Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Real Wedding: Mark and Charmaine

Congrats, Mark and Charmaine! We are so honored to be a part of this beautiful wedding filled with gorgeousness and loads of pretty details. Thank you so much for sharing your big day with us.

Our friends at Jim Liaw Photography were the official photographers for Mark and Charmaine's wedding ceremony and dinner reception at Cyberview Lodge Resort & Spa in Cyberjaya, and the ever talented team at Events Wizard planned this truly memorable wedding. We couldn't have asked for more brilliant people to work with for treasured occasions like these!

Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine

It must be said that our beautiful bride Charmaine played a huge part in setting the tone, mood and ambiance for the decor. How huge? She personally bought all the ornaments and decor items! Other than the invitation card in the top right photo that was designed by our bride and made in Malaysia, everything else was flown back to Malaysia from Germany where Charmaine and Mark reside. Charmaine tells us that the decor items were sourced mainly in Germany, and some in France. We are loving the lace, ivory satin and diamante button on the invitation - how elegant and sophisticated!

Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine

What's not to love about pearls and diamante? From strings of pearls to glass pebbles, candles and diamante stones to heart-shaped ornaments, Charmaine bought them all. And we helped to bring together her vision for a shimmery, sparkly wedding by dressing up the ornaments and by decorating with the loose objects, as well as florals, of course.

Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine

A pop of color is always chic and stylish, especially for an all-white wedding. Other than some colorful gerbera daisies for the reception table, our couple and their team at Events Wizard chose to use fun and bright colors at their Candy Bar. We love it a lot! The "cherry blossoms" provided by Cyberview Lodge were a lovely touch for this pretty garden wedding.

As the wedding party moved indoors to the ballroom for the dinner reception, the evening takes a glamorous turn, inspired by Charmaine's vast selection of ornaments and decorative items in a big way. Check it out...

Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine

The clear plastic baubles in the top photo is about the size of a golfball that twists to open. Inside were lovely chocolates for Charmaine and Mark's guests. The team at Events Wizards carefully put together the teardrop-shaped beads and attached them to each bauble. Talk about dedication! There is such a festive feel to the whole set-up you can't help but to feel the magic everywhere!

Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine

Clockwise from top left: a "wishing tree" for guests to leave their messages of well wishes to our couple, the elegant wedding cake decorated with bling and ivory satin ribbons, candles on top of the floral stands, and one of the 5-feet floral stands lining the walkway into the ballroom.

Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine

All eyes were on the main table, of course! Florals for the arrangements included roses, phalaenopsis, eustoma, dianthus and Taiwan ivy, while little cones of baby's breath decorated with pearls, crystals and glass beads added more texture and dimension.

Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine

The amount of pearls, glass beads and glass pebbles were staggering - they arrived in jars, and we definitely had fun with them! The top right photo features one of the several cones we made, topped with sizeable "diamond" - one of four that Charmaine had bought. What a delightful detail to decorate with!

Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine
Mark and Charmaine Mark and Charmaine

In addition to all the pearls, crystals, glass beads, pebbles and other ornaments, Charmaine also bought organza rosettes which we used to decorate the chair-backs at the main table. The strings of beads hanging from the chandelier and the ceiling were provided by Cyberview Lodge - they really help to complete the ambiance for the evening don't they?

For the bride who isn't sure how she would like her wedding to look like, don't worry. If you're able to get together items that you really like and have some idea of a theme, they can really help to shape a direction and vision for your big day. It worked for Charmaine and it could surely work for you :)

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Real Wedding: Jessie and Mac

Jessie and Mac Jessie and Mac

Our heartiest congratulations to our wonderful couple, Jessie and Mac! Our beautiful bride's vision for a purple-themed wedding is a sight to behold at Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur's ballroom, bathed in warmth and love, exuding a cozy ambiance for several hundred family members and friends. We have many beautiful shots of this breathtaking evening, captured expertly by our friends at Jim Liaw Photography - thank you so much.

Jessie and Mac

Jessie and Mac, thank you for entrusting us with the most important first day of your lives together and for letting us at Wishing Tree play such a big part of your celebration. Also, for sharing your wedding with our readers! Now, onwards to the photographs!!

Jessie and Mac
Jessie and Mac Jessie and Mac

A grand wedding like Jessie and Mac's couldn't be complete without a grand entrance lined with these walkway stands. Tall enough to impress but not too tall to overwhelm! We used sturdy white branches for these stands, and piled on the blue hydrangea, dark purple eustoma, pink dianthus and lilac roses, with simple ornaments of hanging tealights on white satin ribbons and a touch of green ivy. As Jessie wanted an effect of "city lights" for the reception, we added rattan balls to the ceiling, decorated with fairy lights for a little extra magic.

Jessie and Mac Jessie and Mac
Jessie and Mac Jessie and Mac
Jessie and Mac Jessie and Mac

Every one of the over 60 guest tables in the ballroom featured a beautiful centerpiece. We created two types of Jessie and Mac - a tall centerpiece for the tables immediately circling the couple's main table, and lower centerpieces for the others. Other than purple berries and purple and white alliums for the lower centerpieces, all guest table arrangements comprised of lilac roses, dark purple eustoma, purple limonium, pink dianthus and calla lilies.

Jessie and Mac Jessie and Mac
Jessie and Mac Jessie and Mac

We love details! Clockwise from top left: White and purple alliums with purple limonium, ferns and white calla lilies; purple limonium and purple allium for, cymbidium orchids for the reception table; purple berries for corsages.

Jessie and Mac
Jessie and Mac Jessie and Mac

And of course, the masterpiece for the new bride and groom's table. Three large cylinder vases dominate the tablescape with lush blooms, gorgeous textures and rich purple hues with specks of red. Instead of arranging the stalks of calla lilies in the vases, we let them hang outside... Which was great for attaching the tiny mokara orchids and crystals at the ends! In addition to detail, another important aspect of floral design is dimension, don't you think so?

Jessie and Mac
Jessie and Mac Jessie and Mac
Jessie and Mac

We also did a something different with the bride's and groom's chairs by decorating with long stalks of white allium, ivy and ribbons. As the evening progressed, purple lighting filled the room. Together with lit candles, the ambiance and mood are nothing short of romantic, cozy and magical!

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