Raffles Hotel

I wrote earlier about a new tie up with Wedding Acts... well I was given a chance to work with them recently... It was a 40th birthday party to be held at the Raffles Hotel lawn in Singapore. 

I was so excited and nervous all at the same time!!! This was the event that may decide the fate of THEFLOURIST, so it had to be good!

With this one though, some of the  designing was done for me..the look for the flowers and place-card holders was decided before hand, the napkin rings design came during our discussions.

The venue of course was amazing - I mean hello it was the Raffles. we could have put frogs on the table and it would have looked fab!! relax - no animals were harmed in the making of this event...

Blue and green were the colours - my fav colours of all time - (HINT HINT) For the blue we used hydrangeas and table runners, and we had green chrysanthemums and foliage. we also had blue and green candy, and Jonathan got name cards printed with the blue and green!

So with my lovely husband and great friend M in tow we pulled it off!! Thank you to them both without whom I would have tanked!

and thanks to a cheeky invite on FB, all photos are courtesy of the very talented Mr Jon M Pinto!

yellow yellow lovely flower

was at my suppliers today, and early in the week it is usually quiet - and i love it - cos it means i can spend my time with the flowers, get to know them - walk around multiple times and not worry about getting in anyones way.
it means I can linger with new flowers and foliage and think of ideas in my head and experiment with the broken flowers on the ground just to file away in my head for another day.

so anyway - today they had the loveliest golden yellow calla lilies in stock - imported of course but it is so rare to see them so beautiful. really they were almost singing!!!
found some field daisies going cheap (this is singapore everything costs money ;) ) and got some for my dining table.

created some napkin rings - these are perfect for a garden wedding, and you can dress it up as much or as little as you want. you can virtually do this with any flower - just the greens you have to get something sturdy like bear grass or acorus (which is just a fancy name for local bear grass) - dont use wild lalang you will cut your hands and it will tear when you knot it.

you will recognise the biscuit tin from charlene's book launch - the yellow of the callas really pop and the pink just brings out the psychadelic in me ;)