Nazim & Azy was our wedding client for today. We took this opportunity to bring this couple to a exquisite mangrove location which was hardly discovered and revisited Manikar Beach Resort for some later afternoon outdoor shots. Thanks to Mr. Jonah Tan for giving us the time in his resort. Congratulations to the both of you. 
It was in 2008 when we first took this bride’s sister Reena at our first Wedding shot and now, Eve gets married. Her charming husband Adam came all the way from UK just to get married in Labuan. Well that is to spice things up but the fact is that these 2 met in KK and basically they both came down to Labuan for their wedding ceremony. Did I mention that Eve is a Labuan girl? This is yet the fastest wedding ceremony we’ve covered. At 9am, the engagement started and soon it went over to the Nikah, Inai & Sanding ceremony. We ended up round 2pm just to get some indoor and outdoor shots to wrap up their day. Again, thank you both for believing in us and God bless. 
Finally the day has come forth to this day. Arman & Anna are married and will be blessed with babies. Covered their Nikah event and it was a joyful moment for the both of them. Tears were pouring down from random people that tells how happy they were for the both of them. So to our ground staffs, although you guys are now married, this doesn’t mean you can sit down & lay back cause we still have lots of work to do. Again… Congratulations. 
Rizal & Lyana are soon to be married and this was a session to call upon photographers that knows best on what they want for their pre-weddings and those photographers were from Vivalova Memory Lane of course. We brought this young love birds to 3 new locations which was discovered back 2 weeks ago and we were loving it. Everything went so perfect… Weather was nice, bright and sunny all along. Couple did not hesitate on their poses and things they were told to do making this another successfull pre-wedding session in a row. We’re on Fire! So love birds, we will be back on your wedding day. 
If you observed our event schedules, we actually blocked this date for a photo workshop & editing session with our PhotoGuru from Fotokahwin.com. Honestly, we love his work cause he deals with mainly Malay weddings and basically, that’s what we do to. So today, we invited Carol to be our sole model and took her out for a 2 hour photoshoot alongside, Rushdi was there to guide us improving our shots and enriching it with various shot options. Sadly, it was drizzling at the time of this photosession so these are the only captures we managed to shoot and we just love the results + the photo retouchings. Thank you Carol for being supportive and most of all Rushdi from Fotokahwin.com, much appreciated that you are willing to come down all the way from JB to this island. 
We captured many shots on this pre-wedding session using Nikon’s Creative Lighting System with the help of a soft-box, studio umbrella & a huge reflector. Images here are much softer and made our photo retouchings much easier. Today, Arman & Anna is our client and they are our Vivalova ground staffs. They understood much about photography and how lighting was important in relevancy and this made our session with them went smooth entirely. The only thing that was slowing us down was the amount of heat on this day. We all got so sweaty but the results were great! This couple are soon to me to be married in the following month and we can’t wait to capture their moments. 
It’s the end of March and we have this lovely Malay couple, a mix of West & East Malaysian getting together and becoming husband and wife. To cut things short and since we’re back behind newer articles, here are their photos. Congratulations to the both of you on your marriage. 
Progressing along, we managed to close another Indonesian Buginese wedding concept that was held here in Labuan Island. Their main wedding ceremony takes place near this couple’s residence located at nearby “Balai Raya” and it was a blast having to see so many people that have attended it. So to Sura & Ading, congratulations and we hoped you enjoyed your photos. 
Just after our photoshoot at Grand Dorsett Labuan, we had our dinner at Victoria Brassiere and hurried over to Fun Pub to witness the new Filipino band called D’Life Line. Started performing on March 1st 2010, D’Life Line replaced the old 3-month contracted The Stardust band and this new band will be performing from Mondays till Saturdays except Sundays starting at 9.30pm onwards. We enjoyed their performances that covered some very new english, chinese & hindi songs and though their music was easy to our ears, we decided to take some of their portraits to promote them. Alongside, a new DeeJay was put up here too replacing DeeJay Zul. So for those that have not been to Fun Pub since or would like to watch their repertoire, just head over and you won’t regret spending your time even with chilled iced water. 
February was a quiet month for weddings, well at least for us but thanks this couple that has filled up our slot. Rozi & Aivy is now our latest featured wedding coverage. Started from “Akad Nikah” to “Balik 3 Hari”, this couple had a good time in front of our lenses and we indeed had fun shooting them. In this photo set, we decided to put up more of the couple’s shots and the bride’s friends. Their cat is also part of this photo set knowing it wasn’t shy to be taken. We were lucky to have a hot and sunny day with zero clouds at that time of their little outdoor session causing many of scenes with blue casts that blends in very well with their bridal garments and best of all, this seaside was just behind their yard. So to our February wedding couple, thank you very much for hiring us and we hope you love your photos and moments. 
When the East meets the West. It all started when she studied in the same university as he does and this is how Firdaus & Rosnani met each other during the younger years. Their love bonded all the way until today in one the most highlighted wedding events that we have taken so far. The bride is a great karaoke singer and we were so amazed by her high pitch and well controlled voice that she sang in this wedding and the groom is a very nice & supportive person and he gets along with everyone without hesitation. Their wedding ceremony was a real blast, extremely colorful and laughter filled the entire house with their own representatives commenting at the start of the Akad Nikah till the end of the Sanding event. So to this lovely couple, we thank you so much for supporting thus hiring us in your big event and have a Happy Valentine’s Day. 
“When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even be touched, they must be felt with the heart.” These are amongst 2 of the popular love quotes that are still used till now in the world and we would like to dedicate these quotes to our newest clients, Khairi & Bebeh. The Charming Prince is from Miri, Sarawak while his Lovely Angel is a local Labuan folk. Even better, both of them works at the same company so seeing each other, day to night isn’t a problem for them.
Today, we brought them to 3 locations for their Pre-Wedding. Locations are well known and best of all, it stands out far the most than many other locations here in this little island. Started with the botanical garden, I can’t express how truly beautiful today’s weather was and the sky was so blue with thickened clouds assisting it. Yes we did have a rough 2 weeks of stormy weather back then but that isn’t this part of the story. Photo shooting this location took us quite a while due to the large land mass and we had difficulties locating our areas of interest at first. Following on, we went over the infamous Nasi Lemak stall “Sabariah” for a 45 minutes lunch break and continuing our journey to the historical Chimney. Spent a few moments there knowing we already know what was in our shot list.
Lastly at 4pm, the local sea side was used for their prewed finale. The last time we shot at this beach, it was slightly different from today. Nonetheless, we covered a few scenes from this and a beautiful sun sets across the sea and after several shots till it subside, our photo shoot ended with lots of fun, laughter and not forgetting… sand flies. So once again to Khairi & Bebeh, we enjoyed taking your shots, we do hope you love ‘em and thank you so much and looking forward taking your big event. 
This is a photo session of 3 themes covering Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day & Relax/Chillout hosted by Grand Dorsett Labuan Hotel. Photos resulted from this photo session will be submitted to GDL for advertisements on flyers, bulletin boards and digital displays. So for the first time in this blog, viewers and visitors here won’t see photos instead, you will see a short video slide show of some of the highlights that we took during this photo session. We have agreed with Grand Dorsett Labuan Hotel not to distribute, publish, rent, sell or make copies of the photos we took to 3rd parties. So please enjoy this 3-minute slide show featuring Muse.
Right after today’s engagement ceremony, baby Sha Sha brings us this evening’s highlights with the Cukur Jambul ceremony. A brief introduction towards this ceremony is when a new born baby (male or female) reaches 40 days, the parents of the new born will prepare several ceremonial items plus, decorating the new born’s baby coat. A number of elderly people (preferably from the Islam Mosque) will come and gather for prayers. After the prayers, the same group of people will then use the provided scissors and cut off little strands of the baby’s hair (usually at the center or at the top of head). The hairs strands will then be thrown into a yellow coconut preserving the coconut juice. After all the elderly has participated in this, it is known that this ceremony is adjourned. They are then given door gifts and a meal.
Parents of this baby, Sham & Emy, thank you so much for supporting us again. We hope you liked your photos and congratulations to the both of you for having such a cute & chubby baby. 
We knew him when he was just a teenager. For 6 years we have argued over the smallest matter and laughed till our jaws got the cramps. His brother got married back 4 years ago and it was time for him to settle down and raise children. Without a sign, our good friend Johairy got engaged to the lovely fiancee of his, Norhafizan. First off, this couple really wanted us to take their engagement ceremony and has post phoned their dates due to our tight schedules since the beginning of this year. So we thank you for that thus being so supportive over us.
This is a huge engagement ceremony, so huge that it seems like they are already getting married. Many from his side and her side came to witness this ceremony even the dowries were so big and filled with "WOW"s here and there. Some were even drooling and can’t keep their eyes of it. Ended up about 2 hours later, we were unable to fulfill their outdoor photo shoot due to misty rains pouring at that time till late in the evening. Eagerly, we arranged the following day and settled up for a 2.5 hours photo session with the charming & lovely couple. So to Joe & Ejan, we enjoyed taking your photos and hope to be your official wedding photographer on your wedding day.
We’ve added our first slide show video montage featuring Nickelback “Never Gonna Be Alone” at the bottom. If only we were videographers, it could have been better.
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