Our Wedding Planner - ROM

I always thought that professional paid Wedding Planner and Wedding Coordinator are people who are trained to ease your worries and are really reassuring, but my experience wasn't really that way..

I am quite a perfectionist, I use to console myself this way "Lower your expectation in people so that you will not be disappointed."

But now I feel that I should be more forgiving and appreciative towards people's effort, even if you feel that they didn't try hard enough. 

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Wedding was quite a stressful and crazy moment for us.. (I think even to most people)

Initially we thought that it should be very simple because we have lots of time (slightly more than a year), and we only want to hold a small ROM ceremony to invite immediate family, some close friends and colleagues. 

I wanted a fairytale like kind of wedding, very romantic..dreamy and be Princess for a day.. I think this is what most girls wanted for their wedding haha. 

I had an rough idea of what kind of theme I want, but I do not know where to start.. 

Then I met DDW, I sign up their service because I thought that wedding planner can guide me along so that I will not make wrong decisions on stupid mistakes, discuss ideas with me on the decor and help us to maximize our budget.. 

But I must say it was not that easy.. I had a lot of worries in between when coordinating with them because they were so busy with other couples. =X

Sorry to say that but that was really how we felt at that time.. 

They were so busy we hardly see any progress on our wedding preparation, sometimes we couldn't reach them and many times they can't even meet their own dateline and we have to remind them and chase for their reply.. 

There wasn't much assurance and everything was unclear, we wasn't really sure what to expect, we felt like we had so much time at first but have also wasted so much time waiting for them to act.

We can only keep asking question to make things clear at our end, and try to fix as much as possible to form it into "our wedding". We are quite disappointed that most of the replies and ideas they gave to us were "copied" or "templates".  

I have so much ideas, I did research and specifically tell them what I want.. but in the end can't really work them out.. 

 Most of the stuff they offered to us were also quite expensive, we thought that they could help to "source" for cheaper ones or suggest more different options for us in order to maximize our budget, but that was not really the case.. in the end we stretched our budget because we really want it to be perfect.

I felt that towards the whole wedding, we didn't have enough understanding and discussion.. I didn't know what they can/can't do, and they didn't really understand our needs.. 

I did the DIY cards for our wishing table because I wanted something more "customized" at low cost and I'm really happy with the result.. 

Arranging cheesy and ah lian to throw the flowers upon announcing man & wife because Hubby was informed last min by Lily that our JOP don't practice march out.. (we wasn't even sure until the day itself..lacking communication.)

It felt kinda screw up at some point, 

but luckily they manage to deliver something out in the end.. the decor was beautiful.. 

And I know they manage to solve the non-light-able candles on the table due to the fan, replacing it with LED candles.. Maybe on the day itself have more other hiccups which they manage to fix it and I didn't know too..

The service on the day was great, no big hiccups and the event went on smoothly.. 

I remembered having a discussion with Hubby, he was worried that DDW might screw up our wedding  (eg. wrong flowers, because we only finalized the flower 1-2 days before the actual ROM day) lol.. 

And I told him that I don't care how much worries and poor service they had given me for the 1 whole year of preparation time as long as on our actual ROM day they gave me the decor we agreed on and the event run smoothly with no hiccups, then I will feel that the money paid to them are worthy already..

So I must say that regardless of what kind of process we've been through previously..

They still deliver what they promise in the end.