It is an 8 years love relationship across 2 states, Melbourne and Perth for our couple Thanushka and Anojan. They finally got married back in November with the presence of all their relatives and friends who flew in from far and near to witness their celebration of love. Thanushka and Anojan had 2 wedding ceremony, the first was Church wedding in Melbourne and then a Sri Lankan wedding in Perth Australia. The two weddings were held across 2 cities over 2 weeks duration. It was a joyous occasion with non-stop partying between the 2 families.
There is only one word to describe this couple. They are simply fabulous people. They both make a beautiful perfect couple. Here is a beautiful wedding to share with you… Enjoy.
Shannon and Premela is one cute couple. Shannon would always stay calm and cool in whatever situations, and let the wedding take its course. Yeap, that’s the coolest groom ever! Premela on the other hand is a bubbly and all-smiley-happy bride who just kept smiling all through out the day. While we were covering her on make-up in the room, she even commented and said that ”you guys are so serious!!”, and she was not at all nervous, in fact she was thrilled and excited that it’s finally ‘the day’. Shannon on the other hand, tried keeping his cool, jokingly said that “i’m worried that prem would not come to church, thinking that she might back out at the last minute..” hah! Our pilot groom sure knows how to crack a joke anytime and anywhere. We have seen shannon and prem teasing each other during their daily lives, even during our meet-ups.. and this is part of their love sparks. Presenting to you, shannon and prem wedding highlight video.. Cheers!
We have had the wittiest groom in the last post, now we have our next funny yet shy groom, Kristofer. Kris is a phillipino who grew up in malaysia. And melinda is like a career woman who is capable of handling all the wedding planning for their wedding. This couple has nothing less than any ordinary couple, just that they have an extra bit of cuteness in them that would steal the limelight of others. When we were with them, they had this fantastic ‘special’ bond and we could just sit and watch them have their conversations. lol. If one’d been with them, you’d know how cute they’d get! =D
During the prep in shangri-la’s hotel, kristofer was shy to let us shoot him when he has no t-shirt on! Yup, he is this shy… and we think he definitely is a keeper. He showed us all the Gucci presents that melinda had gifted him through out their dating years, and said that he’d been keeping them for their ‘big day’ coz very ‘sayang’ to use it. How thoughtful of him. Since he is a phillipino, him and his bestmen had put on their tradition clothes, which is called the ‘barong’ instead of tux!! On top of that, kris and mel had both prepared a present for each other, as according to kris, it is the phillipine-chinese tradition. Guess what, they both got each other a Bvlgari watch!
Melinda is every guy’s girl and she is definitely kris’ dream girl. Well, kris fell in love with melinda at first sight and waited till the day she gave him her phone number. She is down-to-earth despite her status, humble and nice girl who is just the prefect one for kris.
This video credit should go out to kris who suggested that they would read out their message to one another and the outcome is amazing… good job guys! ;)
It was just about 3 weeks back that we were in mumbai to cover melanie and creswell’s wedding. And now as i am typing this post, all the mumbai experiences that we had with the newly-wed, their bridal family and friends flashed pass my mind. It was quite an unforgettable wedding.
I could still recall creswell’s answer to our question when we asked was there any specific reason that they want their wedding to be in St Francis Xavier Church at Vile Parle, he said it is because this is the same church where melanie’s grandparents and parents got married in and it is in the same town where she spent most of her early childhood years at. And we were not even surprised to learn that they had friends, family and relatives who flew all the way from dubai, chennai and goa to attend their big day in mumbai!
On the bollywood night, it was a real nice experience when we get to see most of melanie’s close friends prepared a good number of performances on stage to entertain the couple and guests. But the fun did not stop there, the fun was followed by the roce ceremony. To see how crazy was the fun, watch their video here.
And on the wedding reception at Hyatt Regency Hotel, the fun and joy was tripled of what we had on the first two days. Boy it was all about dancing and booze-ing, so much so that the dance floor was filled with people all the time. The Dj kept playing retro songs throughout the night as mel and creswell love retros. Hence, we chose a retro song for their wedding highlight video. Hey heys, retro songs rock! Reason being? The retros got the guests’ feet on the dance floor and what do you know, they are all fantastic rhythmic dancers, it felt almost like a high school prom night where their moves were in sync with the music!! The sight filled us with awe. We could just watch them dance whole night long.
They both have such kind and charitable hearts that they had an auction on the top layer of their wedding cake where the proceeds would be donated to the Mother Teresa’s Shishu Bhavan fund. Guess what? The highest bidder was Joanne from dubai and her bid was INR 50,000!! That is close to RM6,600. And the rest of the guests had also donated generously, and the total donation collected on that night was INR 1,17,450! It is the newest idea to have a charity auction on wedding cake on a wedding reception, and yet still be able to help the needy.
It is our great honor to be there to film their pre-weddings and wedding cerebrations, and we certainly gotta thank Rochelle (mel’s sister who has done so much for their wedding preparations and to have arranged everything for us), mel + creswell, the bridal party (chris’s brother jon, anthony, dominic, steve, rochelle, jennifer, rutania and michelle), the ‘little princess’ sadaf (who is so adorable!!), julie (the american photographer from dubai), ryan (the audio manager), joe (the emcee), the harding family, the rebello family, and all the friends and relatives of mel and creswell who have been so so so accommodating, welcoming, friendly, supportive, helpful and nice through out the 3-day wedding filming plus our entire stay in mumbai. It has been an incredible experience and we enjoyed every little bit of our stay there! And it is the most enjoyable wedding that we have covered thus far.
Thank you for having us there with you guys and look forward to seeing you soon in dubai.
Simon – attended his cousin’s wedding on a one fine day
Leena – was always tagged along to jessica’s family outings, did the same on the same day, has followed jessica family to the wedding function [ahem..without proper "invitation" as quoted by simon ]
Simon + Leena – became friends some time thereafter…
Simon, who is a truly shy guy – was shy to declare his love to leena
Leena, who is a straight forward girl – made the initial move to declare her love to simon
Years have passed, finally had their wedding on the same day as simon’s birthday. It truly was a meaningful “ten-ten” wedding at the tropicana resort ballroom! Not only did they had their wedding car plated 1010, simon even sang a song to his beloved wife upon their entrance march-in during the reception night. Surprise surprise, none of us expected it as simon is rather a shy guy, but he sang really well and now we all know that he is a good singer.
Not only was their wedding an exciting one, but it was more like a friends gathering to us, as we got to meet and catch up with several of our clients, like jessica + suraj, kavi + santhra, and their family =) The feeling was so nice as though we knew everyone there and as if we are a part of them. Anyway, we really want to thank simon + leena for having us there to be part of the celebration and we would like to say we had real great time hanging out with you guys during the pre-wed shoot a couple of months back.
Here you are guys, hope you enjoy watching this highlight video ‘because you live’ to love one another… ;)
Both sasi and pauline are the teachers of god’s special children and they both have a tender loving heart for these special children. And the doodles team is honored to film their wedding and had the privilege to document their life styles when we covered their pre-wedding earlier ago.
Sasi and pauline had their garden wedding back in september in a cozy bungalow called hideway. It is a bungalow located out of the busy city and pauline had been planning for the decorations for months prior to their wedding day. She had spent so much time planning for her wedding and would not let a tiny detail slips through as she wanted their wedding to be as perfect as possible. True enough, their wedding day was filled with lots of fun and love was in the air for the newly-wed. Pauline’s dad had given the most touching yet funniest speech of all, and it almost brought tears to the newly-wed. And pauline had also performed a song (Stand by Me) to sasi where she delivered via sign language…and sasi were speechless but felt loved altogether…and kissed her when she finished singing. It is really sweet to see them both lovingly together.
Pauline + sasi, thank you for your time with us and your hospitable during our shoot. Best wishes from the doodles team… =)
We first met suraj + jessica back in march this year. Our first impression on jessy was that she is a bright and happy-go-lucky girl, and suraj was rather the cool type as he barely talk much. But the impression on suraj has changed after we had covered their prenup outdoor shoot and the casual interview session some time back in july. It was then we could see that suraj is actually a shy guy and it takes him quite some time to get close and be comfortable with people. Hence this explains his “coolness” on our first meet up. Well, of course, all his “coolness” was off the chart as we met up with them again in july to cover their prenup shoots. Both jessy and suraj were accommodating during the shoots and had arranged to have our brunch together, so as to break the ice before the shoots! Hehe… guess it did help as thereafter suraj was not shy to unfold their love story with us.
On their wedding night, one of the highlights of the day was when jessy danced along with her dad in the 90′s songs. Her dad, mr louise had stolen some of their limelight on that day, but it was all because jessy has been dearest to him. Hence she had arranged to have her duet dance with dad, after her first dance with suraj. When jessy and her dad was on the dance beat on-stage, they had the guests cheers and attention, for they rocked the party!!!
Here is their wedding highlights. Hope you guys enjoy watching! (Note: let it load fully before viewing. =) )
melvin and sharon is the total opposite of each other. when they unfold their story with us, we were shocked to learn that melvin kept picking on her and bullying her until her secondary years. but little did they know that god has had plan for them from the day that they met eyes about 20 years back. they then became childhood enemy for years until the day God decided to put a stop to it, thereafter they became close friends and it was also when melvin secretly fell in love with sharon — for 6 long years! he held his feelings for so long and she had no clue that all along his “mystery” girl was actually herself! the fact that they had nothing in common nor share any same interests did not stop them from loving each other more. both mel and sharon had gone through many obstacles that were thrown at them during their dating years, but none of that stopped him nor her from being together. it is truly a dream comes true for both of them to walk down the aisle together as husband and wife from today forward.
many had asked and was curious to know how did their love story started. and that was why they had the emcee sharing their story to the guests before premiering their sde live. as the emcee was telling their story, the entire floor of guests were in all ears and attention, until the end of the sde showcase! everyone was so interested to see their sde and we were no exception at all!(despite we filmed and edited their sde, yes we still watched it together with the guests as it really was touching…) also, we had stationed another cam just to capture sharon and mel’s expression as prior to the reception dinner, they kept asking if they could view it beforehand coz they just couldnt wait till then, but we insisted them to wait till the premiere. (hehe..yeah that was bad of us but gotta keep them in suspense. lol) after seeing their expression, we were more than satisfied and no words could describe how we felt. but the bottom line is that we were glad that they loved it and enjoyed watching the video, as much as we enjoyed editing the clips. one part of us was nervous, while the other part of us was touched to see them happily married after all the hardships.
simply amazingly touching love story… and every family members and guests felt it too for they were all with happy tears and smiles to see mel and sharon walk hand-in-hand as husband and wife.
to mel and sharon: the doodles (yinhon, jared and myself) would like to wish both of you a happy and bless married life, and hopefully with many children to come in the near future. congrats again and thank you for being so accommodative and sharing your inputs with us, as your involvements have made the sde a success! thumbs up and cheers. =))
Wedding Venue: Sri Nagara Thandayuthapani Temple Klang | Church of the Divine Mercy | Hokkien Hall Klang
Groom: Jagdeve
Bride: Dina Maria
Wedding Planner: Jay’s Perfect Dreams
Photographer: Jason Victor Photography | Nick
Videographer: Doodle Studio
Our very first combination wedding — Dina & Jagdeve, our very first couple who got married in two wedding customs, both temple and church wedding. The reason being Dina is a Catholic herself. Hence the combination wedding. And we had the opportunity to film their weddings about 2 weeks back.
It was yet another wonderful experience as we get to work with all familiar faces in the industry — Jay from Jay’s Perfect Dreams for wedding planning and decorations, and Jason Victor from one of the 7 signature wedding photographers. It was great to work with Jason again since our last wedding assignment. And Jay, needless to say, has always been helpful and accommodating to ensure that the entire weddings went all well.
On their temple wedding, Dina looked stunning in her wedding saree, and her smile was filled with happiness. It is no doubt that she has certainly found the man of her live, the man who would protect and love her unconditionally. And Jagdeve who has the easy-going-kind-of attitude could easily hype up the atmosphere, let alone the stage. Boy, little did we know that both Dina and Jagdeve are good dancers, Dina’s brother would have came up with such heartfelt speech, and the fireworks moment on their reception too.
Nevertheless, the wedding was smooth sailing. During the shoot, I had a small chat with Dina’s mum and found out that it was their family first-timer in an Indian wedding, as they are Catholics. She claimed that it was a rich yet colorful indian wedding, which was truly an eye-opening for her.
Our friend, Nick has helped us to capture several photos on their wedding…thanks bro. Here are a few of the candids from the lot.
Wait no further, let’s check out Jagdeve + Dina wedding highlights video … Turn on ya speakers and enjoy ….
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