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.

Blackpool Wedding | Jai + Ashley : You might as well go all the way and be a Blackpool fan!!! from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

Their wedding in bintulu was warm and entertaining, as half of the bintulu people were invited to their wedding celebration, and to top it up, bintulu people are genuinely nice. It was yet another heartfelt entertained wedding, with William Lee being the emcee for the whole day has got the ground laughing away! Of course, the focus was not on William, in fact it was the newly-wed who was the center of attention. Daniel who is soft spoken, humble and a “yes” man; is the opposite of Kammy who is determined, hyper and an iron girl. Both of them make a lovely couple, as you could see them teasing each other this minute, but turns to be a loving couple the next minute. It is this magical chemistry that keeps their sparks and make them an unique couple!

DANIEL + KAMMY | WEDDING HIGHLIGHT from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

It is always interesting to shoot a different indian wedding coz the culture is always different from one another, and we get to see and experience more of other cultures. There were several prayer sessions plus solemnization that has to be done prior to wedding day for sindhi wedding, and one of the essential parts was when omesh’s shirt (that he was wearing) has to be torn by his brother and friends, right after the prayer ceremony has ended. The interesting part was omesh was aware of this custom, and was all prepared for it, coz he wore 3 underwears beneath his pants!

Like any other indian weddings, they too have a sangeet ceremony 2 days prior to wedding, where preeti’s friends from philippines teamed and paired up to perform for the lovely couple. Omesh’s cute little nephew had also made the effort to perform a dance and the kiddo did rock the ground a bit. But the best performance was none other than preeti’s solo dance for her dearest. The sangeet and wedding ballrooms were nicely decorated with an arabic and royal affair theme by Sriiya and Ramesh, creating the mood and ambience for the couple and their 100 guests! It was a great opportunity to work with poonam, ramesh, sriiya and grant corban in this wedding.

Without further ado, presenting to you Omesh+Preeti Sindhi Wedding Highlight… Enjoy!!

Omesh + Preeti Sindhi Wedding Highlight from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

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.

When we first walked into Candies Cafe, it got us ‘wow’ and stoned for a minute, and it had us fell in love with Candies on that very moment! It gives the feeling that Candies has evolved from a small place in Bandra West to a nice French cafe. It is the coziest place to hang out in Bandra and there is nothing not to like about Candies. It has over 200 varieties of food and beverages from western, eastern to local tastes, the place is so huge that it is like a maze with several sections — ground floor with fully air-conditioned; second floor onwards are fully open-air with the roof top being the garden cafe concept, it has become one of the most hang out place for bollywood stars and do not be surprised if you happen to bump into any of them at Candies! Well, in fact, we bumped into Javed Jaffrey when we were there. Do check out Javed in Candies video below that we’re about to present to you.. Enjoy!!

Candies Cafe \\ Mumbai \\ Bandra from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

Right after harith confirmed on engaging our service, we were really excited that we would partake in his wedding. And we’re grateful that Harith and Jezamine had 101% confident in us despite it was our first malay wedding coverage. On their wedding day, there were quite a big crowd of press who came to document their wedding journey and everyone was seeking to get their best angles, but luckily we had “reserved” our spots by placing our “big” tripod as our territory.

Jezamine looked stunning and gorgeous in her custom-made wedding dress, so much so that the cameras like her. During her make-up session, she kept saying that she was really nervous, and luckily she had her bridesmaids there to calm and chill her down. On the other end, Harith has got all his 4 best buddies to be his best men, and one of them is Hans Isaac. During the negotiation, Hans gave it all out to back up his buddy (harith) by getting him the best deal with the bridesmaids. Harith was rather emotional on that day as he finally has Jezamine’s hands in his.

The entire wedding was blessed by their friends and family, and of course we believe that everyone who knows harith and jezamine would be sooo happy for them.

Harith + Jezamine Wedding from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

It was really nice working with Jason Victor once more, to view more of Harith + Jezamine stills, do check out Jason Victor Photogaphy website.

Here is a snippet of our Beijing shoot with our couple Kammy and Daniel…

]]> http://www.doodlestudio.my/2010/06/beijing-14-21-june/feed/ 0 http://www.doodlestudio.my/2010/06/sikh-wedding-ravin-navin-who-do-you-love-most/ http://www.doodlestudio.my/2010/06/sikh-wedding-ravin-navin-who-do-you-love-most/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:25:53 +0000 Emmaline http://www.doodlestudio.my/?p=1675 Ravinder and Navinder is such a romantically in-love couple, the fated thing is that they share almost the same first name, with only an alphabet difference! Both handsome gentleman and pretty lass tied the knot over the weekend, and it was one contentful weekend filled with fun, joy and laughters…everyone who was present could not help but to enjoy themselves to the fullest, booze to the fullest and alas ‘bhangra’ to the fullest!!

Despite it was our second sikh wedding yet the first in malaysia. And it was one great experience for both photo (by aaron chin photography) and video team (lester, jared and me), and it was kinda special as it was also our first wedding with flycam (thanks to sean seah for offering to self-deliver the flycam all the way from singapore to kl).

Ps: Thanks ravin and navin for being so accommodative during the shoots, and thanks for having us there to be part of your day. Was wonderful working with you and aaron’s team. Here is the extended version of the wedding highlight that we’re about to premiere… Do let it load fully, then blast the volume for some live audio whilst watching!!  Cheers..

Sikh Wedding | Ravin + Navin from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

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

JAI + ASHLEY | MUMBAI WEDDING HIGHLIGHT from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

It was definitely the most unforgettable experience ever, as the workshop was contentful and meaningful, and best of all, we get to make so many new friends, from videographers to photographers (yeap, even photographers are interested in videography!), from near to far, participants travelled from singapore (sean seah from firewerkzfilms, shiwei, roger and ming song from lighthouse studio) and malaysia (benny and ivan from keep gallery, john and ian from istudio) to philippines just for this academy class!!! Not just that, even mr. Bob Nicolas (another world reknown wedding cinematographer) and his brother were at the academy graduation. We’re so honored to have him and his brother to be part of the panel judges!! Such great opportunity to meet with all the pros..

And the Mayad team members are so young yet talented.. we ought to salute them! Thanks guys (Alvin, Jose, Cecil, Sheena, Aleyn and Marga) for your hospitality and we hope to see you guys soon! Paalam…

Here is our group 2 (shaky-cool) concept video assignment with our model couple: amee + prince. =)

Group 2 from Mayad Studios on Vimeo.

And ta’daa… here is highlight video of Mayad Academy Pro-Weddings, shot and edited by Mayad team!! Enjoy watching!

Mayad Academy 2010 Pro from Mayad Studios on Vimeo.