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Let me bring you for a wedding tour to Tanjong Pagar Road. When people talk about this place, people are immediately reminded of the nurmerous wedding studios that sprawn the area.

You can view the map here?at streetdirectory.com (For Bridal studios’ web sites, go here.)

It was my first time there and I’m stunned by the numerous wedding studios along the road. There are two lanes. Finish walking along one lane, cross over to the other. There are plenty of wedding studios to shop around and hunt for the best deal for your wedding day.

There the more popular?wedding studios?like Santiago and Frederick Bridal. There are other smaller studios, some of them with names unheard of.

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Last Friday, we scouted for another shop which specialises in selling kua. It took us half-an-hour to locate the shop. It is along Singapore, 86 Tanjong Pagar Road. It was not obvious if you scan across from the opposite shopping lane. It was only when we crossed the road and walked to right in front of the shop, then only we could identify it was the shop.

?It is called “House of Etiquette”. It sold and rent Chinese wedding Kua. So far, I think it is the only shop that does that.

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Double joy ??stickers will be placed on all wedding items such as the betrothal gifts, dowry, the couple?s toiletries and cosmetics. The bridal room furniture, especially the mirror and cupboards will also be decorated with the double joy or other wedding paper cutouts such as pairs of mandarin ducks, dragon and phoenix, etc. Such red wedding paper cutouts will also be put up on the main door, bridal room door and generally around the house.

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A good fortune woman will install the bridal bed in the bridal room up to 12 days before the wedding day on an auspicious date. New red or pink bedsheets are used and a plate of dried longans, lotus seeds, red dates, persimmons, sprig of pomegranate leaves together with 2 red packets are placed on the bed. A pair of bedside lamps is lit to symbolize adding sons to the family.

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The bride?s parents may include the bride’s dowry with the return gifts on the day of betrothal or deliver the dowry a few days before the wedding. The chinese dowry typically include

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