1st Segment - Wedding Organizer - Al Matra Catering Jakarta

heheheheh..

Lama banget gak nulis di sini.. Alhamdulillah sekarang bisa nulis untuk berbagi pengalaman yang sangat menegangkan, menyita waktu, pikiran, tenaga dan emosi ini.

yep. Nikah. Wedding.

berhubung acaranya udah kelar, Alhamdulillah Sah, terlepas dari penilaian faktor lancar dan sempurna, karena yah.. tidak ada yang sempurna selain Allah,, :), maka dengan ini saya bersedia dan siap berbagi pengalaman dengan capeng-capeng yang lagi deg-deg-an, hihihi
syukur-syukur ada yang nyasar di blog ini dan menemukan manfaat di dalamnya, aamiin.

okay, 1st step setelah semua acara lamaran dan tanggal sudah ditentukan, adalah mencari Wedding Organizer (WO).
mengapa saya menggunakan WO? simply karena rencananya saya mengadakan acara di Jakarta, dengan usaha saya dan suami (saat itu calon tentunya) saja. jadi dengan keterbatasan waktu, jaringan sosial, ilmu, dan tenaga, maka kami memutuskan untuk menggunakan jasa WO.

cara kami mencari WO sebenarnya dimulai dengan googling 'Paket Wedding'. daan.. tentu saja hasilnya banyak. saya mulai membuat list dan perbandingan antar paket wedding yang ditawarkan. akhirnya terpilih ada tiga WO (berdasarkan price list di web masing-masing) yang ingin saya ajukan ke kangmas.
setelah itu mulailah kami menghubungi WO tersebut dan mencari waktu untuk melihat kinerja mereka, atau yang biasa disebut dengan istilah Test Food. yep, mungkin ada juga yang setelah menentukan WO baru kemudian test food, tapi yang saya lakukan adalah test food dulu. hahahaha

cara test food kami adalah mendatangi WO tersebut di lokasi pernikahan yang sedang mereka handle.
di situ kami bisa mencicipi makanan yang dihidangkan, melihat dekorasi, make up dan busana, serta kebersihan dan kesigapan petugas catering. kebersihan dan kesigapan petugas catering menurut saya sangat vital, karena saya pasti mengernyitkan dahi jika menemukan ada tumpukan piring kotor yang diabaikan begitu saja di acara pernikahan.
ohiya, dengan cara test food seperti itu kami bisa sekalian cek venue. hehehe
dan, numpang sarapan di weekend, maklum saya anak kos, hahahahahaah

ada juga WO yang kami datangi tanpa menghubungi terlebih dahulu. waktu itu kebetulan ada venue yang ingin saya lihat, alhamdulillahnya setiba disana kebetulan ada acara. langsung deh sekalian ketemu WOnya.

dari hasil googling maupun cek venue langsung ternyata belum ada yang sreg. ada yang tidak rapi dan songong, ada yang ga sreg, ada yang biasa aja. sengaja tidak saya sebutkan, karena itu penilaian personal, mungkin kalau capeng yang lainnya bisa jadi sreg-sreg aja :)

suatu ketika, saat kami sedang di Al Azhar, kebetulan sedang ada acara nikahan di aula masjidnya. iseng-iseng kangmas nanyain WO-nya, eh kami diajak test food sekalian.
hasilnya, lumayan. nama WO-nya adalah Al Matra. sebenarnya usaha utama mereka adalah catering, namun mereka juga menyediakan paket pernikahan.
kami mulai cocok dengan WO ini, apalagi mereka sangat helping saat diajak berdiskusi. maklum capeng, baru pertama kali nikah. *eh.
jadi mereka sangat menyenangkan untuk diajak berdiskusi tentang limit budget, venue yang diharapkan dan lain sebagainya :)

kami sampai dua kali test food dengan Al Matra. pertama kali di Al Azhar, kedua di Deptan Ragunan.
setelah kami yakin dengan Al Matra, mulailah proses pembayaran, negosiasi dan pemilihan venue.
dan alhamdulillah sangat helping. di awal.
ahahahah
kenapa saya menambahkan di awal? karena ada suatu kendala yang tetiba terjadi. yah, namanya nikah ya, ada ada aja. ahahah
yep, yang awalnya nge-handle saya ternyata resign. akhirnya diganti dengan orang lain, masih dengan Al Matra tentunya. nah disini nih mulai. info penggantian ini pun saya terima 15 Maret, which means less than a month before The Big Day. bwahahahhaah. apalagi karena jatohnya limpahan kerjaan ya (saya sih mikirnya gitu), makanya saya sepertinya agak diabaikan. tetiba penggantinya susah dihubungi, tiba-tiba gak ada kabar lanjutan dan harus konfirmasi ulang lagi paket dan kesepakatan apa saja yang sudah disetujui.
bahkan saat mau ketemuan dengan orang gedungnya, tiba-tiba Al Matranya hilang. tadinya janji jam 13, baru nongol jam 16. hari kerja. saya bawa calon besan dan satu koordinator acara yang juga ijin kantor. bahkan orang gedungnya jadi gak percaya gitu kalau saya jadi nikah. Undangan uda kesebaar Paaakk!! *teriak pake toa dari lubuk hati terdalam yang keluarnya berbentuk butiran air dari sudut mata

well, tapi saat acara berlangsung dan setelah acara selesai, terlepas dari kecerewetan saya maupun koordinator terhadap Al Matra, komentar kawan-kawan saya yang hadir cukup menyenangkan.
Makanannya enak, petugas cateringnya sigap, tidak ada piring kotor bertebaran, bahkan kawan saya yang hanya ninggalin piringnya sejenak karena diminta tolong menjepret foto jadi kehilangan makanannya yang belum habis. nyahahhaha.

ah ya, vendor make up dan busananya juga keren. namanya Sanggar Galuh, lokasinya di Jl. Kebon Jahe 2. teteh-tetehnya sangat helping, dan make up-nya awesome. :)
terlepas dari masalah-masalah ketidaksempurnaan dan ketidaksesuaian antara ekspektasi dengan kenyataan, Al Matra udah cukup keren. :)

so, kalau ada capeng-capeng yang penasaran, mungkin bisa dijabanin test foodnya. harmless kok. :)
semoga lancar sampai hari H yaa... aamiin

Pesan seorang ayah kepada anaknya - Gintama Version

Umibozu to Kamui.

yes, it's a 'piece' of a cliff

Pesan pertama.

Pesan kedua

*tepokmukaSada

dan inih, nyelip dikit gak apa apa ya..

rr... Okay? O.oa

Poor Sadaharu when Kagura left #1

Poor Sadaharu when Kagura left #2

Gagal MoveOn - Akihabara & Mugiwara Store Shibuya

another Gagal MoveOn series.

so it's 23.31 now, and i'm still here reminiscing about one of my Alhamdulillah moment.

yep. Akihabara.
my first time being in touch with anime was when i'm a Junior High School student. or was it senior?
i don't really remember.
i mean, yeah, i do watch Doraemon, Saint Saiya, but the one that stole my heart is Naruto. with Akeboshi's Wind, plus the forever awesome Kakashi Hatake.

but that's it, i love to watch the show, but then it was discontinued. at first i felt sad, but honestly later on i kinda forgot about it.
eventhough i was so eager in watching it. haha

and then when i went to college, one of my friends told me about One Piece, but unfortunately i wasn't really into it because the awkward drawing. i mean, human rubber? like, really?
and then another friend of mine showed me the university's students' paradise.
Internet Cafe.

it has a looot of anime. and then i found it. i found my lost love, Naruto.
so i copied it and i watch it in my room.
and guess what, just by hearing Akeboshi's wind, i cried. yep i cried. no s**t, huh. it just felt nostalgic.

and then when i failed my final exam, i stayed in my room, and in two weeks i finished One Piece from episode #1 to #200something, i forgot. and i found another love.
Tony Tony Chopper. the forever cute doctor.

after i officially became an employee, the first thing i bought is a secondhand Chopper figure. it's quite big.
and then next thing i know, i became Chopper Figure Addict. i've been to Kaskus, Ebay (my favorit), Bukalapak, even Tokopedia.

so it was just natural that i came to term Akiba. or Akihabara.
the Otaku paradise. in Japan. where all anime came from.

so it was just natural that i wanted to come to Japan.
it was totally natural that i wanted to visit Akihabara.

then..
yep. Alhamdulillah, directly from Haneda Airport.

Akihabara Station

my friend and i still have our backpack with us, and it was kinda hard to walk around with it, so we decided to put it in a coin locker near the station.
the information/tourist center in Akihabara Station really helpful. they gave us an english map of Akihabara for free, and they can speak english as well

it was still early in the morning so most of the stores were still closed.

since the wind was quite strong and we were cold, we decided to warm ourselves up. where?
the place where i found the most delicious french fries i ever ate. or maybe it was just the excitement speaking. haha

Gundam Cafe - Akihabara

after warming up, we began to move, since we thought maybe the stores already open.
there are a lot of anime stores there. i can't even decided where to begin. so we just kinda going to the farthest first and then going into any stores we passed on the way back to the station.

first we went to Akihabara crossfield. little did i know that it was the same place where one of Steins Gate's scene based on. nice.

Tokyo Anime Center - Fourth Floor of the UDX building in Akihabara Crossfield
but i didn't find any Chopper there.

i forgot the store's name, but it was kinda sucks that the Chopper that i want is the one that's "Not For Sale". sigh.

actually there were more than 5 stores that we visited but i didn't took pictures in most of them. i was too focused on finding a worthy Chopper to spend money on. but then i finally found the place.

it was just there. saying that Japanese Anime Goods Shop, 2F. Alhamdulillah i noticed it. >_<

Akiba 1131 building. that's the lift to go to 2nd floor.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

yep. and i spend quite a lot there. haha
we also stops at Adores, Animate and Mandarake as well. but nothing really caught my eyes there.

actually, there's Tokyo One Piece Tower in Tokyo Tower, but its pricey. it's a theme park, and i bet it's awesome. but it's pricey. 3.200 yen for adults. well i prefer to spend those money on Chopper figure.
so, to heal my thirst of Chopper, we went to Mugiwara Store in Shibuya.

we got lost a bit, but the scenery and the street in Shibuya is somehow unique, that i even enjoy being lost. it felt unreal and i thought i was lost in anime or Jdorama's scene.
we thought that Mugiwara Store is a building itself, but it turns out that it's located inside PARCO shopping center, on the 6th floor. it's free. :D

 

my friend wanted to go to the restroom when i noticed this cute lovable footprints.

and guess who i found at the end of the footprints.

 

Happy!!!

so, these are the Chopper-y things that i bought from Akihabara and Mugiwara Store. i forgot the price, sorry. noted that i even treasured the plastic bag i got from Mugiwara Store. oh, actually i got one gift from a friend who visited Tokyo One Piece Tower, and i also asked for the plastic bag, haha.

i don't think i have the heart to use it properly.

 

 

 

 

 

ah, the frame is custom made. i ordered it when i arrived in Jakarta.

this one is a gift from Tokyo One Piece Tower.

 

so, it's already 1.00.
i guess i need some sleep.

well, overall,,
the only thing that i could say is.. Alhamdulillah.