DeSantis agreed to get married at Disney World as long as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse weren't invited

• DeSantis was hesitant to get married at Disney World, he revealed in his new book.

• But he wanted to be a "dutiful groom" and agreed as long as no Disney characters were there.

• DeSantis made the comments in his new book, "The Courage to Be Free."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may have had a fairy tale wedding with Casey DeSantis at the Walt Disney World Resort back in 2009 — but he's no Disney adult, according to his new book.

In "The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival," DeSantis writes that his wife's family of "Disney enthusiasts" floated the venue idea because they'd loved visiting the resort and theme park when Casey DeSantis was growing up with her older sister, Kate, in Ohio.

DeSantis, who was a native Floridian, wrote that he didn't know back then that Disney did weddings. He thought he and Casey DeSantis, née Black, would get married at a local church, he wrote. But he wanted to be a "dutiful groom," so he deferred to his bride-to-be.

For their ceremony, the DeSantises settled on Disney's Grand Floridian wedding pavilion, a Victorian chapel with arched windows.

"My only condition was that no Disney characters could be part of our wedding," he wrote. "I wanted our special day to look and feel like a traditional wedding. I didn't want Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck in our wedding photos."

The final result, DeSantis admits in his book, was "beautiful." Casey DeSantis, he wrote, looked "like a princess."

"Our whole wedding felt right out of a fairy tale," he wrote.

The book confirms Insider's November 2022 reporting about the location of the wedding, which had never been previously reported and wasn't widely known among the Florida political class. The chapel where the DeSantises exchanged their vows overlooked Cinderella's Castle and the Seven Seas Lagoon.

Casey DeSantis joked Monday during a joint SiriusXM Patriot radio interview that the wedding would have cost too much if they decided to include Disney characters.

As for DeSantis, he admitted during the SiriusXM interview that the wedding destination choice wound up being "kind of ironic."

DeSantis last year retaliated against Disney for opposing his Parental Rights in Education Act, the law opponents such as LGBTQ rights organizations have called "Don't Say Gay." On Monday, he appointed political allies to a board overseeing Disney's special tax district, gutting the family favorite company from having unique control over its services, issue bonds, and property taxes.

In his book, DeSantis doesn't reveal too much about his wedding but did share some of the hiccups around getting his outfit ready for the big day. He had originally planned on wearing a tux, he said, but Casey DeSantis asked him to wear his Navy service dress white uniform instead.

Doing so was a "classy" choice, he decided, and "I was happy to defer to my bride on that call."

He realized that he needed to go to a tailor to get his outfit ready so that they could properly mount his medals on the suit. He went to the Navy exchange three days before the wedding, and they told him his outfit would be ready "by the end of the month."

DeSantis said he'd needed the outfit much sooner, and the Navy exchange could have it ready by noon Friday. The groom arrived to his wedding just in time for the rehearsal dinner.

"Casey was happy with the wedding photos, " he wrote, "so it was all worth it."

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