Banquet Venue

So ironically after setting our heart's on The Regent from the start, we found ourselves leaning towards another venue and finally putting down a deposit for Marina Mandarin instead.

The Regent was my choice venue from the beginning. I loved that they included a jazz band in the package and the ambience as well. The staff were great and the food was good too. My heart was set from Day one and when I first brought E to see the place, he fell in love with the place too. However, one factor made all the difference to us and I'm sure many couples would have this problem.

Cost.

Though it wasn't the most expensive place around, the pricing is relatively competitive, but with prices rising everywhere, every cent counts for us, especially when we have to consider that we're getting a house at the same time. So that couple of thousand dollars difference matters to us.

In fact, like I've been telling my friends, Marina Mandarin was never on the list of consideration, but fate intervened. Everything just happened to fall into place at the right time, so we decided to take it as a sign from above. E says it's God, I say it's my grandparents blessing us. But whoever it is, it's still a sign to us, and so we went with the flow and so here we are. Come 2009, it's a Marina Mandarin wedding for us :)