The couple brought the evening to a close by serenading the crowd

In the company of beloved family members and life-long friends from around the world, Tunku Dara Naquiah and Tunku Datuk Mudzaffar Tunku Mustapha celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a grand Hawaiian luau, a throwback to their honeymoon days in Hawaii.

The grand ballroom of the Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur was decked out in palm trees, twinkling fairy lights and frangipani flowers aplenty, as guests turned up in their snazziest Hawaiian get-ups. Following dance performances, song dedications and touching speeches by family members and friends including Tunku Danny, Tunku Datin Myra, Tunku Jamie, Tunku Eddie and Dato’ James Iskandar Jaafar-Greaves in ‘Nicky and Atuk's’ honour, a traditional dance was performed by professional dancers flown in from Hawaii. Finally, Tunku Dara and Tunku Datuk Mudzaffar garnered cheers from the crowd with their own rendition of Olivia Newton-John’s “Let Me Be There” after cutting the cake. 

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Photo 1 of 34 Ruthlene Abu Sahid
Photo 2 of 34 Datin Usha Nair and Dato’ Mohan Karthigasu
Photo 3 of 34 Amarjit Chhina and Datuk Yasmin Yusuff
Photo 4 of 34 Puan Sri Christine Khir Johari, Dr. Peggy Wong, Datin Millie Ling and Poon Foong Lin
Photo 5 of 34 Datin Indera Norzie Latif and Datin Suriaty Ahmad Khan
Photo 6 of 34 Hizad Zahid, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim, Mojgen Nazari, Dr. Badrul Hisham and Zainuddin M. Noh
Photo 7 of 34 Antoine Bakhache
Photo 8 of 34 Datin Su Day and Dato' Steve Day
Photo 9 of 34 Omar Chelbat and Tunku Elana Khyra
Photo 10 of 34 Dirk Luebbert and Melinda Looi
Photo 11 of 34 Mike St. Clair-George
Photo 12 of 34 Datin Jennifer Lee and Doreen Tan
Photo 13 of 34 Tunku Jamie Nadzimuddin
Photo 14 of 34 Puan Sri Siew Yong Gnanalingam
Photo 15 of 34 Che Puan Claire-Louise Rania Moore and Tunku Idris Arthur
Photo 16 of 34 Sapha Sisodia and Tunku Dato' Yaacob Khyra
Photo 17 of 34 Tunku Datin Myra Madihah
Photo 18 of 34 Victorine Kong, Tunku Rafidah Mustapha and Puan Sri Jamilah Ibrahim
Photo 19 of 34 Jeslina Hashim, Bianca Indot, Diane Leighton Ackerman and Kelly Leighton Ackerman
Photo 20 of 34 Tunku Dara Naquiah's closest performed a special Hawaiian dance, led by Dato' Rohaya Ghani
Photo 21 of 34 Lim Wei-Ling and Yohan Rajan
Photo 22 of 34 Tunku Gabriella Amiera and Puteri Tahlia Jaafar-Greaves
Photo 23 of 34 Dato’ James Iskandar Jaafar-Greaves
Photo 24 of 34 Dato' Sri Farah Khan and Dato' Dimitri Pantazaras
Photo 25 of 34 Dato' KK Loh, Datin Patsy Loh, Puan Sri Dato' Habibah Dato' Muhd Yusoff, Tunku Puteri Jawahir Tuanku Jaafar and Tengku Azlan Sultan Abu Bakar
Photo 26 of 34 A traditional Hawaiian dance performance
Photo 27 of 34 Tunku Dara Naquiah and Tunku Datuk Mudzaffar
Photo 28 of 34 Tunku Dara Naquiah and Tunku Datuk Mudzaffar surrounded by family members
Photo 29 of 34 Datin Adib Yasmin, Datin Catherine Lai-Lee and Bill Lewis
Photo 30 of 34 Crystal Lee, Lee Hau King, Dato' Johnny Mak and Dato' Rohaya Ghani
Photo 31 of 34 The couple brought the evening to a close by serenading the crowd
Photo 32 of 34 Datin Seri Maneesah Ahmad, Puan Sri Mona Tirathrai, Datin Rosie Nasrum and Datin Moony Baharuddin
Photo 33 of 34 Datin Moony Baharuddin, Tengku Nong Soraya and Junidah Flint
Photo 34 of 34 Putera Ryan Ja'afar-Greaves, Dato' James Iskandar Jaafar-Greaves, Tunku Danny Nasaifuddin and Tunku Eddy Nasruan Adil