Vintage Garden Wedding @ Fort Canning

"I love it when a plan comes together"

- Hannibal Smith (The A-Team)

And that's what happened at Hellen and Winston's Vintage Garden Wedding at Fort Canning Park.

I'm featuring this wedding because it is one of the more creative weddings i've come across in Singapore. Kudos to the creative bride who is a designer herself and a fellow crafter. Meeting Hellen is like meeting a kindred spirit. View her awesome wedding blog and be inspired!

The following two pictures were her blueprint (no pun intended) for the wedding, with a unique colour theme of tiffany blue, coral and cream. Very unusual for weddings in Singapore. Hellen wanted a casual, fun and vintage feel to her decorations, with different vessels and bottles containing casually put together flowers.

The most challenging part of the preparation was Hellen's colour theme. The cloth colour was tad tricky, as it was not sky blue, nor was it sea-green, but it was tiffany blue for the pews and table runners. Nevertheless, i found the exact colour (phew...). And Coral is such a difficult colour, even more so than Fuchia. Its not pink, neither is it orange, its just Coral! Again, by the grace of God (seriously), i found the coral coloured roses and gerberas with coral centred (although most people would just label it as pink centred gerberas). Finding the exact colour shade was like striking lottery - i was estatic!

Sometimes its easier to work with brides who have a strong vision of what they want to see on their wedding day. Even better if she had pictures to show me, like what Hellen did.  With her blueprint in had, it made it clearer for me to deliver exactly what she liked.

March-In Aisle Decoration

Chair Decoration

Chair Posy

Main Centrepiece
(incorporating rosettes made by the bride)

Birdcage Hong Bao Holder

Bridemaid's Posy
(which doubled up as a table centrepiece in picture below)

Dining Table Decoration
(Random vessels dressed up in vintage style)

Dining Area Decoration

For the vintage feel, i had fun sourcing for vintage looking cups, glasses and bottles. I had even more fun dressing them up with ribbons, pearls and lace. The details were definitely time consuming, but to me, details matter. Each item should look pretty on its own and when put together as a decoration theme, it will rock the house down!