Hi Grace Lourdes,
Agreed but have to depend on the nos of invitation. For me, I would probably be having 58 tables which means I need 464 invitation cards (80%).
I asked my friend, who is a coordinator in another hotel, the usual practice for this kind of trade in, she said they will usually throw in 6-12 bottles of wines, 4-6 dinner vouchers and probably in-room dinning, etc. I once read from dunno which thread, someone trade in the invitation cards for $200 rebate.
I think for FRF style is u can bargain as much as u can before signing the contract but once u do, there is very minimum room for flexibility and negoitation.
Anyway, we have decided to use the hotel invitation cards to cut cost.