Easter Church Décor 2013

Here’s the church décor at St. Peter Cathedral Bandung on Sunday Easter, March 31^st,  2013.

Some materials we seldom use are sun flowers, cigar flowers and calathea flowers or here it’s famous as ‘bunga uler-uleran’ which has a unique look.

The other materials used are lilium of ‘Kongkadon’, roses, chrysanthemum … etc.

The members of Margriet who got duty to décor the church wall décor, lead by Mrs. Diana.

Here’s the altar décor taken from the right side angle of view.

And this is the flower arrangement in front of the Easter Candle 2013.

The one in front of the psalmist table

The flower arrangements which placed in front of the twin Angel statue. We also have the tutorial how to make it here.

And here's the church wall decor for Easter 2013. We had to make 14 pieces of these. Two big ones were placed on the wall at the front, 2 at the back and 5 pieces each at the left & right side wall. If you’re curious to know how to make it, just click here.

The flower arrangements in front of Mary & Jesus statues

The flower arrangement's look placed at breezeway between the right wing of the church and the hall.

The twin flowers arrangements placed in front of St. Peter & Antonius statues.

Palm Sunday Church Flower Decor 2013

Okay, now that the Easter season has passed and we can take a bit breath, lets move on to the tutorials!!!

A few days ago, we just post on the mass, but now we'll take a closer look on the Holy Week flower decorations.

 Here's the Palm Sunday flower design on the altar, mostly we used kinds of palm leaves such as cycas, big cula palm lady palm or raphis exelsa and baloon flowers. And as focal point, we used woven palm leaves which made of yellow palm. We also have the tutorial.

Credits to the ladies from Margriet team who had done all these lovely flower arrangements for the Palm Sunday. Rome wasn't built in a day and so were these flower decorations,...very tiring.

Decor in front of the Mary and Jesus statues...

On the Tabernacle background and decor in front of the psalmist altar

And here is the wall decor. We have the tutorial for this arrangement for you to know, you can view them here

Note:

The coordinator for the church decor is Mrs. Liani and for the wall decor is Mrs. Diana.

Easter Mall Decor

Still with a topic of Easter décor, but now it’s not a church décor but a mall décor. Sometime ago, we went to Riau Junction Mall to have lunch there. And when we reached the third floor where many food stalls are, we saw interesting sight near the children playing area which was an Easter decoration of three giant eggs painted in cute characters. Wanna to see?

 An Easter Decoration at Riau Junction Mall.

An Up-close look. They looked cute, didn’t they?

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Images taken at the Riau Junction Mall, Jalan Riau Bandung, West Java.

Easter Mass on St. Peter Cathedral 2013

Happy Easter 2013 guys….

Here's the atmosphere of Easter Sunday at St. Peter Cathedral when we attended the 10.15 mass. Solemn but full of joy and of course crowded as usual moreover lot of visitors from Jakarta as it's a long weekend holiday.

before the mass began ...

The choir on duty at that time, they sang very melodious. Good job guys!!!

After the mass was over, giving an Easter congratulation to each other.

Good Friday Church Flower Decoration 2013

This day was not the day for the Margriet team to shine, why? Because it's Good Friday. And we didn't have any flower decoration whatsoever, the only decor inside the church were this black fabric background with Jesus Picture and coffin in front of it. Pssstt... don't tell anyone, but I actually kinda missed the old days when we got to pour sow flowers into the Jesus crucifix, yeah sure it made lots of flower trash afterwards, but the 'feeling' is more intense, right?

 As usual, even an hour before the mass began some already came to book the seats...

The details....

Maundy Thursday Church Flower Decoration 2013

This time's flower arrangements for the Maundy Thursday, the overall theme is white & green.  Thanks to Mrs. Helena as the coordinator and her team for this gorgeous flower decor.

As seen in above pics, the flower arrangements on the altar consist of 3 parts ie the left - center - right which each of them can stand by itself. They're united into one by using small branches or you can use salix for practical reason. The tutorial for this stunning flower design can be seen here.

And this is the one in front of the psalmist altar, if you want to know how to make them, you can view the steps in here. In this church flower decoration, we used roses, shamrock or spider chrysants, hydrangea, antirinum, carnations while the foliage we used was monstera, curly asplenium but mostly palm leaves.

And this flower arrangement is in front of the Mary statue.

A closer look on the arrangement

For the outdoor area, these flower arrangements were used. We also have the tutorial for making them.

Lastly, here's the design for the flower offerings used in the mass.

Palm Sunday Mass at St. Peter Cathedral Bandung

Hi, guys…

We’re entering the Holy week starting with the Palm Sunday, the day when Catholics commemorate the misery of Jesus Christ. And as usual, we attended the mass at 10.45 a.m. that’s always ‘full’. 

Like the name, Palm Sunday is identical with palm leaves. The church was decorated with yellow palm, cycas, lady palm or raphis exelsa and some other kinds of palm leaves. We’ll post the church decoration in the separate post soon, and for those who would like to know how to make the altar and wall décor, we’ll also provide you with the tutorial. Please visit our new blog at flowerarrangingtutorial.blogspot.com

The St. Peter Cathedral church was full of youngster at Palm Sunday. No seat was left empty, even lots of people were standing at the back side during the mass lasted. The right wing of the church and the hall were also full. It’s good sign that the young generation beginning to concern the religion and their relation to Lord.

The procession of the blessing of palm leaves. Look at the smoke from the burning of myrrh, frankincense that rose to the top.  (image above) The blessing was led by pastor Anton Subianto OSC.

IPBI DPC Bandung Monthly Gathering: A Flower Decoration Demo for Easter

Hi All, long time no see, hope you guys are all ok.

Since we’re nearing Easter (wow time does fly so fast) as usual we’ll give you some ideas for flower decorations. Unlike last year’s Easter flower demo which full of serious theme arrangements, this year’s flower arrangements are more casual. A little bit taking much time for the structure but quite simple for the flower arranging. As we all know that Easter is always identical with eggs, that’s why Mrs. Ida Hermanto and Mrs. Kitty Catharina, the floral designers this time, use decorative eggs on their design, even the last one use a bunny head miniature on her design. She said that once upon the time, it is said the first animal to came out after the winter ends is rabbit.  Whether it is true or not, we don't know. However, the adding of those accessories have made the flower arrangement look more beautiful and really typical Easter.

And if you imagine the floral arrangement for Easter should be white, yellow, orange and purple, forget it!! That's the old opinion, now it's more colorful. You can use any color you like, just like the following image shown:

And here’s a sneak peek on the first session. Look at the nest made from natural sisal mesh and also the colourful eggs on top. Those eggs were made by Mrs Ida's child. Gorgeous!!

The finished look, this flower arrangement used grouping, basing, terracing and sheltering techniques. For the complete step by step tutorial, you can view them here.

For the beginners who would like to try this flower arrangement, we must remind it in advance that it's quite expensive since it needs a lot of materials. It's more suitable for commercial flowers hamper for Easter.

And the second session to perform the demo is Mrs. Kitty Catharina. Most of the materials she used here are flowers and foliage taken from her garden. So, who said garden flowers can't be beautifully arranged? This one proves it! 

For the complete step by step tutorial, you can view them here.

The detailed look seen from above. The bunny head miniature looks cute, right?

About 71 members were present at the last monthly gathering of IPBI DPC Bandung. And by voting, Mrs. Ling Ling was elected as the chairwoman for the period 2013 - 2016. Congratulation!!!

Note:

The images taken at the IPBI monthly gathering, February 28, 2013

The floral designers are Mrs. Ida Hermanto and Mrs. Kitty Catharina.

From The Seminar held by Dorothea (3): Fresh Leaves from The Garden

Still from the Dorothea’s seminar, this time using fresh leaves which most of them usually found and planted at most of the garden here. Since it didn't use any flowers at all or all were leaves, it didn’t mean that it’s not beautiful or cheapy, just look at this!!!

Right, isn't it? Though using garden leaves, the leaves arrangement looks unique. This time, Mrs. Hanny, the floral designer, used black salix and the foliage's kadaka or asplenium, white-green cordyline folded in the middle into two and placed by using terracing technique, mini red cordyline, phillo sellum, xanadu, dracaena reflexa and caladium.

Well, this leaves arrangement is suitable for the Pre-Easter or the Advent season.

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The floral designer’s  Mrs. Hany 

From The Seminar held by Dorothea (2): Woven Palm Leaves

One of the four displays shown at Dorothea's seminar was the flower arrangement using woven palm leaves. It was made by Mrs. Kitty Catharina, a member of Dorothea from the parish of St. Martinus, Bandung. She used ‘elegant’ type of palm leaves (Latin, Chamaedorea elegans), which are really suitable for being woven.

This is it, the look of 'elegant' palm leaves that have been woven. It looks natural and really elegant, isn't it?

The flower arrangement seen from the left side. The materials used besides the 'elegant' palm leaves are florida beauty, schefflera and Lady Palm (Latin, Raphis exelsa) or in Indonesia it's popular as palm 'waregu'.

It’s seen from the front view.

An upclose look of the woven palm leaves

Manggar, the young coconut flowers as a focal point. Look fantastic!!

The light yellow is a kind of succulent. A bit unusual look but beautiful!!.

From The Seminar held by Dorothea (1): Dried Flowers Arrangement

This dried flower arrangement was made by Mr. Harry Zulkarnaen. Actually the materials were almost thrown to a trash, till Mrs. Helena, the chief of Dorothea asked him to make an example of dried flower arrangement that is suitable for the pre-Easter season.

Here, Mr. Zulkarnaen used dry twigs, midrib of palm trees, dry seeds and 'Jenggot Musa' grass or tillandsia. This plant absorbs nutrients and water from the air. (see our post on Excursion to Wijaya de Art of The Garden)

An up close look 

Church Décor on Ash Wednesday

After a seminar on 'The Lenten Days, Sacred Tri-Duum and Its Decor' held by Dorothea few days ago, we're entering the Lenten season which beginning with the Ash Wednesday. The question is 'Is there any different in Cathedral church decor?' You're curious about it, right?  So, let's check it out.

Tadaa..., here's what the Altar looked like on the Ash Wednesday, February 13, 2013.

The design's devided into 2 parts, the upper and the lower. On each part we used a nest which made of small stems as container as well as focal point besides the flowers made of corn leaf and the fruits of kebembem tree. Most of the materials are dried leaves, seeds and branches, the only plant we used here is the vines.

Actually the original design is just like this sketch. But because of no budget, so we have to be creative and omit some materials then substitute them with what we had at that time and some were borrowed such as the burlap and stones which were taken from the little pond of one of the member of Margriet.

The concept is that during the lenten season, the Catholic usually do spiritual preparation before the feast of Easter such as doing penance, more often praying, fasting and abstinence or other meaningful acts.

In decoration, it was interpreted by Margriet Team by using dried flowers/leaves/branches which have natural color a bit of dark.

The design is just like a concept of waterfall. It's divided into 2 parts, the one which is higher and the other one is placed lower. Water naturally flows from a higher to a lower place. And after going through many steep and winding roads, it finally goes to the estuary where many small animals and plants live.  We're all expected to be able to behave like that, bring good to others and be humble just like a proverb, 'the older the rice plant the more growing down'. We believe It's not an easy thing to do but should be tried at least, right?

Another view of the Altar taken from the right side

These are the dried flower arrangements in front of Jesus and Mary Statues

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Church décor : Team Margriet