HFNA Wedding Celebration 10/6-8/22 Hilo

 

 

The Wedding Celebration was held in beautiful Hilo.

 

Britney from Haku Maui was the first presenter and gave us a workshop on Lei Po'o (head lei).

 

 

Bruno Duarte of Canada did several beautiful "sculptural" pieces utilizing Hawaiian products.

Lia & Kelsy were a duo from the Big Island demonstrating use of wire techniques.

 

 

Sue Tabbal-Yamaguchi AIFD EMC utilized European techniques in her bouquets.

 

 Lois Hiranaga AIFD showed several lush bouquets.

Dotty Yadao incorporated bromeliads into her bouquets.

 

On the final day, Susan McLeary showed body flowers and a table garland.

 

Tim Farrell AIFD talked about principles and elements of design and added unusual touches to bouquets to make them more interesting.

Final project was held in the Liliu'okalani Garden.  All designers joined in for a pic under the arch designed by Hitomi Gilliam AIFD and flowered by many of the designers.

 

 

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

Cont. René van Rems' Wedding Symposium

Our "Hawaiian Day" began with a lecture by Lois Hiranaga, AIFD.  Using her book, Neotropica, she showed the audience the different types of tropical flowers and foliages from Hawaii.  Hawaiian product was supplied by Green Point Nurseries, Hilo, Hawaii.  http://www.greenpointnursery.com/  The Hawaii Tropical Plant and Flower Guide, Neotropica, is available for purchase at this link: http://www.hena.org/NeoTropica/tabid/72/Default.aspx

Lois almost hidden behind an array of tropical product.

The anthuiums, ginger and foliages were from Hawaii.

Following Lois' lecture, Erica Rasmussen AIFD, David McCormick and Deb Di Bella AIFD gave a demonstration on haku lei making, ti leaf lei making, stringing flowers with a needle and thread and how to make a carrying container with ti leaves to transport the lei.




Meanwhile, the production continued in the back of the studio...

Shot of the model in front of the beaded curtain.

French tulips, tuberose, dendrobium orchids, hyacinth and tuberose leis created this Classic Cascade bouquet by René.  Tuberose leis courtesy of Haleakala Florist, Maui.  http://www.haleakalaflorist.com/

Workroom in full production.

Roses from Passion Growers filled these hand-tied bouquets.  http://www.passiongrowers.com/web/home.asp

Classic Cascade of phalaenopsis orchids by René.

Red orchid Garland style bouquet by René being further embellished by Paula Salvatore.

Cres Motzi AIFD playing with Oasis aluminum wire and attached the earring with Uglu!

Colorful Neo-romance bouquet by Elena Andrews.

This Angular Cascade bouquet was a collaboration by Heather de Kok and René.

Orange roses encircled by palm seeds in an Armature style bouquet by David McCormick and Heather de Kok.

Another colorful Neo-Romance style bouquet by Micheal Mancinelli and Lois Hiranaga.