Delivery!!

My friends had a house warming last Saturday and at first I wanted to go to the mall that morning to buy them something. Unfortunately, it was raining quite heavily and I was too lazy to get out of bed! I thought right there and then that I needed a second plan :) I called up my usual florist at Rawa Belong; apparently Bu Hikmah could DELIVER her flowers! GREAT!

I ordered a bucket of local pink long-stemmed roses with a little bit of baby breaths and leaf fillings. All of these for IDR 150,000. Well, a bit pricey on rainy season because it usually costs around IDR 80,000 for that amount of flowers. Using a vase that I found on my storage, I made 1 sweet arrangement for the couple.





Pink Roses



Aristate Leaf





Baby Breath





Ta-Da!



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Why don't you - Create your own invitation?

Hello lovely readers!

Aside from wedding shot Wednesdays, we are going to start a new routine each week called "Why don't you...". This is basically our findings on things that are not normally done on normal basis...err...what are you sayinn'?

Here it goes. As an example. Indonesians typically do not make their own invitations. They usually go to card specialist who charged super expensive amount of money---> on invitations --->which will be thrown away in a near future. Get the logic? We understand that with regards to parents, they are still going to need a hard copy invitations for special family and special VIP guests. But what about your friends?

Why don't you try to spend less on your invitations for friends, and DIY aka Do It Yourself? I found this link which provides a super cute wedding invitation templates and they are for FREE. What? What? Did I say it out loud? Yes, FREE.

I made these two invitations on behalf of my BFFs. They are engaged to George Clooney and John Hamm..maybe in their dreams, but who are you to judge?

BFFs, I hope you guys live happily ever after and have cute babies and invite me to Oscar and can I stay over at your villa in Lake Como and play date with Brangelina, please? please?

Templates available at loveandlavender.com.

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Wedding Bouquet - Alternative to flowers

This post is inspired by a friend that had her wedding a few months ago. She had arranged for gorgeous flower bouquets for all of her bridesmaids and pretty boutonnieres for her groomsmen. On the morning of her wedding day, it turned out that one of her three groomsmen was allergic to flowers....huh...whod've thunk! So, needless to say, she was left with one groomsmen without wearing a boutonniere...

This got us thinking, what if the bride herself was allergic to flowers? Does she need to sacrifice not having to carry a bouquet down the aisle?

One Queen's Lane is here to rescue! We found some cool and cute alternative to flowers that you can incorporate in your wedding. There a lot of alternatives to flowers, bouquets can be made out of decorative paper, ribbons, fabric and even brooches (Yes, there is a way to incorporate vintage brooches into your wedding, look here)! While brooch bouquets are a little extreme for our taste, we thought we would share with you the classic alternatives.

Believe it or not, all of the bouquets pictured below are made out of paper! Look how pretty it can be. 

information of pictures clockwise from upper left:
1. WeddingBee 
2. Martha Stewart Weddings 
3. Flowers by Paper Platypus via Elizabeth Anne designs 
4. From Etsy seller lalalaurie 
5. Paper Carnations by Folding Tree complete with instructions =)
6. By Weddinggawker via nieubreed
 
A more sturdy material for your bouquet is fabric. You can use all kinds of fabrics to make a wedding bouquet, our favorites are pictured below.

information of pictures clockwise from upper left 
1. From Etsy seller Silver Sixpence 
2. From Etsy seller mammamiaeme
3. Martha Stewart Weddings 
4&5. From Etsy seller mammamiaeme
6. Martha Stewart Weddings 
 
One last alternative, is the cutest everrrr! Pom Poms made out of yarns. How cute are those!!! You can opt to have it colorful or in monotone color, either way, they are way too cute!

information of pictures from upper left:
1. Poopscape
2&3. Domestifluff complete with instructions 
4. Vantiani blog 
5. Roxycraft

If you are not a very crafty person, you can buy these adorable yarn pom poms via Vantiani's blog. She is located right here in Jakarta, so it should be easy to purchase from her. Go to her blog for more information. 


Hope this post is helpful to you!

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