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Monday, June 8, 2009

Venu & Vimmala Wedding

We were looking forward to Venu and Vimmala's wedding day. Feeling anxious and excited at the same time, as for the 1st time, we were about to shoot a full Singapore traditional Indian wedding!


A really beautiful bride, glowing with radiance and happiness!


Just before their solemnisation took place, some family and friends shared their love for the couple. Here's Vimmala's uncle.

Venu's good friend.

...and Mabel, Vimmala's childhood friend who couldn't hold back her tears...

It was quite an emotional wedding celebration. Everyone (and we really mean EVERYONE) in the family was so happy for the couple and had helped with the wedding prep in one way or another.


Bliss was "oozing out" of Venu and Vimmala during their solemnization...



We knew that there will be many ceremonial details which we won't understand their significance. Hence we had to do our homework before the big day, so as not to miss out anything. Going even further, we decided to cover the wedding with 3 cameras for the 12-hr ceremonial wedding!
We were under much pressure as we knew the couple has placed so much trust in us to capture their precious wedding moments. Especially when they knew that we had never covered a traditional Indian wedding before. Capture was simple compared to the post-production. Production of the highlights clip took us more than 16 hrs! Thank god their wedding dinner was 2 days later!

The couple really gave us a challenge by requesting us to use an Indian song of their choice for the highlights. In the selection of clips for the highlights, we also took note of their parents' requests.
We finally heaved a sigh of relief when the clip was played during the dinner. It was so well-received by both the couple and the guests that it was requested to be played a second time!

Boy! We never expected that! We were very surprised when the emcee also named us specifically and thanked us for the video. We was so touched when Vim thanked us and said that she had made a right choice in choosing us to capture their moments.

We would also like to thank the couple for their faith in us all this while and gave us the opportunity to experience a full traditional Indian wedding.

All the best, Venu & Vimmy!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey, the video clip and stuff was really really awesome!!

Vim said...

Adeline and Alvin,

You've done a FANTASTIC job with our video...its simply marvelous and the feedback from all our friends and family (including thouse who felt we made a mistake with a non-indian videographer for an indian wedding) showed us you've both etched your mark beyond a doubt in everyone's mind!

We both LOVE your blog and video highlights. Thank you both once again for putting in all the effort, really understanding the many procedures, catering to everyone's needs and capturing all the essentials.

We never made a mistake in choosing you both Adeline and Alvin.

Thank you both so much once again.