Okay you've already gotten good responses to this (Yup the first week of November.) but I wanted to add a few more options to entice you...
My Mom & I are coming in on Oct 31st (1 night at BW) so that we can do the S&D's Food & Wine Classic on Sat,
MNSSHP on Sunday, a week of F&W (staying at BCV), then off-property for a couple more days to hit the other things in Orlando (What? There are other things in Orlando!?!?!?!
), and doing
MVMCP before flying home.
Also during that 1st full weekend of Nov are the F&W marathons. So timed right you could do 5 different events over 10+ days.
One thing to note is that even though the parties start on the 8th the resort decorations usually don't fully go up till after Veterans Day (Nov 11th). For example the Contemporary's Frozen gingerbread display was Nov 13th, GF the 23rd, & BC the 25th.
(BTW I'm not new to this board, just haven't been around for a couple years since my last BC stay in 2012.)
Rach