Q. How much did your wedding cost?

Mine cost me about 4,500/- :D it's a one day wedding. yippie.

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Invitation card:

I was gonna go far Irfanisa Card, she's such a nice person to talk to. but i had issues with a dinner wedding package with Samar which comes with a wedding invatition card. So, by the time i cancel with Samar restraunt (and lost my deposit) it was too late for her to print out the cards.

so instead i had fun desigining and making my own invitation cards. since i only need about 100 cards. i bought at a bookshop in Bras basah think 2nd floor, right facing the escalator after got up to the 2nd floor. The shop sells interesting invitation cards, and some ribbons. It's not saga city or Art friend. It was newly open at the time i was looking around for materials to print my cards. so i fond this Hallmark special package kit, which comes with ribbons and translucent paper and a good quality paper to print you stuff on. it comes in 10 pieces each pack. so i got 2 diff design, 5 packs each. then i got some special perfume paper form popular bookshop and use that for the inside instead. i made some personal changes to the card and wallah....i got my personalise card. Everyone loved it. and i had fun making it with my mum and my husband.
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Catering:

got nasi briyani and some other dishes form Masakan Shaik Sabri (Jaan) and decor form hrmm, can't remember think was from him as well. not sure. have to check again.

http://www.mss3015.com/
We didn't do a buffet. we did a personal serving for each guest.

The food is really really good. i can't hilight it more. really good. !! and was no problem with the service, but we had a minor hickup with the tent and gazebo guys. but was sorted out.

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Decor:

i had the white wedding kinda thing, with flowers on the table and a tent gazebo thing at the garden area of my house.

Decor was ok overall but 2 things were quite disappointing. The 'pelamin' which i din't want to start with (my mum thinks tht it was essential) anywyas..i had the kinda 'perlamin' which was cool i think. and i thought the decor people understood the design of it and the fresh flowers decor on the table was quite disappointing. i could have done it myself and got some fresh flowers at the market and would have turned out much better. and cost lesser.

The flowers behind the tie back of the cair wasnt even the one that i showed them on their catalogue. it came out as a ribbon kinda thingi, which t hey later console me that it the new type blah blah... and the pelamin..same as well....they say they can take it down and all, coz the 'type' that i want they couldn't make it.

So be very careful with your decor guys. make sure you have everything in writing and with pictures as well. so they can;t say they didn't know. well, lucky the rest of the stuff they didn't stuff up.

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music:

i got my laptop, played all the songs that i have already selected, and wired a few speakers around the garden and the inside of the house.

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Wedding dress:

Oh the clothes are very interesting, i got one tailored just 2 days before my wedding, at the Malay village at geylang, there is this chinese tailor which is facing the main road beside a beauty spa. it a really good tailor and fits me perfectly. S$150 it's the type you find in the malay wedding magazine. lace type. nicee..

And for my husband, i bought a simple malay Baju Kurung, very nice material, and got a songket material to match with mine. My mum made the tanjak for him.

another one of my dress for nikah i designed it up myself for both my husband and for myself. and i got somone to tailor it in Melbourne. it was embroidered as well with some sequins. And the material looks like semi matt silky. very nice.

another last one is an indian dress which is bought in melbourne as well.Gorgeous black. got it altered to fit me. all of the clothes was less than
S$500.

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Accessories:

i went around and got the broaches and shoes that i want. And the veil. I bought some books on how to tie up the hijab for special occasion and weddings, like how the mak andam does it. And practice it a few time by myself. It makes much more sense for me to purchase them than getting it form a bridal boutique, coz it's slighty cheaper, and i can actually own them and wear them again for other occasion.

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Make -up and hair cut:
I didn;t hire a mak andam. (like the make up artist and the person who will be there to make sure you look the best in your clothes, and does touch up through the wedding)

I got my make-up done and my hubby got his hair cut at the same place. I recommend this place highly for Hair cut. It's call Tresses at 26 Bussorah street. (Arab street) The guy is call Omar. He also got me someone who can do my make up as well. although i still didn't like my make-up looks at first. it was much better after a few hours when the make-up settle down. So don't do you make up thick. i actually took off most of the foundation after the nikah.

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Nikah & dinner veneu:

I had my nikah at the mosque, Masjid Omar Kampung melayu. it's the Oldest mosque in Singapore, and i like how simple the place look, nothing glamorous about the mosque.

We got some children from Darul Ihsan Orphanage. They came for our nikah and had dinner afterwords.

As for the dinner...i actually wanted to do it in Samar restraunt. at Arab street. Sfter i put down the deposit...i didn't see how the manager was committed in the things she said she will do. at first i got them to do the invitation card, and it came out really bad. so i cancel it. There was other signs that sugest that they won't be able to carry out their promises. I lost my deposit as a result of cancelation ( which i think i should get back since there wasn't any conformation or a contract conformation signed which was in the agreement.) I didn't bother to fight for my deposit. i was too busy to get a few hundred dollars back.

So we held the dinner at my house instead.
I was surprise to get a full attendance actually for my wedding.


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Photography:

I wanna add that some Malay wedding photographer treated me quite unprofessionally. Maybe they think that i was probably joking or wasting their time, and lastly..that i should have done this 1 yr back. They didn;t wana show me proper samples from the photographer who will be assigned to do my wedding.

So i had enough of that and looking into non- muslim/ malay wedding photographer.

i found this awesome guy. i'm a fussy one when it comes to photography. so i looked through all the photographers i can find and assess them through the kinda photography which i like. i didn't need the kinda photography packages which most photographers are offering, like the special graphic effect photoshoped edited kinda thing. (coz that's just cheating in my opinion and layout weren't to my taste, being a designer myself) Anyways i want a photograph to capture the moment of the event, so i got this guy call Eu Lee. He's the best person i dealt with compared with everyone that i tried to hire. Professional, straight forward..and no sneaky, tricky hidden cost. in total $S1000 for photography.


http://www.photographybyeulee.... <--his website

we didn't have any videos. We're not into videos.


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Wedding favours, 'Berkat':

oh and the wedding favours 'Berkat". that was awesome as well. i had 3 types, lol. i'm a sucker for giving people stuff.

One of my friend introduce me to this gal call Ayu who does these cute cupcakes.

e-mail : opera98@hotmail.com
i can't remember her website. :S

so these are for the kids and orphan who came for the wedding.

and for the adults i got a small bottle of perfume from a shop at Golden Landmark, 2nd floor. There this small shop facing the staircase entrance towards masjid sultan. he sells items from the middle east. and he sells those kinda perfumes where he will mix it up for you.
can;t remember how many i got, but it's about S$2- S$2.50. it comes with the little bag and a ribbon. Later after i bought it, my brother told me that i could have check out another place at Bussorah street right at the corner where all the coffee shops are. there one perfume shop there.

another 'berkat' i bought was at Joo chat complex. dono which floor. was one of the hidden tiny cramp shop which doesn't look like much and i went into the tiny. cramp shop and saw this wooden like (actually clay) rounded 6cm X 6cm x 6cm vase/ container. with lovely design carving, 'ukiran' on it.

again can't remember how many i bought.

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Henna:

My friend introduce me to this lovely gal who did my henna. no fuss. Also straight forward in dealing with her. she came did her work paid her and it's done. i looked up a few design and i gave it to her before i confirmed that i was gonna take her as my henna artist. She said she can, and she did. an Awsome job. S$120

Hayati: http://www.sito.org/cgi-bin/eg...
http://jewelhenna.multiply.com/

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After all of these expenses i got some left over cash which i wanted t go to Bintan island for a 3 days 2 night stay at Banyan tree resort.

but i didn't get to go there some problems with my husband's passport.

Instead we invested our money on a stock market. it's doing really well.

So..we had our small little honeymoon when we're back in Melbourne. every few monts, we'll get away somewhere. and this month we're goin to India and Kashmir. woohoo.


So I hope this info helps for other people planing on their wedding. I took 2 months to plan and research while i was in Melbourne and i met up with people to really check them you and put deposits within 3 weeks when i was there in Singapore.

I couldn't have done it without my Mum and Dad of course. I'm not that super woman.
;)