other two hotels. There are no in-park events except for the gondola ride add-on to Mira Costa weddings, which I’ll post some pictures of. After the ceremony, the bride and groom and their guests parade through Tokyo Disney Sea to the gondola dock, and then the bride and groom get a private boat ride complete with musicians and singing gondoliers.

The people I spoke with had never heard of the wedding-style vow renewals we have in the States. A few couples have booked anniversary receptions to celebrate, but they’d never heard of having an entire ceremony and everything. I think they were joking when they said I’d given them a great idea for making more money, but I hope they’ll really consider it!

Wedding Chapel at Hotel Mira Costa


The chapel is very intimate—about half the size of the Wedding Pavilion, I’d say—which makes it perfect for weddings with 60 or 70 guests.


The window behind the altar overlooks Tokyo DisneySea’s Mount Prometheus

For the ceremony this fountain is filled with either incense or dry ice (the explanation of the concept was lost in translation!)




View of the chapel from inside Tokyo DisneySea

 

Gondola Wedding Add-On

For the Gondola wedding, the guests come down first and form a receiving line for the petal toss.



Then the processional musicians arrive…




Hotel Mira Costa Reception Venues


They have Disney character napkin folds – these are Daisy and Donald:




And here’s Mickey:


This room is used as a waiting area for the family and for smaller receptions. It looks right into Tokyo DisneySea.


Sorry, I was kind of obsessed by this ginormous flower arrangement—it was real flowers, and they had two more just like it! This attention to detail and a willingness to spend money on it is a hallmark of the Tokyo Disney Resort.




An interesting thing about this mural – when Disney designed Hotel Mira Costa, they wanted the décor to be elegant and restrained, without any reference to Disney characters. The Oriental Land Co. fought to get them to put in this mural because they knew how much the Japanese love their characters. Now it’s a must-do photo spot for weddings.


This is the beauty salon…


And here’s the bridal salon(…e?) where you try on the dresses…


Flower girl dresses




The wedding planning room is tiny—maybe one-quarter the size of Franck’s—and it was packed with couples and wedding planners at every table. Every table except this one…




I was asked to aim the camera over people’s heads, so… here’s the ceiling!




They had multiple cabinets filled with schwag for the bridal couple to give guests and each other, most of which can only be purchased if you’re having a Tokyo Disney wedding (dang… no bejeweled press-on nails for me!).


This is something called “gradient art” – I think it changes color maybe? For ¥126,000, it dang well better!




Merchandise is also on display in the hall around the corner.




In Japan, Minnie & Mickey are married. I don’t know why they have to hide their love over here!





Disney’s Ambassador Hotel Weddings

Over at the Ambassador Hotel, the theme is all 1930s art deco and Old Hollywood glamour. I got to see this bride preparing to enter the Rose Chapel and then again on her way out with the groom.


This chapel is even smaller than the one at Hotel Mira Costa, but I like how neither of them dwarf smaller wedding parties.


After the ceremony, the bride and groom go outside to a lakeside pavilion to sign their marriage certificate with a few special guests…




The pavilion is adjacent to the Ikspiari shopping mall, but they station cast members at either end so that passersby don’t intrude.




Then it’s off to the reception!

Ambassador Hotel Reception Venues




More clever napkin folds. Is this one Donald or Goofy? I’m thinking Goofy…




Japanese brides, avert your eyes—it’s the Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings Secret Gift!


These placesettings must require a PhD!




The staircase to the wedding area is the Ambassador’s prime photo spot. We happened to see a bride taking photos there later in the trip and got some stalker-style photos…

The Bridal Salon appears to be a little bit larger here, but it was still packed full of planning couples.


Don’t worry – when you’re an actual Tokyo Disney bride, none of this merchandise is blurry…


Ah… remember coat checks? Neither do I!


How about swanky lookin’ escalators?


Bridal gowns are fitted behind these doors…


I loved the Fantasia-inspired art pieces in the hall




Another family waiting room/small reception venue


Inside the photo studio


Family portrait time!


They’ve introduced a pocket-sized album to complement the full-sized one.


And last but not least, after my tour I spotted some wedding merchandise at the Disney Store at Ikspiari and thought you might like some poorly lit photos of it!

19 Responses
  • Reymondreflon
    June 28, 2023

    how much is a wedding package at disneyland Tokyo?

    • Carrie
      August 6, 2023

      Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have pricing information online, even in Japanese. Your best bet is probably to call (numbers for each hotel’s bridal salon are listed at the bottom of this page). I found that if I immediately requested to speak to someone in English, they were able to find a person who could talk to me and email me pricing information.

  • Glenn
    January 17, 2017

    Hihi!! Thank you Carrie so so much for the help! 🙁 biggest problem is that I have no email to turn to now! Hope for the best! Have a blessed 2017 ahead! so nerve wrecking!

  • Glenn
    January 11, 2017

    Hi! May i enquire if Tokyo Disney can help in any way for a wedding proposal?

    • Carrie
      January 11, 2017

      Hi Glenn! Hmmmm… as far as I know they don’t have any kind of formal department for that, but if you are able to secretly communicate your intention to a cast member, they should be able to help you out. The trick would be getting them to help if you don’t speak Japanese. Check out TDR Explorer‘s blog and see if he might have some suggestions for you. Maybe even a Japanese phrase or two you could learn!

  • Ayesha Khan
    June 14, 2014

    Amazing , Lovely , Awesome , so Fairytale like . I was mesmerized the whole time , I was reading and looking at the photos . Tokyo Disney Weddings look so dream like and beautiful . I loved everything , from the dresses, to the decors , to the tiny details , everything looks so fabulous.

  • Elizabeth
    April 26, 2012

    How did I miss the entry on your blog? It totally makes me want to go to Japan to get married…rented dresses and all! Those chapels are beautiful and I love their intimate size.

    • Carrie
      April 26, 2012

      Me too! I never usually like them, but the one at Hotel Mira Costa is gorgeous!

      • Elizabeth
        April 27, 2012

        You need to go check out weddings in Disneyland-Paris now…do they do weddings there?

        • Carrie
          April 27, 2012

          Unfortunately, no. France has a pre-wedding residency requirement of something like 40 days, plus you have to do a formal process of some kind at town hall. Too complicated for a DFTW!

          • Elizabeth
            April 27, 2012

            Booo! Guess I’m back to getting married in France at EPCOT and then honeymoon at DLP. HA! Guess I’d better start looking for a groom! 😉

  • Keith
    November 19, 2011

    Where can I find that cake topper for sale!?

    • lurkyloo
      November 20, 2011

      Oh I wish I knew! Tokyo Disneyland doesn’t seem to have a merchandise-ordering hotline the way the US parks do. 🙁 I guess you could keep an eye on eBay…. I’ll let you know if I get any other ideas!

  • Pinkgirl
    February 24, 2011

    Was that really their cake? OMG how many tiers!

    • lurkyloo
      February 24, 2011

      It looks like 5 or 6, but I’ll bet some of them were fake!

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