When we met up with Yana, her sis and her then fiancee almost a year ago, I suggested creating something different, new and special for their wedding hantaran and wedding cake.
Instead of just doing up the cake for instance, I decided to create a Wedding Cake Designer Isle. And so with a serving size of 100 - 200pax, I suggested breaking up the servings into one cake centrepiece and the rest all pre-packed as favors, and aesthetically presented on our Isle.
Thing is, we love designing and creating favors - for which we were first known for - and we love gorgeous arrangements of anything beautiful. So we suggested this Isle idea to our many other enquirers, thinking we were doing good service...by being forthcoming and generous with new ideas during our non-obligatory discussions / consultations. Some politely declined cos they were understandably not ready for this, considering they've had budgets set aside for other wedding expenses...but some actually abandoned us and got other vendors to build up on this idea :(
It was heartbreaking...but in retrospect, we're all the wiser now. Moving on, we've taken it in our stride to accept all these as part and parcel of business, and hence to continue evolving.
Whatever it is, we're lucky to have many other great clients and fans who have kept us going
and encouraged us on to strive for the best.
In this light, we're grateful for Yana's and Akhbar's trust and loyalty.
So here's one specially decicated to you newly weds, and of course, sis Ezsra. :)
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| This Designer Isle featured our wedding cake centrepiece of fondant covered rich chocolate cake, with matching favors, decorative accents and bespoke monogram. |
The 'two tiered' cake was actually made up of four layers of real rich chocolate cake. We had to make it this high cos our groom is one tall young man! Doing up a 4 tiered cake however would make the cake look too 'overbearing', what with the motif design and all. So yup, we made it 2 tiered but 'tall' instead :)
And then we designed the favors to match our cake. Notice the rosette design on the favors and on the TOTALLY EDIBLE rosette icing.
We didnt have any inspiration boards cos most of the time, our inspirations are conjured up in our imagination, some of it 'at last moments'. But we knew what colours we wanted to work on....so here, we married the two colours used by our newly weds. (Bride chose blue with dashes of pink for her Hantaran, and groom chose purple with gold for his Hantaran)
And for the all-important harmonized look, we placed a matching bouquet of fresh flowers to balance the whole set-up.
And now, another special dedication to the newly weds.
Presenting the totally revolutionary Wedding Hantaran Designer Isle by Mariah & Sham....
All the gifts for exchange were presented on our Designer Isle. Bride chose a blue-pink colour scheme to present her gifts to her husband. After the solemnization ceremony, the gifts from both sides of the families would be exchanged, and the groom's gifts for his bride (purple gold!), which we designed to match, will be placed on this same Isle. Lucky for us, both Yana and Akhbar have got a keen eye for colours. The gifts they bought were all of the right tones and designs, making our work way much easier :)
For Him gifts were all placed on our gorgeous slick white stands, as opposed to the more traditional 'dulangs' or trays.
Notice the backdrop rosette motif which was reproduced in their Wedding Cake and Favors previously mentioned.
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| Loving the fresh peony in full bloom. |
We designed this bespoke monogram for them to match their get-away car signage.
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| For once, featuring camera-shy Mum in action! |
And so now, here's a look at the groom's gifts for his bride...
They chose romantic purple for this. And so to up the glam and grand factor, I decided to match the look with champaigne gold.
The groom was a bit apprehensive about handling fresh flowers...so we used faux ones instead.
Luckily, we had a whole year to scout around for the highest quality faux flowers, and we're delighted to have had worked them well.
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| Mariah's gorgeous frame in action...for the customary 'mas kahwin' cheque due to be slotted in, complementing the bride's gorgeous Tiffany bracelet. |
Ok so that's all for now. A very big thank you to Haz Workz for all the help rendered, and of course, I'd personally like to thank mother-in-law for helping with everything else while I got busy with projects, work and house moving. And to Mum, great great job as always! And to my four cheeky kids...Universal Studios here we come!! So now, on to our next project. Stay tuned! :)
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