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Saving More Money For Your Wedding!Planning a Cheap Wedding? Here are 3 Ways You Can Do it Right
from janaka-rodrigue
Planning a cheap wedding also means minimizing the necessary wedding expenses. From my wedding planning experience, it is inevitable to spend on the rental of venue, wedding banquet, wines and so on.
It is not easy to list down what are the things you can save on and it can be a pain in the neck and a storm to test the will of the wedding couples before their big day comes. We will still do our best to plan a really affordable wedding but only to realise that we still exceed our wedding budget at the end of the day.
A moment ago, a friend of mine contacted me asking for advice for his wedding dinner location and after talking to him, I think I have helped him save more than S$500. It is definitely a good start.
In Singapore, we Chinese follow the Chinese custom and hold wedding banquet in a hotel or restaurant at night on the wedding day.
My friend Andrew has found a good deal for a hotel offering S$798 (nett price) per table (a table can seat 10 guests)
The dinner package also offers a complementary bottle of wine per table and 2 hotel rooms for the wedding couple.
From my experience, we do our best to make the necessary expenses free of charge so that we spend as little as we can so we can spend more for our honeymoon. LOL :p
So here is what you can do if you are still negotiating for a good deal for your dinner package.
1. Ask for a complimentary bottle of wine for every table. It can literally cut down hundreds of dollars off your wedding expenses.
2. Ask for a complimentary room for your helpers so they can spend the night in the hotel. It is also a way of saying “thank you” to your helpers.
3. Most hotels offer parking coupons for your guests. Normally hotels offer free parking coupons for 10 to 15% of all your guests. You can ask for another 10 to 15% more.
At the end of the day, you have to ensure your hotel business manager write whatever you have discussed in black and white so that you can have a copy of the contract too.
Staff turnover in hotels is possible and you may end up having a new business manager at the end of the day without you knowing and you may find yourself requiring to negotiate for all the deals all over again.
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Really it is very helpful idea and thanks for sharing it.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:47 pmLook for a photographer that sells their services through an A La Carte system. Photographers that sell their services through the use of packages often include a wedding album in their packages, thus forcing the client to purchase a wedding album, which of course raises the price.
Find a wedding photographer that sells their services A La Carte will allow you to book their services without the mandatory purchase of a wedding album. In fact, the photographer may allow you to purchase your album some time after your wedding is long over.
April 26th, 2009 at 9:52 amit’s great thanks for sharing…
May 28th, 2009 at 12:32 pmQuite right to ask for written proof of any deals done… Especially when the venue is often booked so far in advance of the day itself. Hand made wedding favours can help cut costs too, if you have the time.
June 21st, 2009 at 7:52 pm