Mandarin Oriental Singapore

[shanicelim]

Has anyone here successful reduce the number of tables on Friday?

 

[nehoc]

HI Shanice,
You talking about main ballroom? How many you looking at?

 

[shanicelim]

Hi nehoc, yep. around 30 tables

 

[nehoc]

Shanice,
If i am not wrong for Fri min 32, sat/sun 35 & weekdays you can neg with them.

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[geray1008]

Hi, if i m not wrong, for fri its also 35 but maybe u can try to neg with them.
But if 35 & above, still have free 45 min piano music during reception.

Anyone here manage to get complimentary stay for helpers for fri banquet?

 

[cyc]

Shanice, we had 35 tables laid out but used only 34. space was ok. still managed to do long march in.

nehoc, mine was dream theme too! v glad i managed to convince the old folks to do dream theme. all my friends thot its very special...

 

[nehoc]

Geray,
After some hard persuading i only manage to get 2-8pm for helpers room.

Cyc
YA indeed the folks wasn't that happy initately.

 

[yvchy8]

Hi nehoc,

Does Oriental provide audio/video technician to assist with playback of montage & music or do I have to arrange for someone myself?

My AD is in end Feb. When will Oriental contact me to finalise theme, colours, menu selection? Do i have to arrange it myself?

 

[nehoc]

Hi Yve,
They will have a AV specialist to attend to it & your coordinator will arange with a meet up with you one mth before your AD.

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[shanshine]

hi girls, can i check with you how's the downpayment like for Oriental Hotel? TIA!

 

[geray1008]

Thanks nehoc.

Shan, the deposit is $5000.

 

[shanshine]

thanks geray!

that applies for the grand ballroom? when will be the next payment after the 1st?

 

[na2]

Hi Nehoc,
I choose dream theme as well. Still convincing the oldies to accept it. I also quite worried 35 'black' tables will look a bit 'scary'. Your feedback on the theme was good?

 

[na2]

Hi Cyc,
So u no regrets of choosing dream theme?

Urs is on which day? 34 tables already include the spare tables? cos my co-ordinator told me Fri package min 35 tables. If I wanna 2 spare tables (which is 35 + 2) then i can only do a 'L-shape' match in. Wat abt urs?
Hi Shanice,
Fri package min 35 tables for main ballroom.

 

[shanicelim]

Hi na2, thanks! Let me try to see if i can reduce it

 

[geray1008]

shan,
i tink its applies to all ballroom but not too sure, cos mine is the main ballroom.

 

[seb1816]

met up with mark over the weekend... he is great... very accomodating... and we will be please to sign up the package with them as soon as he can get back to us on the availability.

very very customer oriented and i feel that it is very important... its the service line afterall. after my very bad experience with another so called reputable hotel... i begin to thank god that mark is our coordinator for the oriental.

looking forward to hear from him... and i hope its good news.

 

[piyo_piyo]

Hi all,

Can send me the 2009 packages? my email address is [email protected]

 

[shanicelim]

Hey Sebastian, you got mark's contact?

 

[seb1816]

shanice, i dont have his contact now... the business card is at home.... even so i cant confirm his business card got his mobile. u know la, alot of people never put their mobile number. always redirect at the main desk.

 

[cyc]

Na2, we had 35 tables laid out but used only 34. so for long march in, the max i think it's about 35 tables. we had ours on a thur evening so min tables were 30 for grand ballroom

 

[elven_princess]

I just been to an Oriental wedding lately & the food was super yummy! =) All of the guests were raving abt it.

 

[shingling]

Hello, does anyone have photos of their wedding banquet at Oriental to share please? Appreciate it if you could send it to [email protected]

Thanks!

 

[kai9]

Hi Elven,

just to enquire about the food. which of the dishes that you tasted there are properbly the best?

 

[waxie24]

i highly recommend the pork ribs n the cod fish.. my guests are still telling me..they miss this 2 dishes.. my wedding was in sep..

 

[yvchy8]

Hi those who have held their weddings at oriental, what songs did you use for dish presentation? What's the typical duration?

 

[nehoc]

Waxie, till today after my wedding on last July my friends are still talking about the cod fish.

Yve, try those music with lively tempo to bring up the heat of your guests

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[kai9]

Hi all,

Just to enquire about the music stuffs. Does Oriental play music throughout the whole wedding ceremony? Do we need to provide music cds for them?

Thanks.

 

[nehoc]

Kaistarz,
Yes you can either use their back ground music or provide yours

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[roystream]

Hi

Anyone here have the picts of their wedding themes? Please email me at [email protected]
Appreciated!

 

[strawberryberry]

Hi all, anyone has Atrium Ballroom photos to share? pls email to [email protected]

thanks a lot!

 

[winny]

<font color="aa00aa">Anyone chose "Happiness" theme? Is it too red?

Actually I like "Love" but from the pix I saw, it's very ivory.

Anyone care to share their photos?</font>

 

[kaijing08]

Hi,

Can anyone send pictures of the Atrium ballroom?
And for those who engaged Oriental, how did you find their service? Also has anyone heard of Adeline Goh?

 

[winny]

<font color="aa00aa">Hi Chiang Kai Jing,
initially I liaise with Adeline however later was passed to Eve.

I think their service not bad at least for Eve.

She's very friendly and understanding.</font>

 

[kaijing08]

Thanks Winny!

 

[jaster]

Dear all,

my big day is this year's nov. Was thinking of choosing btw "xi" and "love" theme. Will be holding our dinner @ the atrium suites.

If any of you are willing to share photos of banquets held @ the atrium suites (no matter what themes were being used), please help us out by sending to [email protected]

Thank you in advance and your help is deeply appreciated!

 

[yvchy8]

Hi Winny, u can choose to have red roses to mix with the champagne roses for yr Love theme, so it doesnt look too "ivory". That's the best of both worlds!

Personally, I'm having pink with champagne. Some use yam roses which is purplish/cream effect, quite nice too.

 

[winny]

<font color="aa00aa">Hi Yve, thanks for your advise.

I was thinking of mixing Yam roses but some say it looks weird.

I will be holding at Atrium too. I have visited few hotels and finally settled with MO.</font>

 

[babyjah]

I'm so happy to have finally secured MO for our AD dinner in Nov

Has anyone successfully persuaded MO to let you pick your invitiation card design not from the 4 that they have stocked?

We'll most likely be going for the love theme as well, I visited both a love theme setup and a dream theme set up. HTB and I loved the dream theme, but parents preferred us to go with the love theme. To make the love theme stand out more, we will be going for bold dark red rose bouquets. And my EG color is bright tangerine / poppy so that I dont blend in with the table cloths.

Does anyone think having 35 tables and a long march in will make the room look a little crammed? Also, will anyone be moving the grand piano from the foyer into the ballroom after their complimentary pianist plays?

 

[yvchy8]

Hi baby-jah, not sure if moving the grand piano into the ballroom immediately is feasible, coz understand from Mark that it needs tuning after every shift. Personally, I'm going for abt 30 tables with a long march-in.

 

[winny]

<font color="aa00aa">Hi baby-jah,
I thought their invitation cards look nice enough.
heehee..

May I know where did you all print your inserts?

I checked a shop and they quoted me around $0.90 per piece (depending on the size)</font>

 

[babyjah]

Yve: MO won't allow us to go for 30 tables on a Sat night

. Did try asking but they said that Nov is a very buzy month. We just have to look for more people to attend!

. Good point about moving the piano...hmmm...

Winny: I don't mind the creamy colored card. Will surely blend in well with the Love theme

.But just wondering if MO was flexible with the cards. I have not printed the inserts yet, actually haven't even had the chance to look around for any printers. I may not be able to get the printing done till March, if I do come across a printer that can do it for cheap, I'll let you know.

 

[waxie24]

i find oriental's invitation really elegant n pretty.. my guests commented that it looks nice..

oriental's contact for printer is Lilart (www.lil-art.com)..

charges includes english &amp; chinese.. as at 2008:
offset print on cream or pink 120gsm inserts
first 200 pcs @ $100, next 50 pcs @ $5

offset printing on vellum (tracing) inserts
first 200 pcs @ $120, next 50 pcs @ $10

all local printers charge for the same amount.. the cheapest is to print at JB..

 

[kai9]

Hi all,

Not sure if we can share the same printing services (Lilart). Cos mine only have 10 tables so prob will be printing only 50-60inserts only. But the quota for 200pcs is more worth it.

Anyone willing to share to print in bulk? Cheers.

 

[winny]

<font color="aa00aa">Hi Kai9,
i'm not sure if they allow combination as the inserts will be different.

Why don't you try to ask how much they charge per card?</font>

 

[waxie24]

kai> i'm sure combination cannot work

eg. if i have 2 events in oriental, i will need to print 100 inserts each, becos of the different date/timings, the printer will take it as 2 jobs hence charging twice instead of combining the qty.

 

[singasong]

Hi all, i've a wedding banquet package to let go. 5K deposit already paid,but open to negotiation. Pls email [email protected] if interested.

 

[evocal]

hi all,

Just to let you know, I'm actually printing the inserts myself. am thinking of using the black invites and have found vellum paper with designs. the design shows up on the black and red cards and not so much on the ivory cards. It looks good on all though. hehe it isnt too difficult.

 

[kai9]

Hi all,

For the music part during the march-in and/or solmis, do you provide the music yourself throughout the wedding ceremony or you just select your prefered music only for
Anyone able to share your experience? Cheers.

 

[yvchy8]

My friends have mistaken Mandarin Oriental with Meritus Mandarin. My parents can't get it right too. Seems like MM has more visibility than MO! I am super worried people may turn up late for my wedding coz of this. Did u have any problem with this? How did you overcome this? Thinking of printing map inserts but who would really look at these??