rico-a-mona bridal

I'm seriously a procrastinator. Our wedding is over coming to 2 months now and I am just re-starting to blog about it.

Budget & Choices
La Belle Couture
The first bridal we checked out was La Belle Couture on Tanjong Pagar stretch. No special reason why, only because couple of their gowns caught my eye when I browsed through magazines. But we found the range too little, price were competitive with rico, photos too little, they are not very flexi in giving more photos, photography wasn't nice even though they showcased it on the iPad and we had no affinity with the salesperson. So we left it at that.

Z Wedding was another bridal that I was extremely keen in but the bad reviews I read online scares me so much I didn't even want to try. I heard their package is really costly too, going over $5k. Definitely out of my budget.

rico-a-mona bridal
We chose to check out rico-a-mona bridal partly because di gio gowns ALWAYS catches my eye when I browse wedding magazines. But then there were so many couples around me who were with di gio. I didn't want the 'usual' di gio style of gowns. So I was more interested in rico-a-mona seeing that they have alot of intricate detailing in their gowns. They also offered us a package within our budget probably coz they knew I was going to check out MDW, so without visiting My Dream Wedding (which was in our initial plan), we signed with rico with 35 photos in the $3,488 package. I didn't even nego for any MTM gowns because I have no flair for gowns designing. At the end of the wedding, after exchanging photo frames and small album for extra poses, I got 40 poses in the package and topped up 5 extra photos at $75 each.

My Dream Wedding
Husband do not like MDW partly because he finds they are really so hard-sell when we visited their roadshow, to the extent that he felt they are too blatant in wanting to dig our pockets out than create a happy wedding for us. The other reason is also because I do not like their gowns. Always over the top I felt. But I found their photography not too bad.

Even till now, we were still glad we chose rico-a-mona bridal. They are very flexible and accommodating to our requests. No regrets. They just meant to make it a happy experience for couples. Sometimes they forget things they promised but those were small issues, everyone makes mistakes, so we let it go. Not harping on forgotten promises is important because they have so many couples to attend to. Their follow up is quite good, though we had to ring them up to ask if our photos were ready at times.

Photography
We liked the korean styled photography we saw in one of their showcase albums. The colors were vibrant and editing of the mood was right. The photos layout were also nothing like any other bridal, they were featured like a photobook - neat and structured layouts, not the overlapping styles of conventional bridal studios. End of the day, we input our own ideas and we were proud of the outcome and we had many great feedback about the pre-wedding album from our friends on the wedding day!


Gowns & Suits
I loved my day/evening gowns and his suits. They had slim and stylish Korean blazers. Very cute. My husband is slim and tall so the korean-styled suits fitted him to a T without making him look awkward in a western suit. However, they do not have skinny fit pants, most were quite baggy and thus didn't look that good. So he wore his own. They also have tuxedos and western suits for grooms to choose from. Overall, selection isn't a lot but they have a good variety of styles and colours - grey, dark blue, black, hot pink, yellow etc.