Singapore wedding banquet costs: what ++ really adds, from eight hotel price lists

What ++ adds to a headline price

In these documents, "++" means two charges are added after the printed price. The Hilton document says ++ is a 10% service charge and prevailing GST. Amara's says prices are subject to a 10% service charge, then prevailing government taxes, without naming the tax. The Andaz document is the only one that states a rate, at 9% GST. This guide uses 9% for its examples and flags it as an assumption wherever another document is concerned; the order of the charges is also assumed to be the service charge first, then GST on the total.

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So the S$1,888 headline is S$2,263.71 per table once both charges are added, which is S$375.71, or 19.9%, more. Across a banquet of 20 tables, that is S$7,514.24 beyond the headline subtotal of S$37,760. Whenever a price list shows ++, multiply by 1.10 and then by the GST rate before you compare it with anything else.

Five per-table price lists

All five were read on November 6, 2026, and none prints a document date. Amara's is a hotel PDF titled 2026/27, Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium's is a hotel web page, and the other three are copies of venue brochures hosted on Singapore wedding listing sites, so any of them may have changed since it was uploaded. Some of these documents give no hotel name inside them, so they are identified here by where they were found.

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Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium also lists a time-limited offer, its SG61 offer, at S$1,708 to S$1,908 per 10 persons for 2026 (S$1,758 to S$1,958 for 2027), running from National Day to the end of the year. Its standard 2027 range is S$1,819 to S$2,019. The page uses "nett" and does not say what that covers, so it is not safe to treat a nett price as ++ or as an all-in price without asking.

The floor decides which hall you can book

The table count in a price list is not a detail. It is the rule that decides which room, and sometimes which price, is open to you. Hilton's document sets different ranges for each room and session. A banquet of 20 tables fits its Imperial Ballroom but not its Grand Ballroom, which starts at 26 tables for lunch, 28 for dinner and 30 on Saturday. Amara's package needs 20 tables in its pillarless ballroom, Marriott Tang Plaza's needs 20 tables or 200 guests, and the document filed as Wedding Dinner Package 2026 gives 18 to 26 tables in its Balestier Ballroom and 10 to 12 in a smaller room. Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium has the lowest floor of the five, at 8 tables for its ballroom banquet.

If your guest list is below a hall's minimum, you have three choices: invite more people, pay as if you had, or use a smaller room. Ask for the smaller room's price before you assume the large hall's price applies, because the Hilton table below keeps the same price per table in both rooms for lunch and Monday to Thursday dinner.

Day and session change the price, and sometimes the menu

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Hilton's Saturday dinner is S$300 per table more than a Monday to Thursday dinner, which is 15.1% more, and Friday, Sunday and eve dinners are S$100, or 5.0%, more. The document also pairs the higher prices with an eight-course menu and the lower prices with six courses, so part of the day-of-week gap is a longer menu, not only a busier date. Amara's weekday S$1,888 is for an eight-course menu. Marriott Tang Plaza's list covers weekends, eves and public holidays only, at S$1,738, and the document filed as Wedding Dinner Package 2026 covers Monday to Thursday only, at S$1,638, so neither can be compared directly with the other's missing days. Compare menus course for course, not only price for price.

Extras priced separately

Each list includes standard extras, but several items are charged on top. These are the figures the documents print.

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Hilton's document also sponsors invitations and favours up to S$3 per guest before GST, and each package comes with a champagne toast, soft drinks, tea and a beer barrel. The point of the table is the order of magnitude: one extra beer barrel at S$600++ is S$719.40 after both charges, and a suckling pig upgrade across 20 tables at S$298 per table is S$5,960++ before the charges. Decide which extras you actually want before comparing the total.

Per-person price lists

Three of the documents price per person, and each carries its own minimum number of guests.

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A per-person price is easier to read than a per-table one, but its floor is in guests, and the Four Seasons-labelled document does not say which of its minimums applies to which ballroom. At 200 guests the Andaz Saturday dinner price of S$258 comes to S$61,868.40 after 10% and 9% GST, which is S$309.34 per guest, and the S$228++ price in the Four Seasons-labelled document comes to S$54,674.40, or S$273.37 per guest. Those totals are not comparable one to one: they cover different halls, menus and inclusions. For how to compare a per-table quote with a per-person quote, see the guide on per-table and per-guest pricing.

A 20-table comparison using only published rates

To compare the per-table lists, this table prices 20 tables at the lowest rate each document offers that fits 20 tables, adds the 10% service charge, then 9% GST, and divides by 200 guests. It leaves out Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium, whose nett price has no stated charges, and Hilton's Grand Ballroom, which needs 26 or more tables. It assumes ten guests per table, which the documents do not all confirm, and the days and menus differ.

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On these rates, 20 tables cost S$39,279.24 to S$54,866.24 after ++, or S$196.40 to S$274.33 per guest. That range is partly the menu, the day and the hall, not only the hotel. At its own minimum, Hilton's Grand Ballroom costs S$66,741.14 for 28 tables on a Monday to Thursday dinner and S$82,299.36 for 30 tables on a Saturday, because the floor is higher. The worksheet lists these and the per-person examples, with the arithmetic and the caveats.

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Questions to put in writing

• Does the ++ mean a 10% service charge and then GST, and at what GST rate?
• Is "nett" an all-in price, and if so what does it include?
• What are the minimum tables or guests for my date, hall and session, and what happens if fewer attend?
• Which menu, with how many courses, does this price cover?
• Which extras, such as beer, wine, corkage and upgrades, are charged separately?
• What are the deposit, payment schedule and cancellation terms, and until when is this price valid?

What these price lists cannot tell you

They are published list prices, not negotiated or paid prices. Only two of the eight documents sit on a hotel's own site, none prints a document date, and the copies hosted on wedding listing sites may be out of date. Several do not name the hotel inside the document, the Marriott Tang Plaza document prints only "$" without naming the currency (assumed here to be Singapore dollars), and the 9% GST rate comes from one document. All eight are hotels. This guide did not find current published price lists for Chinese restaurants, so it says nothing about them, and it covers no venue outside hotels. It gives general information, not financial advice, and describes no personal experience. If you are paying from another currency, the guide on budgeting in two currencies converts S$ banquet totals to US dollars at a dated reference rate and shows what a rate move and card fees can add.

Sources

Each page was read on November 6, 2026. None of the documents prints a document date.

• Amara Singapore Wedding Packages 2026/27 (PDF): hotel PDF; S$1,888++ per table of 10.
• Hilton Singapore Orchard 2025/2026 wedding packages (PDF): copy hosted on blissfulbrides.sg.
• Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium Chinese weddings and solemnisation: hotel page; footer shows only 2026.
• Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel grand ballroom wedding lunch package 2026 (PDF): copy hosted on blissfulbrides.sg; weddings through December 31, 2026.
• Wedding Dinner Package 2026 (PDF): copy hosted on singaporebrides.com; hotel not named in the document.
• Wedding Package Andaz Singapore (PDF): copy hosted on singaporebrides.com; per-person rates and 9% GST.
• FSSIN 2026 Wedding Lunch Package (PDF): copy hosted on singaporebrides.com; names the Four Seasons Ballroom and Crescent Ballroom.
• John Jacob Ballroom Wedding Packages (PDF): copy hosted on singaporebrides.com; weddings from April 1, 2026.