Purple Madness

Our last few brides have loved the colour purple and white, which is lovely... but why not try pairing purple with other colours - like pink, or yellow? or even different shades of green.

The brighter yellow lifts the purple and makes the look pop and is very trendy

 Or leave the purple on its own with different shades of green - the above are two very modern takes on a very traditional purple theme...

Or mix purple with pinks and deep reds to get a more sensuous, romantic look...

Its all fair in purple and colours... so feel free to let the passion show.

Sneak Peek - photo shoot at GardenAsia

Hi everyone,

Just in case you had not heard, we are now the selected few vendors who have partnered with Extraordinary Weddings (Singapore), an online wedding website for all your wedding planning needs.
So to commemorate this new partnership, The Flourist was roped in for a quirky photo shoot out Kranji Way in a lovely green lung called GardenAsia.

While we wait for the official photos, I thought I would tempt you with some sneak peaks...
the theme was relaxed solemnization, a touch of vintage with bright cheery colours. The fun part was that we used very different flowers than the normal roses et al, which was a welcome change.

I just know you are loving it and are already planning for these colours for your big day! Go for it - this is a perfect example of less is more - the budget can be easily kept low for a set up like this, and is so effective - though I would recommend it for the cosy laid back touch of retro couples.

PSSST!!  by the way Extraordinary Weddings has a promotion for couples planning the knot, with a promotional card filled with discounts and goodies from selected vendors - pick yours up now!!

Bride in crisis

So now you have seen the wedding dinner, (and yes I know I owe you more professional photos which I will get to you just as soon as the creative work by the photographer is done)...

there was a small crisis on the bride's side the weekend before the dinner - which the wedding weekend!!

I was commissioned to do some simple arrangements at the bridegroom's home and nothing else till the dinner. Lucky I am anal and always have contingency plans in place - cos on the day before I left Singapore I got a slightly panicky call from the normally calm bride - 

the lady who was to help decorate the bride's home was caught in a sad and tragic family crisis and there was no way she could come and help, let alone attend the wedding.

So there was the bride's mum in an absolute state with no other flowers or deco planned at all!!!!

if only I had a superhero's costume and sad cheesy slogan now... anyhow TheFlourist to the rescue. 

so armed with grainy mobile phone photos of the bride's home and places where flowers were needed and the only other instruction being that NO PURPLE ONLY PINK was to be used for the bride's home (just in case you missed the profusion of purple in the rest of the wedding ;) ) I made these and drove with them in the car to Melaka and completed set up there. 

Again these are the amateur photos from my i-phone and will update with professional ones soon - I promise ;)

duck not included ;) 

celebratory lanterns

January was a bonus job ;)
I spoke to LH after being referred from a mutual friend (it turned out we actually had several mutual friends and even worked in the same firm though different states...we had never met!!!)

LH was getting married with all the ceremonies thrown in, from two different cultures. She needed help organising, decorating, and managing both sides of the families - and was weighing up doing it herself or engaging a wedding planner... After having a chat, quote etc LH decided to just go with a wedding planner and said thank you very much but no thanks.

So it was a pleasant surprise when I got a call from LH closer to January asking about the possibility on renting my lanterns for her dinner party for the same wedding she originally called me for!
So there we were, the three of us, one hot afternoon putting up lanterns and baubles on these trees that were installed for us at the Hotel ballroom. The theme was fushcia and orange, perfect colours to reflect the couple's happiness.

Some of my lanterns were also used by the hotel flourist so we tied the look inside and outside together.

I love these colours - they just look fantastic!

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....)