Wedding of my dreams

I have always wanted my wedding to be this way or that way. Its a once in a life time thing, gotta do it in the grandest and finest way.

My fiance and i almost selected a house in Clementi. They only had 01-606 and 02-606. We went to recee the place with my dad and realised that the place really looked not bad. But it cost $480k and $478k respectively.

Then we also realised we need to come up with 5% cash to HDB, 20-30k for renovations. If we wanna settle for a 2nd hand flat, 10% cash, 2% agent fee cash…etc

I begin to have a change of mindset. Yes, wedding its a once in a lifetime thing but its for a one night. But the money we need for the house is for the next 20- 30yrs of our lifes.

So i feel that i dun need an extra extravagant wedding. Just something simple and memorable.

My plans is to have our solemnisation first and not panic and gotta rush through a wedding when we found a house of our choice. And wedding dinner next year.

My mother in-law initially suggested restaurant. And i cant exclude all her sisters and brothers. She has 4 sisters and 3 brothers. Not including their children. And not even including my relatives, since she wanna invite her siblings.

So never in my dreams will i picture myself have 78 guest to invite for my ROM. Then i had to search for a place big and affordable enough to hold 70 pp.

At first my aunt found out that yacht club is good place but the price for ROM is not suitable but we saw that the wedding package looks good and started having the idea of having our dinner there.

Cos its our dream to have a beach concept wedding.

But the max is 25 tables and the rest will be outdoor.

I was peeved when my mother inlaw wanted to add 2 more tables. One of her workers who she claims wun give ang bao and i still gotta invite their husband and children.

And gd friend and husband . and neighbour. I was almost pulling my hair out. Why do we have to invite so many pp that is not even directly involved in our lives?

Esp the table that wun give ang bao!

So i asked Suntec and Legends fort canning. I arranged to meet them aug so that i can meet Yacht club first and have them as back up plans. They were very nice and were willing to meet me in aug and not this month.

But after some negotiation with yacht club, we found out that we could squeeze 30 tables. Just a few will be outdoor and rain will be a hassle.

I landed with Aloha Changi for ROM and managed to get a good offer.

My mother in-law says too far…too inaccessible. Somehow she was able to come around the idea and was game for it.

Then it was my dad, he says how come so far, no bus, no wine, no champange, food like for cocktail.

I explained that i have placed shuttle bus schedule in invitation card. We cannot afford wine and COme ON! its just ROM. And for food, of cos its like cocktail.

Then i told him of our plans to hold out dinner at a yacht club. He says too far ….blah blah blah.

I told him we are meeting the pp at Yacht club on sat and he can question them as much as he wants. Cos we really liked the place and the price that was given.

He recommended Bliss Garden at Expo. I browsed the internet page and found that the prices were ok. called the person in-charge and was told that i better meet her this week and if i meet her next week, she cannot promise the date will still be available. She kept repeating this sentence on and on. She was very pushy

I told her i can only meet her next week. She repeated that sentence again…if you meet next week i cannot promise the date will still be…

I got pissed. I told her, why cant she plan a date to meet first, if by then really someone esle already booked the place, then SO BE IT.

Then she said she is just trying to let me know and repeated the sentence again…if you meet next week i cannot promise…

If i can see her, i wanted to slap her right there! What i think is that probably she has no business. Then i ask her," so anyone booked already." she says,"oh many."

What crap. if so many then arrange to meet me for what?

Even though Suntec and Legends are not our first choice they are not as pushy as this woman. if i really settle for Bliss Garden…will really give this woman a piece of my mind.

I read some blogs on bridal shops with ah meng looking uncles who are pushy and ah lian looking aunties who show you face if you dont wanna accept their offers.

I never knew i will end up facing the same kind of pp at a Banquet facility.

Stay tuned for more…….