It is our first sindhi wedding, yet a destination sindhi wedding in Kuala Lumpur, where Omesh is from NewYork and Preeti is from Philippines. Both groom and bride family, relatives and friends flew in from near and far (and none of them is from malaysia) to join their 3 days wedding celebration in JW Marriot and Westin KL. It was interesting when we first introduced to Preeti and her family by Poonam (the wedding planner), we had a deep first impression on uncle Charlie (preeti’s dad) coz he is such a funny, joyous and loving husband and father, the first meeting was nothing formal or unease, was more like friends get-together.

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!!

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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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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.

Creswell + Melanie| Mumbai Wedding Highlight | from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

Having a perfect ‘Cinderella’ wedding has always been the fantasy of many women out there. Of course, i am not excluded too! Every couple wants their once-in-a-lifetime wedding to be an unforgettable ones, and the terms ‘awe-inspiring’ and ‘glamorous’ are not out of the equation. Not talking about the grand ballroom banquet. But a “dreams come true” wedding.

The dreams of walking down the aisle in a white wedding gown, footprints left on a private sandy beach, breeze of the coastal wind, announce the-ever wedding vow as the sun sets into the goldish coastline and as the gentle touch of waves sweep the white talcum beach. It is a dream wedding. A beach wedding. A destination wedding. Best of all, it is your ultimate private nuptial.

Perhaps you may find the answer at Avillion Resort Port Dickson.

Tumasek Beach, Avillion Resort