Changi Airport Crowne Plaza Site Visit

The open house at Changi Airport Crowne Plaza Hotel was an excellent one. The ambiance was fabulous and we immediately decided to hold our ROM there after being showed the function room. As it was pretty crowded that day, we did not meet up with any sales consultant. Therefore, Juliana and I decided to send an email to schedule for an appointment on other days.

Emails after emails, followed by phone calls after phone calls, there was no reply as promised by the sales consultant whom I spoken to. I became impatient as we have only four months left to our big day and our venue has yet to confirm. I became very frustrated and decided to send an email to any Crowne Plaza personnel I see in my email. I saw the confirmation email sent by a representative for the open house and immediately 'shoot' an email to her. This is what I wrote:

Hi there, 

I have tried numerous attempts to make an appointment to discuss on my solemnization but no one replied. 
From the wedding show, I understand that there is vacancy for my ROM to hold there.(23 Sep 13)
As it was too crowded that day, I did not speak to any of the sales rep. 
Therefore, I would like to make another appointment. I spoke to one of your staff (I can't remember her name) recently and she said she will inform the sales consultant and will get back to me via phone or email. 
However, I received none! No phone calls or emails. I am becoming very frustrated. It seems like you guys are not interested at all. 
Please get back to me ASAP. 

Regards
Ruiz

Few days later, Alina, the main wedding sales consultant replied and an appointment was scheduled right away. During that appointment, I was showed the poolside and garden ROM location. Both locations are beautiful but I preferred the poolside (I think Juliana will agree with my choice as she's unavailable due to work). What surprised me was that a function room will be reserved for us in case of wet weather. Other than that, we were even offered a one night stay in their deluxe room. I am totally satisfied with the solemnization package offered. 

With the venue confirmed, I can now relax a little and planned for other things for our special day. 
Here's what I envisioned my ROM to be:
The guests start coming in to the reception area and well-dressed for the event. They will be offered to take polarite pictures with us while holding a huge heart-shaped prop labelled, "Ruiz and Juliana ROM" as a gift. While waiting, a reception video montage of us will be shown. After the solemnizer has arrived, we will move to the poolside for the commencement of our ROM. The bride will be coming in to the place later accompanied by her dad before handing Juliana's hand to me... Commencement of solemnization. After that, lunch will followed. End. 

According to my Gantt chart, things are still in line. Now, I'm looking for a professional photographer to take down the beautiful event of ours. 

Our Pre-wedding Photoshoot with Style Bridal

We signed a $3888 package with Style Bridal at a Singapore Expo's bridal roadshow. Our initial intention was to get a wedding solemnization package. I trusted my aunt who was working as a part time planner with Style Bridal and decided to take the full package. The ROM package is $688. As I was planning to have wedding dinner in the next few years, the full package will be more reasonable.

As we need a portrait for our wedding solemnization, we decided to have our photoshoot. Another reason is we will be departing to the States in November and will not have time to come back to Singapore for photoshoot and by the time we're back, we are already old! (It's refering to me as Ju will still be beautiful and gorgeous.)

In the eve of our photoshoot, we packed the required stuffs rather late as I was working and Ju celebrating her friend's daughter birthday. By the time everything was done, it was alrady 3.45am. I fell asleep almost immediately when I lie on the bed. Ju was too excited and couldn't sleep till 7. As a result, we were both very tired and were late for the photoshoot. The actual time was 10am and we reached at a quarter past 10. Besides, we hadn't had our breakfast yet! The stylist, a young Chinese lady in her 20s, told us to have a heavy one as it will be a long day. At about 11am, things were finally on its way.

Ju's makeup took approximately an hour while I took a nap on the comfortable leather couch in the studio. My makeup took about just 15 minutes. It's always the groom waiting for the bride as Ju needed help to wear the gowns. I was totally speechless when I saw Ju in the gown. She is extremely gorgeous! She looked like one of the models advertising for a bridal studio. I'm one lucky man!

The photoshoot was very tiring as we had to keep changing and posting for shots but we really enjoyed it especially the half nude shots. We were happily dancing around while waiting for the cameraman to prepare the background. There were lots of laughter and smiles. We would like to thank our families for making the time and effort to come for the photoshoot. We believe the pictures are going to be nice!

Photoshooting is not just simply a process. It captures those romantic and beautiful moments of our journey.

P.S. I'm getting impatient with Changi Crowne Plaza Hotel as they were slow in replying to my emails and NEVER got back to us! So disappointing!