Trophies..

Just how many hotels can a couple hit in a single day? I think we might have hit a national record of 11 on a single Saturday...

Well, on the right is a display of the trophies collected from our Amazing Race so far. Can you count how many hotels that we've visited based on the wedding package brochures collected so far? hehehe..

Some of these brochures are really nice, like the ones from Grand Hyatt or Marriott..while the rest are just photocopied Word documents. And this is not related to the cost of the banquet. For example, the Conrad Centennial just prints out some wordings on hotel letter head, while Amara or even Holiday Inn Park View has some thoughtfully designed ones. Not that it really matters in our choice of the location, but it does feel better to have traveled all the way, and procure a shiny nice package instead of a haphazardly-stapled stack of wordy A4 sized paper.

Personally, my vote goes to Grand Hyatt for the best presentation. I've picked out the top 3 for display..hehe. Which is your favourite?



P.S. Damn! After arranging out everything nicely, I forgot to slot in 2 more from Holiday Inn and Swissotel Merchant Court!

Pictures Pictures - The Nest!

IR & GST

Obstacle 2- Inflation Rate & Great Singapore Tax

Does it ever occur to you that inflation rate and GST will affect the banquet rates? It doesn't hit me so hard till recently when I started to look for wedding packages.

Personally, i think is Mad! Why are banquets so expensive nowadays?

Sad :( It seemed almost impossible to book "THE Ballroom"... :(

So how much do you normally give as ang bao amount?
A) $0 - You must have hated the couple who invited you a lot....
B) $60 - The poor couple would most probably in great debt if they have a lot of friends like you...
C) $80 - Depending on the hotel chosen, some couples would have survived with this, or some could be bleeding in silent.
D) $100 - Nice Figure. It should cover most of the hotels base cost
E) $120 - Most of the couples would thank you for your contribution in their fund raising event to make up the losses incurred.

Haiz.. In general, don't underestimate the banquets cost. Do your dear friends a favour. lallalaaalala. mumble mumble..

Amazing Race Obstacle Course

Obstacle Course 1 - Dates!!!!
Why is it that Singaporean are so KiaSu? Don't they have anything better to do than booking their banquet dates 1.5 yr in advance with the hotels?
Why the ancients invent this 通胜 thing? This thing simply complicates the whole process of date selection....
Now my wedding date is getting more n more flexible, it ranges from June 2008 to end of 2009..

And its not so much of a choice, its more of the best combination of digits that fit in all criterias.

Hotels Amazing Race

We started the hotels amazing race.... The grand prize of this is a decent, "grand looking hotel", within budget of $1000 and offers "high class" food such as garoupa and yam paste with ginko nut(orrrr niiii).

The story goes on with more pictures. Stay tuned...

包菜花(Cabbage Flower) - Proposal flowers

Quite unique right...Special thanks to the friend who prepared this. (*Its cute lar*)