BaliVIP Made Our Dream Wedding Came True
We just had our wedding in early December 2023 with BaliVIP as our wedding planner. I am sure most of the newly wedded would say “omg its finally over” right after they finished their reception dinner, but it’s not us.
When Via and Arlyn from BaliVIP finished the handover and left our hotel suite, the first thing my wife told me was, “I am so glad that we have done this. I will definitely recommend my friends to have their wedding overseas in Bali.” And I would give all the credits to BaliVIP and our consultants Via, Jennifer and Arlyn.
We are from Hong Kong and the traditional wedding here is boring – 4 hours of reception dinner with 300 guests who you barely interact with them. When we decided to do something special in Bali, we started to gather information and look for a wedding planner. We met a few in Hong Kong who claimed to be experts in overseas wedding, but none of them has even gone to the resort we wanted. We really wanted to do this but we had to confirm our investment was placed correctly. After seeing many negative reviews of them, we almost lost our hope and decided to go with a boring wedding, but our friends reminded us that we could find a local wedding planner. Bali is a wedding hotspot and the wedding planners there who can survive the competition must be true experts.
We started to look for the Bali wedding planners online. I’ll be honest – I was scared because I have never been to Bali and I wasn’t sure how the business works there. Again, this is a big investment and the whole preparation process was all based on trust. Then it came to my mind that in such a wedding hotspot, there must be a Bali Wedding Planner Association. Veronica is the current Chairwoman and this gave a lot of credit to put my faith in her company BaliVIP. I contacted a few planners and BaliVIP’s responsiveness was the quickest.
After a few research, we already knew how we wanted our wedding to be, but we needed someone who could execute it, and there’s where Via and Jennifer stepped in. Based on our initial requirements of venue, guests, decoration and catering, Via gave us a proposal over the initial Zoom call. One thing I can tell objectively is that BaliVIP is a good business partner because the hotel personnels were very responsive to them. It is very convincing when our wedding planner is a personal friend with the event manager of the hotel. Not to mention, right after our initial meeting, before we placed our deposit, BaliVIP created a WhatsApp group for us that included Veronica to oversee our wedding. This gave us motivation to choose BaliVIP in no time.
Jennifer provided the quote to us in weeks with various vendors. Everything was very reasonable and clean to understand. We spent 7 months to plan our wedding and the first phase was completed in 2. Towards the 4th and 5th month, Via had helped us to decide the dinner menu, decoration, drink list, room arrangement and procedures. They have a detail document to keep track on our process and request. Says, when we requested to do a traditional Chinese tea ceremony where we would kneel to our parents, they provided the cushion and porcelain tea set so that we did not need to bring the props all the way from Hong Kong. December is a rainy season in Bali. When I asked Via for a contingency plan, she could immediately give me the answer over the call based on her knowledge to the resort layout.
We completed the whole wedding plan 2 weeks before the ceremony day, so I was not nervous at all. They were so well prepared on the big day to handle all the ad-hoc tasks. Arlyn and Jennifer are the most improvise persons I have ever seen. With them managing all the crews and tasks such as attire steaming service and the makeup artist service for the Bride, bridesmaid and mothers, my wife and I could savor the moment and enjoy the wedding time with our guests. This is why we needed a wedding planner, and BaliVIP is more than just a wedding planner. They are a friend and the pride of Bali. Their professionalism and welcoming attitude gave us a very positive impression to Balinese. I am glad that we have chosen BaliVIP, and you will regret if you are considering but didnt.