Wedding dinner venue

It's confirmed! The wedding dinner will be held at Grand Corpthorne Waterfront (GCW). We went down to pay the deposit today. Of all the hotels we went to, I must say that the service provided by GCW (Manager, Mr Eddie Ooi) has been the most outstanding.

These details made all the difference:-

* offering us drinks and complimentary car park coupon vs offering us nothing even before we signed the contract.

* showing us the grand ballroom vs "there's currently a function in there" or "it's boarded up". (we came all the way to take a look! we would have come another time if it were so.)

* being very open to negotiations vs "it's not our policy" or "i'm sorry, that is not possible"

Edmund says these little details tells a lot about the corporate culture and I agree more and more!

Many weddings in 2009

Today the CPU gals went to Riders Cafe for our annual October rest month outing (this is the 2nd year running). We felt transported out of Singapore just being there!

I hear that there are more than 10 weddings happening in church next year. Just in the photo above, there are 4 of us girls getting married in 2009. 2009 seems like a baby-boom and wedding-bombs(?!) year! ;p

Bridal Magazines

Ivy passed me some really old foreign bridal magazines that belonged to Faith's sister-in-law from 2 to 6 years back. Noticed the dress-cuttings were a lot more conservative back then. Not so many low-backs/cuts like nowadays.

The foreign bridal magazines are so much nicer and worth looking at compared to our local ones. I'm glad for the advice given by 1 of the designers at the bridal studios I visited. She told me to look at foreign magazines cos our local magazines are:-

1. a bit back-dated (we copy the foreign magazines)
2. are very similar in content whether be it Female, Instyle, Her World, etc.