Shopping for our wedding band!

Hi there!

To continue from my last blogpost on choosing the perfect wedding band, i am going to share with you on our strategy for wedding band shopping~!

To start off, Bee and I prefer to go for ready made wedding band.
Our artistic talent is as good as zero so if we can't find any wedding band that we like, then we will find a design that we want and get it customized (:

We started off with online shopping to see what are the trendy designs nowadays
We made a total of 2 trips for shopping:
1st trip is to see what designs are available on the market and price range with no intention to buy
2nd trip is to look for more choices but this time with the intention to buy

A list of shops we visited:

1) eClarity

Our first and topmost choice would definitely be eClarity!

Bee bought the proposal ring from eClarity (so did many of his friends) and he has very good reviews of Amanda and her team. Because he is now a member of eClarity, we can get up to 40% off the original price (if you ever visit them you can say you are recommended by singapore bride forum and you can get 30% off too!)

As eClarity has got an online website, we did our online shopping with eClarity to see what they have before going down to their shop. You have to make an appointment and can do so via their website.

On the day of our appointment, we are lucky we decided to call eClarity first to confirm our appointment. Turns out they had brought their full collection of wedding bands to BOWS event at bugis for that day (if not we would have made a wasted trip down to Orchard).

BOWS event requires registration in order to make purchase at the fair and it was quite a turn-off because their registration was so frigging troublesome! We had to register like 5 times before making a successful registration as their webpage kept hanging (the staff explained that wifi there was bad). Not a good excuse actually because we spend like 20 minutes trying to register?!?

We made a beeline for the eClarity booth and spent like… 20 minutes at the booth and we left.
Reason?
We didn't manage to find anything that would wow both of us and the shopping experience wasn't exactly that good at the fair.
- Cramp booth without proper seats for us to sit down and slowly choose (the only 2 seats were occupied by another couple)
- Bad lighting at the fair that doesn't accentuate the wedding bands that they have
If we had gone to their shop, it may have been a completely different experience.

The good thing about eClarity is that after we find a design we want, we can choose to customize the material, finishing etc. If you have a design in mind, you can look for eClarity!


2) Poh Heng

Poh Heng has only the cherish series of wedding band.
So if thats not what you are looking for, you may skip the trip.


3) SK, Citigems

Didn't see anything we fancy in these 2 shops
The shopping experience at these 2 shops wasn't really good (salesman feels a bit ah beng ;x)


4) LeeHwa, Soo Kee, Gold Heart

I personally feel that these 3 shops belongs to the same tier.

One thing that I don't like about LeeHwa when we visited is the extreme lighting they use on the wedding bands. Too shiny to the extent I can't even see the wedding bands properly!
I'm quite worried about LeeHwa's quality as i have read bad reviews about their workmanship from other bloggers/ forumers.









However, this Lee Hwa Destinee wedding band (or something similar) caught my eye when we were shopping for our wedding band! I like the sleek look and bling bling Destinee diamond! Very stylish!
However, the matching wedding band for Bee was quite plain so we decided to give this a miss /:

Sookee is not bad, but the price is a little over our budget.
This wedding band design is what caught our eyes.
Comfort fit and quality looks good! Very solid!




In the end, we decided to buy our wedding bands from Goldheart!
Reason is because we felt the service and price is good.
There was a 20% off for normal range and 5% off for celestial range when we were there.

We bought our wedding bands at slightly more than 30% off the original price as they are having special discount price for some designs. Original price of the wedding band was about $2500!!



I went to singapore brides forum and saw that a forumer was quoted something similar (by another shop) for almost $900 more than what we paid :D that feeling is damn shiok!



Goldheart has a special engraving service for $38 per ring that you can engrave anything you want!
From signatures to handwritten messages to chinese wordings! Pretty cool!
But for normal engravings (standard font), its still FOC.
As mentioned in our previous post, we are still putting the engraving on-hold for now as we have not confirmed what to engrave ;p

Additional Tips

For wedding band shopping, i think Bugis is a good place as most of all the brands of jewelry chain other than poh heng is there! Jurong point is a good place for westies to recce as well!

Always keep a lookout for discounts and ask people around you if they have membership cards to help you get more discounts etc (e.g. Goldheart gave me a membership that would allow 20% off regular priced items)

Not to forget for shopping malls like jurong point, if you have spent a certain amount you will be able to redeem freebies. As all these gifts are first come first served so its better to go in the early afternoon to make your purchase so that you are able to redeem the freebies using the receipt. If you go later in the day when everything is fully redeemed, then you won't be able to get anything.

On top of that, as each ring is sold separately, get the sales person to split the receipt into 2 so that you can redeem 2 sets of the freebie since wedding bands are large-ticket items (:




Getting the perfect wedding band for our big day is a big milestone for us!
Looking forward to the big day!
Hope all BTBs feel as blissful as I am feeling now!