1. Venue
Make sure it fits your invitees. Remember, too big or too small is never a good thing.
Some points you have to take into consideration before choosing the perfect venue:
a. outdoor venue is not a perfect choice for a wedding during the rainy season;
b. sufficient parking lot for your guests;c. have several make up rooms; and
d. strategic location and your guest wont be stuck in traffic jam for hours just to get there.
Our choice was Masjid Pondok Indah…highly recommended! Good price, well organize management, complete facilities, lots of parking lot and strategic (since we both stays in Bintaro)…perfect for a 300 guests wedding reception.
Guess what, it also has a good landscape and lighting so your photos would look great!!!
2. Caterer
The caterer would be the number 2 high priority after the venue. Book a caterer way before your wedding, if necessary a year before…their price will increase every end of year. By booking early, the new price may not apply to your wedding.You really have to underline bold and italic your budget to the caterer and be persistent in requesting compliments.Our choice was Resti Catering.
The main reason was the owner is a good friend of Mr.D’s family, so we got a really good price and lots of compliment.
One of my favorites was the old school bicycle accessorised with flowers and fruits (free fruits!! Yeaaayyy…).
Most of our guest’s testimony : THE FOODS WERE DELICIOUS…so we need to say no more.
And oh…the service was satisfying and their decoration was nice.
3. Decoration
With reference from several wedding magazines, I we decided to design the decoration ourselves. Luckily, we found a perfect man to do the job with a very very veryyyy low budget, namely Pak Parmin. He handled our flower decoration and added torches for the entrance doors (he also gave me a free hand bouquet with my favorite flower: Stargaze).
For the traditional decoration, we got a generous donation from a close friend of Mr.D’s family who owns a Makassar wedding pelaminan and she’s quite famous for that. Her name is Tante Aseng (her name is all over certain wedding magazines).
4. Souvenir
Our ‘do-it-yourself’ souvenir was complimented by most of our family and friends. We bought the candies and biscuits at the traditional market, bottles from chemical store at Pasar Mester and colorful ribb
ons at Pasar Majestik.
Its colorful and perfect most importantly: CHEAP, just the way we want it…
5. Make Up
Here’s my favorite, the make up stylist…her name is Chocky (don’t mind the name, she’s great), owner of a small beauty salon in Bintaro.
She managed to change my look from Sunda-look-a-like for akad to a Makassar bride for the reception. The make up was not too much but it still look great for the camera.
6. Photographer
Me and Mr.D loves candid pictures since we’re so not good for the ‘1..2..3..click’ pictures. That’s our basis to find our photographer. However, we would not highly recommend ours. You see, the owner is a great photographer. He captures the moment perfectly. His business is growing and now he doesn’t do wedding photography himself. He sent his assistant instead and his assistant obviously had no idea what we wanted. We didn’t like almost all the pictures…regrets..regrets ooohhhh…
Fortunately, my brother took the initiative to take our pictures and he did great!!! Good news is, he is now doing business in photography, including wedding photography. For any pictures reference, please visit his facebook page or here.
7. Invitation
With a very close negotiation, we successfully got a hard copy and self-design invitation with a price below Rp5,000. How bout that?Please do not hesitate to contact Mba Asri from Aneka Grafika, Pasar Tebet…
We also got a compliment of Thank You card and Souvenir card. In addition to that, we also got a Guest Card as a substitute of Guest Book for a very low price. Very happy!!!
8. The Bride’s Dress
For some reason, I made my bride’s kebaya 2 weeks before the big day. I only have a short list of tailors and I have no idea what the kebaya would look like with the time constraint. I have an issue with tailor, I don’t trust them…they always ruin my imagination on what kind of kebaya that I want.
tampak depan dan belakang
Based on a quick reference, I found Mba Teeas. She agreed to finish the kebaya 2 days before the big day and she did!!! *standing ovation*
It was a very pretty kebaya with lots of white beads and fits me perfectly.
Her boutique is located in Pondok Indah, her neighbor is Ahmad Dhani and Mulan lives across *info ga penting hehe*
9. Pre Wedding Pics
We're not a fan of pre wedding picture, but we surely are a fan of Gratisaaaannnn...^.^
Jadi wajar dong waktu ada temen nawarin foto buat portofolionya kita ga bakal mikir dua kali.
Untungnya teman kita si Ficky Reinanto ini, sangat memahami kelakuan kita yang ga suka diatur buat foto, gatau malu dan ga suka make up hehe...
Hasilnya: memuaskaaaannn...
So that’s our short review on the vendors, we could not mention all since we forgot the details already hehe…so, for query or contact no of the vendors, feel free to ask.
The forever newlyweds,
Me and Mr.D
