We informed our family & friends about the news & everyone is happy for us! :-) We also started our preparation in January with tonnes of activities in mind to do...
First on the list - Selection of Venues
We wanted an outdoor solemnisation so we narrowed down to locations like garden, beach & poolside. Debbie made the contacts with various locations & hotels to gather the quotations. Both of us also short listed 2 out of the 10+ quotations that Debbie got. Make a guess which is the 2??
They are Rasa Sentosa Resort & The Legend @ Fort Canning. Airrence went down to do site visit for these two places as Debbie is still in HK. After the viewing, Airrence made recommendation to Debbie & the results is....... Rasa Sentosa Resort! The reason is simple. That place is very special for both of us as we celebrated Airrence 2005 birthday in Sentosa & we joked about holding wedding at Rasa when we walked into the hotel for fun. So it's a joke that became true!
Second on the list - Bridal shops
Prior to shortlisting the bridal shops, Debbie have joined the wedding forums (see my favourite & highly recommended forum) to check out useful information.
- Style weddings @ http://www.styleweddings.sg/
- SingaporeBrides.com @ http://www.singaporebrides.com/cgi-bin/forumboard/discus.cgi?pg=topics
There are many interesting stuff like bridal shops, wedding favours, banquet, anything under the sky, etc... Sometimes you can really get good lobang from these forum... ;-) Well, Debbie also has made some friends from the forum & it's really fun!!
After reading & researching on the forums, we went to tanjong pagar to check it out!! The first shop that we went in is a expensive bridal shop & they are not keen to serve us as we did not make any prior appointment. Then we continue on to the second shop which is Sophia & we decided to sign up with them! Well this is the fastest decision that Debbie has ever made on the spot as we just started our 'shopping trip' and hasn't get enough pricing to compare... :-p
Anyway, what attracted us to sign up the package is becoz of the following :
1. Special discount & attractive price due to chinese new year promotion - so meet our budget!
2. Beautiful gowns - the friendly designer brought us into their VIP room where there are a lot gowns & we are impressed with the grand & wide range of gowns!
3. Photography/Album - we like the layout & photos, very natural & original!
4. Service - our coordinator has been quite helpful to our many requests, for eg the last min request of white suit for Airrence & extra set of flower girl & page boy clothes, etc
After we signed up with Sophia, Debbie is not convinced that we have the best deal in town, hence we continue on with the bridal shopping trip in Marina SQ and also Tanjong pagar.
The experience in Marina SQ was quite a bad one. The sales people there are pushy & all they care of is the package price that they can offer to u! When Debbie tried to ask whether can look at their range of gowns, they rejected & brush away saying they don't display their gowns to avoid competitor copying their design. Sigh.... Anyway, we also don't like their photo album too as too much computer graphic & they look fake. As for the bridal shops in Tanjong pagar, they are friendly but price wise are almost same as Sophia but their fitting room are much smaller.
Our wedding website
Debbie started to build a simple website for our invited guest to read about our love story & the wedding day details like time & location. They can also rsvp online & look at our photos. Do check it out at http://debbieandairrence.weddings.com/ and leave us a message on our guest book!!!
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