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Monday 27 January 2014

25 Jan 2014 - DIY wedding - of garlands, boutonnieres, corsages, bouquet and much more!!!!

So we have been super duper busy for the last few months in preparations for the wedding that took place last Saturday, 25 Jan 2014. I have been restraining myself from writing and blogging earlier so that I did not blow off the whole look for the wedding.

Congratulations again to my bestest of friends, Nonie, on her big day. I am so happy for you and K, thank you for making me your maid-of-honor. Thank you to Myra, my sis and biz partner Aisah, and all the 'gang blakang canteen' of Dunman Sec. Our friendship of over 21 years is endearing and truly treasured.  

{ What went down }

WEDDING BOUQUET  



Bouquet by Simply-4-Love

Prayers

GORGEOUS!

beautiful bride and groom and their god daughter


There are 28 different flowers in the bouquet. Made in the prefered colors of the bride herself. Don't you think she look just perfect?


CORSAGES AND BOUTONNIERES FOR BRIDESMAIDS AND BRIDESMEN


So, the 'gang' had their own handmade corsages and boutonnieres of course! Did you see the 2 flower corsage? Well, that was MINE!! LOL. A lil special for the maid-of-honor ;p


Bridesmaid and Maid of Honor's corsages


Bridesmen boutonnieres in mediteranean mist

 My handsome men; Irwan, Shahir and Hafiz. I dont know how you guys can maintain looking so good all these years!! I have to slap all kinds of concealer and foundation!! ;p Wanna see our wedding designs? See here ;)


Meet the Gang

My sisters and the guys

Bride and her maid-of honor (ME!)

The guys and the bride and groom

The girls

walking her down the aisle


We missed the main person - Myra aka event manager aka Madam supervisor!! Mary!! I dont have your pic. So sorry!!! BUT we love you!!

CANDY BAR


We sourced for all candies in wholesale stores in Sg but ended up buying off from the retails! ;p
Oh, except for the icing biscuits, my sister bought that for a big canister for $40 and had it delivered to our home. Other than that, if you are planning to make your own DIY candy buffet, you can rent the jars from The Love Dovez. We rented 3 jars for $68 but you need to deposit $20 for booking and additional $80 refundable upon returning of the jars.

Our other bestfriend, Dada made the nutella blossoms herself. She has her own baking business called Vanilla Chocolate. OOOOH!!! You should see all the other bakes by her! YUM!

On a boo-boo note, we totally forgot to tag the jars during setup. Such a bummer cos I spent a long time making those tags!!

Candy Bar sign
DIY candy bar

candy bar
Candy Bar 




candy jar labels
The DIY tags that were totally forgotten ;(

 

WEDDING SIGN & RECEPTION TABLE


Thanks to my lil niece for lending us her chalkboard easel!




chalkboard sign
DIY wedding Sign

reception table
Reception Table
wool felt balls
DIY craspedias (wool felt balls) and DIY stained bottles

wedding reception
Pinterest inspired DIY chalkboard and craspedias

Sorry I did not have any pictures of the wool ball garlands and craspedias upclose - I was too busy being maid of honor!! But these are the pics from other guests ;p and what we did for the reception and candy buffet table. I bought a bunch of wool felt balls from Nepal (online of course!!) and string them into a garland. I absolutely love the balls. They are uber cute!! Oh, yes, we stained the bottles pink ourselves too! Cant really tell from the pics huh...

DIY wedding garlands
DIY wool felt garlands

BROOCH PINS FOR BRIDE'S FAMILY 


Bride's family chose the colors coral and fushia for their brooch pins in our Ella Peony design. Wanna see our other colors?

dIY wedding brooch pins
Ella Peonies by Simply-4-Love


Happy family!!

BOUTONNIERES FOR GROOMSMEN

Dont you think these buds are so cute!


boutonnieres for groomsmen
DIY boutonnieres

groomsmen boutonnieres
DIY boutonnieres



Groomsmen and the bride and groom

LAST BUT NOT LEAST......



Thank you to the gang for a crazy fun tiring day! Thank you to Shahir, Irwan, Hafiz and partners for all the labour work and the girls, Myra, Aziean and Dada, for all the setup on Saturday. To Nonie and K, big congrats to you both. I know you are in Bali right now for your honeymoon. See you on Friday for our group dinner!



Tuesday 14 January 2014

Hello 2014!! What we have in store in 2014

Goodness it is already 2014!! Where did all the time fly to? And I just realised that i have not been blogging for sooooo long! Perhaps from all the preps for the wedding - making all the corsages, boutonnieres, wedding bouquet, decor, candy buffet and recep table - being the maid of honor - to getting all orders done for Christmas - planning for 2014 gameplan - oh and being school holidays, which means all the kids are home every single day all day!! PHEW! OK we are still very busy.

So what's new?

GOALS?  Who stick to their goals? I admit we have gained some forgot some since 2013 but we have grown alot as a company in 2013.

What is in store for Simply-4-Love in 2014?

  1. New office and workshop - yay!!
  2.  New collaborations - as in Jan, we have collaborated with And All Things Delicious and Caseiro Bags
  3. In the midst of collaboration for a contract (big contract!) with VA Tech
  4. Training makers in Indonesia for our bulk wholesale orders (End Feb)
  5.  OH! Did I mentioned we are hired as Creative Directors for Bebebows? YUP!! So that makes us very busy planning and creating 8 different types of crafts for craft workshops effective Feb. 
  6. End Feb- we are scheduled for the training in Jakarta. End Feb we will also be presenting about 4Life Research and Transfer Factor in Jakarta 

Soooo... we have been really busy! So many things happen in 2013. Some good, some great, some sad, some bittersweet, some just-cant-stand-it, and we are thankful for all those.

One thing we really want to achieve in 2014 is to be more connected with all our fans and supporters. Do add us on instagram to see our regular updates and what we are up to.. oh, do leave us comments ;)

Laters lovelies!


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