Wedding Hand Bouquet Competition by IPBI @ Landmark Bandung

Heya guys!!! Lenten Season is over so we’re all gearing up towards the wedding season again J…. As a start, here’s a wedding hand bouquet competition  one week ago in which yours truly also participated ..eheheh…yup, after my first competition it’s time for a new challenge…*fighting!!!*

This competition was organized by IPBI Bandung which managed to round a total of 16 contestants, however 1 contestant didn’t show up. Half an hour before started up, me and litl’ Flo had arrived at Landmark Building. Quite a heavy baggage since we brought the tools and also water bucket, not knowing that the committee provided water buckets at the site…

This was before start up pic, you might think that we’re lazing around, however this was because this competition used mysterious materials. They didn’t tell us which type of flowers were going to be used and we also could not bring anything other than tools. All flowers, holders and accessories were provided at the site so we waaiited….patiently…...

And Tadaaa…. 5 minutes before starting, the flowers and accessories finally arrived. This time we had to make one wedding hand bouquet using: roses, anthurium, carnation, baby breath, ruscus, aspidistra and ming fern or asparagus umbellatus *hosh hosh* and for the accessories we were given: satin ribbon, floral wire, copper wire and some red beads. That’s it guys, so let us begin!!!

We only had one hour so everyone was rush…rush…

Some took their time…

Some worked in lightning pace…

And for me, I took my time :) …

Not just for challenge, a competition also means networking and this time I was fortunate to make 2 new acquaintances, one is Ivani (number 2 is her creation) and Eny (the one on the right is hers). Nice to meet you guys!!

One hour flew fast and suddenly it’s a judging time!!! They said judging would be based on creativity, proportion, composition, mechanical and of course, cleanliness….Here are all the contestants' creations…All of them were great!!! This time it's a quite tough competition

After a judging time it’s waiting time…it took 3 hours until the announcement *aaargh* and featured here is the 3rd winner, contestant number 15.

Contestant number 13 as the 2nd winner and number 14 as 'Harapan 1' winner

And here it is…the 1^st winner is by contestant number 12…which is yours truly!!!!…*woohoo*

The side view of my winning creation…Honestly I didn’t expect it at all since I even forgot to open my baby breath package till the last 5 minutes (too panicked) but the MC said my number on the stage and suddenly my friends hugging me…Thanks guys and also many thanks to IPBI Bandung, too!!!! 

For all of you my readers, I hope this post can be useful in case you’re looking for a wedding hand bouquet right now…Ciao!!!

Almost forgot....here's the trophy :))

Church Flower Competition

Hi everyone, this is Little Flo again and I’m very happy to announce that a team from Margriet consists of my mom and auntie Jenny recently won the 2^nd winner at a flower competition which took place at Multifunction Building of St. Gabriel, Jl. Sumber Mekar I-7/14 on Dec 7,2012. Eventhough it’s just a church competition the preparation has begun with mom searching for reference since a week before.

At 9.00 AM we have already arrived at the hall, do the registration, put the leaves on our table and leave again until 10 AM to start the competition. Turned out the flowers only consist of 5 stems of white gladiolus, 5 red gerberas, 5 white chrysanthemum and a bit of yellow spray daisies, so mom and aunt Jenny had to redesigned a bit….

10 AM sharp, mom and aunt Jenny started to pull all the flowers together, only 45 minutes to finish the arrangement, so no time to waste…sorry for the blurry pics since at first I want to take close up step by step picture of the process but alas, the committee banned supporters from the competition room L (FYI, rules are meant to be broken since I still saw some supporters sneaking in to take some pictures)

In the last 10 minutes mom n aunt Jenny busily put the finishing touch n cleaning up the table, since cleanliness is one of the points and voila!!!!! This is it….

Since not many flowers were provided by the committee they chose a simple model like T model and use many leaves to cover the flowers shortage.

And this is the front side of the flower arrangement

Quite a lot of tough competitors too, since many of them produced nice flower arrangements. Here are the rest of them.

After that, it’s waiting time. The competition itself took 45 minutes, however the judging process required 90 minutes waiting but finally the best 6 were announced and we’re one of them!!! Gyaaa…so happy J

And at the announcing time, the winners are... no.7 from ‘Martinus’ as the first winner, then the second winner is no.18 from ‘St. Peter Cathedral’, the third is no.11 from ‘Cimahi’.

So happy for my mom and auntie Jenny… now let’s find another challenge, mom!!!

Cheers,

Little Flo