All: sorry for the delay in my feedback from NCQ. Have been busy with work after my wedding..
The feedback that I have gotten from NCQ is great!! Majority of the comments I got from my guest is the food… majority of my guests LOVED the food! Probably cos it’s prepared by restaurant… as it is a peak season for wedding, a lot of ppl compared the food from various hotels. M hotel’s food cannot be compared to NCQ…
My experience with NCQ is great as their service is really good. There were no glitches to the AV system, we were also briefed before the 2 march in on what we are suppose to do.
Our table planning is such that we have 41 tables of confirmed guest, but we cater for 40+2 tables. So we closed 1 table on actual day, amounting to 40 tables that day. So the table that we close is our reserved table (no need to pay extra). You may want to take note when planning your tables.
We were quite fortunate that majority of our guest turned up… those last min who never turned up, majority gave ang bao too… and they were all early (cos there were no other wedding/function that day), so I guess parking wasn’t a problem.
We started at 8.15pm and ended at 10.30pm sharp.. a lot of guest stayed throughout (though next day got work) cos every dish came very promptly and dinner ended earlier than usual.
Only thing is that, we didn’t get to eat anything, cos dinner was not sent up to our room.
The room service did call our room, but no one picked up. So they didn’t send the food up. We have feedback this to Kevin anyway.
With regards to ang bao, actually, during the final week when you send reminder, ppl will start saying they cant make it etc… there’s nothing much you can do. It’s hard to rearrange the tables cos of the odd numbers and you can’t possibly invite ppl in the very last min. tables have been confirmed so you cant just reduce the tables… (that’s why the above paragraph on the table planning is impt!) there will be so many other things on your mind that… you will be less concern about making a loss cos the impt thing is to have everything worked out smoothly.
We gave 7 tables to my mom, so losses is inevitable… esp when there are some ppl still living in the olden times, giving very very low ang bao… but losses is minimal for us, most impt thing is we enjoyed ourselves the very day… wedding is not about earning money or reducing expenses… it’s a celebration of 2 person getting together and spending the rest of their lives together! Even if you are able to cover your dinner expenses, there will be so much more money spent elsewhere that is not recoverable… We can always earn the money back... That is what I learnt after my wedding.. We spent almost 30k in all (after deducting the ang bao)...
and still have more to come cos of the developing of photos for relatives, etc…