Playing Catch Up

Last year... yes yes, I am severely delayed....

where was I? thats right, last October we were lucky to do another tiffany blue and silver inspired wedding. And due to the bride's really busy schedule we never got to meet!!! So, I had to figure out what the bride liked or did not like just by emailing images and lots and lots of emails ;)

The flowers were white white white with a touch of emerald green which were mainly the lisianthus buds. We also used wax flowers, gerberas and silver gum nuts.
We used white pebbles spray painted with silver and silver bits to style the photo album and desert tables - they looked lovely against the tiffany blue ruffles on the table.

Recognise the boxes? ;) yup we had some left over from another wedding, and so we used them to hold the flowers... love the way these turned out.

Thankfully we pulled it off, and the bride and groom loved the final pieces. Hope you like them too ;)

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....)

Sing me 'I DO'

This was a lovely May wedding surprise. The couple were related to a close friend Sharon Lam and had not thought about flowers or decoration for the church - so I happily pitched in to help.
KC and Gen were lovely! They met while acting and singing in a musical, and that was that!
They were the most un-fussy and down to earth couple you would ever meet.
He wore a tuxedo and tails! and the bride wore a lovely A line ivory dress.They exude this old world charm how could I not help out.
so enough about the couple - the flowers!- it was to be very simple. the colour scheme was really taken from what we already had - I picked lavender (from the cards that were meant to be printed blue but turned out lavender) burgundy cos the bridesmaid dress was burgundy and white from the bride's dress! the style of the flowers were borrowed from English country style which I thought went well with the character of the couple.I used chrysanthemums in little silver buckets for the pews, and the same flowers for the bride and bridesmaid's bouquet.
It was great to be given the opportunity to work with this couple - even more to be able to witness a wedding so full of love and regard. The church was packed with their family and friends of from different walks of life! Judging by their friends who were all easy going and who pitched up to help out with the set up at the church, it was obvious that these two have love all around them. Their friends even put on the entertainment after the ceremony and made a whole lot of lovely noise while guests ate lunch.
for all the lip-service our politicians are doing for 1Malaysia - KC, Gen and friends achieved it just by being themselves.

The following photos are courtesy of Ms Sharon Lam

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!

The one that got me going

Since I was pretty sure I would be out of a job in January of this year, I offered to help a good friend with some ideas and perhaps work her wedding in kuala lumpur.

It turned out to be THE mega wedding to kick off the year and

what luck that she decided to trust me for some of the stuff! I was asked to come up with an idea for the pews in the church, the car, and the dinner at home for close family and friends for the day after the wedding.

Her theme was pearly white, which was a lovely look, until it came to stringing the pearls into different lengths so we could use it for different things!!!

We did little pom pom balls for the pews in the church, hung from sheer white ribbon and complimented with pearly strands. these flower balls adorned every other pew, with simple sheer ribbon bows and pearl strands on the remaining pews. nothing like this had been done before at this church, so I was pretty chuffed. these did take a long time to do up though, thank goodness for the bride's international friends who lent a helping hand the day before the wedding!

The car was decorated very simply. I wanted to use the same flowers she was using for the rest of the event, so opted for white dendrobium orchids and the beautiful dark green monstera leaves and white ribbon (rather than the tulle which is so often the trend).

We decided to reuse the flowers from the beautiful setting of the bridal reception at the hotel the night before, and the church altar for the home reception the next day. the colour theme for the house reception was white and pink. so I used many of the arrangements as is for the stair case leading up to the house, with pink pearl strands draped on the flower stands. we pulled the remaining arrangements apart to create two large arrangements at the top of the stairs, and rearranged the rest into smaller arrangements for the tables. we used the beautiful pink rose candles that the bride had ordered as part of the arrangement, with little pink pearly wheel

accents in the table arrangements.

we had all the cousins and aunties in the house that afternoon pulling tables together and tying the flower balls from the pews to the tent posts and stringing pearls for the chair backs. with all their help we managed a fantastic effect! what an experience that was, and was great training and first job for me. It was only after this that I truly beleived that I could... possibly... maybe...?

perhaps... make this work!