Crowne Plaza Hotel, Changi Airport

Thanks Krazimitzi! Added you in FB. =)
Wow Brandon, indeed very packed for you. I have attended a wedding lunch as a sister but luckily there was time for ME to change. Bride was all the way in her white gown even during ROM (b4 lunch). But her side was flexible because after her hubby came to fetch her, they straight away offered tea to the bride's side 1st. So after the groom side tea ceremony, they headed straight to hotel. So slightly more resting time.
The invitation card was the one which we received for the wedding showcase rite? Mmmmppp... I find it not bad and at least not so traditional/ orh biang. Heex...
 


Laobo, i see. so time to change to kua dress and also solemnization dress? we are planning to squeeze in the time to do that.

will be rush for us so planning to leave home earlier.

anyone have sample of the boarding pass invite? planning to design one but not easy.
 
Brandon: My fren did not change to kua and ROM dress. She wore her white gown from morning all the way to 1st march in. 2nd march in change to 2nd gown, den after that she change 2 more gowns. Hahaha... Abit rush but still ok. Morning she never change at all. What time is your ROM?
Jingyi: Yes I did my ROM last yr & will hold my customary next yr.
 
jingyi~ yes i did my ROM on 22 Jan 2006 and having my wedding on 22 Jan 2011, also celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary =)
 
Laobo, oh her lunch manage to change to so many gown? wtb actualli wanna change to another one beside EG but we are thinking too rush.

morning wise still planning to see enuff time not.
ROM shld be ard 11-1130am, then 1130-12, tea ceremony
 
hahaha... Krazimitzi, I ROM on my 2nd year anniversary, considered a celebration also. Hahaha... Customary cannot 0909 because not weekend liao. ROM we didn't mind a weekend because it was a small affair. =)
Brandon: Ya she managed to change. But then her tea ceremony all done in the morning. So 10+am reached hotel, briefing with the hotel staff then solemnise ard 11.30am oso. After that bride come down only during 1st march in. I realised ther are some brides who don't come down until the march in. Means no interaction with guests during cocktail reception. Why huh? Why some no not mingle around? Or supposed to be this way? A surprise for guest during the march in? Please enlighten me. Hahaha...
 
Oh ya and i oso went to see shifu to check on the dates. 11-sept 2011 was a good date. but we didnt want to have our wedding on 9-11. Kekeke...
 
Hey gals

Just had my wedding dinner at CP this past Sat
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As promised, here's my feedback on the food quality --- excellent! :D All my guests were very happy with the food quality, even the vegetarian guests exclaimed that they åƒå¾—很开心。My cousins were especially wowed by the soup (we had shark's cartilage with fish maw I think). So no worries to all, Imperial Treasure definitely lives up to their standards.
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I must compliment Ms A here, her service is really impeccable and excellent! Always smiling and very obliging and helpful, and provided good advice to us. The hotel staff too were very professional, Bernard & Kah Leong, the two "captains" who helped ensure everything ran smoothly that night.

Just a point to note, is that for those who are bringing in their own wine, may want to communicate beforehand with the hotel staff on how fast / slow you want the wine to be served. In our case, we forgot totally about this and our guests feedback that the wine was served very quickly during the dinner - waiters were super prompt to replace empty glasses with full glasses. As a result, we used up all the complimentary wine CP provided (25 bottles, 1 per table) plus our own 18 bottles! Scary huh! :P But at the end of the dinner we had happy guests with red faces, so it was all well.
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Laobo, i would think that the brides need to touch up and change for the grand entry, so during the cocktail session, only the guy and family members are there to attend to them.

For wedding, i think that the highlights are usually on the wife side.
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Yallo, thanks for your feedback, are there any beer? 43bottles is alot for 25 tables.
How's the sound system there?
 
Yeah we had 1 complimentary barrel of beer from CP, which was wiped out too. I guess our guests just happened to be all heavy drinkers? When we ordered our own wine, the supplier also advised us to get less than 18 bottles (based on his experience, 1.5 bottles per table is about right). Good thing we decided to get more and perhaps keep the leftover bottles for our own consumption.

I had no problem with the sound system (to be honest, I wasn't really paying attention to it on that night lol). But well all the music played okay, volume wasn't too loud, no disasters like nasty feedback noise from the mics or mics failing halfway (which happened TWICE at my church wedding in the morning when we were exchanging the vows lol). So I'm quite satisfied I guess.
 
julia~ yea far apart because we married very young. we were engaged when we were still in school and not a penny to our names. and we don't earn much so we struggled to save over 5 years before even entertaining the thought of having a wedding!

yallo~ it's great to hear your wonderful feedback, i suppose that certainly puts some fears at ease. can only hope this will continue till next year haha! congrats on the great wedding!

bran~ you think for us having lunch our guests won't drink so much alcohol? if not i wonder how we will be able to keep our numbers down... i already estimated i will need max 44 bottles of wine, i don't have beer but i will be having mixers e.g. whisky coke / vodka sprite, so hopefully there will be enough alcohol to keep everyone's "spirits" up! (pun intended)

laobo~ i think ya sometimes it's the surprise of seeing the bride for the first time as she walks in, in the gown and the makeup and the hair... its like waaaaahhhh.... i think sometimes the brides like to do it! but sometimes it's really no time, i've been behind the scenes of some of my friends, it's last min doing makeup and dressing until it's really time to march in, already very good if march in not delayed for you. makeup and hair usually takes 2 hours so i think as long as prepared for that, and give some time for touch up if needed, should be able to mingle. you want to mingle? i think i would want to too! especially since i'm having instant photography, would be good to get some shots with the guests...
 
kraz, 44 bottles? that's a lot. based on 2 bottles per table? but then we can always ask the waiters to serve slower and lesser as well.

i would think that for lunch, guests tends to drink lesser.
 
bran~ based on 1.7 per table. actually, for cocktail reception will you be serving the wine already or only soft drinks? i am thinking of serving apple and peach wine, like a little fruity zesty thing, and request the staff to serve at only half a flute, because no one drinks full glass at cocktail reception. but yet i would like a little something special to surprise guests.
 
Kraz, i would think for cocktail serve only soft drinks. dont wan my guest to start drinking alcoholic drinks so fast.

coz i know once my guests start, they cant stop. lol.

for yourself, you still going for the 1 barrel of beer?
 
Hi bran, I don't get beer for my package. It was choice of 12 bottles red wine or 1 more nite stay in the suite which is what I chose lor.
 
Hi all brides and grooms..

We are into confirming our package with Crowne Plaza Hotel for my wedding in 2011,any feedback on the food, hotel service,etc??

Please feedback ya..
 
bran~ haha nope, we went on a short kinda "honeymoon" (but was with frens) after our ROM then, and we did a pre-wedding honeymoon at hard rock hotel penang in sep cuz we won the stay from a bridal mag. so just as well, take it that we had our honeymoon first! hahaha

anyway, considering how ex CP is... and all the other stuff to pay for... i would be surprised if i wasn't bankrupt after january!

where are you headed off to? are u flying immediately, since u're getting married at the airport? hahaha
 
does anyone know if CP can cater to long tables instead of round? saw it on ch8's Weddings 101 on xinmsn, it looked reeeeeeeaaaally nice.
 
Kraz, so lucky for you. how is hard rock penang? heard it's very nice.

for me i'm already bankrupt now. :p

there are so many stuffs, videography, photography and many more.

still planning as where to head to for honeymoon, now too bz with the preparation till no time to settle down for the trip yet. was thinking of going straight after hotel stay but then was thinking then have to prepare more stuffs during wedding, more stress.
Long tables sound cool.

Amanda, over at CP, Alina is the main and only coordinator. for the pricing, depending on whether u are heading there for lunch or dinner.
check out the wedding package link in the main page of Singapore brides.
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Yup.. Considering.. But d date I wan only left with lunch only n I scare too rushed to have tea ceremony, solemnization and den lunch.. Like no time to breathe...
 
Brandon & Krazimitzi: I would luv to mingle with my guests! But then the 1st march in & wow wow kinda ting oso kinda nice. But there are some frenz whom my hubby duno. So I dun wan them to come & not see me oso. Nvm, i got more than a year to consider. Hahaha..
I ever thought of flying off straight for honeymoon too! So convenient rite? But then, muz return gowns etc. & Kraz you are so right! I would be surprised if I am not bankrupt by then! Hahahaa!!!! Everything needs $, so stress!
I saw the Ch 8 show too! Yes it is very nice & classy rite? The groom was also the "so-artistic" kind. Hahaha! =) And it seems like the malays and chinese are "exchanging" the style rite? they are going for round tables now and we are trying to break the tradition and go for long tables. lol...
Kraz, i wanted to do long table for my ROM initially. But the coordinator told me that it might not be easy for the guests to move around. I'm not sure for CP, if you were to do long table, how the setting would be. But you might wana consider this factor.
 
wintumnsky ~ (sidepoint) does your nick mean winter & autumn sky? Hahaha. Anyways for mine is a lunch and I'm doing gatecrashing, tea ceremony and renewal of vows before the lunch banquet. Because everything is within the hotel so I suppose it's doable. For Brandon his places to go to are all in the east so not so rushed. So lunch for us is fine. If you live in Jurong, probably not a good idea! Haha. But I always prefer lunch to dinner, when it ends there is still sunlight & transportation. And friends who have not met up in a long time get a chance to go for dinner together too. No better option for me!
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LaoBo~ I think maybe you should mingle. You can always WOW during your 2nd march-in. My tea ceremony in Hopea will be just before cocktail reception so that I can just come out & start mingling. If not I think very wasted those that come early will not get a chance to take instant photo with one of the stars of the day! Kekeke.

Where are you thinking of going for honeymoon?

Oh yes my wedding guest book came liao! I'm so happy because it is absolutely beautiful. The matte paper is a higher grade than I expected, it really looks classy & expensive. Well thankfully for the 40% off, otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford... Saved almost like $80!

Still gotta do my magnets cuz been putting it off. Eyes tired, headache, work late, need to rest... Sigh. Tomorrow better buckle down and start doing work!!!

Brandon~ I solved my cocktail reception problem! I was just telling my bridesmaid the other day over supper that I was considering getting apple or peach wine to serve... It's $9.90 a bottle now at NTUC on offer. Then she said, must be alcoholic ah? Then I was thinking, yea actually doesn't need to be. But I just want something other than soft drinks leh. So she said why not get those fizzy cocktail drinks like the pink & blue ones or sparkling white grape etc. We used to drink all that when we were young & they were great! Well the price has increased by like a dollar now. But still good! I bought a bottle the other day to test haha. Now... The thing is... Can bring in or not??? Hahaha. Haven't asked yet. :S
 
win, mine is also packed in whole morning. but take it as start early and end early.
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after that can enjoy the nice hotel stay there.

Laobo, we were also thinking of flying straight after the hotel stay. still considering, as we won an additional nite stay, was thinking of going back to take our stuffs, return gown then come back and stay and fly off.
 
anyone here had their solemnization at the pool or garden just before the cocktail reception? how much extra u pay? do we still have the pay for the sound system? was the environment noisy since both outdoor venue is vvvvv close to the airport?
 
jingyi> pool is 600++, garden is 400++, sound system is 300++....
as for noise level... when we were at the show, din hear any plane flying sound leh..
 
Hi Kraz, can you recap me whom you signed up the prewedding package with for your guest book? for your wedding guestbook , you did & order online rite? i can't recall hehehe getting old & bad memory! Thanks
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Hi kraz, u r right abt my nick.. Hehe...
We still considering as have few other hotels in mind.. Was liaising with Edwin n he mentioned for me to go down see den i was asking if can book first then pay deposit if I m still keen aft site inspection n den he stopped replying me le.. 2 days had passed n I had left voice msg too but he didn't reply..
 
hey wint, wat are the other hotels u're considering?

kiwi~ u mean for PW PG? it was Oh, Dear! Photography. i did my guest book with photobooksingapore. they are still having 40% off offer this month, fyi. did i add u on FB? then u can take a look...
 
We also considering holiday inn orchard n Carlton...
HIOCC doesn't have slots on our auspicious dates le but our geomencer still computing if got other dates..
Carlton got mixed reviews so dunno sld book though got slot..
 
ohh i see, what are the mixed reviews for carlton? i thot the ballroom has been revamped and the themes they are offering are new. are you going down to their wedding show in nov?

HIOCC to me personally is too... getai. hahaha if u get what i mean... the lights and all that is a little OTT hahaha... but that's just my personal feel.
 
I read d Carlton thread n it seems dat d food n service not up to standard.

For HIOCC, my bf lik d ballroom cos he feels it's grand..
Cos we only need 20-25 tables so d venues we r looking for often turn out to be low ceiling except for hiocc n cp..
 
Kraz : Oh interesting name Oh Dear! hehe wow ur pic is now on their website..Nice
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Yup you added me in FB. i like your works, so creative hehe Tks for sharing.

Hi wint, previously Carlton was my choice too cos of the v convenient location. but after seeing the revamped ballroom, i don't really like the low ceiling. else it will be a gd choice since newly renovated.
 

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