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Based on the wedding checklist provided by the Hotel, we were supposed to send the wedding inserts to the Printing vendor for processing in February. However, I was tied up with my course exams for the past 2 weeks, and hence could only visit the vendor yesterday. Apparently, the printing vendor was highly recommended by the Hotel, and the printing lady, Helen, charged us a reasonable rate of $90/= for printing 200 inserts. She was patient and spent time explaining to us on the layout of the wedding inserts. Basically, we didn't spend much time on changing the template; but rather, the colour of the wordings and our parents names/wedding date and timing. We spent a while on deciding the wedding timing as we had planned to conduct our solemnisation at the main ballroom prior to the wedding dinner. Hence, we had to make sure that the timing for the cocktail and wedding dinner coincide nicely with the solemnisation ceremony. However, an embarassing incident occurred when the vendor requested for a deposit of $50/= bucks for the printing service. Wei Siang didn't bring enough $ for the deposit; and coincidentally, we were broke! Nonetheless, I had to end up being a 'captive' whilst Wei Siang went round the JTC workshops looking for an ATM to 'redemn' me from the vendor, keehee. I didn't want to spend time staring at Helen and hence, I decided to spend some effort to eliminate the awkward situation being the captive by sharing with her my comments on the wedding invitation design. I brought up the concern that the cards provided by the Hotel were a little flimsy; and there were not much selection (since there were only 2 designs available for selection). I mentioned that both Wei Siang and I liked the white card; but unfortunately, it came with a green ribbon and the wordings were also green. We preferred at least a tinge of red in the wedding card that could go well with the chinese wedding dinner theme. Hence, we decided to go for the red invitation card design instead. Helen was listening patiently to my 'mini grouses' and told me that there were many other couples who also shared with her the same sentiments. She suggested that I could go for both designs (i.e. 100 pieces each), but Wei Siang preferred consistency and wanted only 1 design for our guests. Anyhow, my wedding coordinator mentioned that the Hotel are making changes to the card material based on the recent feedbacks by other wedding couples. We were not that fortunate to use the new cards though, as the Hotel will only release the new cards during the later half of 2008.  We chose the pink-red wedding card design! It will be another 14 days before the wedding inserts are ready, so after this I can start preparing the wedding guest lists and start sending out the red bombs, hee hee.
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i hope ur wedding n honeymoon was a success! 
