LOVE Me ‘Do!, Malaysia’s first online public voting wedding contest has finally come to an end with the announcement of the winning couple.

With over 100,000 votes from the public, strategic investment analyst Kelvin Teo and his fiancee Kimberly Yap were the grand prize winners of RM100,000 for an all expenses paid and everything planned designer beach wedding at Berjaya Langkawi Beach & Spa Resort on April 23.

“I would like to thank all the supporters for voting for us, especially my mother and sister for their enormous support as well as for helping me to garner some votes back in Labuan,” said Teo.

“We really did not expect that we would we able to make it this far but I guess once you have put your mind and effort into something, you will have the motivation to do it,” he said.

He said they had planned to settle down this year being together for seven years. Both are working in Singapore.

“We found out about this competition when Kimberly was searching on the Internet for wedding-related information,” he said.

	A dream come true: Teo and Yap with a mock cheque after emerging winners in the online public voting wedding contest.

The online contest was organised by Berjaya Hotels & Resorts and it started on Oct 14 last year.

Berjaya Hotels & Resorts Marketing Communications director Thang Han- Ni said that the competition was divided into four phases where in Phase One the Berjaya Hotels & Resorts will select 50 couples to move on to Phase Two based on the couple’s creativity in answering questions about their dream wedding.

“The second phase solely relied on public voting as the 50 couples had to post a video to convince the voters why they deserved to win the contest. The seven couples with the highest votes advanced to the next phase,” said Thang.

“In Phase Three, selected couples previewed their wedding attire as well as took part in other activities. They were treated to a photo shoot by renowned wedding photographer Edmund Tham and had to blog about their experiences so that the public could vote for their top three favourites,” said Thang.

She added that in Phase Four, the public decided on the winning couple.