Saturday, November 15, 2008

Our ROM plan

We were late with our ROM filing and 22nd Dec 08 was full. Without knowing any solemnizer, in desperation we book with LoveThatBinds @ Acte d'Amour http://www.lovethatbinds.com/ Price is $288 + $26 (filing) for half hour. Don't think it's a good deal, but we were desperate lol.

We decided it'll be a pretty rush event and wanted to keep it simple, so only 2 immediate family members are invited. Booked 2 rooms with Furama City View for Agnes family, and Zeek parents choose a Chinese resturant in Grand Plaza Park hotel for the lunch.

For the ROM gown, we choose Bridal Closet (http://bridalcloset.multiply.com/). Elsie offers really good, honest and friendly service. Help us choose the gown, accessories and even reminded us what else we'll need to do or get. She assigned Cleo to be our MUA, whom seems to be very responsible. She requested for Agnes recent photos and the gown she'll be wearing. We joined the $199, but added $40 to upgrade to a bridal gown. These are just some quick shots, Agnes does look sleepy after work, but it's mainly due to not wearing her contact lens^^;


We managed to get the bridal shoes from OG at 20%. U.P. $69 from ViVie. It's simple and matches ivory white gowns. Most importantly Agnes feels comfortable in them.^^


For our ROM photographer, we ran into some trouble. The original one seems to be busy with his full time job and since ours is on a Monday, can't really bother friends. The lucky is clubsnap has an experienced AD photographer for budget couples. They are a couple team called Shoe-String Wedding Photography. They charge $100 for 2 hours, but you'll only get the softcopies. http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/showthread.php?t=441307

Our hand bouquet we managed to order from Rasing Star Flora Creation near our home. It'll be with 2 bears, 3 roses and small flowers. Paid $30 for self-collect.

And for the most important item, our wedding band. After looking around various jewelry shops, we finally decided on Meyson. The wedding bands are more to what we are looking for and value for money.


Now just hope 22nd Dec 2008 will be smooth sailing^^

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Search for overseas photography

We wanted our pre-wedding photos to be special, yet didn't want to spend too much. Taiwan and Korea were some of our choices in the begining. That's till we stumple upon someone in Malaysia went to LiJiang for photos. We were drawn to the idea instantly. Beautiful scenery that you can't get in Singapore or Malaysia.

This set our research on photography in LiJiang, then set our sights on these bridal studios;
http://www.ffei.com.cn/
http://www.v2.net.cn/
http://www.angel-de-art.com/Index.asp

V2 is one of the leading BS in China but is more expensive. We couldn't get much feedback on ffei so we weren't comfortable with it. Angel-de-art didn't reply our email when we asked if we can set off from Singapore. Also we'll need travel a long journey to get there, was kinda put off by it.

So we hunt around HK forums for other ideas and found that quite a number of HK couples goto Shenzhen for photos. Our impressions were Shenzhen where got good places for photos. But we were very wrong. After visiting a few Shenzhen BS websites, we found our new hope.

The fact that there were quite a few feedbacks of happy HK couples gave our confidence. They are really cheap compared to local BS. A 8000 RMB package can give us stuffs that BS in SG or MY charges for S$3.5k/RM8k. Add 2500 RMB to the budget you're likely to own a wedding gown and a suit. 10500 RMB less than S$2.3k/RM5500

Best thing is you'll get to go shopping in Shenzhen and Hongkong. So it's like a shopping holiday cum photo shoot. Also the fact there're budget airlines around, air tickets and hotel for 2 likely set u for less than S$1k per trip.

I'll leave you with some choices we had shortlisted;
http://www.vinsy.com/ (Vinsy)
http://www.szmcyx.com/ (曼城)
http://www.3vwed.com/ (3V)
http://www.pakchee.com/ ( 栢芝)
http://www.love-99.com/ (麦田)
http://www.szsese.cn/ (色色)