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Apart from uploading photos of your wedding or engagement to the Internet, you can also put in interactive slide shows with animation.

One of the best method is to upload your photos to the free slide show website like slide.com

Check out the sample above which i took after my Bali Holidays in Indonesia in June 2008. Here is just the 1st slide show and i’ve got over several hundred of photos taken during this 1st year anniversary holiday, so i’ll be creating additional slide shows.

You can even add in the music to play when your slide is being viewed. Isn’t this cool?

Here are some photos of the cocktail reception we hosted last Saturday.

The first thing is to have the registration table. Check out the huge crowd lining up to register their attendance

- lists were divided by Alphabetical format as well as by Tables seating

As the bride & groom, do be prepared to snap lots of photos with guests, as this will allow us to greet them personally and capture our joyous moment with them on film.

The new wedding couple & friends. Harrace, Fione and Mr & Mrs David Lo, (who turned from a prospect client to close friends of the bride).

It’s wise to group the wedding guests by the different industries or network. For instance, reserve tables for friends of the mother of the bride or business partners.

My mom’s friends & my aunt (4th lady from the left). Some of them, were aunties & uncles i’ve seen since i was 5 years old, so i guess they were surprised to see how much i’ve really grown.

My father (3rd from the left) & his wide range of multi-racial friends. This is probably one of the few times you’ll ever catch my dad wearing a suit.

Mr & Mrs Teng, who has been our most supportive shareholder in eOneNet.com business since 2000. They came all the way from Singapore just to attend our wedding!

Some of our most valuable internet marketing coaching participants, Norhuda & daughter, Harrace & Myriam Oliveres from France.

And of course, our valued friends. Lilian & her husband, Eric and kids took the whole family to join our wedding. Lilian and I have been close buddies since 5 years old (we were in the same kindergarden).

Not missing out, were of course friends of my brother, Kevin. Can you guess which is my brother? He’s the cute guy, 2nd from the left.

This cocktail was from 6.28pm to 7.28pm, so that guests would have time to interact & take lots of photos. What did they do while waiting at the reception? Well, we actually gave them an instruction sheet, where they had to fulfill a few “tasks” at the event, after which they can be entitled to join the Grand Lucky Draw for amazing gifts, wines, and of course, CASH too!

Check out how excited these guests were to attend the wedding.

While browsing through the photos, we realised 1 item. We did not have a chance to take a family portrait! I wished i could have taken some photos with my family while i was wearing my custom made Margaret McCallum, swarovski crystal wedding gown. Did you notice that the design of the gown looked rather familiar? Yup, it’s in the logo of @ (to represent the Internet theme). Maybe i’ll have to arrange for another timing for our family photo session!

Our wedding dinner at Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur with a cocktail reception at 6.28pm and i was surprised to hear that there were guests that arrived as early as 6 itself (at that point i was still doing my bridal make up & hair in the bridal suite).

Here is a photo of us with some of our guests :-

From left : Harrace’s mom (mother of the groom), Chelsia Ng (tv personality/celebrity & Miss Malaysia World), Harrace (the groom), Fione (me as the bride), and Kid Chan (who was actually a guest, but decided to bring in his camera too).

Our master of ceremony was Chelsia Ng , where eOneNet.com was managing her website, and being a personal friend, we knew how good she was as a MC.

When the time was right, guests were ushered into the ballroom and seated onto their respective tables, which were names of popular Websites, such as QQ.com (China’s most popular instant messaging system, even more popular than MSN Messenger), Amazon.com and of course our own range of sites like eOneNet.com

After the guests were seated down the lights for the ballroom lights were dimmed in preparation for the wedding march by the couple. You need to choose between total darkness or dimmed lights, so we choose the latter, as we would at least be able to see where we were going on the red carpet walkway.

Here is an animated photo of our wedding march.

On each table, flourescent light-up sticks (like neon glow lights) were placed so that guests could welcome the new couple, and party poppers were also placed. Upon reaching the stage, the huge party poppers were launched and there were lots of colours, and actions going on at the same time. Some wedding guests told me that it seemed more like a concert than a typical wedding dinner.
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I realised it was not so easy to find bridal videography in Malaysia because everyone seemed to be scattered. Anyway, i’ve compiled a list of the wedding themed video production companies you can consider.

I found 1 company that was advertising in lots of the bridal magazines locally but i actually had several prior dealings with this person and he was not handing in the videos on time for our corporate events. Therefore, although he used a different company name here, i still figured it out because i remembered the address. Needless to say i didn’t list him here.

1. Kid Chan Studios / Portrait One
- they are the most well known photo studio in this region, and i was delighted to see Kid Chan personally contacting me when i left a message in their blog.
- main focus in on photography. I had my Malaysia wedding shoot done with their team 2 weeks ago at popular wedding photography spots like the KL Train Station and of course the KLCC / Twin Towers area.
- Benny was the camera man assigned to handle our outdoor shoot & he was amazing. The photos turned out awesome & more lively than those typical bridal pose & shoot photos.
- the KL pre-wedding montage will be shown in my Malaysia wedding event in a musical video format and i’ve booked the wedding photo album (20 images per album) at the additional cost of RM1,800

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I was running through the list of bridal photo shoots, and turned them into a mini slide show. You can view those official wedding photos online www.eonenet.com/wedding/album_photos.htm

It is so easy to use the free online slide show software. Just register for a free account at Slide.com and then upload the photos that you want to place into the same set as a slide show. You can choose the template / skin, and then even select the type of animation, of whether you want faded out, or flying in as a heart shape.

Just make sure that you enter the description for each photo, and not just use the original file name of the photo, otherwise in the slide show, the weird image names will appear. You can create multiple sets of slide show, and so apart from these official wedding photos, i’ll be creating antoher slide show set for the Hong Kong wedding dinner, our courtship love story and more travel photos.

Since we will be having a Chinese menu for our Malaysia wedding dinner, we decided to opt for something different in Hong Kong. We had a spread of fusion Western & Asian food:-
* fresh oysters
* snow crab
* red shrimp
* sushi
* wild mushroom soup
* and more list of food choices

The dessert bar was absolutely divine with tiramisu, black forest, mango mousse cake, french pastries and more.

As we loved seafood, we ensured that there was a wide range of seafood dishes, and to add some Malaysian taste to it, we also had Nasi Briyani. The food of the event was prepared by the Royal Plaza Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.

Too be frank, as the bride & groom, we didn’t get much chance to eat, and only had 1 round of food. Wished to have eaten more!

Beverages served included fresh orange juice, red wine, white wine, and of course Moet & Chandon champagne. Here we are, with our wedding officiant, solicitor Bilan Mak.

As our guests were from all different parts of the world, including Algeria, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and more, we read out our marriage vows in 2 languages. The groom, Harrace read in Cantonese, while as the bride (who doesn’t read Chinese), i read mine in English.

Here we are posing with our marriage certificate

For my wedding gown, i had the bridal tiara, with the bridal veil. Pearl pieces with diamantes were the main jewelry worn with my Eric Choong bridal dress.

More photos will be coming out these couple of days, so check back soon.

Before i go for any photo shoot in the studio, i ensure that i get my nails done up as well. For your wedding photos, you can choose nails with silver, white, nude shimmer, or light pink. If pays to have nails done up with arcylic gel nail, and nail arts look great if you have swarovski crystals on them too.

For my wedding photos in December, i tried arcylic gel nails for the first time. This takes about 2 hours and i had it done about 10 days prior to my photo shooting.

Rather than the normal french manicure version where the colour glitter gel were only applied to the tips of the nails,
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