Whimsical Elegance – Ben & Clarine

‘Tis the season of holly, jolly fun and since we’re very much in the holiday spirit, we’d like to entice you with a little fun and whimsy from one of Malaysia’s finest. Planned by Nupts & Such and designed by La Flaire, these creative planners transformed the classic ballroom of Ritz Carlton Kuala Lumpur into a fantasy wonderland by combining the whimsical peculiarity of Alice in Wonderland with the stunning effects of sci-fi movie, Avatar. It’s certainly not easy to combine two themes (especially two … very dramatic themes which are far apart in style and creative direction) into one wedding within clients’ budget, and to do it with such flair and elegance, is really magical. They even had a little ‘play’ area for kids. How cool is that!

From the Designer: Granted that the couple were fans of the movies, we set about creating something that would depict the movie themes, yet – has all the significant romantic notions of a wedding. Voila! The couture decor turned out to be a stunning fusion of romantic elegance and a little whimsical, and a little sci-fi.

For the Alice In Wonderland theme – it was only outside the ballroom, catered for the Pre-Dinner Cocktail. We had paraphernalia similar to those from the movie and we also had a full candy-bar reception with all the colourful treats and snacks!

For Avatar, it was for the dinner reception in the ballroom and we had the table centrepieces reflecting the movie as well as the backdrop and the whole mood and ambience right down to the lightings. We needed to re-create the movies into real life here and we were careful of ensuring that we brought out the movie themes at one glance.

Words of Advice from the Planner: This is a once-in-a-lifetime affair for you and as such – do something that will make you the most happy! If it is flowers you do not want, then just don’t get flowers even though people might look at you horrified! Remember, this is your wedding and you can personalize it as much as you wish.

Wedding Location: Malaysia
Size of Function: 300 guests

Dinner Reception: Ritz Carlton, Kuala Lumpur
Wedding Planner: Nupts & Such
Wedding Designer & Decorator: La Flaire
Wedding Photographer: Wondrous Vision
Wedding Cake: TrulyScrumptious!

Love for All Seasons – Derek & Linda

Derek and Linda’s Four Seasons movie-themed wedding was all about celebrating their love, and we do mean… in a really sweet, sweep-you-off-your-feet kind of way. The ‘set’ took place at the scenic Cyberview Lodge Resort and Jesus Caritas Church, and this loving couple infused an endless string of lovey-dovey details and surprises which made them oh-so-meaningful! The most important thing to them was that their family and friends would have fun, a wedding that would be filled with love and totally reflective of their style and persona.

Details Personified

The wedding was filled with special details. Most notably, the church pews were lined with 40 flowerballs,all personally hand made by Linda, her mother and Maid of Honour, and tagged with virtues. Linda also personally hand sewn the lace onto her 10ft veil. The day started off with Spring, for it is in the spirit of Spring that sets all things new in life and love.  Then came Summer at the garden ceremony, which was decked with beautiful paper lanterns and pink parasols. The bridal car was driven right into the garden, accompanied by the beautiful song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”.

After the garden ceremony, guests head over for some Winter Romance in the ballroom, as the evening opened with a preview of romance movies which the couple had watched together. In fact, all the tables were named after their favourite romance movies. Needless to say, the party unofficially started from the time Derek and Linda broke into a surprise dance to Right Said Fred’s I’m too Sexy just moments after they march-in and took their first dance as husband and wife. It set the right tone for the evening, and that is …  love, laughter, fun and happiness! Towards the end of the dinner, the wedding planners changed the ballroom ambience to ‘Autumn Heat’ as the dee jay pumped up the volume to some groovy dance hits.

Wedding Location: Malaysia
Size of Functions: 250 guests

Wedding Ceremony: Jesus Caritas Church, Kepong
Wedding Reception: Cyberview Lodge Resort, Cyberjaya
Wedding Planner: The Peak Xperience
Wedding Photography: Fifoto Photography
Wedding Cinematography: Bob Nicolas of Wedding Cinema (Phillipines)
Stationery Design: The Peak Xperience
Wedding Gown: That Special Ocassion
Bridal Car: ZZ Lim
Wedding Flowers: Favor Essence, Flora Etc    
Wedding Cake: TrulyScrumptious!
Wedding Card: One Tree

Wedding Songs
Church Ceremony: Lathika’s Theme (composed by A. R. Rahman featuring Suzanne D’Mello)
Garden Ceremony: Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Israel Kamakawiwo’ole)
Reception & First Dance: Alegria (Cirque du Soleil), I’m too Sexy (Right Said Fred)

Memorable Quotes for Movie-inspired Weddings (21st Century)

rom the dark, almost tormented love of Edward and Bella in Twilight to the dysfunctional love of Zoe and Stan in The Back Up Plan, these movies always have a way of inspiring and bringing some drama and surrealism into our reality. Here is a list of our top favourite quotes from some of the greatest romance movies of the 21^st Century.

Eat, Pray, Love (2010)

~ Elizabeth Gilbert (Julia Roberts) ~

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.                       

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long. I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and Braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.…

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a FRIEND… 

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Brides War (2009)

It was quite a wedding and as I stood there watching I realized something I’d forgotten a long time ago. Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you will find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding. But there’s also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself is the same person who’s been standing beside you all along.     ~ Marion St Claire (Candice Bergen) ~

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Twilight (2009)

About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him, and I didn’t know how dominate that part might be, that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him. ~ Bella (Kristen Stewart) ~

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Mamma Mia! (2008)

It’s my last night of freedom… which is what some might see it, but for me it’s the last night before the greatest adventure of my life.    ~ Sky (Dominic Cooper) ~

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Atonement (2007)

Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.  ~ Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) ~

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The Break Up (2006)

You push yourself and push yourself trying to achieve the impossible, because you know what that moment comes, everything you’ve done has prepared you for victory! ~ Gary Grobowski (Vince Vaughn) ~

You know, an art teacher of mine once said. Never buy a piece of art that you don’t have to have. You know, don’t worry about who the artist is or how much it’s worth. I mean, you have to live with it everyday. You have to walk by it everyday. You have to really love it; you have to really appreciate it. It’s kind of like picking a mate. ~ Brooke Meyers (Jennifer Aniston) ~

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The Wedding Date (2005)

I’d rather fight with you than make love with anyone else. ~ Dermot Mulroney ~

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Pride and Prejudice (2005)

If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.  ~ Mr Darcy (Matthew Macfayden) ~

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Love Actually (2003)

Tell her that you love her. You’ve got nothing to lose, and you’ll always regret it if you don’t.  ~ Daniel (Liam Neeson) ~

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50 First Dates (2004)

You erased me from your memories because you thought you were holding me back from having a full and happy life. But you made a mistake. Being with you is the only way I could have a full and happy life. You’re the girl of my dreams… and apparently, I’m the man of yours.  ~ Henry (Adam Sandler) ~

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The Note Book (2004)

I am no one special. Just a common man with common thoughts. I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but in one respect I’ve succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul and for me that has always been enough.  ~ Duke ~

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I hope to give to you forever. I love you.   ~ Noah ~

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Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

The truth is… I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart… and I never really got it back.
~ Melanie (Reese Witherspoon ) ~

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A Knight’s Tale (2001)

~ William Thatcher  (Heath Ledger) ~

If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the moon. Stop the moon and make this night and your beauty last forever.

I have seen sunsets and sunrises, but nothing of your beautiful face. The pieces of my broken heart are so small that they could be passed through the eye of a needle. I miss you like the sun misses the flower; like the sun misses the flower in the depths of winter. Instead of beauty to direct its light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world your absence has banished me to. I next compete in the city of Paris, I will find it empty and in the winter if you are not there. Hope guides me, that is what gets me through the day and especially the night. The hope that after you’re gone from my sight, it will not be the last time that I look upon you.

May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.

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Moulin Rouge (2001)

~ Christian (Ewan McGregor) ~

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever.

Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love.

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Pearl Harbor (2001)

Every night I watch the sunset and soak up every last ray of its warmth, and send it from my heart to yours.
~ Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale) ~

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Serendipity (2001)

You see that is what happens when people get hooked on the new age life they end up sitting at home burning candles for mister right, when mister good enough for right now is waiting at the corner bar!
~ Eve (Molly Shannen) ~

Memorable Quotes for Movie-inspired Weddings

At First Sight (1999)

~ Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer) ~

You will see a lot of things, but they will mean nothing to you, if you lose sight of the thing you love.

I saw the horizon. It’s out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it’s worth reaching for.

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Message in a Bottle (1999)

If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful. ~ Theresa Osborne (Robin Wright) ~

Every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step toward finding you. ~ Garret Blake (Kevin Costner) ~

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Never Been Kissed (1999)

That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you’re supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that that it will go away all at the same time.
~ Jossie Geller (Drew Barrymore) ~

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Notting Hill (1999)

I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. ~ Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) ~

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Runaway Bride (1999)

Look, I guarantee there’ll be tough times. I guarantee that at some time, one or both of us is gonna want to get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don’t ask you to be mine, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know, in my heart, you’re the only one for me.     ~ Ike Graham (Richard Gere) ~

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Ten Things I Hate About You (1999)

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you’re always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it that you’re not around, and the fact that you didn’t call. But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
~ Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) ~

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The Bachelor (1999)

It’s a wonderful thing, as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face, when you’ve gotten old, and still sees what you think you look like. ~ The Priest (James Cromwell) ~

I’m not interested in your goddamn vagina, all right? I just want to marry you!
~Jimmie Shannon (Chris O’Donnell) ~

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Meet Joe Black (1998)

~ William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) ~

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I’m not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you’ll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love – well, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived.

I loved Susan from the moment she was born, and I love her now and every minute in between. And what I dream of is a man who will discover her, and that she will discover a man who will love her, who is worthy of her, who is of this world, this time and has the grace, compassion, and fortitude to walk beside her as she makes her way through this beautiful thing called life.  

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Good Will Hunting (1997)

~ Sean Maguire (Robin Williams) ~

It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

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My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

I love you. I’ve loved you for nine years, I’ve just been too arrogant and scared to realize it, and… well, now I’m just scared. So, I realize this comes at a very inopportune time but I really have this gigantic favor to ask of you. Choose me. Marry me. Let me make you happy. Oh, that sounds like three favors, doesn’t it?
~ Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) ~

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Casper (1995)

If I tell you I love you, can I keep you forever? ~ Casper (Malachi Pearson) ~

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Walking in the Clouds (1995)

~ Don Pedro Aragon (Anthony Quinn) ~

Talking between men and women never solves anything. Where we think, they feel. They are creatures of the heart.

Newlyweds. What else do they do but make love and war?

Just because I talk with an accent doesn’t mean I think with an accent.

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Don Juan DeMarco (1994)

~ Don Juan (Johnny Depp) ~

There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

There are those that do not believe that a single soul born in heaven can split into twin spirits and shoot like falling stars to earth where over oceans and continents their magnetic forces will finally unite them back into one. But, how else to explain love at first sight? We were convinced that there was no other life beneath the sky but ours. We believed that we would never die.

Every true lover knows that the moment of greatest satisfaction comes when ecstasy is long over and he beholds before him the flower which has blossomed beneath his touch.

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Milk Money (1994)

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.   ~V (Melanie Griffth) ~

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Pretty Woman (1990)

When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would- I would pretend I was a princess… trapped in a tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly this knight… on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. And I would wave. And he would climb up the tower and rescue me. But never in all the time… that I had this dream did the knight say to me, “Come on, baby, I’ll put you up in a great condo. ~ Vivian (Julia Roberts) ~

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When Harry Met Sally (1989)

~ Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) ~

I love that you get cold when it’s seventy degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend a day with you I can still smell your perfume on my clothes, and I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

The Best of 70’s and 80’s Movie Soundtracks

A, B, C

Amoreena – Elton John (A Dog Day Afternoon, 1975)

Car Wash – Rose Royce (Car Wash, 1976)

D

Dance Hall Days – Wang Chung (Points on the Curve, 1983)

Dancing Queen – ABBA (ABBA The Movie, 1977)

E, F, G

Evergreen – Barbra Streisand

Flashdance What a Feeling – Irene Cara (Flashdance, 1983)

Friends – Elton John (Friends, 1971)

Gonna Fly Now – (Rocky I, 1976)

H

Heart of Glass – Blondie (Endless Love, 1981)

Hopelessly Devoted to You – Olivia Newton John (Grease, 1978)

How Deep is Your Love – Bee Gees (Saturday Night Fever, 1977)

I, K

Imagination – Laura Branigan (Flashdance, 1983)

Keating’s Triumph – instrumental (Dead Poet’s Society, 1989)

L

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life – Indeep, 1982

Let It Be – The Beatles (Let It Be, 1970)

Live and Let Die – Paul McCartney and Wings (James Bond – Live and Let Die, 1973)

M

Moment by Moment – Yvonne Ellieman (Moment by Moment, 1978)

R

Ready to Take a Chance Again – Barry Manilow (Foul Play, 1978)

S

Seduce Me Tonight – Cycle V (Flashdance, 1983)

Sky High – Jigsaw (The Man from Hong Kong, 1975)

Summer Madness – Kool & Gang (Rocky I, 1976)

Sunshine on My Shoulders – John Denver (Sunshine, 1973)

Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees (Saturday Night Fever, 1977)

T

The Rose – Bette Middler (The Rose, 1979)

Those Magic Changes – Sha Na Na (Grease, 1978)

Time of My Life – (Dirty Dancing, 1987)

Y

You Light Up My Life – Didi Conn (You Light Up My Life, 1977)

You’re the One that I Want – John Travolta & Olivia Newton John (Grease, 1978)