10.00am - Collected my wedding car, a Porsche Cayenne from EUROKARS.

4.00pm - Went to Mariott Hotel to oversee the partial stage setup by Jason and his team.

5.30pm - Collected wedding bouquet, corsages PLUS wedding car decor.

6.45pm - Fetched Juffri from his office. He’s the driver for the wedding car.

7.30pm - Had dinner at Bugis.

8.30pm - Juffri drove me home.

Received a call from Jean, telling us that the garlands are ready for collection. Immediately, we went down to Vanda Win Trading… the garlands were fantastic and I thought they did a very good job. Can’t wait to see it up on the stage backdrop.

After Ju’s facial, we went down to Verge (former Tekka Mall) to source for flowers for our stage decor. In the end, thanks to Jean from Vanda Win Trading, we managed to get her designer to do up 2 sets of rose garlands for the decor. She will give us a call once it’s ready.

I received an email follow by a call from Jane, Simply Flowers. She asked me how much I paid for my stage backdrop…and apparently she had a couple who will be having their wedding (at Conrad) 1-2 weeks after ours… and she hoped to re-use back then same backdrop. i.e She wanted to co-share the cost of our backdrop. I told her frankly that I paid about $600+ for it …and guessed what … She said she will pay $300 and I pay $300. Even a kid will know it doesn’t make sense at all. The $600 I am paying cover transportation, manpower, material etc… Does that mean her transportation and manpower will be FOC?

I told her it’s impossible and even Jason thought she must be joking. In the end, she did not accept the re-quote that Jason has given her.

As we are running short of time, I thought we should just have a simple stage backdrop for the runway. My friend Eric Ong recommended me to Jason from House of Props, and he immediately knew what I had in mind. Based on my idea and mock up to him, he actually improved and suggested some options.

As the backdrop may look very plain, I thought of putting up some flowers/leaves on the side… and to keep the cost down, I decided to source it out on my own.

Today’s our Betrothal Day a.k.a “Guo Da Li”, a day where the groom’s family will present the first gift (grand gift) to the bride’s family. We went ahead with the chinese tradition even though Ju’s not a pure chinese.

Our gifts to the Bride’s family

Bride’s family will give back some of the gifts + the daughter….HAHA

I finally received an email reply from Jane:

“Sorry to keep you waiting … here is the style that I have came up for you ….
Something clean, need with lots of candles ,vases on acryllic stands … the cost is $1500 .. Pls advise if is ok for you

With Regards!
Jane Lim”

And guessed what, this was what I received from her:

Honestly, I wasn’t very happy with what I have seen. It’s a once in a lifetime event, and you expect me to pay so much for such a quality and how do you expect someone to visualize your concept with just a couple COPY & PASTE images on a powerpoint slides….I was totally disappointed!

Anyway, after a few emails with her, I decided not to engage her service.