Thursday 27 December 2012

Wedding Banquet Price List 2012

Here is the link :
http://singaporebrides.com/wedding_banquet_pricelist.php

I know is the thought that count and people really not sure how much to give to newly wed. To me I feel that if you don't want to give so much at least near to the amount so that the couple don't have to pay so much for the banquet costs. We all know it is expensive lunch/dinner but it is also a moment in your life to witness your best pal or friend their happiest moment. 

If you can't make it to their wedding from the very start, do let them know. Once you confirm you can go and invitation card sent to you, you definitely must try to block out the date and try your best to be there. If really last min you are unable to go, at least give a small red packet or gift to them after the wedding. I think is the basic courtesy of being a friend. If not from the very very first start, you shouldnt have promise to go.

PS: I am a very frank person =)

 


Sourcing for Places for Wedding Banquet. & Why I choose One Degree 15..

 
Below is the link from Singapore Brides and I think is quite useful =)

Steps to start :
1. When is your wedding date
2. Your estimated number of invited guests.
3. Choosing of hotels, restaurants and clubs
( Many hotels and some restaurants have minimum requirements which you have to fulfill before you can place your booking. Some of the hotels have different minimum requirements for weekday and weekend booking. The wedding package is usually more expensive for weekend booking than weekday. When you make your booking, you must also check the maximum capacity of the venue. )
4. Lastly which is the most important : Try your very best to bargain if you know is damn hard. 

Look out for wedding fair and some hotels always have wedding fair promotion. During those roadshows, they are able to throw more freebies and easier to bargain as they need your sales. 

I had my wedding banquet at One Degree 15 Sentosa Cove. How I arrive in my decision in booking this area. Firstly both my hubby and me want to have something diff from others. Initially we wanted to have beach wedding and instead of the normal boring wedding lunch or dinner banquets. We wanna to have bbq instead and free and easy. We been to many outdoor venues to see. Eg. A Bar at Paris Ris Park, Mana Mana Beach Club at East Coast, Keppel Bay etc. There are many factors to consider. The number of guests they can hold. Weather is the most important factor. Especially mine is in Dec. Super Rainy Season. To have tent to shelter, surprising is so expensive. While I am sourcing for my venue , I came across One Degree 15 online. I happen to know there is a roadshow at Dhoby Ghaut Green which is beside Dhoby Ghaut Mrt. One Degree 15 was there. I met Vincent which is the sales consultant I been liasing with. He is very nice to explain the package to me and what so special to sign on the spot. He even offers to drive us down to see the venue. The typical me, we did not sign on the spot. Neither we went down to see the venue. At the roadshow, we happen to know about other places like.. Raffles Marina . It is not at Marina or at Raffles. It is at TUAS ! LOL. The prices are attractive and they also provide bus services if I never remember wrongly. There is another place like Singapore Yacht Club.

Kyo and me, both of us took a day to drive down to One Degree 15 to take a look. When I reached that club. I only can say the carpark is HUGE ! There is no problem in parking your cars for your guests. I can even drive sway my car left and right. Haha . While we are walking from the carpark to the club, seeing all the yachts parking at the pier, you can see houses saturated area. I simply fall in love with the place. And know what my hubby says? He says ," Oh ic, this is the playground for the rich ." Haha ! 

Vincent is very friendly and nice. He guides us around the area and slowly introduce to us which area we can hold our wedding for solemisation and lunch/dinner. We love the outside venue. The Floating Platform. We wanted to have our special dinner there but that area can only hold 80 people sitting down and the rest have to stand. As for banquet indoor, they can hold maxi up to 37 tables. We was told we can solemisation outdoor whch is at the floating platform and we only need to pay additional $500 . 2 bad things are if you book the banquet indoor, they allow you to solemisation at the reception area which is shelter for free and if you choose to solemisation outdoor, even if rain, you still have to pay $500 as book that day and slot for you . Another option is to solemisation at Nova Room which is shelter. Quite a nice room which can see the sea view. It costs $500 too. We booked the banquet for dinner at their function room and also the floating platform at a later date . We did pay the $500 and only can pray super hard that day wont rain. 

Will tell you guy more about One Degree 15 in my next post =)


Rom Aka Solemisation

 

Registry of Marriage 
http://app.rom.gov.sg/index.asp

Important to note for couple:
You need to file for notice of marriage. 
https://app.rom.gov.sg/efile/file_notice_marriage_step1a.asp 
Usually is 3 months before your marriage however if you solemisation outside ROM you need less than 3 months. Not to worry so much because your Justice of Peace ( JP) will inform you.

If you are like me who solemisation outside ROM, booking a JP is not as easy as what you think it will be . Especially those very popular ones.

For JP
http://app.rom.gov.sg/reg_info/rom_interpreters.asp
Do remember to
  1. Check with your Solemnizer on his/her:
    1. Language preference for solemnization
    2. Requirement(s) such as meeting up and/or pre-marriage preparation
  2. Invite your Solemnizer personally (third party such as a relative or wedding planner is not entertained)
  3. Note that your Solemnizer sacrifices personal time and efforts when he/she accepts your invitation to grace your joyous occasion as Guest-of-Honour. As a gesture of appreciation, please ensure that he/she is warmly received, entertained, and reimbursed for transport to and from your wedding venue.

Following are the popular JP . Keep seeing these JP names in forum and how eager every couples trying their best to get them to be their JP.

Dr Phua Tan Tee
( Only take up booking 3 months before your marriage and wont take any booking before that . I tried too many times. He is known to be very funny and can speak multi number of languages. )
Mdm Chia Swee Tin ( My JP )
( Her first impression given to me is that she is a very strict lady. But when you meet up with her, you will realised is a such a funny and approachable lady. She is very professional and someone you can look for about marriage consulting . Never regret to ask her to be my JP )
JP Chan Kai Yau 
( I think he is quite old but he is very friendly through the phone . He dont have a mobile and only take call from house. This is quite surprising. But abit worrying, as on the AD how to contact him )
JP Simon Sim
Dr Kwoh Chee Keong
JP Yeo Woon Soon
Prof Yu
JP Peter Lee Keok Boon
JP Patrick Tan
JP Koh Kok Weng
JP Chia Ti Yu
JP Eric Wong
JP Chung Tang Foong

Consent to Solemnise also need to give your JP to sign and be given to ROM a few days before your wedding date . That day also to collect your ROM cert and vow to be legally to be husband and wife. My wedding is on 9th dec 2012. I went down on 6th Dec 2012. There is a specific date and time given to you after you file for your notice of marriage.

 http://www.rom.gov.sg/reg_info/pdf/Consent_to_Solemnise.pdf


Hope the above information helps =) 

 



Signage, Balloons & Costume Rental

 
Signage 
Mbossed
email: ask@mbossed.com
mobile: 97822768 

Balloons
Bez Balloons Pte Ltd
http://www.bezballoons.com
No. 191, Ubi Avenue 4
Evan Lim Warehouse
Singapore 408799
Telephone:(65) 6749 2913
Yeo GM Trading 
http://www.yeogm.com.sg
Blk 1 Rochor Rd #01-550
Rochor Centre
Singapore 180001
(Next to DBS Bank, and Opp NTUC)
Tel: +65 6295 5545
 Balloon Barcon Specialties
http://www.balloonbaron.com.sg/
Blk 9008 Tampines St. 93
#04-47 Singapore 528843
Republic of Singapore
Opening Hours:
Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm
Saturday 9am to 12pm
Sunday & Public Holidays closed
Phone No. :
+65 6785 4929


 
 
Costume Rental  
Masquerade
http://www.masquerade.com.sg/
294A & 294B Lavender Street
Singapore 338807 
Boon Keng MRT exit C
Phone: 6292 4889




Wedding Websites

 

I guess many of you will know about website or forum where we can source all your wedding information. Here are some of the common ones. If any of you know of any other then these few. Do put a comment ^^

http://www.perfectweddings.sg

http://www.weddingforum.sg/

http://singaporebrides.com/cgi-bin/forumboard/discus.cgi

http://forums.cozycot.com/wedding/

http://forum.wedding-travel.com/

http://forums.onewed.com/

Happy clicking and sourcing ~

Instant Print & Photo Booth






 Instant Print Time

~ Oh one thing about wedding is entertaining your guests. Recently, I feel that instant prints and photo booths are like a must during wedding reception. Check out with your AD Photographer and Videographer on their packages. Majority of them will have an option to add in instant print or photo booth. I think mine is $300-$400 for my instant print with Frameswerks Company

The famous one that usually people will go for is live studio. Prices are not that popular . Haha
They are good at live projection on the projector screen once the pictures are taken. 

Their package

Photography & Instant  photocards  $2888
- 6 hrs of AD coverage
4hrs dinner banquet :
- 1 X Senior Photographer
- 1 X Graphic Assistant
- 2 X Photocard Printers
- Live Projection ( Excluded LCD Projector screen )
- 1 X Custom Logo  
- up to 600 photocards for the duration
- 1 X 2GB thumbdrive with all the digital photos.
Free 180 X 4R photo prints with slip-in album

Too lazy to type.... Below are screen shot from my phone =)


      
     

Fables Bridal

Come to think of it, I did not know why I end up sourcing for bridal shops at Malaysia. Maybe it just meant to be. My hubby stays and works at the north side. Thinking of traveling all the way down to Tanjong Pagar to where the most bridal shops located. In addition, he always go to Malaysia to pump petrol. Seriously traveling to Malaysia is must easier and faster. Most importantly, their package is so much cheaper !

In my previous post, Sg bridal, Venus, Enya Marine, D'Gio and Fables. Of course there are more bridal shops in Malaysia. These are the one I went before and enquire about their packages. Some are expensive, some are very pushy... All of them have their pro and cons. But i can assure you that their packages are cheaper compare to Singapore except for Enya Marine.

Before you decide on which bridal to choose, do drop down at their branch and try on their gowns. Seriously pre wedding gowns are not important. For Malaysia, they are super good at editing. Be it you are fat or thin, they can edit out the way you want it to be. AMAZING ! Haha. So, please try on their gowns and see whether you like their AD Gowns. And do ask them whether are these gowns premium , classic or dunno-how-they-name-them gowns. Just to ensure your package is what you want to sign up for. Not to worry, for malaysia bridal shops, are always change their photo scenes quite frequently.

Of all choices, why I end up choosing Fables. To me personally, Enya Marine and SG Bridal is not cheap. Enya Marine customise make gown for individual. Sg Bridal which my friend signed up. The photographer is very experienced and think is chief -dunno what rank. The price is not cheap. I find their gowns are just so so. D'gio i shall not mention much, sales consultants are unfriendly and very sales minded. I love Venus and Fables . I heard that one of the bosses are the same. Their styles are almost the same. However my hubby's friend took up Venus. Hence we choose Fables. Before choosing Fables, of course I make sure they have the types of gowns I like ^^

As I am doing Sales, I know signing up at wedding fairs or roadshows will be cheaper or better deals. After trying on their gowns at Fables and Alice ( Very customer service person ) told me more about their package. She is very nice to tell me that they are having roadshow in a few weeks time. I came back to Malaysia and go to the specific roadshow to sign up for their packages. Btw some of you may heard that signing up at Malaysia for bridal package, is actually taxable. However not to worry, they will give you a fake receipt and if the custom really check, just show them the fake receipt =)

 Me & Alice

My Package ( RM$4888 )
- 15" x 24" Big Albums x 02pcs (13 pages each/45 poses total) with  both metallic and crystalline effect-
- 8R Album (21 poses/duplicate from above)
- 11" x 14" Table top x 02 pcs
- 20" x 40" Chuang Tou Zhao with frame
- 12x30 in frame
- 30" x 50" big "Chuang Tou Zhao" without frame
- Big Poster 
- 4R  in silverprint  ( i tell them i dont want )
- DVD(45 selected photos with 2 songs)
- CDR with all 45 selected poses
- Studio and outdoor shoot ( 7 gowns )
- AD 4 gowns ( cos my rom same day )
- Grooms outfit to match all above 
- AD hand flower is included
- AD make up artist is not
- AD 2 small flower to pin on the groom suits
- AD bridal car and brother car decor  
 Online Friend Package (RM$8500 )
- 18" x 24" Big Albums x 02pcs (30 pages each/85 poses total) with  both metallic and crystalline effect-
- 8R Album (20 poses/duplicate from above)
- 11" x 14" Table top x 02 pcs
- 20" x 40" Chuang Tou Zhao with frame
- 30" x 50" big "Chuang Tou Zhao" without frame
- Canvas poster
- 4R (200pcs/20poses) in silverprint
- Customized guest book with photo
- DVD(40 selected photos with 2 songs)
- CDR with all 85 selected poses
- Photoshoot: 8 studio gowns, 2 outdoor gowns
- Grooms outfit to match all above
- Makeup and hairdo to match all above
- 5 indoor settings, 2 outdoor location (Desaru + Kota Tingi) 


I remember the number of pages and poses are lesser if you did not sign at roadshow. I not sure whether you can bargin . Of course do try. Was told not to mention about my package online but I dont care. Haha

Below are some of my Pre-Wedding Photo Shoots


Desaru 1 

 

 Desaru 2

 Desaru 3

 Indoor 1

 Indoor 2

 Indoor 3

 Indoor 4

Indoor 5

Frameswerks Photograhy & Videographer

Framewerks Photography 
www.framewerksphotography.com

Photograper

Hao Lun
9769 8219



Videographer 
Tommy
9751 7635


  

Instant Print Team
Caden


 
They specialise in wedding photography, lifestyle shoots, events and even babygraphy.  

Hao Lun is a very experience wedding photographer. His shots are very natural and you will simply amazed by all the shots that he took. Very friendly and approachable person . Most importantly, he can be super fun and crazy if you yourself and partner with the brothers and jie mei are super on. 


You can his works in their website and framewerks facebook. Do remember to click "LIKE" on their page !  





As for Tommy, i sign up with them early of the year and Tommy is still quite new. However both my hubby and  me take the risk to let them photograph and videograph our wedding. More than 6 months to our wedding dates, we been looking at Tommy video. He keep improving and now i dare to say he is very good * Thumb up for you.

See my next post . Will show you guys on his amazing works

Morning Highlights

http://vimeo.com/framewerks/kyoann

Proposal Video

http://vimeo.com/framewerks/kyoproposal

Childhood Montage

By Tommy too   

For Caden Instant Print part

My Wedding, the brothers and sisters are wearing sailor uniforms. At One Degree is very yacht and sea feeling. They are so nice and personalised the instant print for us. Btw this instant print size is credit card size . The quality is good and very clear.




Other Samples




 


Photography and Videography services and mobile photobooth + instant prints

What this includes:
1. 10 hrs of videography services
2. Express highlights to be played during evening banquet
3. Extended version of the wedding day's videos to be compiled into a DVD
4. A dedicated 'roaming' mobile photographer to capture group shots of guests
5. Unlimited copies of printed photo cards


As for their prices, it will be best to check out with them. They always have promotions and early bird deal ^^

What I suggest is if you love their pic and video, dont need to wait.


 JUST SIGN UP EARLY !


* Thanks for Zhi Hao and Colleen recommended Frameswerks Company to me.