Our nest at Acacia Breeze Yishun

Hey all, today I'm sharing on our new home at Acacia Breeze, the Nov 2011 BTO in Yishun. When I chanced upon the BTO exercise, I suggested to zhai nan to try our luck first to see if we can get a queue no. Turns out our no. was very good! No. 16! Since we can definitely get to choose our ideal unit, we decided to go with the selection exercise even though the location of the flat is not very near MRT station. We've opted for a 5-room corner unit.

Reasons for choosing Acacia Breeze:

1. Zhai nan did not want Punggol as he feels it's too far and the flats there are more expensive.

2. Zhai nan's parents stay in West Coast and Yishun is nearer if they wanna visit us in future. My dad is also in Sengkang so Yishun is only like 15min's drive away.

3. Yishun is a matured estate with shopping mall Northpoint, Kopitiams and wet markets.

4. There's also a food court and mini mart within the vinicity.

5. 3 bus stops away from Khatib MRT station.

So here's some pics on our future new home.

 

 

After choosing our unit, we realised that it is actually facing a T-junction and feng shui wise it's not good. But no choice, we already chosen so hopefully after meeting geomancer still can correct the feng shui. Construction has began for the project and hope to collect keys by end of 2014~ :) 

Wedding Shows @ Grand Corpthorne Waterfront & Mandarin Oriental

Just thought I'll summarise the 2 wedding shows we've attended in September this year. One of which was my dream hotel, Mandarin Oriental (MO) and the other is my current choice Grand Corpthorne Waterfront (GCW).

For GCW, here's why I like the place..

• Ballrooms which fits my table requirement - Riverfront Ballroom - for 17-20 tables or Galleria Ballroom - for 10-16 tables
• Nice outdoor venue for solemnisation - Pavilion by the Singapore River
• Pricing quite reasonable

Downside of GCW..

• Location not so convenient 
• No fixed wedding themes - hotel is using dated decorations 
• The smaller ballrooms seems to have a rather short march-in, hopefully can arrange to have the stage shifted to another side where I can have a longer march-in

For MO, their atrium suite is rectangular shape and this enables me to have a longer march-in. However their rates is one of the highest among the hotels I'm shortlisting. Their perks also not as good as the other hotels. Therefore I gotta say bye bye to them.

Below are some pictures I've taken for reference. There are a few more hotels which I'm considering besides GCW and hopefully they will be having wedding shows next year. The shortlisted ones are: Holiday Inn Orchard City Centre, Novotel, Crowne Plaza Hotel & Mandarin Orchard Hotel.

Grand Corpthorne Waterfront Hotel

Waterfront Ballroom

Paradiso Room for Solemnisation

Galleria Ballroom

Reception Area for Galleria Ballroom

 Mandarin Oriental

Dream Wedding Theme

Reception Area for Atrium Suite

The Atrium Suites Ballroom

Dazzling Wedding Theme

Sweetheart Wedding Theme

The Garden Suite

Wedding Show @ Sheraton Towers

Just attended wedding show by Sheraton Towers last Friday. Location is pretty good, walking distance from Newton MRT. We degcided to go there first after work before having our dinner. Thought of going Newton for dinner after that. To our surprise, they actually have buffet dinner for the couples at the show. So we decided this is also a good chance to try out their food from the famous Li Bai Restaurant.

The main ballroom there is L shaped, which I find the size a bit weird. I prefer rectangular shaped ballroom.
Anyway their min. table requirement is at 20 tables if I'm not wrong. For their smaller room, it's 12 tables (12 pax per table). We took a small peek at the smaller room and felt that it's very cramped. Price wise is not exactly very cheap. It's more expensive than Grand Copthorne Waterfront. (My current no. 1 choice for now). 

Initially we're also thinking of having a lunch reception as it's much cheaper. But zhai nan told me he's aiming for dinner reception..I also want a dinner reception as there's more time for everything..we might have our solemnisation on the same day so dinner would be better..oh well we still have time to look around for more options and I think the next wave of wedding shows would be in Feb/Mar next year..hopefully by then we can fix on the wedding banquet venue. 

Various Wedding Themes

Buffet Dinner

A very hungry and curious zhai nan checking out the desserts.  ;P

Wedding Favours

Wedding Invitation Cards

First Entry: Our Wedding Plans..

Hi everyone who is reading this,

I started this blog so that I can share with other bride-to-bes/couples on the details of planning a wedding and the process of setting up your own nest later on. I've been doing a lot of research and believe me when I say this is one of the toughest decisions I have to make so far. There are so many different vendors for photography, videography, banquet locations and bridal shops out there. I've been reading reviews day in day out and come up with a lot of tables and guides for my own reference and comparison.

In fact, I think I'm already turning into a bridezilla! Due to constraint in budget, there are alot of things which I would like to DIY in order to save costs and also to inject a personal touch to my wedding. I will slowly share all the ideas that I've researched here. Hopefully it will be useful to some of you out there.

By the way, just some background..the prospective groom have yet to propose to me yet..haha..we've been together for just over a year  now..gotten our BTO flat at Yishun Acacia Breeze which will TOP in 2015..hence we are intending to get married by 2015..

I guess many of you must be thinking I'm very kiasu cos my wedding is almost 3 yrs away! But as I said, I hope to DIY/personalise my wedding and that requires a lot of time for planning and execution. I hope by starting early, I'll be able to turn my dream/ideal wedding into a reality. :)