purple fever

Some work i recently did after learning some important lessons from an event i covered -
always always go with your first instinct and colour matching...

dont you just love the purples yellows and greens!

Simply September in Singapore

This was my second gig in singapore which is nice - because I did not have to travel to malaysia just to meet the bride and deliver her flowers!!
and of course trying to operate in two countries all the time does get a little tiring, and I really would like to get a little more business in singapore.

the ceremony was very simple, and really was a gathering of dear friends. the bride carried a single white lily, and  I managed to find a beautiful slipper orchid for the groom!
I loved the fact that I could work with such a rare gem - hope you like the simple designs!

Panjang gets married!

V aka Panjang ;) finallllly got hitched - and what a quick romance this was. One minute she was telling me about all the hits and misses she kept being subject to, and the next thing you know she sends out this photo and the caption reads the love of her life??!!! in true form V had to be rather dramatic, and yes the love of her life is now her husband for life...
I was given the honour of taking care of decoration arrangements in the bride's hometown.
We were definitely both on the right brainwave when I sent her a picture of my ideas and she had happened to be thinking along the same lines!!
V decided on fuschia pink, orange and brown for her Sangeet ceremony, and the wedding was to be a red and white affair. The Sangeet colour theme kept making me think of lollipops!!! SOOOO... we used lanterns and a lot of wood and then more sedate arrangements for the Gurdwara (sikh temple) the next morning.

This was my first wedding of doing multiple events, what a learning curve!! and I had all V's aunts and cousins helping - they probably hate me by now, but hey! I pulled it off...V and N heres to an eternity together.

Some photos are courtesy of Chin Aik Lee, who was official photographer for the event - some are mine (the less polished looking ones ....sigh....)

of buttons and bouquets

it is probably the hazards of being the new kid on the block - imagine the thought process - ''she was an accountant - and then now she is a florist??''

so sometimes I get asked to

do bits of the flowers rather than the entire event.

the little details are great! sometimes I get artistic license - other times the bride and groom (ok ok who are we kidding really...) the bride is pretty clear about what she wants.

these are a mixture of bouquets, wrist corsage and buttonholes for different weddings.

from romania to orissa with love

now this is the ultimate love story...

S is from Orissa, M with her wild curly red hair hails from romania.

they met in this little obscure township called cranfield in the UK, and before you knew it he was smitten!

they studied, loved and graduated, and he got a job offer here in singapore.

so they upped and moved everything out here, and decided that they were going to be married.

they did us the honour of asking us to be witnesses at their solemnisation ceremony, and I offered to help with the flowers for their little shindig.

they chose a beautiful spot by the sea, and it was a sunset ceremony, with new and old friends coming together to celebrate. the bride was really keen to push the island theme so we came up with coconut shells and pineapple table centres.

the bride decided against a bouquet, and opted for flowers in her hair, and around her wrist. the groom not to be outdone had a suitably grand corsage to match.

I also made their cake, which was a two tiered simple coconut cake, adorned with the same cymbidium orchids used in all the other arrangements.

It was great fun and a great experience - and the more I help out the more I am happy to have the smaller scale events as my niche - the budgets are smaller, but the personal touch is priceless!