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CELEBRATIONS
Magic in the Air
A Chester County couple finds their happily ever after in Disney World.
By Gina Lizzo
Photos by Brittany Miller/Bella Allure Imagery
Katie Cooney was 8 when she took her first trip to Walt Disney World with her parents and sister. As they checked into the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, Katie saw a beautiful bride walk out of the resort and into Cinderella’s carriage. “Ever since that day, I wanted to be married there and live out my happily ever after with my true love,” Katie says.
Her Prince Charming came along years later. Katie didn’t meet Aron Motta until their senior year at Downingtown’s Bishop Shanahan High
School. “I remember when we first started dating, I said to him, ‘If we get married, it needs to be in Disney World,’” Katie says.
Following a Christmas Day engagement in 2021 at their Coatesville home, the pair reached out to Disney’s Fairytale Weddings & Honeymoons to begin the planning process. “We had a fairy-tale-themed wedding,” Katie says. “This included Cinderella’s carriage, of course.”
The ceremony took place on June 24 of last year at Disney’s Wedding Pavilion, then it was on to EPCOT’s Italy Isola pavilion for cocktail
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