Goodbye, my Beloved TD2000

3 Nov 2008 - It was one week, one freaking week to our actual day and the company we booked our bridal car from informed us that the car we booked kana repair and won't be available on our wedding day!!! Liew!!! Kitty was more pissed than I was, I suppose, as it was one of the rare times he called up the other party to give them a good dressing down without me asking him to.

Liew, to think that we had actually cancelled the Mercedes (the usual 4 door series with the 2 big headlights) that was included in our bridal package and paid a lot more just to book the vintage TD2000 and now this had to happen!!! And 1 week to our wedding day somemore!!! They think we are very free to go car hunting or what??

Kitty managed to get the company, WeddingCars.sg to compensate our loss by paying for any extra cost (if any) if we book another car from another car rental company. Over the next 3 days, we made countless calls to other car rental companies to search for the TD2000 but luck was not on our side. Of the whole of Singapore, there were only 2 other companies that rent out the car.

1) J&J Auto

2) Funcar Auto

J&J Auto only had the TD2000 in GREEN as they had sent all the white ones for scraping. Of all times to scrape the cars!!!!! The green is UGLY. So thats out of the question.

Funcar Auto had the exact model but we came across a rather negative comment on the forum about the vendor who was said to be quite unreliable. We decided not to take the risk of ending up with no car on our wedding day.

We then decided to book the BMW Z4 series, but WeddingCars.sg only managed to find a Z3 in grey colour.... sianz.

Bye bye. my beloved...

In the end, we booked one of the very few choices left available - the Mercedes SLK. Still feeling bummed about not getting my beloved TD2000, I asked Kitty to demand compensation. As we didn't really like the bridal car decor (from photos that we have seen) that was included in our bridal package, I asked him to get the company to provide free decor for the SLK. Haha, after much debating over the phone, he managed to get WeddingCars.sg to do the car decor at no additional cost! We thus cancelled the car decor service from our bridal package and got them to provide us with 7 sets of following car ribbons instead, haha!

Every cloud has a silver lining. At the very least, we won't be car-less on our wedding day afterall.

- Phebe