Japanese Bridal Studio / Good Food / Good Game

As I mentioned before, I sent numerous emails to the different Japanese bridal studios. Finally, I have confirmed one of the studio's details. The studio's name is Recuerdo. The link is http://www.recuerdo.co.jp/. Here's the breakdown of the prices. 

Photographs (200 photos)

Male and Female Kimonos

Tuxedo and Wedding Dress

Makeup & Hair Stylist (Western)
1 Small Item
Attendant

DVD-R (200 photos)

Car

Subtotal: ￥172,800
20% discount: - ￥34,560
￥10,800 gift voucher: - ￥10,800
Subtotal: ￥127,440

Flower headdress for Kimono: ￥10,800
Kimono Inner Wear x2:  ￥2,160
Bridal Inner Wear: ￥1,080
Subtotal: ￥14,040

5 people: Couple, Makeup & Hair Stylist, Attendant, Photographer

Sorakuen: ￥900 for venue use

Sorakuen: ￥300 entrance fee per person (300x5) = ￥1500

Egeyama: ￥900 for venue use

Transport fee: ￥10,000

Subtotal: ￥13,300

Album (http://www.recuerdo.co.jp/album/analog.html): ￥54,000

Subtotal: ￥127,440 + ￥14,040 + ￥13,300 + ￥54,000 = ￥208,780

8% GST: ￥16,702.40

Total: ￥225,482.40 (about S$2,781)

Both Sorakuen (相楽園）and Egeyama Park（会下山公園）are in Kobe. Fortunately, based on Google Map, from Osaka (Recuerdo's shop location) to Sorakuen only takes 35 mins drive.

Sorakuen is a very nice place with both Japanese and Western buildings. The best part about these 2 places is that they are nearby (15 mins drive). Below is a picture of the train line service which has these 2 places and the hotspring which I want to go. So Cool! They are all so near!!

Here's some pictures of Sorakuen and Egeyama Park I took from the Internet.

Japanese style in Sorakuen

Western syle in Sorekuen

For Egeyama Park, it is said to have beautiful Sakura flowers. Here's a picture.

Sakura trees in Egeyama Park

So Happy! I am still confirming the above prices with the studio but more or less, the prices are as such. It's half as much cheaper than Lavie Bridal Studio (http://www.la-viephotography.com/index2.html). Lavie is a really good Japanese bridal studio but it's simply too expensive for me. T_T The reason that Lavie is good is that they have a translator that accompanies you throughout the shoot. For Recuerdo, I have to depend on my Japanese skills. I hope I can make it. =x

Other than emailing all the bridal Studios, I was spending time marking my student's PSLE paper. In case if anybody who doesn't know what is PSLE, PSLE stands for Primary School Leaving Examination. It is an Singapore's national exam taken by Primary 6 students (12 years old) and its score determines if the student gets to a good school or not. Anyway, PSLE is really tough, even I need lots of time to just do one of those questions. >_<

By the way, I went to this good restaurant at Plaza Singapura for the last weekend. The name is Lao Beijing. The shop's website is http://www.laobeijing.com.sg/. They have delicious Xiao Long Bao with superb nice soup within the bun. Sorry that I didn't take any photos. That time, we were so hungry then we all started eating when the food came. Lol. After the dinner, we went to Mind Cafe to play board games. We played Saboteur and Sequence. Here's some pictures of the games. Have you all played before? ^_^

Saboteur Card Game

Sequence Card Game