Few days ago, on Sunday/18th January 2015, we went to Jakarta Mega Wedding Festival. There are more than 100 vendors at the festival, including venue, catering, decoration, bridal, photography, souvenir, invitation, jewelry and everything related to wedding. When I stepped in the hall, I feel so excited!
The directory
Every vendor offered us the brochure and invited us to have a discussion in their booth. We were so confused~ Hahaha.. So we made a round collecting brochures and then we went to the cafetaria to review and decide which vendors we were gonna visit. In my mind, actually I already had a list of choices for the bridal and photography vendors that I wanted, hehehe..
See, so many brochures~
We were looking for bridal and photography. At first, we want to use vendor from Jakarta for bridal, pre wedding and also photography and make up artist for wedding day. But we changed our mind considering our wedding will be held in our hometown (Batam). If we want to invite the team to Batam, then we need to pay an additional fee (very expensive additional fee). Not only additional fee, but we also need to provide their ticket and accommodation. It will double up the cost. It's definitely a NO~ So we decided to only get the bridal (only for wedding gown for the BIG day not including make up artist) and pre wedding photography from Jakarta. For the rest will be vendors from Batam I think.
We visited several vendors. I think besides of their product quality, marketing also plays a significant role in getting customer. When you are comfortable with the marketing person, it's a plus point. The way they offer their products and services, the way they talk to you, everything really matters. Because in my list of vendor choices, the pricing and quality of the products are in the same range. So my choice will fall into the one who gives the better services =] Why? Because once we deal with them, we will be in touch with them until the BIG day comes (in my case, it will be 9 to 10 months). Thus, I think we need to have a good relationship with them. In order to have that "good relationship", they need to be friendly and can make us feel comfortable around them (#^_^)
After going through several discussions with boyfriend, we finally made our choice! We made the deal with C* bridal for pre wedding and wedding gown package. Yippiiiieeeee!!! Two thumbs up for their marketing person! She is very friendly and even invited us to try their wedding gown (well, i could say that this is their marketing trick). I was shy, but I tried one of their gown and I was so amazed seeing myself in wedding gown (too bad I didn't take a photo, sigh!). What I like about C* bridal is their marketing didn't force us to take the deal right away. They even said "It's okay, you can walk around and reconsider. You may come back to us anytime". Unlike J* Bride, J* Bride's marketing are very aggressive. At the end of your discussion, they will say "This offer and all of these bonus will only AVAILABLE if you take the deal right here, at this moment. Otherwise, it's gone". Is this a threat? LOL. We were not given a chance to consider calmly. Luckily, J* Bride was the last booth that I visited, or I would fall into their trap for sure! Hahaha..
This is what we got in the package after going through a long negotiation, hahaha..
- Brand NEW wedding gown (including veil, gloves, accessories, etc)
- Indoor and Outdoor pre wedding photo shoot (selected 30 pose with a total of 4 dresses. We can pay extra for more pose later, it is IDR 3 million for 30 pose)
- Canvas with frame 75" x 100"
- Canvas with frame 60" x 80" (we changed this one with 25 pcs of 6" photo)
- Standing Banner
- Digital Album 12"
- Mini Album
- 1 pc of 10" photo
- CD contains selected photos
- 2 gowns for bridesmaid and 2 gowns for flower girl
We also got so many vouchers from the deal. Too bad, we won't have a chance to use these vouchers since we are planning to find other vendors at Batam.
Besides of vouchers, we also got a xiaomi 10400 mAH powerbank~ They said it was the last day of the exhibition, so they were giving out xiaomi powerbank as souvenirs.
Yuhuuu~~~ this is our first step to the wedding. When I told my mom about this, she asked "has he proposed to you?" HAHAHA! Yes, he has not proposed to me yet. So our first step to wedding is not a proposal like everybody's. But this! Dealing for the bridal and pre wedding ♥ There is no point for a proposal, he already know my answer. So yeah, let's leave the proposal behind, hahaha~ But actually I think he has already proposed. A proposal doesn't has to be in the form of a ring, flower and romantic dinner, right? It can be other things. Because marriage is a plan, made by two. When we started to plan and tell our parents about this, I think it's already a form of proposal =] But boyfriend is kinda romantic (yes, he is romantic), so I don't think he will leave out the formal proposal part~ xixixi~