Wedding Church Décor: White Lilies

Okay, after our post on pink lily wedding décor, now is the time to reveal our white lily wedding décor… mmmm… wait a minute… I don’t see any lily here….

Tadaaa!!! Here’s the lilies….. the first image is the church aisle flower arrangements, in which lilies doesn’t suit in small flower arrangements like that, however for the main altar, we used white lilies, snapdragon, roses, hydrangea, ivy and SOI leaves.

The flower arrangements in front of Mary and Jesus statues (image above) and in front of psalmist (image below)

The chair and pew decoration

Note:

Church décor: Team Margriet

American Style Flower Arranging (part 2)

The materials used to make the flower arrangement like this are snapdragon, gerberas, red and yellow celosia or cock comb and the foliage is anthurium leaf, red and green cordyline, futoy, alokasia or tombak Irian, justicia or rugball and ruscus.

And here’s the step by step tutorial:

1. Prepare a round ceramic vase of medium height (15 - 20 cm). Fill in with wet floral foam, cut the top but leave 1 - 3 cm from the mouth of the vase and then trim the edges.
2. Take a stem of snapdragon flower, measure the length approximately 3x the height of the vase, cut it. Then put it a bit in the middle, not in upright position but slightly skewed to the left. Do the same for the other two snapdragon but with different length, shorter than the first one.

Take 3 anthurium leaves, put it in sequence by using terracing techniques, give among them a bit distance so that not to stick together.

3. Take 4 pieces of red cordyline, fold three of them each in different length. First put the longest leaf approximately 135° toward the right opposite the direction of the anthurium leaves, after that do the same for the rest of the leaves, all lead toward the middle.
4. Take 3 pieces of green cordyline, now place them across from the red ones. Now the flowers arrangement has 3 dimensional look.

Take a gerbera, cut very short then attach at the front. From this one, do the same with the other four gerberas by using basing technique but in different height. 

Make all the gerberas facing upwards, so they look like flower protected by the other higher flowers.

1. Take some futoy stems (20-25 cm long), stick together by using wire, then place it in the middle of the arrangement. (You might need 2-3 skewers to do this)

Take 2 alokasia leaves then put them opposite direction to the snapdragon.

2. Take some red celosia, cut them short and place them at the front on the left side of the gerbera while on the right side filled with 2 snapdragon (cut shorter than the other snapdragon placed opposite)

Take 2 stems of yellow celosia, placed below the alokasia.

3. Last one, put justicia or rugball among yellow celosia, green cordyline, and red celosia. Then fill the empty place with foliage, cut it short to cover the floral foam. Make sure that there isn’t any floral foam seen, ok?
4. Done.

The flower arrangement seen from the front and side view.

Up close look (image above), the red and yellow celosia look fantastic while the justicia or rugball looks so cute, doesn’t it? It is alike yellow sisal.

Note:

Images taken at the workshop by Andy Djati Utomo S.Sn, AIFD, CFD, May 16th 2012, in Bandung.

American Style Flower Arranging (part 1)

Still remember the workshop of Andy Djati Utomo which held by the IPBI DPC Bdg few weeks ago? We will write it into several posts just for you, our faithful readers, starting from this one. So, enjoy reading.

Here are some of the materials supplied by the sponsors. The flowers are snapdragon, anthurium, gerbera, celosia, bromelia, carnation, rubica, roses, caspea, phalaenopsis amabilis while the foliage's cordyline, futoy, foxtail, ruscus, lily paris leaf, anthurium marble, ivy, Ming fern and croton. There are some leaves that we seldom use ie. alokasia triangularis leaf or Tombak Irian, justicia or rugball (this one looks like yellow sisal), simelaria leaf, hemalomena leaf (it’s a kind of anthurium leaf but smaller in size).

As usual, Mr. Andy brought his assistants. That day he brought 3 assistants. They are Mr. Yohanes Triyono, Mr. Syaifuloh and uhmm... Mr. Choirudin(?) ups, I forgot the last one, sorry. They helped him preparing the materials such as filling futoy stem with wire so that it can be bent without broken or  sticking the flower stem with wire, especially for flowers which have soft stem such as gerberas, phalaenopsis, calla lilies and then covering it with floral tape. What they did were very helpful so that the workshop could run smoothly and finish on time.

Mr. Andy started his show by explaining characteristics of 3 styles in arranging flowers so that the participants could understand the differences among american, european and japanese style properly. If the european style is mass arranging, volume and uses a lot of flowers while Japanese style is vice versa, line arrangement and minimalist, then american style is between them ie 'mass-line' arrangement, there is space that is full or volume (usually in the center) but there is empty space and lines, too. The American style doesn't emphasize on the form of flower arrangement as in the european style. But it has a lot of flower arranging techniques. There are dozens techniques actually, and even added a new one every year, wow... In this occasion, Mr. Andy only taught three techniques ie basing, grouping and terracing.

These are some of the floral design made at the workshop. We'll give you a little glimpse, 'ginger & lemon'. Just imagine what kind of flower arrangement that would? Curious to know more? No other way, keep following our posting, ok?

Pictures taken at the workshop by Andy Djati Utomo, S.Sn, AIFD, CFD, May 16th 2012.

IPBI DPC Bandung Monthly Gathering

 IPBI DPC Bandung invited all the members to attend a monthly gathering which will be held:

Day/Date          : Thursday, 28 June 2012

Time                 : 09.30

Place                : Landmark Convention hall

                          Jl. Braga 129

                          Bandung

                         'A Demo with Oasis Floral Products & FloraLife'

By                    : Eunice Teo, AIFD (Malaysia)

Theme              : LOVE that BLOOMS

Participant fee   : Rp.100.000,-

                          Rp.80.000,- (for members registered 2012)

                          included lunch and certificate

Please register to the Secretary of IPBI DPC Bandung as soon as possible because of limited seats.

Flower Today: Phalaenopsis Amabilis

Phalaenopsis Amabilis or In Indonesia called as 'Anggrek Bulan' is quite familiar in Indonesian society. It is one of the Indonesia's National Flowers. It's species of orchidaceae which its characteristic wide petals and its white colour. I don't know whether it's hybrid or not.

Pure white color with a bit yellow 'lip' make this flower look amazing and classy, doesn't it? 

Note:
The pictures taken at the Orchid Asia Africa exhibition, Bandung, West Java

Wedding Church Decor: Red Tropical for Pentecost

Red is the liturgical color for this day, so for Pentecost this year we also decided to choose red tropical color  combined with other bold color such as orange and yellow. The materials used are heliconia or we call  it as 'Pisang Bugis', anthurium, roses, gerberas, daisies, green puma and a bit of baby's breath only for wedding ceremony decor such as hand bouquet, candle, chair and pew decoration.

This was the flower arrangement in front of the angel which placed on the right and left side of the sacristy table. We decorate the back of altar area only at big events such as Christmas, easter, Pentecost etc so not every week we have a chance to decorate the twin angels.

Because there was a ceremony of marriage a day before the Pentecost, so we also had to make decoration for the wedding ceremony such as these chairs and pews. The image below was the close-up of chairs and pews.

Overall view from front of the altar during the ceremony of marriage (image above) and an up close look of the altar (image below)

The flower arrangement in front of the psalmist (image above) and on the seven candle stand which was placed beside the big Easter candle (image below)

The flower arrangement in front of the Jesus statue (image above) and the seven candle stand which placed in front of Maria statue when the ceremony of the marriage (image below)

The bouquet and candle for bride and groom only consisted of red roses as the request of the bride so we only added the baby's breath to make them look brighter when photographed. The Bible-Cross-Rosary tray (image below).

The flower arrangement inside the hall (image above) and the offerings of flowers and fruit for masses at 08.30 and 10.15 a.m. (image below, the fruit basket's not seen)

Note:
Pictures taken on May 27th, 2012.
Church Decor by Team Margriet

Wrapping Paper as an Accent

Well, this will be the last on the flower demo at Hero supermarket series. This time it's about flower bouquet again!!! Still on the flower bouquet trend, it will be bold color! The bouquet consists of chrysanthemums only but with two colors, red and yellow. Very simple round shaped bouquet, the accent is at the wrappings. Unlike simple wrappings, lots of small folded  wrapping paper in yellow colored (just like triangle napkin) were first attached to the bouquet. Then another layer of orange colored wrapping bouquet was added. Unique!!!

Another close-up on the flower bouquet. Perfect for valentine’s day!!!!

Do check our post continuously since a more exciting flower post is coming soon.