HFNA Wedding Celebrations 2022

 

HFNA’s WEDDING CELEBRATIONS 2022
Hilo Hawaiian Hotel, 71 Banyan Drive,  Hilo Hawaii 96720 USA
October 6, 7 & 8, 2022
 

The Hawaii Floriculture and Nursery Association (HFNA) is pleased to invite you to attend their Wedding Celebrations 2022 in-person events being held October 6, 7 and 8th at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel.

This three-day event is our first since 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic took hold. We are very pleased to welcome you all back to Hilo to visit our flower and foliage nurseries to see our beautiful Hawaii grown tropical floral products as well as new temperate farms on the Big Island of Hawaii. You will also have the opportunity to discuss trends in floral design, any traits you'd like to see in new varieties with the breeders and growers of our tropical flowers, and enjoy working with our flowers yourselves in our hands-on workshop with host renowned floral designer Hitomi Gilliam AIFD.

You will find the Schedule of Events and our registration form as well as the advance registration form for the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel's special rates on our website:

www.hawaiineotropica.com

Be assured we will be maintaining certain covid mitigation protocols. Face masks are preferred.

Stay safe, stay healthy, stay happy!

We are so excited to see all of you in Hilo!


With warmest Aloha,
Judy Schilling
HFNA Grant Administrator
& Recording Secretary
hfnajudy@gmail.com

HFNA's Wedding Celebrations 2019

The Hawaii Floriculture and Nursery Association began their four island Wedding Celebrations tour on Oahu in June.  Hitomi Gilliam and Sue Tabbal-Yamaguchi AIFDs were to present a show and demonstration at Floradec Sales in Honolulu.  Unfortunately, Sue was unable to attend due to an illness so at the last minute, Lois Hiranaga AIFD and I filled in as designers.

Sample of some of the temperate flowers and foliage used in the designs.

Locally sourced tropical product used in combination with the temperate product to produce a winning combination which Hitomi calls "Tropical Nouveau."

Hitomi's cascade bouquet

Hitomi's bouquet.

Lois Hiranaga's bouquet.

Lois Hiranaga's bouquet.

Hitomi discussing my "wildflower" bouquet.

Hitomi's compote arrangements using Holly Chapple's "pillow."

Lois' compote design.

Tall arrangement by Hitomi

Tower arrangement by Hitomi.

My arrangement demonstrating the armature underneath for all to see the construction.

We also constructed 2 arches.  This is Hitomi's in pastel pinks, lavenders, whites, and peaches.

Lois and I constructed a vibrant colored arch in yellow, red, orange, peach and bronze.  Our construction utilized foam and chickenwire.

One last piece was an asymmetrical floral headband.

A lovely writeup by CTAHR about the Oahu "Wedding Celebration."

Oahu Wedding Workshop Highlights (1C) HFNA

This past week, I had the pleasure of working with Hitomi Gilliam AIFD and Lois Hiranaga AIFD on HFNA's (Hawaii Floriculture and Nursery Assoc.) "Wedding Celebrations 2019" which was held at Floradec Sales, Honolulu, HI.  We celebrated the marriage of our local tropical flora with temperate flowers from the mainland in a style called "Tropical Nouveau."

Video by Out of the Sea Media Arts

Neotropica Hawaii in Canada

2017 European Masters Certification (EMC) Part I, City College, San Francisco, CA

I finally took the opportunity to attend EMC Part I in San Francisco this past October.  I told everyone at work that this was not a vacation because I had heard that there was homework and studying involved.  I was right but it was a fabulous opportunity to learn floral design from an "European" perspective.  It was an analytical process which forced me to think differently and to view design in a precise way.

Wonderful studio at City College with a great array of containers!

Lesson number one.

Finished products.

Homework to analyze.

Decorative with vegative vines.

Lesson on horizontal line.

My assignment: horizontal, symmetrical design.

Lesson on upward movement.

Zero Point lesson.

Imploding design with several growing points.

My assignment:  Asymmetric design with the Growing Point outside of the container.

My assignment:  Zero point design

Demo on armature, spiraled hand-tied bouquet.

Demo on Active Color.

Final demo on Passive Color.

Thanks to Tomas, Hitomi, Aniko and Ania, City College and everyone else who contributed to this amazing, challenging workshop.

2018 Florabundance Inspirational Design Days

Floral Designs for Celebrations by Hitomi Gilliam AIFD

Fabulous video with Hitomi Gilliam AIFD showing new ways to use tropical flowers in a less "structured" way.

Califlora 2016 featuring Hitomi Gilliam AIFD

2016 Florabundance Design Days

2015 Hawaii Regional Floral Design Competition

"Gateway to Americas International Competition 2016 in Vancouver, Canada"  HFNA event in collaboration with MidPac Conference at the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Waikoloa, HI on July 23, 2015.

There were 3 categories:  Bridal bouquet for a destination bride at Hapuna Prince Hotel; table centerpiece for a 60" round table at the MidPac Conference; and a plant arrangement for a grower's sales office.

Some examples of the Bridal Bouquets:

Some of the entries for the Table Centerpieces:

And finally a few samples of the Plant arrangement:

 

Contestants at work.

Break time in the design room.

Relaxing in between designs with SueV, Kala, Erica and Iris.

And the winners are...

1st Place - Erica Rasmussen AIFD

2nd Place - Sue Tabbal-Yamaguchi AIFD

3rd Place - Deborah Di Bella AIFD

Relaxing after the competition with Cory Ho AIFD, Erica Rasmussen AIFD, Aniko Kovacs AIFD, me and Sue Tabbal-Yamaguchi AIFD.

 Mahalo to Hitomi Gilliam AIFD for making this competition possible, to Eric Tanouye and Neo Thong Teng of Green Point Nurseries for organizing and sponsoring the event, and to HFNA for sponsoring the competition.