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Sage Monkey
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tzechuk
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sistersarah
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:08 am Post subject: |
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yeah, i wouldn't buy a dress for a wedding here. you wear it for about 2 hours....we're having a wedding ceremony in may and we are doing what a previous poster did....going for the package deal.....my husband's dad negotiated 1.8 million won......we get
tux and dress rentals for studio photos and wedding day (and dress fitting)
4 photo albums
a DVD
4 big framed photos
all photos on CD
hair and makeup
free bouquet
...i can't remember what else, but it's a big relief to have all that taken care of....i thought of buying a dress, but then...nnoooo.... |
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Sage Monkey
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:12 am Post subject: |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Sage Monkey wrote: |
| sistersarah wrote: |
yeah, i wouldn't buy a dress for a wedding here. you wear it for about 2 hours....we're having a wedding ceremony in may and we are doing what a previous poster did....going for the package deal.....my husband's dad negotiated 1.8 million won......we get
tux and dress rentals for studio photos and wedding day (and dress fitting)
4 photo albums
a DVD
4 big framed photos
all photos on CD
hair and makeup
free bouquet
...i can't remember what else, but it's a big relief to have all that taken care of....i thought of buying a dress, but then...nnoooo.... |
You did really well on bargaining the price down! How about the in-house catering costs? For us, it cost just a little more than the ceremony package did. Though, we didn't really have that big of a ceremony, only about 135 people. |
But the catering is another issue. This is purely about dresses, or that's what I took it to be... |
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peppergirl
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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About renting or buying the dress... Depends if you're having another wedding in your own country later. That's what we did, so I had to wear the dress at 2 different occasions and I don't think they would have let me take a dress to Europe for a week. I only wore the dress for 2 hrs at the Korean wedding, but danced all night in it at the other wedding  |
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sistersarah
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:20 am Post subject: |
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You did really well on bargaining the price down! How about the in-house catering costs? For us, it cost just a little more than the ceremony package did. Though, we didn't really have that big of a ceremony, only about 135 people.
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yeah, that's gonna be a whole other ballgame. we haven't even compiled a rough guest list yet. i think it's 20,000won per person. i know my side's guest list won't be too long, but i don't know about my husbands....  |
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Dazed and Confused
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a little larger than your average marrying Korean girl. I wanted a particular style of dress-STRAPLESS! When I went dress shopping in E-dae I realized very quickly that it was impossible to get the dress I wanted or one that wasn't busting at the seams. I had a choice to get a dress made to fit and then rent it or buy it. In the end I had a dress made for 800,000won and kept it since the price difference was so little. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:06 am Post subject: |
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Wow... 2million.... so cheap!!
We used a wedding shop in apgujeong-dong... it was well over 5m!! |
My friend's marrying a k-girl next month so this thread's vaguely interesting to me.
Do you know what kind of honeymoon / holiday you could have in SE Asia for 5mn if you just eloped? Unless your parents are picking up the tab I cannot for the life of me understand what someone would see in this ... and by some standards that's a really cheap wedding. |
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Buff
Joined: 07 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| tzechuk wrote: |
Wow... 2million.... so cheap!!
We used a wedding shop in apgujeong-dong... it was well over 5m!! |
My friend's marrying a k-girl next month so this thread's vaguely interesting to me.
Do you know what kind of honeymoon / holiday you could have in SE Asia for 5mn if you just eloped? Unless your parents are picking up the tab I cannot for the life of me understand what someone would see in this ... and by some standards that's a really cheap wedding. |
That's very true. Honeymoons are nice and I'm certainly looking forward to ours. For me personally though, a wedding is the way to go. My fiance's parents are pretty "progressive" compared to what some other people have gone through when marrying a Korean. They love me and we have their blessing. His extended family is going to take more time to get used to the idea of the second son getting married before the first and to a foreign woman. If we were to elope, I think it would cause far more difficulty as far as there being a good relationship between our families in the future. So I'd rather trade an awesome honeymoon for a harmonious relationship for our families.
To me a honeymoon is just a vacation and if we want a bigger one we can put it off until later. But that's just me I suppose. Different strokes, y'know? |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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My husband paid for everything.
Not trying to boast or anything, the 5m was just on having the wedding dress altered to my size, have some gloves made, some flowers, make up and photos etc. We had to pay the church aside - but that didn't cost much; and we had our reception at what used to be the Swiss Grand Hotel, now the Grand Hilton - that also wasn't in the same 5m.
I agree, 5m is not much. I know, apparently, that the standard Korean marrying Korean wedding (for middle class) is around 90m.
As for honeymoon, we went to Cheju-do for a mini honeymoon because he was busy with his business then. 6 months later we went for a 1-month trip in Europe - Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, France and home in the UK as our last stop. |
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peppergirl
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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You did really well on bargaining the price down! How about the in-house catering costs? For us, it cost just a little more than the ceremony package did. Though, we didn't really have that big of a ceremony, only about 135 people.
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yeah, that's gonna be a whole other ballgame. we haven't even compiled a rough guest list yet. i think it's 20,000won per person. i know my side's guest list won't be too long, but i don't know about my husbands.... |
Don't worry, the guests will give you money and you should at least recuperate the cost of the meals  |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| peppergirl wrote: |
Don't worry, the guests will give you money and you should at least recuperate the cost of the meals |
That's a fair assumption. You should/will get the money back. |
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