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!

flower ball drama

This is such a classic look and is really popular these days - the style is compact and close, and there are so many options that you can choose from. Here I used lovely iceberg roses, carnations and even baubles. the black butterfly adds an interesting texture and detail to the design.

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!