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Sunday, July 5, 2009

Bridal studio ... Confirmed!

It was the Sunday before the start of our one-week leave. It was also the last day of the IT Fair and the last day of a bridal show exhibition (both were at Suntec). The plan for the day was:
  1. Pay a visit to the bridal show to see if we could finally get a deal on a bridal package
  2. Rush to the IT fair to get his and other people’s IT gadgets (And we had only 3 hours to spare between the bridal show and the IT fair)
  3. Rush off for his soccer training
Searching for a bridal studio (BS) is really a tiring and time consuming process. And most of the BS will be talking about the same thing as there is usually not much of a difference between the wedding packages that each offers. As each session with the BS stretched close to an hour (based on past experience from a 2-hr Bliss interrogation at Vivocity), it would not have been possible for us to cover all of them on that day. So prior to our visit I had already done some research and we decided to enquire with "The Aisle", "La Belle" and "Golden Horse Award" BSes only. Our selection was (mainly) base on the collection of gowns (and the groom's suit) and the photographic style (for the album). Of course, the price, extra perks and the customer service were also important factors.

We did manage to enquire with 3 BSes and it took us the whole afternoon. But instead of "The Aisle", we were pulled to "Thomson". Bob also had to skip his soccer session in the end and pang seh a bro who had came back from UK.. Luckily, it was not a futile experience during the bridal show so it wasn't a wasted trip for him. It was a tossup between "La Belle" and "Thomson". I was indifferent between the two but we signed a package with La Belle because Bob had preferred the design of their suits (he needs some attention too).

I hope we have gotten a good deal. The fact was that we did not even go down to La Belle's studio at Tanjong Pagar to view the gowns before we took up the package. But I thought their gowns should be fine based on what I had seen from their website and the albums that we saw at the bridal show.

Sonia

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