DISCLAIMER: This is a WDW Press Release with my color commentary (ala Dave Barry) and 2 years worth of first hand knowledge working at WDW Marketing. Please know that I mean these things lovingly as I hold Disney to a different standard.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., May 2 /PRNewswire/ — (if they are sending out a release to Latinos, why would then not use the “tilde”…hello!! I will fix it for them for them from here on out) Quinceanera parties, the traditional Latin coming-of-age celebrations, have arrived at Walt Disney World Resort.

From a fully customized celebration based on a family’s ideas to pre-designed, themed Quinceañera events that take away all the worry of planning, Disney is offering these tradition-steeped extravaganzas for girls turning age 15 — a passage from flat-soled shoes and dolls to high heels, elaborate gowns and young womanhood. (LOL Spaceship Earth sounds like a perfect setting for the “bird and the bees” conversation with Mama don’t you think? I can see Cubanitas - and I’m Cuban-American so I can- from nearby Miami wanting to come out of the fountains atop the Swan and Dolphin Hotels. After all, Latinas dream big.)

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