Splendour of Nature : A Heartfelt Gratitude

The Team (photo courtesy of Nell Ng / Janet Lee)

When we first coined the idea for Splendour of Nature, we were not sure of whether any of our industry comrades would buy into the idea for something where the ROI wasn’t guaranteed. But things quite easily fell in place and I am personally very grateful to the following sponsors for your show of support and responding in record speed with a “Yes” to our emails. Without any of the below sponsors – there would’ve been no splendour of anything.


Clearwater Sanctuary Resort for the main sponsorship of the 3D/2N full board and lodging for all the wedding guests and as well as the working crew and organizing committee. Master Chef Ricky Parlanti was so hands-on with all the arrangements and making sure that on the resort’s side, they got it right for us as the organizers. His jovial character certainly helped ease the tension and stress :) Whatever it was, the generous sponsorship was absolutely much appreciated.

Weddings Malaysia, our main online media sponsor who have been featuring stories of all our sponsors as well as the wedding planning process on weddingsmalaysia.com. Kris Wong who was supposed to have attended the event had to cancel his trip at the last minute – but you were definitely much talked-about and much missed :) (Cindy and I were playing trampoline on your bed).

Events Wizard and Nupts & Such for the absolutely perfect wedding planning and wedding co-ordination to ensure that the couple, their guests and also the members of the media had a great time. Sure, there were some kinks we needed to work out during the planning stages, but that was only because we all had different work-styles – not to mention the fact that I am all the way in Timbaktoo. No, Cambodia. Specifically to my NS partners – I’d like to do more of such projects whereby I come back just to “show-face” :) :) :) (kena slap).

Playfolio for managing and designing our contest website. Jeffrey – you are a gem – because you had been so patient with this “technology-idiot”- ME.

Beauty Haven for making the bride look absolutely gorgeous and accompanying her for her photo sessions, her meals and doing everything possible to ensure she was calm and at ease. Not just the bride – the groom too! As well as for Janet Lee – because Connie got enthralled by Janet’s ‘bodek-ing’ and helped with Janet’s look for the evening.

Sunday Photography (aka 1am Studios) for the pre-wedding portraitures for the couple and really working them very hard – I heard. Not just the bride and groom are excited about their photos – we are super-excited to see them too. Under the hot sun, in the drizzle of the rain and a few kilos hanging around the neck – my hats off indeed.

Kid Chan Photography for documenting the happiest day of the couple’s lives. Kid – ever so busy, made the time to get over to Clearwater, took the photos, rushed some photos out for release to the media immediately after the event ended and took off again at 5am in the morning. This is what I call dedication and professionalism. By the way, Kid – the couple and the family were mouth-wide-opened seeing some of the photos – they were impressed into silence. Thank you, thank you.

La Flaire Malaysia for the absolutely gorgeous theme décor – Happy Turquoise for the ceremony and a Romantic Lilac for the reception dinner – and coming guns-ablazing in a lorry loaded to the brim with chiavari chairs, linens, décor props and all, showed your passion in the creative work that you do. The guests were too in awe of your linens and décor to even spill a drop of sauce onto the linens!

O’Hara Florist for complementing the beautiful linens with equally beautiful floral arrangements. Also another sponsor who came in fully-loaded – this one with an Avanza packed to the brim with flowers (and thankfully no police stop!!). Special thanks to Bryan for the Naked Chilli Dance – thus the absolutely great weather :) (yes, yes, no photos on FB. Promise. Unless you are slow in responding to my emails :P)

Cave & Cellar for the wines – the lovely, lovely wines – so fantastic them wines that most of the sponsors were drunk before the show started and I was slurring during my speech :P Can-dy Maaaah (must be pronounced the way Kid Chan does it), you are absolutely hilarious!!

Janet Lee whose sultry voice and “gorgeous body” (according to MC Lilian) was so captivating that even I myself was stunned with her performance. I am a big fan. French would be good *wink! wink!* And between Janet and Candy Mah, I’ve laughed myself off a few calories!

CROSSROAD PRODUCTIONS who backed up the wedding entertainment with their STATE-OF-THE-ART sound system – and the CAPS is because Edwin was very ‘bitchy’ about being mentioned as much as possible :P Jokes aside – Thank you, thank you, thank you, Edwin for agreeing to do this as well. Much appreciated!

Acadia Cards for the beautiful splendour of nature themed wedding stationeries. I can’t remember which, but one of the guests went home with either Faith, Hope, Love, Heart, Trust, Respect or Dreams. Either one, they are blessed.

Truly Scrumptious for the nature-inspired wedding cake – Aniza – Chef Ricky Parlanti said that your cake was fabulous – guess what? He packed some home for his wife and kids! Says a lot, eh?

That Special Occasion and Fit & Match for the couple’s wedding attire. It was hot and humid and the groom, coming in from cold weather was sweating buckets. But he loved his attire. The bride – looked absolutely so gorgeous in her gown – but the real head turner was the cheongsam. Kris Wong – the cheongsam was much talked about that night and the morning after too! :) (but the buttons… hmmm…)

The Bubble Beads for the bride’s accessories which looked so pretty, pretty, pretty. I want them too and I promise I will know how to put them on :P

Wicked Wax for the media gifts as well as the Wedding Favours. Ivy – the fans – such a life-saver indeed!!!! Great thinking on that!

Aunty Lilian and Uncle Lui aka Mom & Dad for sponsoring your time in being involved in the event. Much, much, much appreciated :) :) And Mom – you were fantastic as an MC. NS is signing up as your booking agent.

Our work hasn’t ended. We are sending out post-media releases to the media who didn’t turn up. We have definitely tried our level best to arrange for one-to-one interviews with some of the sponsors while on site and some of you do have the interviews scheduled in KL instead. But please bear with us – we do wedding planning. We are not a specialized PR or publicity outfit.

And finally - Kisses and Kisses to all of you – and thank you once again from the bottom of my heart.

The End of my “Oscar-like” speech. I lurved doing it. :)