From a popsicle station to a fun photo booth, here are some of the coolest items and services you can hire for your big day. Or, for any of your pre- or post-wedding parties for that matter.
Popsicles are just the thing to serve at a charming, old-school wedding celebration! Buy the popsicles, hire the cart, and let guests help themselves the old-fashioned way.
Popsicles, $3-$4 per stick (depending on flavours), and cart, $300-$400 (one day’s rental), both from POPAGANDA. Pink plate, $2, and floral plate, $4 (three days’ rental), both from TEA AT TEN.
Sure, perfect, posed and professionally taken pictures are nice to have. Nicer still – quirky ones showing guests having a blast. And you can have it by renting a “photo set-up” crew. These experts go to your venue, set up a small, funky-looking space just for taking pictures. You’ll have silly grins all round, all night. We promise.
Photo set-up, $999-$1,899 (one to four and a half hours’ rental; includes backdrop, props and cameraman), from HELLO FOREVER at hello@hellostranger.com.sg, Tel: 9177 2644, Singapore.
Let guests indulge in some mystical fun at a tarot card reading station, or have a roving magician and entertain with the tricks up his sleeves.
Roving magician, $200 (first hour, $100 per hour subsequently), and tarot card reading, $150 per hour, from HAPPY BOUNCING, #06-20, Midview City, 18 Sin Ming Lane, Singapore, Tel: 6570 4838. Magic ball, $59.90, and tarot cards, $40, both from THE MAGIC HALL, #04-12C, Plaza Singapura, Singapore, Tel: 6887 5435.
You can set up a sweets station, decorate it to your colour theme and let guests at ’em! Don’t forget to prep small paper bags so guests can scoop and go too if they wish.
FROM LEFT Popcorn machine, $250 (two hours’ rental, includes manpower and logistics), from SCOOPY’S & CREAM. Dessert set-up, from $25 per person, (minimum order of 100 pax and five dessert items), from ET ARTISAN SWEETS. Ice-cream counter, from $400 (50 pax and above; customisable flavours and colours; choice of on-the-spot serving or pre-packed cups), from SCOOP N SHAKE, Singapore, email: scoop.n.shake@gmail.com.
Want more personality to your table? Try sleek, graphic-shaped candelabras dressed with flowers as centrepieces. Check if your florist is able to get them for you.
Flower arrangement, $400, from GREEN POINT FLOWERS, 10 Chiku Road, Singapore . Candelabras, $158 (three arms), and $220 (five arms), both from CANDY FLORICULTURE, 567 Thomson Road, Singapore, Tel: 6256 6788.
These updated versions of the classic bamboo chair jazz up any outdoor solemnisation set-up. They come in lovely gold, silver, black, turquoise and brown hues.
Chairs, $10 each (minimum rental of 200 chairs; one day’s rental; includes cushion), from WONDERLAND FOR DETAILED PLANNERS, 53 Haji Lane, Singapore, Tel: 6299 5848.
These large, stone-coloured angels are so pretty, we’re sure you’ll find a way to use them at your wedding.
FROM TOP Angels, $44; $48; $46 and $20 (angel lying on stomach, one day’s rental), all from TENTHOUSANDANGELS, #05-10, Plaza Singapura, Singapore, Tel: 6341 9318.