Weddings – Muslim 3 - Grant Corban Photography Sdn Bhd

14 July 2023

Areena and Faiq’s Wedding Dinner Reception at the Shangrila

Royal wedding Shangrila hotel kuala Lumpur

Originally posted 2012-01-25 22:08:16.

Areena’s wedding dinner at the Shangrila Hotel Kuala Lumpur. We covered their engagement, Quran reading, wedding and grand reception at the Shangrila Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. There were quite a number of Malaysian royalty, former PMs and the current DPM present. Sheila Majid sang some of her great songs too. The couple out shone everyone though. They are the real celebrities. All the best for your future together.

12 July 2023

Areena and Faiq’s Nikah – A Malay Wedding

Originally posted 2011-11-11 11:24:17.

Areena and Faiq’s Wedding was at the family home. Former Malaysian Prime Ministers Tun Mahathir and Tun Badawi were both present for the ceremony. Spot them if you can.

11 July 2023

Areena’s Quran Reading

Originally posted 2011-11-10 10:23:50.

In Malay culture the bride-to-be has a ceremony which is meant to be a time of reflection and thanks giving for her upcoming wedding. Men are usually not present other than the photography and video teams. Here we see Areena’s Katam the day before her wedding.

9 July 2023

Yes and Oyen’s wedding at Ciao Restaurant

Originally posted 2011-08-19 13:48:56.

Yes and Oyen called me to be the wedding photographer for their wedding at Ciao Restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. It was a dream come true for Yes as she had been eyeing me up to cover her wedding for close on 7 years! Only problem was no groom(!) a common problem these days. Then Oyen popped into her life and sure enough after checking dates it was fantastic that we could cover Yes’s big day!Â This is the new Ciao. I had shot several weddings at the old one…some of them so long ago that everything was FILM based(!?!) This newer venue is really pleasant and the wedding was a small intimate affair with close friends and family. Everyone at the table was able to give a speech and many were very touching. As both Yes and Oyen are in the music industry, along with several of their guests, there were some lovely songs “gifted” to the couple, one of which was written specifically for them. A great wedding and one of those I will treasure the memories of for a very long time.

Table set up for the wedding dinner

A closer look at the table decor. Shot with a Nikon 85 f1.4

We did some outdoor portraits but there was minimal light.

Portraits by the bar

Photo of the exterior of Ciao restaurent at night

The groom is a nice quiet guy, and a great musician

With a small intimate wedding everyone got a chance to give a speech

Another speech

Two of the lovely ladies in attendance

And another speech

Cutting the cake…with attitude! 🙂

Traditionally, the bride and groom feed each other some of the cake.

One of the band members wrote a song especially for the couple

The bride finally gave a speech

The lovely thank you gifts

1 July 2023

Malay Kampong Wedding in Tanah Merah Kelantan

malay kampong wedding tanah merah kelantan

Originally posted 2010-06-26 14:43:18.

One of the things I love about covering weddings in Malaysia is I get to travel all over this wonderful country and see every type of culture and wedding practice. Hanin and Azlina’s Malay wedding was held in a small kampong (village) in Tanah Merah, Kelantan. The village had the typical raised houses and “big family” feel. So EVERYONE came for the event. The house was decorated beautifully. The following day we were treated to a selat demonstrations (Malay martial arts) and I have included a photo of this further down in this post.

This was one of the few weddings I do shoot alone. I usually can’t do this as being in 2 or 3 different places at once is logistically impossible. But this was no problem for this wedding.

Technical trivia: Nikon D3, assorted lenses. Off camera flash system using 4x Nikon SB800’s. These are the most reliable flashes I have ever owned!! Nothing else I have used either before or after have been so intuitive to use, so reliable, or so well thought out as far as power to weight ratio and the inclusion of so many useful extras. I have owned mine since 2007, and 8 years on are still chugging along with what I would guess as at least a hundred thousand triggerings per unit with no overheating and no burned out components.