Jai and Ashley is one of the most loving couples that is rare to find on the street. They are like soul mates that are passionately bonded and glued to one another, their eyes would always lock to each other’s, always intensely romantically in love with each other like there’s no tomorrows. It is no surprise to find that everyone loves being around with this newly-wed, and it is hard not to fall in love with Jai as she is such a wonderful-sporting girl, with a caring and kind heart, plus an infectious and warm smile that could easily melt one’s heart. No wonder Ashley would go all the way and give all out for her, ‘coz she is definitely a keeper!!

Their wedding in Blackpool Pleasure Beach was a blast and it rocked the entertainment city for a while last week. There were so many surprises arranged for the guests, and for both Jai and Ashley, who had no idea of the surprises that he/she has in plan for the other half!! First, the couple has engaged the UK TV game show host Roy Walker (from the ‘Catch Phrase’ tv game show) to be the emcee of the night, 2 magicians to entertain guests with some amazing magic tricks, and some Blackpool showgirls for the guests photo-taking session. Just when we thought the surprises were good enough for the night, there were more to come. J+A has brought in the best bhangra group to perform few dances on stage, and they were hard-rockingly terrific with their moves!! Well, that was not it. They had the famous band B21 to perform a live sing to the guests towards the end of the night. The band has turned the heat up and everyone sang and danced along to their music!!

Despite the surprises that they had in store for the guests, both jai and ashley has a special surprise for each other. For all the things that Ash has done for Jai, and for the effort of courting a blackpool girl, and knowing that ash is a red-devil fan, she has pre-custom made a Blackpool tangerine jersey with ash’s name on it, and presented to him on-stage… and her exact words were “well, you have courted a Blackpool girl, you might as well go all the way and support the team!!” lol… i must say, jai has never failed to enchant ashley with her sporty charisma.

Well, the night did not end just there. Ashley had a surprise waiting for Jai to unleash… but the rules are Jai had to play and get the answers right for the CatchPhrase game in order to get the clues for their honeymoon location. Well, that was not tough at all for our brilliant Jai, she got the location right at her third box selection (3rd clue) out of the nine boxes given!! What can we say, it was a night full of surprises for the couple and the guests… and for us too. Little did we expect that Jai had actually prepared a big bouquet of flower each for us, Cory (photographer) and Jarret and Candice (MarryMe wedding planner from mumbai). We’re stoned when Jai called out our names and handed us the flowers on-stage. Jai+Ashley, thank you so much for the lovely flowers and we felt honored for your kind appreciation, we’re glad to have you guys as friends and we had fun at your wedding.

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Beijing has “wow” us upon our arrival. One of the cities that has developed so fast; with convenient public transport from buses to train systems; friendly and nice people, even the taxi drivers are polite and kind-hearted; clean and developed city with many high rise “archi-structure” buildings; wide highways with plenty lanes, had us almost jaw dropped. We have seen so much of Beijing during our stay, it’s as though we have lived there for a month!

Our stay has been pleasant and fun, thanks to our couple kammy and daniel for their finest arrangement, from food wise to lodging to transportation, all has been carefully planned and taken care of. For the first day, kammy brought us around literally to most of the amazing nice places in Beijing for a quick recce of the locations, then only moved on with the shoots for the next 3 days! With kammy and daniel around, it felt like friends hanging out talking, eating, and chatting. So we had full 2 days of shoots going on, travelling from one place to another, covering basically the entire Beijing city in less than a week! No doubt filming in beijing is nice, but it was rather hard to film at most locations as the security is pretty tight at all times. Luckily the security guards did not give us hard time and allowed us to finish our shoots!

In a nutshell, it was nice to be in Beijing and was nice shooting our loving and charming couple, Kammy and Daniel. We would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their accommodative, hospitability and friendship. Stay tune for their wedding on July 17th in Bintulu, meanwhile do enjoy their love story shortfilm shot entirely in Beijing.

Daniel + Kammy | Beijing | Love Story from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

Jai and ashley (a gujarati couple from UK) has the most unique fairy tale love story. When i first read their story over the email, i was shocked that my eyes nearly popped out! I was reading in disbelief coz it was the most romantic love story i’ve ever read, and in my heart i thought to myself that this couple must be some handsome prince and gorgeous princess to have such fairy-tale love story. True enough, when we first met them in mumbai, jai appeared to be the gorgeous, petite, sweet and kind-hearted gal; whilst ashley appeared to be the tall, handsome, gentleman and down-to-earth guy!! Lol… This couple are so deeply and madly in love with each other that they are inseparable, so lovingly-attached to one another; enjoy every minute and second of each other’s company.

When we asked why they would like to have their private wedding in mumbai, and their answer was that wedding is something very personal and that they wish to keep that private moments to themselves; and have everyone to celebrate their wedding on their reception later back in UK. And prior to having their traditional indian wedding ceremony in mumbai, jai and ashley had their marriage registration done in Las Vegas!!! This couple has their lives full of surprises everyday and he/she will never know where or when he/she will fly her/him to some surprise destinations.

This was our best mumbai trip ever, all thanks to candice and jarret from marrymeweddings — a wonderful couple, our future client, and the best wedding planner in mumbai, for arranging everything for us from being our supplier to becoming our friends in just that short few days duration!! To top it up, jai and ashley has also become more of friends than our client. It was simply marvellous, all 6 of us, 3 gals & 3 guys, and all 3 couples – 1 married and 2 soon-to-be-wed couples!!

Thanks jai and ashley for being so accommodative and friendly to us, we look forward to seeing you in UK. =)

from left: jai, ashley, jarret, candice, emmaline, jared

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Raj and hanusha — the unexpected couple amongst their college friends

When one hears about the news “raj + hanusha is an item..”, the first respond from their friends is “what?!?! you must be kidding me!!”

Reason being both raj and hanusha has always been the enemy back in college years! And it is always a wonder how they have became to be lover… well, i suppose that is how cupid works miracle on them.

We’re so happy for you guys, and looking forward to filming your wedding soon… cheers!!  :D

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Hi guys, we’re back from Bangkok!! Yeap, landed safely in KL this evening. =D

First of all, a sincere apology goes out to those who could not get through to us for the past week whilst we’re on wedding assignment in Bangkok. No worries, we got all your emails and texts and am going to start replying each of them in a short while.  ;)

Secondly, a big thank you to our UK couple who got wedded in Bangkok, Tarun + Anoushka for having us there to film your wedding. It was our first ever Punjabi (Sikh) wedding and it was a great fun to be there… a total new experience!!  Thanks again guys for all the arrangements.

Cheers!! Will keep you guys update of  Tarun + Anoushka’s bangkok wedding highlight premiere soon… Stay tuned!

January 2010 has been meaningful to us, both jared and myself. 4 years ago in January 2006, we left Melbourne for good after our study years has ended. After 48 months, we finally had a ‘come-back’ to our second home, only that this time the work-cation has turned out to be more than what it was initially meant to be! Think it was more like a transition to us.

When we were back in melbourne this Jan, it was more to us reminisced about our love journey in the past. In fact, many of our fond memories surfaced as we step foot in melbourne city. Many places still remain the same except for a few, nevertheless the feelings still remain as old times. Our shooting was pleasant and stress-free; the people, the place, the environment, the natural light source and the weather has made it so much fun and enjoyable!! And of course with the help from some very nice people like our friends gary, joey, prashaanth, anupriya, sharu and frankie, our shooting went all well. (though at times the cold wind was rather chill for the sleeveless me!! lol ) But the shooting was beyond my expectation… and i did not see it coming…

Melbourne is the place where we first met, where our friendship blossomed to another level, where we had the best uni years, where we had the booze nights with our sefton buddies, where we experienced weekends getaway and literally everything of melbourne together. And moving back to Malaysia was a transition. For the past 48 months, things had not come easy on us; we have had our hard times in relationship like a roller-coaster ride, the post career-transition criticism from people of far and near, the pressures from peers and families, the hardships and strong wills to keep believing in ourselves and our work; and all these meant a lot to us. And in that 48 months, we have learnt to accept and comprehend each other’s needs, and like any other couples, we had our fair share of ups and downs. But the transition has sculpted a stronger us in terms of friendship, working partner, lover and life-time partner. (yeap, the transition of our love to marriage!)

Here goes, presenting to you the long awaited love story….  Red & Line’s Melbourne love story “the transition”.

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Peter has a pretty much different love story short film. For the first time, we have not included the bride-to-be in a love story, and this time, peter’s love story is all about him getting ready for his wife, Lavina to move in and start a new life as husband and wife. This concept love story is based on how his life has changed since lavina came into his life; from a simple guy with no fashion sense to a fashionable man, from a guy who had no regular meals to a health conscious guy who has organic oats and tea every morning and a vegetarian these days, and from a guy who dislikes house-cleaning to someone who does house chores. The changes that lavina brought into his life has made him a better and healthier person. Despite all the obstacles that they have gone through, they’ve made it through. That is why pete wanted to surprise lavina with this video..

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Peter who is of greek background, whilst Lavina of northen indian background had a mixed culture wedding in Melbourne last week. It was a great fun coz they had a mehendi night 2 days before, and a greek lunch the day before their wedding day. This is our first experience in filming a greek event. In their greek lunch, they had their tradition greek dance and plate breaking session. Yeah the greeks love dancing as much as indians, they each have different style but are equally fun!! It was fun to be there to experience their double-culture celebration and they certainly have not missed any of the tradition moments.

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It’s Melbourne take 2 !! Yes, we are heading back to Melbourne again from March 15th – 23rd for another wedding assignment.

Whilst we are there, if you need to contact us, please drop us an email at emmaline@doodlestudio.my  and we would revert back soonest possible.

Cheerios!

Siva and gaya got wedded at the most unusual time, which is wee hour in the morning, but according to them, wee hour is the best hour to get married. Yeah, despite the wee hour, everyone seemed thrill and excited and there was not a single moment of sleepiness. It was our twice wee hour wedding, yet it was not any simpler as we had to manage our sleeping time, ie. force our body to knock-off at early evening just so we could wake up as the clock hit midnight! (ahem…it’s no joke coz we had trouble getting to bed that early and ended up did not get to shut eyes. To those shooting a wee hour wedding next time, a good advice is to have a full glass of wine before you head off to bed.. we regret didn’t do so  ) But luckily as soon as we got to Siva’s residence, we were surprised to see him sitting outside chatting with his brother and friends; and he greeted us with his most charming smile. The best part was his whole family was nice, and it sort of brighten our wee morning shoot. After about half an hour at siva’s, we went on to gaya’s. Looking bubbly and happy, she is really a simple girl, just like the girl next door. The first time we met, she told us that she had been checking out our site and we were speechless to meet another fan of ours.

Alright mate, here is their wedding SDE…enjoy!

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Nithin + Arti’s wedding was the wrap for our year 2009, and it certainly was a great wedding as we had great time covering their wedding ceremonies at Pulai Springs Resort whilst enjoying our stay there. This newly wed, based in San Francisco, had their closest friends and relatives flew in from all over to attend their wedding in Pulai Springs, and yet this couple is not even from Malaysia! Yeap, it was a destination wedding.

Arti had arranged that we could all stay in the same resort as them as this would save the traveling time and for the convenience of us to cover the preparations and ceremonies. Well, it was really cool having to just walk a few minutes to both Nithin’s and Arti’s room, their parents’ suite and we could easily head back and forth to theirs without much hassle, and even the ceremonies were held in the resort! lol.. this is the coolest part of any destination wedding! They had a total of 3 events, from sangeet to wedding to reception. That was the first time we experienced a sangeet that’s full of love and even Nithin had a special surprise for Arti, which was to sing her favorite hindi song though he is not familiar with the language. His performance did not stop just there, he had even performed 2 more songs for his dear arti. The entire night was filled with love and laughter as their close friends from san francisco and singapore gave some very touching speeches, with nithin’s uncle ended the speech by singing his self-composed song about nithin and arti!

Well, their wedding certainly was not just a normal wedding rituals, it was more like a party and a get-together with their close friends and relatives from all over. Well, they had the most simplest wedding ceremony of all, yet ensuring that all the important rituals are done appropriately, with a touch a ‘beach-wedding’ decor! Of course, nithin was dancing his way to the wedding hall along-side with all his relatives. It was truly the cooolest wedding, and at the end of the day, everyone get carried away and some started to ‘throw’ the guys into the swimming pool! Finally, after all the celebrations, this cool couple were so nice to invite their friends and relatives to join their honeymoon trip to bali. Reason being they just want everyone to join in and have fun, as they will have plenty of time for private honeymoon after the wedding. I mean “wow” they’d rather forgo their honeymoon just so everyone could have fun with them.

Presenting to you now, arti + nithin’s wedding highlights…

(to arti + nithin, thanks guys for having us there to be part of your big celebration, truly honored to be there.. =) )

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