Wedding preparation #2 - Finding your photographer and videographer

Finding a good photographer and videographer is very important. They are the one that captures one of the most important and beautiful moment of your life. I know that I can save on most of my the wedding prep but not on this one.

As an indonesian myself, I knew I wanted to engage in an indonesian based photo/videographer. Most enquiries are communicated via email and after downlisting to whom I really love, i made a trip back to jakarta to meet them. 

After just 1 visit, I was pretty certain to whom I want to engage with for both my prewedding and wedding photo/videographer and made the deposit payment about 1 year before my wedding. If you are sure on what you want, its better to get it done asap, you do not want to regret when you try to reach your vendors 6 months before your wedding and they are fully booked. 

To visit and have a look at more of their works, please visit the links below. 

photographer - http://axioo.com/

videographer - http://findingwimo.com/

To those that are looking for photographer in Singapore, I would really suggest you not to get any from those bridal package. It is always better to engage in different vendors for your wedding. I know that an average wedding bridal package costs about 3,500 SGD (it includes renting of 2 wedding dress, groom's wear, make up and it includes 30 photos). Unless you do not really care about photography and etc, you could go for this deal. However, ladies... to choose only 30 photos from the hundreds and hundreds of prewedding photos taken is impossible. I have friends that end up topping lots of photos and they charge at 150sgd per photos. (crazy!!) Most of them total up to become about 10k SGD. Yes, with 10k.. you could have engage in a seperate vendor and get a better photographer. 

So always remember to not invest all your eggs in one basket. 

Photographer & videographer - checked!

Wedding preparation #1 - Finding the location

Both my fiancee and I knew that we wanted to get married in Bali. But finding a place in Bali is tough since we only been there once.

The points we were looking out for are:

1. Outdoor wedding and reception

2. Cliff wedding

We went to Bali once last october and just few weeks before and we have minimize it to 2 location. 

1. Banyan Tree Resort

2. The Latitute - Villa

The Latitude - Villa

Advantages:

1. You only need to pay for the function fee. 

2. Yes, you may need to book the whole villa (5 bedrooms = 10pax) for min. of 2 days. But the good thing about that is you can stay with your closest family member which = accommodation for guests are partially covered. 

3. You can order your own caterings. Means more good food at a much cheaper price. 

4. There are no time limit to when the party could end as you have the whole place to yourself

5. Big lawn space to hold the ceremony and reception. 

Disadvantages:

1. Since you have a bigger space, you definitely need to spend more on decoration. 

2. The road leading to the villa is quite narrow and dark at night. It could be dangerous driving out of the place at night considering we will be using a big bus for the guest. 

I simply love the view and the huge space for reception

The Latitude - Villa

Banyan Tree 

Advantage:

1. The moment you reach the Banyan, you are welcome /greeted warmly by the staffs there. 

2. The ceremony place is very pretty that it is very hard to say no to the place.. 

3. The ceremony is held at cliff overlooking the sea with sunset view.

4. There is a private beach which I think will be great for photoshoot.

5. The package comes with 2 night stay.

6. Since the place is beautiful by itself, decoration could be minimized  = savings.

7. Since you are engaging their service, you don't have to worry about the wedding day events. They will let you know where we should go at a certain time. Its like having a complimentary wedding organizer.

Disadvantage:

1. You need to order the food from their restaurant, where most of the spending are. 

2. The reception place is not that spacey.

2. There is a time limit till 10.30pm where the party have to end.

3. Music could not be too loud as there are other guests staying in the resort.

4. Bringing outside vendor/ food will be charged at a certain fee. 

Ceremony place - Such an Awww place!

The building beside the ceremony will be where the tea ceremony is held.

So with that said, I have come to a conclusion, i.e Banyan tree! 

The thing that held me back was since I have a huge family, staying in a villa where only really close family could stay might stir people talking how they are not allowed to stay there as well, etc. too much drama ( you know how aunties can be )

Plus, I simply could not resist the white coral look of Banyan's ceremony place!!

Wedding location - checked.