Wedding deco - Paul & Claire

I'm glad that I was given the opportunity to help out and decorate the ballroom for the wedding of Paul & Claire. They had their wedding reception at Nikko Hotel, occupying the Grand Ballroom with 50 tables in total. The theme was tiffany blue and white. They were 2 seniors and 3 juniors (including myself) helping Carol to decorate the ballroom.

It was indeed an exciting experience for me as it was my first time going behind the scene, seeing how florists decorate for a wedding reception. We unloaded boxes and pails of flowers using huge trolleys, passing by kitchen in order to get into the ballroom (basically using the 'back way'). Once we're in the ballroom, we had a short briefing from Carol, she did one sample, and voila... all of us started working without many instructions. Although we juniors were first timers, we seemed know what we need to do... wahseh... not bad :)

Seniors, Amy and Mandy did all the flower arrangements for VIP/main table and also flowers to decorate the aisle, whereas we juniors, Yan, Tracy and myself, did the small small flower arrangements for all the 50 tables. We trimmed gerberas into 3 different lengths, tied them together (tip of stems were covered with rose's leaf) and put into bowl filled with water (photo below). Besides a bowl of gerberas, each table was filled with rose petals and few tea candles. While we're busy with flowers, AV people were busy testing the audio and projectors (get to see the video slides) and Nikko staff were doing rounds of rehearsal. Even the couple also did rehearsal and checking stuff here and there.

Three gerberas in a bowl. One of them is basically left floating freely on the water – I suggested this idea to Carol :). Second one is nicely covering the bowl's mouth and the third one being the highest.

We started around 1.30pm and ended around 5pm++, just nice before the cocktail starts. Before we leave, we managed to peak into the couple's pre-wedding album :). Not bad... all outdoor shots... one I remembered the most was a shot in Sepang, the couple was flanked with few Ferraris!

OK, enough talking, photos time :). Oh ya, did I mention we got paid for helping out? That was a bonus as I didn't expect to receive any payment – more of wanting to get the experience.

Decoration for main table. Flowers: Madonna lilies, white roses, white eustomas, white gerberas, blue hydrangeas, coupled with baby breaths.

 

Flowers for the aisle

 

Decoration at the foyer (cocktail area) and registration table. Spot the cute toy car full with pom-pom.