Brad Kane made his name singing about cartoon royalty in a faraway land, but it only took a night out for pizza—no magic lantern necessary—to find his real-life princess.

Brad, a singer and screenwriter who provided the voice of Prince Ali in Disney's 1992 animated movie “Aladdin,” was introduced to Sarah Thompson by the keyboard player in his L.A. band, who insisted the two would get along famously.

He was right: Brad and Sarah became fast friends. Sarah, an actress best known for playing Rose on the TV series “7th Heaven” and a self-professed Broadway nut, was delighted to realize that she was familiar with some of Brad's work before the footlights. For his part, Brad says with a laugh, that he's "attracted to anyone who is awed by me."

Still, it took a few months before the relationship blossomed into romance. "When we would tell each other about the other people we were dating it would become very annoying, so we decided that we should be together," explained Brad.

After three years of living together in a small L.A. apartment, marriage wasn't exactly a front-burner topic when the couple traveled to Sarah's parents' house in Bermuda for Christmas. In fact, when Brad plucked an oversized gift box from under the tree, Sarah assumed he was giving her a pair of Christmas pajamas to wear to bed.

When she opened the box to reveal a ring and Brad got down on one knee in front of her whole family to propose, "I was never so surprised in my life," said Sarah.

At that point, jokes Brad, "my job was done," and he turned the planning for the couple's July 2007 wedding at the Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, Calif., over to Sarah and her wedding planner, Kara Keaney. Sarah wanted to have a "pseudo destination wedding"—something close to L.A., but exotic enough to charm out-of-town guests—and the "romantic and intimate" Bacara fit the bill.

As it turned out, however, Brad wasn't completely off the hook. For years at parties, friends had bugged him to sing, "A Whole New World," his signature song from Aladdin. He had always refused—that is, until now. "Sarah loves to sing it, so I said, 'Why don't I do my part and you do Princess Jasmine's?'" he recalled. Sarah happily agreed, but the couple kept their plan a secret from everyone else.

The wedding party arrived Friday night at Bacara for a rehearsal dinner in the wine cellar of the resort's Miro restaurant; fittingly, each course was expertly paired with fine wines from the 12,000-bottle collection. Afterwards, all of the guests were invited to Bacara's unique screening room for a reception featuring the couple's favorite movie-time snacks (Twizzlers and Kit Kats) and miniature Ho Hos and Twinkies prepared in the resort's kitchen.

Following a brief video montage of the couple, the 80s musical classic "Fame" lit up the screen. "I loved it growing up, and we both love musicals," explained Sarah. "It was a little testament to Brad's love for film and movie going."

Bacara is famous for its cliff top location overlooking the Pacific, and Brad and Sarah chose this cinematic setting as the background for their wedding ceremony. An outdoor cocktail hour was followed by dinner in the resort's Rotunda Room; the party then moved down the hall where a New York "ultra lounge" style nightclub was set up, complete with "shabby chic" furniture, sheer drapes and disco lighting.

After the seven-piece band, Traffic Jam, rocked the house, Brad and Sarah took the stage for their unexpected Disney duet. "You couldn't pick up people's jaws with a crane," said Brad.

"It was the most fun I've ever had in my life," said Sarah. "It was literally the best party I've ever been to, and the most elegant, too. Kara did an amazing job."

Not long after seeing her guests off at a farewell Sunday brunch, Sarah was off to South Africa to make a movie based on the troubled life of cricket star Hansie Cronje. During a break in filming, Brad joined her for a belated honeymoon at the Singita luxury safari resort.

Brad continues to work on his screen adaptation of the vampire book, “The Historian,” and the couple expects the coming chapters in their own story of love to include travel, children, and—eventually, perhaps—a fairytale castle on Lake Como.

Written by Bob Curley