When there's no other way to negotiate for lower pricing, the other alternative is to "seek comfort" from freebies!! This is called in hokkien saying ~  "No prawn, fish is also good". And I think the fish in this saying is probably those tiny silver fishes, and not grouper etc hor. =p

Freebies to negotiate:

1) Food tasting ( to my horror, this is not a standard item in the package for quite a few hotels that we went lor)

2) More carpark coupons

3) Wine/ beer

4) Anniversary night stay in the hotel for the next year

5) Day room (this is compliment room for your helpers to groom themselves before the banquet, in addition to the standard bridal room. Note most of the hotels do not provide this)

There could be more stuff to ask for, but I'm inexperience! So that's all I can think of, most of the items (e.g. room credit, ang bao box, wedding cards) are given by the hotel without me asking. Dun tell me if there are more items to ask for, I refuse to listen! =p

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A "sneak preview" of the menu!

1) Appetizer (smoked duck / prawn salad / wu-xiang / spring roll / mini octopus)

2) Braised Shark's Fin with Fresh Crabmeat

3) Roasted Chicken with Cracker

4) Fish in Garlic Sauce

5) Scallops with Mashed Taro

6) Vege with Lingzhi Mushroom

7) "Ee-Fu" Noodles

8) Yam Paste

We have not yet given our choices, so these are just tentative selection. Let me know if you know that any of the dishes above are not so nice, so that I can choose another one!