Jewel of the East (Part 3)

If you are like us who are into details, then most likely you will incorporate little mementos here and there to make it enjoyable and interactive for your guests. Some couples  give away Polaroids or install fun photo booth at their reception. Some couples engage a really good live band for a jazzy evening, while some others prefer to end their evening with a deejay for an after dinner party. Then, once in a blue moon, you come across fairytale weddings complete with horse carriage or big bang talk-of-the-town weddings which lit up the skies with dazzling fireworks.

The wedding of Gayathri and Gaurav had it all {minus the carriage}! Held at the 5-star Four Seasons Resort in Langkawi Island, the wedding of Gayathri and Gaurav was the realisation of a sophisticated fairytale wedding that was cultural yet modern against the picture-perfect backdrop of the Andaman sea.

From the Photographer, Jon Low: The celebration lasted the whole week. Ian Chong (2nd shooter) kick started our coverage in Singapore before the Malaysia team headed off to Langkawi on Tuesday. We shot the wedding back to back for three days. I am not going to lie to you, it was an awesome wedding but at the same time, It was exhausting, physically challenging, mentally stressful wedding. It was a lot of hard work. We were all pushed to our limit. All of us barely slept for more than 3 hours a day. We all took away different experience from just being there at the wedding. The couple and the family had the time of their life, and probably have their own story and tale to share among each other. As for us, the working team, we sweat because we were in a beautiful tropical island. We were tired because we work our ass off and put our best at it. We were laughing because we enjoyed each and everyone’s company during the job. All in all, great moments and great memories. This is where I want to be – in a perfect storm. The job was tough and challenging yet very very satisfying..

Don’t you just love how the myriad colours of sarees come together harmoniously?

The dinner reception started with a magnificent display of fireworks right after the couple made their grand entrance to the tented venue by the beach. Towards the end of the evening, guests were invited to make a wish and release the sky lanterns into the sky before they continued to party until the wee hours. Indeed, a perfect way to end a magical three-day wedding celebration.

Wedding Location: Malaysia

Wedding Ceremony & Reception: Four Seasons Resort & Tanjung Rhu Resort, Langkawi Island
Wedding Planner: Innayat, Innaz Communique (Indonesia)
Wedding Photographer: Jon Low Studios
Wedding Videographer: Keng’s Cinematography
Wedding Hair & Make Up: Angie Ng Make Up

Jewel of The East (Part 2)

Every once in a while, you get a wedding that makes you go ga-ga, you wish you have a time machine that can teleport and plant you right smack in the centre of all the elaborate finery. Well, that’s exactly how much in love I am with the wedding of Gayathri and Gaurav, so much so that I’m totally at lost with words to describe just how gorgeously festive the wedding was. It is not just the colours or the details that make a wedding beautiful, but the combined emotions of love and joy from all those who matter most to you. This wedding was all that and more. Here’s the second part of their wedding, featuring the ritualistic Tilak ceremony and Sangeet reception superbly planned by Innayat of Innaz Communique.

After the Tilak ceremony, the groom’s entourage marched on from Four Seasons Resort to Tanjung Rhu Resort with much pomp and gaiety for the Sangeet reception.

The Sangeet reception had a multi-cultural vibe to it. The bride made her grand entrance ushered by the traditional Kompang and Bunga Manggar procession. Buffet stations were lighted up with red Chinese lanterns. Dance and entertainment, without a doubt, has to be Banghra and Hindi pop! These songs always get the crowd going, everytime. Of course, Sangeet is all about the merriment and music, revolving the theme around the love life of the bride and groom. So you can always rely on the Hindi film scores to show you how to party right!

What a great teaser for the guests, leading up to the big day. If the pre-wedding party was already filled with so much fun, what can one possibly expect on the wedding day? Well, stay tuned for Part 3 of the wedding!

Photography by Jon Low Studios.

Jewel of The East (Part 1)

ust received these set of beautiful photos right off the ‘darkroom’ of Jon Low Studios. The wedding of dynamic duo Gayathri and Gaurav is proof that you do not need to sacrifice aged-old traditions to have a stylish wedding. They are so over-the-top brilliant that we had a tough time shortlisting the photos to be featured here. The bride and groom are gorgeous. The wedding destination is beyond beautiful. The hosts are superbly generous and the details that went into the planning were elaborately intricate. All these bright and colourful details that make Indian weddings so culturally joyous and Fun with a capital ‘F’. Dare I say “Wedding of the Year”?

Gayathri and Gaurav enjoyed the stress-free convenience of having Innaz Communique to help them with all the drills and thrills of organising such a momentous occasion. The Singaporean couple flew their guests to Langkawi Island, Malaysia for a three-day destination wedding held at the Four Seasons Resort. The celebration kicked off on a mild note with a Welcome Party to allow guests to relax and get acquainted with each other. Mild note … is an understatement. Really.

The following day, everyone rose and shined to a sunny Maiyan Ceremony by the beach, followed by the Mehndi Ceremony in a trickle of yellow and fiery orange against the indigenous interior of the Four Seasons Resort. Innayat and team integrated all the intricate details of tradition in a stunningly cohesive design amidst the juxtaposed of bright colours. Oh, and did you notice the guests are all dressed according to the colour theme? Simply brilliant!

Hold your horses as we’re about to share more gorgeous details of this destination wedding in Part 2.

Intimate Wedding in Bali

ntimately beautiful, laid back, casual and relaxed. There’s something effortlessly cool about this wedding. That’s right … This is the wedding of Zach and Amelyn of ZA Gallery. One of the most lovable couples within the Malaysian wedding industry circle!

Held at the scenic Bulan Putih Villa in Uluwatu, Zach and Amelyn chose that location because it enabled them to house everyone under one roof with a to-die-for view that overlooks the Indian Ocean. They enlisted the services of Bali VIP to assist them with the planning and coordination.

Zach: The highlight of the wedding was definitely the first meet. I have actually never seen her in her bridal gown until just before the ceremony, where we had already planned to have a first meet. It was memorable to me as it was my first time looking at my lovely wife in her bridal gown. We first met at a tuition class during secondary school in Ipoh. After secondary school, we went different ways, leading different lives. In year 2000, we bumped into each other in a night market in section 17 PJ and kept in contact ever since then but it was only in 2009 that we decided to be together. We know that somehow destiny has brought us together and a sign from HIM showed us that “Together, nothing is impossible”. On 22^nd May 2009, I proposed to her with the help of my friends at the airport terminal. She has been and always will be the only one for me.

As I’m writing this post, I realised I probably have not exchanged more than 100 words with Zach, eventhough we’re both in the same industry. Moreover … he’s my neighbour (shame on me). I always knew him as a gifted, humble and soft-spoken guy but I didn’t know he’s such a romantic!

THAT proposal was sooo sweet and adorable you just HAVE to read about it here!

Jon Low of Jon Low Studios, Kenneth Tan of Fabulous Chapter and Mun Keat of Mun Keat Photography were the official photographers of the day, but it is Jon Low who was assigned with the double duty of giving a speech. Here’s his take on the wedding.

From the photographer, Jon Low: You know it was going to be a special and cosy wedding when the guest list consisted of not more than 30 people. You know it was going to be a special wedding because some of the best Malaysian wedding photographers were gathered together to cheer on our dear old ‘uncle’  for his big day! I know it was going to be special one because these people whom I shot – the guests and the wedding couple are all very special people.

We grew together as photographers, as a person, and between us, we are good friends. I recall that I wasn’t quite myself on the wedding day. I was actually nervous shooting our dear friend’s wedding. It’s all good now, I brought some insurance during my speech (yes, I gave a speech.… a long one). I said that “Amelyn and Zach, on a beautiful wedding day like this, nothing else matters but both of them” … and they agreed. So, I said too, if I screw up the photographs, remember you said, nothing else matters!

I really want the album that I put together for them to have more personal touch, so with the little poetic skills that I have, my thoughts are all written to rhyme and I hope I fair not too badly. I’ll share it with you guys..

Love isn’t an act
Nor a dead cat
Love is full of laughter
And that’s a fact

Zach & Amelyn, Amelyn & Zach
She leads with the letter ‘A’
He take cares of her back

Wishing you both together forever after
With joy and happiness that makes life better
Nothing stronger with one another
Nothing done with none or other

Just a token from this Ah Jon
To keep your marriage going strong
You, her and I, are a new bond
A magnificent friendship is born.

Aww… that is such a sweet gesture. Photographers are sentimental people yea *wink*. While we at WedInk Tattle are head over heels over his efforts as a poet, we’d like to advise him to keep his day job as a wedding photographer because he so totally rawks at it! Just look at these stunning photos!

To view the rest of their wedding, click on the image below which will take you directly to the video by Keng’s Cinematography.

Congratulations to Zach and Amelyn. Here’s to your everlasting joy, love and happiness. May your love burn the brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial.

Wedding Location: Indonesia
Size of Function: 22 guests

Wedding Ceremony & Reception: Villa Bulan Putih, Bali
Wedding Planner & Caterer: Veronika, Bali VIP
Wedding Photographer: Jon Low Studios, Fabulous Chapter and Mun Keat Photography
Wedding Videographer: Keng’s Cinematography (Malaysia)
Wedding Gown: Estudio de Veralyne (Malaysia)
Groom’s Attire: Island Shop
Wedding Hair & Makeup: Angie Ng Make Up (Malaysia)