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I have the luxury of knowing the boss of my bridal studio and this makes the difference in terms of treatment from their employees.

I have heard of unfair treatment of “ordinary” clients just because of the lower value of bridal package they have paid.

It is not easy to tolerate this kind of treatment. It is going to make you feel from uneasy to angry to frustrated and eventually to helpless.

Wedding planning is supposed to be fun and things are supposedly to go along as plan. The professional bridal service providers are supposed to be professional enough to give the best customer service to any customer and at least treat them all equally.

These are all the assumptions before wedding planning. This is the kind of image portrayed by bridal magazines and tv commercials.

No one really knows that biasness still exist even between customers and bridal studio staff.

It literally means staff gives different service to different customers they are serving.

There are 7 pointers to take note even before signing on the dotted line:

1. Sales person is not the same as those coordinators who will eventually serve you.
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With average wedding costs hovering around $20,000, many newlyweds start their lives together in debt. Fortunately, it doesn?t have to be that way. It is possible to save money and have a great wedding at the same time. Check out these tips for keeping your wedding day focused on celebrating love, not financial ruin.

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Every bride wants to look like a million bucks on her wedding day. Very few actually want to spend that much. Here?s how to look great without busting your budget.

Avoid buying a ?wedding? dress: Check out bridesmaid, prom, and department store dresses. You may be able to find a dress that just happens to be white at a fraction of the cost. You?ll do even better if you?re looking for a dress in off-white, champagne, or another color.

Wear someone else?s gown: Ask your mother, grandmother or other family member if she?ll let you wear her dress. She will be honored that you asked, and you can?t get cheaper than free. Remember, though, that you will probably need to have it altered.

Shop sample sales: You can score a designer dress for less if you hit sample sales, especially if you wear a size 8 or something close to it. Sales are usually held during the winter and summer months.

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Yesterday I was speaking to one of my good friends who is getting married next year.

She will be signing up for the wedding package in one of the local hotels.

The price per table is currently at about S$800 plus.

I was going through some of the must-do stuffs with her so that she will benefit more from the contract.

These very powerful tips I am going to share with you has saved me at least S$1000 or even more.

I have this belief that hotels are there to eat us, the small consumers and thus, we have to play hard to avoid being bullied in some sense. Anyway, we are paying at least S$20,000 for our wedding banquet.

I’m sure we are already considered very mild in our negotiation compared to some corporate business managers who are so well-trained in their negotiation skills.

I do work with corporate partners before and you should see how sharp their tongues were. They were soft, graceful and gentle in their bargaining skills and the sales person attending to them had no choice but to say yes to every one of their requests.

And they always send in the Miss Pretty and Mr Handsome to do the negotiation so that they can use their physical appearance to break the wall.

Alright, let me do a quick summary of what I had told her so that you can benefit as well:

7 Must-Know Before You Sign the Wedding Contract

1. Whatever agreed terms that are not in the contract, please request the hotel staff attending to you to write them in the contract and counter sign.

Turn-over rate in hotel staff is high and is common to have a different coordinator attending to you after a few months have passed. I have mine changed 3 times.

Thus to avoid yourself getting into a difficulty spot to explain again, get the current hotel coordinator to counter-sign so that there will be no question ask in the future.

2. Verbally clarify any issue that you are unclear.

Don’t assume as it is. Contract is one funny piece of paper where the power of English comes into play. And only those who know the game can win.

The words may appear as they are but can have another definition, according to the hotels.

For example, if the contract states “day rental of helper’s room”, don’t assume that their day is 24 hours or as in 1 whole day. Check with them what the hotel means.
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Recently, I sent out an email to my readers asking them about the biggest headache they are experiencing while planning their weddings.

I have quite a number of replies and I have taken out the 5 most common biggest headaches wedding couples are experiencing so that we all can learn from their experiences.

I would like to stress that no name is mentioned to protect the identity of the wedding couples.

Headache 1: “My husband can’t seem to be bothered by the wedding planning and I feel so lost. He didn’t even stay with me during the trying of wedding gowns. I don’t even know if he is the right one for me.”

It sounds real bad. Most of the times, ladies just need the reassurance that they look good in their new wedding gowns. It is their first experience and we are all excited over our first time. Who is not?

In addition to that, it is the companionship of someone important to the brides and the process of enjoying the wedding gown selection together.

For guys, they are more goal-oriented and that makes the difference in their shopping styles. They only visit a mall when they know what to buy and where they can find what they want. They go into the mall, grab the items, pay for them and leave.

Ladies like to hang around the malls, try the items if their are clothings, walk around to other malls and talk about their buying experience.

Headache 2: “The biggest problem I’m facing now is the number of tables I need to standby for my wedding dinner and how much money I need to standby for the bandquet just in case I need to fork out any.”

It seemed to me that the number of extra tables is hard to guess. This may arise due to indecisiveness of parents as well as the in-laws on who to invite.

Even for me, my in-laws were not even sure till the last few weeks before our wedidng day. On my side, my mother had to make do with what had been planned by not inviting her friends.

What we had done at that point in time is to give a rough gauge and make do with it.
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Thinking that you have a load of dates to remember for your work, there are more to come.

Wedding planning is a mega project with a massive number of dates to remember.

If you do not have a diary to record the dates and you do not want to forget any of the following important dates, I suggest you stop reading right now and go get a personal wedding diary.

I remembered right after the proposal, a date has to be set aside to talk to my wife’s mother so as to tell her the good news.

Right after that throughout the wedding plannng phase, there were endless number of dates to set aside to visit the many bridal studios, the hotels, the photographers and the videographers, to carry out the customary wedding practice and to renovate the bedroom.

Even though it may be convenient for the wedding couple to take the easy way out to discuss over the phone or to sign the contract right at the bridal exhibition, it may not be so ideal in the long term.

Recently, I got an email from a bride telling me that she changed her bridal studio and she lost her thousand dollars deposit.

The bridal studio was a reasonably popular one but the experience she had with them was so bad and really pissed her off such that she had to forgo the deposit she had with them.
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