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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This is our first Punjabi wedding assignment and yet it is also a destination wedding in Bangkok last week on 15th – 18th April. The interesting part is that both Tarun and Anoushka has some 100 friends and family flew over from London, States, Canada, Australia and India to celebrate their four-day wedding events in Bangkok; and to top it up, it was the same week as Thailand’s Songkran celebration (also known as Thai’s New Year)… and the fun was all-over the city!!

It was a contentful wedding with our wonderful couple. Tarun is one interesting groom with a good sense of humor, he could rock the floor each time he cracks a joke, and leave everyone laughing away helplessly!  No wonder Anoushka could not stop smiling and laughing when he’s around. Anoushka is a cute and pretty bride, with an infectious and adorable smile that melt people hearts. No doubts they are a beautiful and loving sikh couple, it had people add a smile watching their wedding highlights video. The funny part was when tarun and his bestmen were negotiating with anoushka’s bride-maids for the releasing fee in order for him to bring his wife back home… lol. The girls had no idea that Tarun has had his shoes hidden in one of his aunt’s handbag all along!! Tarun, you nailed it man…

It was really interesting filming their wedding and we did had lots of fun. Thanks tarun and anoushka for having us there in bangkok for their wedding and it was really a new and amazing experience for us as it’s our first sikh assignment.

TARUN + ANOUSKA | BANGKOK WEDDING HIGHLIGHT from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

It was surely a celebration of culture for ragu and shalini, where they celebrated their love with a mix of punjab and hindu culture, and it was one of the most colorful weddings. It was the first time we saw a groom in turquoise and they both looked awesome and matching. The color made us felt so afresh; and shalini has got the infectious smile (just like her mum) that added zest to our shots and made our shooting fun.

We had some great time filming their sangeet, wedding and reception and would like to thank ragu & shalini for having us there. Cheers!

SHALINI + RAGU | SAME DAY EDIT from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

After having watched prashi and anu’s ’sweetie & cutie’ love story, many of you may be eager to see their wedding highlights. Here goes:-

Prashi and anu got wedded back in January in Melbourne, with the presence of their relatives and friends who came from near and far to celebrate their big day. Despite they have lived in aussie for over 20 years, they do not forget the traditions and customs, for they still practice their tradition wedding rituals. Their parents had even special order a mandap from india just for their wedding use, just to name a few here. To simplify their wedding: One young loving and happy couple, wonderful family, spontaneous and hospitable hearts, great wedding; simply a nice wedding with lots of love from friends and families. Throughout our week long stay in doncaster, you and your family have been tremendously nice and hospitable to us.

Without much ado, here is their wedding highlights… enjoy it!

ANU + PRASHI | MELBOURNE WEDDING HIGHLIGHT from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

The year 2010 has started off amazingly and unexpectedly great for us as jared and i spent almost 3 weeks of Jan 2010 in melbourne, the place where we are most fond of. I’m sure many of you have been wondering where have we disappeared to for we have not been blogging for a long time. Alas, we’re back and this time with some great stuff to share with. This long work-cation (work plus vacation) has turned out to be the most memorable amongst all, with the hospitality from prashi, anu, sanjev, rashmi, their family members and friends, and the opportunity to film prashi and anu’s love story and wedding. It was our great great honor to work with anu and prashi, they are simply nice, natural and coorperative; shooting them simply made us laugh.

When prashi and anu discussed their storyline with us, we were thrilled and could not wait to film theirs.  Since it was our first attempt, we were under a lot of pressure ‘coz they would be premiering it on the reception night. It was not easy but we got to pull it off. Shooting in melbourne has been great; the shooting process was fun despite the long hours, wonderful melbourne streets as any little corner could create superb shots, and the cool weather that makes the shooting pleasant. Of course it was not easy to act in public, but with their out-going and easy-going characteristics, all these was not a problem to them, and they only had one-take for most of the shots.

They had this pre-wedding love story video premiered it at their dinner reception and the thunderous response got us (and the couple) blown away!! Everyone of the guests enjoyed watching it coz every single act of theirs got the guests laughed heartily, and even the waiters and waitresses stopped their work for the moment and stood at the side or back of the hall to watch the video.

Of course, our video won’t be a success if it wasn’t for prashi, anu and their amazing friends’ coorperation through out the filming process. Again, to prashi and anu: thank you so much for having us there

ANU + PRASHI | LOVE STORY from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

SPLIT SCREEN REACTION | (ANU + PRASHI) from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

Umaparan + puva had expressed their love on the love story video that we did for earlier couples; and they just love the way we filmed and story-telled it, and wanted us to cover their love story in the unusual way that is, based on their proposal story. It had not struck us that puva is one of our no.1 fans as she told that she kept checking on our videos from our website. We felt blessed to have another new-found friendship. They treated us as though we are long time friends and not as vendor; and the bond between us was immediately developed on the first meet up. During the discussion, puva kept sharing their love story with us, but paran kept quiet most of the times and we thought he was uncool with the idea. But in fact he has already started brainstorming for the shooting! They mentioned they wanted to film the process of their proposal and how paran actually planned and prepared for the day to pop the question. And they came up with the idea to film it from ring purchasing at DeGem to proposing on the ship. This is awesome and thanks to their planning and arrangement with all involved parties, we managed to film it openly with permission at DeGem outlet, Lasposa and Palace of the Golden Horses.

On the shooting day, they had even arranged and booked a fine-dine boat from the Palace of the Golden Horses (which was where the proposal took place last year) in order to relive the proposal moment. And for all we know, booking the boat is not cheap, it cost them five hundred bucks for the fine-cuisine on the boat for an hour. Well, we could tell it meant alot to them to re-shoot the big day there and we had suggested paran to get her a surprise present; to really surprise her. We did not see this coming, but turned out that paran bought the similar first present that he’d gifted her which she accidentally lost it during their dating years, and it definitely shocked her! Well, puva is definitely de GEM and princess in paran’s heart for he gave her the dream ROM at KL Tower, dream reception at Palace of the Golden Horses and dream lazare D! He really nailed it and he even set the bar high for the guys out there now… *wink*  LOL.

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They had their wedding ceremony back in the hometown of paran, which is seremban. They had invited the best priest in malaysia and had the event held at a golf club, with lots of blessings from family and friends.

PARAN + PUVA | SDE from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

It is the wedding season now and our schedule is crazily packed up with weddings and production work. And things were not any different on the wedding week of kumaran and sri. We got there at sri’s house as early as half past five; and it was crazy as we only had 2.5 hours of nap due to the hectic wedding week. We thought we were the only ones with the least sleep time, but boy we were wrong when we learnt that sri and her family had not slept for the entire night and had been running around in wee hour in order to look for her engagement blouse. But with god’s blessing they finally found it in one of the closet drawer; and it was actually there the entire time and sri told that somehow it must be their tired eyes that had fooled them and had them overlooked it. Pity sri coz she had to drink loads of coffee in order to stay awake till evening!  Yep, that’s a tough one.

Thanks to Jay of Jay’s Perfect Dreams for having their wedding hall nicely decorated with superb on-stage lighting! This is the first time a couple has used so many different lighting to lighten the entire wedding stage, dimming down the rest just to create a warm ambience for their stage ceremony. Well, the output was marvelous on the video as the groom and bride could stand out even more in the video without having us using additional lightings!! So far they had the best lighting i must say.

We wish sri and kumaran a happy married life and all the best!

SRI + KUMARAN | SDE from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

Smile… is the word to describe our dear couple bala and sherly. This is one of the reason we have selected this song for their wedding sde as it suits them totally! Bala and sherly tied the knot on Nov 22nd and that was a fine and refreshing morning to cover their wedding in subang usj. Our morning was filled with warm welcome by sherly and her family when we were to cover the prep. The time spent at bride’s residence was thus far the shortest in our record, yet the coverage was not any lesser as compared to the rest, in fact it was rather efficient. And the amazing part was everyone ignored us doing our thing; and they were all so natural with us there. They did not disturb, and in fact they were just silently watching from side on how we do things. And during the wedding procession, bala and sherly was in total smiley face that was like a contagious infection that could make people smile along. Even as we were editing the sde, his infection smile has had us dedicating this song to them both as we felt the song suits them best.

Their wedding went so well that we feel the credit should go out to bala, sherly, their family members and relatives for being so so cooperative and understanding through out the wedding procession. It was rather unbelievable; when bala said we had the full authority to ’shoo’ anyone who gets in our way during the shooting, and we thought it might be rude if we constantly keep shoo-ing people. When one of the uncles was blocking during the procession, jared politely asked him to step aside, the uncle turned around and gave us a shocking warm reply ” yes yes … please please ” with a warm smile. And another time when few relatives were blocking when they were giving blessing to the newly-wed, bala’s sister noticed that and she immediately asked them to step aside, so as not to block the video! And it is a “wow” thing for us, coz it is as though they realized the importance of the wedding video to bala and sherly, to not want to disrupt the photographer and videographers’ work.

Thank you guys to have us there and it was nice working with you! Cheers… Here is their SDE video. Enjoy! =)

Bala + Sherly Wedding Highlight from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

With pauline and sasi’s love journey in this post, this video concept is brainstormed together during the meet up. it was also during then we found out that sasi is our national team hockey player and has been playing for the country for years; and pauline herself is a teacher in the special kids school. thus, their differences in interests and hobbies has proposed the inspiration and idea to cover the interview of them with some prenuptial shoots to bring out their interesting journey.

it has been 4 months (since june, to be specific) since we started our signature concept — unfold your love story — whereby love story is conceptualize through interview and some prenuptial snapshots.

the reason being — it is more than a wedding journey and every couple has a unique and distinct love story. this is why we want all couples to share their love story and journey with their family and friends through this concept. of course, it does not stop here. this has further enables us to know and understand our clients in depth, allowing us to create a “story of them” and for couples to get down and have their hands dirty in creating their very own video, for it is their participation that maketh our best videos.

during pauline and sasi’s prenup shoot, it was also the first time we got to watch a real hockey match and experience the sight of remote-plane flying (although there was a minor accident of the plane during the shoot, but sasi managed to pull it off with the minor damage and kept the plane flying still!!!), and the best part is to get to meet the hearing-disability children at pauline’s school. if not for them, we would not have experienced so much in such a short time. And pauline, thanks for your flash-cards idea, it was brilliant and it makes the best ending.

2 different people living in 2 different lives, finally got together as ONE.

here is the episode of their ‘unfold your love story’ — sasi and pauline.

sasi | national hockey player + floorball player + teacher for the disabled children

pauline | national sign-language translater + teacher for the special children

sasi’s journey | active sportsman

pauline’s journey | dedicated teacher who helps the special children and the community

sasi – greatest life achievement | to be the national hockey player + to educate the disabled children in the special school

pauline – greatest life achievement | to educate the special children (children with hearing disability) + to help other special-case children in the community

sasi + pauline | 2 different journeys | 2 souls | 2 gentle-loving and caring hearts towards the special children

BUT it is the journey of 2 becomes 1 from this day forward…

(remark: to view in HD video, click on HD button and you will be directed to vimeo link. click “play” and wait till it loads fully, there you have it… Enjoy!)

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Kumar + Amara SDE from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.