Wedding ang pow advice

Detached SG

Ya hor, dun go also good, just ask frens to give $60 or $40 dollars can liao, then the extra $40 can go eat at hawker centre good foods with frens or family...yeah!!!

Anyway 5 to 6 stars Hotel wedding foods sucks.

What's with people these days? Tsk.

angel7030 SG

What's with people these days? Tsk.

you dunno meh, today got people only, but to human liao

Hello Kitty SG

4 seasons cnfmd at least $100/pax one.

Meat Pao SG

My understanding from reading your posts is that you are quite unwilling to go.

In this circumstances, I think u can consider the option of not going.

Perhaps you can politely come up with a white lie as an excuse.

I think you will be fine with that. And they will also be fine. My feeling is that people will be forgiving of other people who do not like to attend gatherings or parties, etc.

So just think about this.

Or....if you think that you "must" go and the option of delicately excusing yourself is not going to be positively received....well...just go then...just go and enjoy your time, listen to the music, eat good food, spend time there relaxing...hmm? Dont think too much about it.

de_middle SG

actually i dun get why i shd always give enough to match how much they spend. i din ask to be invited, i din ask to go to an expensive place. and it's not like i need to return the favor.. because i held my wedding... only ROM followed by dinner with small group of family and friends.. that was a few yrs ago. my mum stopped bugging me to get a chinese wedding dinner... which suits me fine, because i dun think it makes sense to blow so much money on just one night (and I dun even think I will enjoy myself, and I'm sure i dun like the attention), and it doesn't make sense to go backward now that we have made progress in our marriage ... I want a wedding?

So, bottom line is i think it's just sad if i need to cough up $ just so people can have their grand weddings which i dun really care about, (unless it's a close friend), and yet since it's a colleague i see everyday it's hard to reject and not go... why cant people be more discriminate in who they invite? it's like they dun hav anybody to invite, that's why they need to invite so many colleagues... or because it's perceived as easy money.. wtf

why bother its a close colleague anot...just say not free lor. done that so many times liao

FireIce SG

4 seasons
weekday $88
weekend $100
based on per person

yamizi SG

I poor fella, I standard give SGD80 nia no matter where is the venue for Chinese Wedding dinner.

FireIce SG

as i mentioned earlier and 2836476235476 times before
there is no standard formula to calculate the accurate ang pao amount

just go by ur gut feel and how close u are to the couple
and oso ur ability

less headaches and less such threads
and less couples who are trying to earn money from weddings

Beautiful951 SG

as i mentioned earlier and 2836476235476 times before
there is no standard formula to calculate the accurate ang pao amount

just go by ur gut feel and how close u are to the couple

less headaches and less such threads
and less couples who are trying to earn money from weddings

And less irratable people coming to post on such threads and less people give angpow and less people getting married.

yamizi SG

And less irratable people coming to post on such threads and less people give angpow and less people getting married.

you can always get married without throwing dinner what

even if you want to throw a dinner, it should out of the good will in inviting your loved ones to celebrate the cause, not out to earn monie

Beautiful951 SG

you can always get married without throwing dinner what

even if you want to throw a dinner, it should out of the good will in inviting your loved ones to celebrate the cause, not out to earn monie

Hohoho. Merry christmas

yamizi SG

Hohoho. Merry christmas

Happy 牛 Year =)

Beautiful951 SG

Happy 牛 Year =)

clever boy

mancha SG

Sorry, maybe I wasn't being very clear.

I've never attended a Chinese wedding at the Four Seasons before, and I've been asking around about the ang pao market rate for weddings held there. But no one has been able to give me an accurate range. I have no idea where else to continue asking or how to start calculating wedding ang pao rates (if there is even such a thing).

I want to give a reasonable ang pao for my ex-colleague, even though I belong to the "junior staff with moderate income" category and not much balance left now in my savings account to boast about. He belongs to the higher income group and well-to-do family, while I don't.

That is all. I'm asking very nicely already. Just don't associate me with the one who started this thread. Thanks very much for your response, anyway, Mancha. Nice shot of sarcasm there, first thing in the morning, and not much information that might help me one bit.

Four Seasons is 5-Star, isn't it? The range that people have been giving me are like SGD 60-80 for a wedding lunch held there. Some say SGD 80 is good enough. How do I calculate how much I should give? This kind of information is good to know for a goondu like me. At the end of the day I'll probably be slipping in something like between SGD 100-150 for him. After that I can forgo lunch until my next pay-day. Yes, it is that bad for me.

So can anyone assist? If not then please save your respective snide remarks (if any) for others. Thanks very much...

Wah lau eh!

Kokeshi, you take the cake, for insecurity.

It is repeated again and again, it is up to you.

Problem is you've got no guts.

Maybe one day we will need to engage a professional consultant to estimate the precise amount to give. Quite complex, like feng shui, need to consider many variable factors like relationship, location, status, economy, number of persons, type of dishes, etc.

Bear one thing in mind, if you give the precise correct amount, you will not be remembered. After it is over, it becomes a non-event, no one remembers anything. We move on.

Ask yourself what are you wrenching your guts for? And for whom?

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