EVENT: Wedding Expo

Yesterday, we attended the Wedding expo at SMX. Yes, we are planning but not as serious as others would. Then why attend an expo?

ü  It’s free

ü  No commitment whatsoever

ü  And one of the surprises, you get to win something J (btw, I won a pair of earrings from wedding library and a bottle of red wine from themesandmotif’s raffle draw sponsored by Patio de Tata Roque Catering Service)

Why else wouldn’t you want to go?

Aside from soon-to-weds, fresh wedding planners would have the expo educating and extremely helpful what with all the suppliers and their fliers all over the place.

So, how did we know of this event?
Originally, we were scheduled to attend a wedding expo at NBC Tent last August but we forgot about it. So, we took the next one that we saw at MOA.

You don’t really look or read posters unless it’s very interesting (graphics or copy) or you find it relevant. ­– and this one was!

How did you register?
We went to http://www.themesandmotifs.com/ver1/ and registered and voila! We got ourselves a free pass. Wasn’t that delightful?

It was a 2-day event, Saturday and Sunday. We attended the Sunday event, got there by 11:00am, filled up the registration form and received our IDs and a map. We were instructed to go to redemption booth/area to claim our loot bag.

Once you step inside, except to be mobbed by fliers of suppliers thus heading first to redemption for the loot bag.

Loot bag has a Manila Bulletin newspaper inside. (Another freebie). Was the loot bag helpful? Definitely. We placed all our fliers inside so we don’t lose them.

We spent almost two hours looking and collecting whatever it is we thought were important:

1.          Catering – one of the biggest allotment to our budget
2.          Photo & Video – we are not very particular but it was nice to see their works and find the cheapest of them all

Note-worthy:

One of the nicest flier/brochure we received was from Blissful Occasion Event Organizer which has a checklist of what you’ll need then their contact number at the back. It was function and ads in one and until now it serves as our guideline for the whole planning.

Another is i-Flick, a photo booth which gave a free try. Although all photo booth gives a free try, their booth assured us that there are no repetition of background for their client. In short, they don’t recycle. Add the fact that it was charming that the old man, probably the owner, who was all smiles was hands-on on the business. We were sold.

We did not give any down payments for any of the suppliers. We knew that we need to think things through before making that decision. You may want to or not. In the end, the biggest impact of the expo to us was to start taking it seriously even if the plan is next year or next, next year. Taking this first step convinced us that we have to start now or we might never start at all.

Before we headed for the exit, we won a bottle of red wine (see details above) from their hourly raffle.

I would have taken a picture of the event but cameras aren't allowed. :(