December 18, 2009
Jakarta Wedding Celebration
In this post, I will share about my wedding celebration at my hometown, Jakarta which just passed in these few weeks time. 
My parent especially my mom, and my lovely sisters had helped me alot to follow up on this wedding preparation since I was not in Jakarta to do all the preparations by myself. It had been planned more than a year before from the chosen wedding date, 5 Dec 2009.
The chosen date itself had been changed 3 times before it was decided to be on that day. My mom had been asking around to decide a “good” date for my Jakarta wedding celebration since last year November 2008. She also helped me to decide the place and book the place on the selected good date which was in Angke Kelapa Gading Restaurant, North Jakarta.
We took a wedding package with the restaurant itself which provide us the food & beverages for around 400 pax. The package already include the hall deco, MC & entertainment plus photo/video shooting on the actual day. So actually we just took all the standard package with them and their engange vendors coz if we want to use outside vendor, there will be additional charges that we need to pay to the restaurant.
Overall my Jakarta wedding celebration was quite good I think hehe.. Thanks God for His blessing and to give me so many nice family and friends to help me out on that day 
Here’s the list of vendors I enganged with my review ofcoz ^^:
1. Place: Angke Restaurant Kelapa Gading (Jakarta) ***
Overal the food was quite nice as I heard from my mom’s guests comments. Too bad I didn’t get chance to taste it. Actually most of people in Jakarta knew that Angke is quite famous for its delicious Chinese food. Althought got a bit hiccup here and there but overal quite impressive with the hall design, hope my guests won’t really mind about the hiccup :)
~ MC plus Entertainment: Private WO (Jakarta) **
This is the enganged vendor who has been offered in the package from the Restaurant. I chose this vendor as their MC got the skill to speak in Mandarin. The MC quite good and got initiative to give us idea and help us here and there
Too bad a bit dissapointed with the entertainment team as my list of requested songs not all being played.. maybe the singer I chose couldn’t sing it so they replace with some other songs which I dunno.. It’s ok actually, but I just feel like the songs I collected based on their offered list is just waste my effort lor.. >,<
~ Photo and Videoshooting: Sejati Photo (Jakarta) **
This is also the enganged vendor from our Restaurant. I chose them as I found their website with the sample of their photos and album not bad. Eventhough they didn’t look like a modern young type vendors as the one we can see from the trend in Jakarta which most of the wedding photoshoot or wedding clip got a very nice photos captured. But as you see need to prepare to dig alot from our pocket too if we enganged that kind of vendors.. hehe 
The boss himself was busy as he already being enganged with another wedding party, as you know my wedding date is quite popular for wedding. Was it really a good date to wed? hmm… I dunno too but I know my party goes well thankfully
Ooh back to the review, so as the boss was busy, we being handled with his assistant. His assistant also not bad, can throw a couple of jokes to cheer us up and to make us more relax with the camera hehe Hopefully the result will be good. I need to wait for 2 months later till the editing process is done.
2. Wedding/Party Organizer: Helen and friends ****
This is the most important parts of my review.. The team themselves are some good friends of mine who kindly offer their service to support me on my wedding day. I was considering to upgrade the package to include the WO/PO on that day, but Helen was so nice to offer her help as she and her friends had the experience before to be the wedding organizer for their church friends..
Actually on that day, she and her friends already got 2 other wedding to attend, but they still gave us a support on that day eventhough only can help until half of the wedding sessions. But it’s really mean alot to me as they arranged my schedule and help out to prepare all the things on that day.
Helen also accompanied me to buy those miscellanious things in ITC Mangga Dua, and gave me the idea of my wedding procession too.. Irene was helping me to check on the food and liase with the food captain and also decorate my wedding photos. Joel and Abi operated the confetti at my wedding kiss and wedding toast and also being the techical and mechanical helper.. So thankful to have them as my great WO on that day hehe.. I will always remember their help, Helen and Joel, Irene and Abi.. thank you guys
3. Bridal: Volans Couture (Singapore) ***
We had a pre-wedding photoshoot and wedding gowns borrowed from this bridal. They have so many nice wedding gowns. The one that I chosen for my Jakarta wedding is actually a last minute change as I wanted an evening gown look for my Jakarta wedding. Luckily during browsing around the gown, I found it. It has a nicely layered tail, I love it hehe.. actually most of the gowns I chose always have a layered style hehe.. dunno why I was attracted with so many layers gown hehehe..
They also gave us a free 129 pieces of 4-style bookmarks which they chose from our wedding photos design. This one I use for mingle gifts together with the handphone chain I got from ITC Mangga Dua (explanation under Miscellanous section below).
4. Make-up Artist: Shelsea Hong (Jakarta) ****
I found her during my research through weddingku , a local wedding website, which has a complete listing of vendors. Had tried the trial make-up from 2 different make-up artists before till I decided to engange her service. Thankfully my decision to engange her was right her skill is good and mostly of her make-up style is taiwan style which my hubby will like it. She is a nice lady who understand my requests and try to do her best to fulfill it
PS: my mom, mom-in-law, my sisters’ make-up were handled by Ivory bridal, which also a good vendor too. I will give *** (3stars) as I only saw the result.
5. Invitation card and souvenirs: Sah Card (Jakarta) ****
Found this vendor during my visit to one of the wedding exhibition in JIE (Jakarta International Exhibition) with my family. I was interested with their card design, quite simple with a good price too. We put deposit with them directly. After that I tried to browse the weddingku website again, and found that this vendor got some bad comments. But luckily my experience with them was very good. The contact person and the card designer who handled me were both nice and patient. My invitation cards had been finished quite fast, along time before my wedding date.. If I’m not wrong it was around 2-3 months time.
I also decided to get the wedding souvenirs from them as it was quite a good deal.. Had chosen a clay pencil case which I thought will be quite useful for the guests. Actually first time impression of the souvenir was so-so only, but when I saw my order coming, it was way out of my expectation, it is very nice and my hubby like it too hehe
6. Handbouquet and corsages: Nasna Florist (Jakarta) **
My mom helped me order from Nasna Florist, which was recommended by one of my excolleage in Jakarta. She also uses their service for her wedding too which is 6 days later from my wedding date. I ordered a buoquet of Lilies, as I found it quite unique from the usual buoquet which using Roses
Other plastic flower corsages for family, I got from ITC Mangga Dua which like a market where you can find all nice and cheap wedding accessories from there.
7. Wedding shoes: Donamici (Jakarta) **
I also heard about this vendor from the forum in weddingku, they have alot different design, and they can customize based on your needs too.. The price range will depend on the design, the material and also the height of the heel.
I just chose a not so luxury one and quite a low heel for wedding shoe which is 7cm only as I consider to wear it again to some formal ocassion not only for my wedding. They promise to finish it a month after my order, and thats true they delivered to my house without any delay
8. Wedding ring: Destinee by Lee Hwa Jewellery (Singapore) **
Me and my hubby chose this ring at the night before our ROM wedding date which was a year ago. We ordered and on the next day we could collect already. I like the ring’s design so I chose that one, it has a simple white gold design and bordered nicely with a single line of gold.
Unfortunately a week after that, I accidently dropped my ring and the diamond fell out. Luckily that happened at home so I still could find the diamond. We brought the ring for fixing, they said will take a couple of weeks as they need to bring the ring to Europe for investigation.. -_-”
After the fix done, we collected the ring and till now gladly I found no issues again..
9. Wedding car
We used Toyota Alphard which was being offered to borrow from one of my hubby’s customer in Jakarta. So nice of him The driver was from my aunt’s driver who kindly let us to borrow on that few days.
PS: actually this one cannot be considered as wedding car coz we don’t have a wedding car for my Jakarta party and a wedding cake too as we consider the Jakarta party as a non-actual day. We don’t want to have wedding car and cake cutting twice though hehe..
10. Miscellaneous wedding items
If you say miscellaneous that means small-small things which if you realize it was quite a lot things needed for your wedding hehe.. I got most of the items from the small shops around ITC Mangga Dua (Jakarta), the list of items I got were flower girls accessories, mine and my sisters hair accessories, bridesmaid accesory for mingle, corsages for family which I mentioned before.
The last one is the first souvenirs I planned to use, handphone chain. Actually it’s a cute one though, the chain shape were various type of chinese colourful clothing. But too bad, my dad and my hubby said that it’s not so suitable as it is too small as a souvenirs for our guests.
I have ordered quite a lot, feel a bit wasted. But fortunately I have an idea to staple it together with my free bookmarks given by our bridalshop. As a result, almost of the bookmarks are finished left only 3-4 pieces, dunno whether the guests took it because of our photos or because of the handphone chain.. haha
PS: hope can sell the rest of the unused handphone chain items as it’s good for wedding souvenirs though.. ohh ya I forgot, I also had bought a pair of cute Teddy bears from one of the book store in Bugis (Singapore) to replace the handbuoquet throw so we throw a pair of Teddy bears to the group of single guys and gals The lucky go-getter that night were both from the guys, maybe the gals were not so quick to jump to get it hehe
Think most of the vendors’ review already been included in above list, will add up if I remember something else.. hehe
The related photos of my Jakarta wedding can be seen under my Wedding Page Gallery
