Our Reception Hall

I think I haven't yet spill any details on our reception. But I think some of the readers ada terbaca mana-mana entry I yang cakap pasal hall kan? ^_* 

So...yup...my reception will be kat dewan and my fiance's reception kat rumah. 

Hall hunting is sooo crappy bila your wedding will be held on hot dates...like this year....date 10.10.10..or November...and even December where sekolah start cuti etc etc.

Originally, we planned to get married on 20 October on Wednesday and have our reception on the following Saturday. But we couldn't really finalized the date until before our engagement because of my fiance's nature of work. Yup..that's true, people! I have to squeeze in the wedding in his busy schedule. If not...tak kahwin la kami. Sob sob.

I start hall hunting few weeks before my engagement somewhere in February and trust me....sangat susah. Terutama Community Centres (aka Pusat Komuniti...after this will be known as CC. Community hall  aka dewan serbaguna is another story). DBKL punya CC almost fully booked during our hall hunting. Sangat susah...kami pergi merata tempat nak cari hall....and called sana sini to confirm the date. Hot places like TTDI CC and Bukit Damansara CC...jangan harap lah nak pakai on  October onwards if tak book one year before. 

Like seriously babe....I at that time have no freaking idea kena book setahun awal. Rasa nak mengangis je sebab tak jumpa hall. 

If u guys tak tahu lagi....DBKL punya CC sangat affordable. Deposit untuk semua CC under DBKL is RM 300. The hall renting is only RM 800. Beza dari satu CC ke satu CC yang lain is the price of renting the carpet which is compulsory in each CC. Example...Bukit Damansara CC yang squarefeet nya lagi besar dari TTDI CC...carpeting dia akan differ by few hundreds....but yet still affordable. 

Hall under DBKL pun still quite new...so design hall dia cantik with ample parking spaces. That's the no.1 criteria bila I cari hall...sebab I tak nak my guest datang merungut susah nak park kereta.

Nak rent hall kat Uni I ni....punya lah mahal....banquet saja dah RM5,500...tu belum lagi the actual hall yang price dia RM 15,100. perghhhh.....untuk bride yang under tight budget macam I ni...halls macam tu is a big no no.(If dari awal I tahu my pakngah nak sponsor dewan...I dah minta dah hall ni... =P)

Halls under Majlis Perbandaran Selayang (MPS) pulak....I rasa rate dia lagi mahal. Plus the design of the hall itself macam dah lapuk di telan zaman. My fiance memang sangat pantang halls yang macam ni...dia kata macam tempat sembahyang s**h. hehe. And the area around the hall biasanya congested. Susah nak park.

But then, luckily, we've found this one CC near our area yang free on 26 December which is one week delayed from our intended wedding date. Oleh kerana sangat susah nak book hall...kami terus je agreed untuk book the dewan on that date. 

The architecture of the building sangat cantik from outside...tak macam hall pon. Seriously. My parents and PIL pon bila tengok picture hall tu diorang sangat suka.

The ceiling pon cantik...takde lah nampak besi-besi palang kat atas tu macam kat TTDI CC. Then the inside pon quite ok. Tak la besar sangat tapi hall tu boleh consider baru...coz baru dua tahun siap.

So...last few weeks, kami dah measure the hall and the stage. Then...last weekend dah pergi jumpa decorator untuk bayar deposit and bagi measurement. Bukan nya apa...pelamin dewan kena bersesuaian dengan besar stage tu..sebab tu kami beria nak measure the dewan hari tu. 

Then....from the measurement...baru lah boleh confirm kan pelamin pojaan hati tu boleh muat ke tak kat stage tu. So...Alhamdulillah...I dah pass this measurement kat decorator...and pakcik tu kata muat. hehehe.

Hurm...OMG....I dah spilled out the detail....habislah kena marah....ampunkan kami penunggu gua. T_T