Events | Luncheon at The University Club, SF

What was supposed to be a casual dim sum for four turned into an intimate luncheon for eight, including Beverly of Especially Yours Chair Covers, Gloria of Gloria Wong Designs, Jubilee of Jubilee Lau Events, Nicole Ha of Nicole Ha Designs, Nancy of Nancy Liu Chin Designs, Laura of Poppy's Petalsworks and of course Barbara Lewis, Catering/Events Manager of the University Club who so graciously offered to host the luncheon for us. Located on Nob Hill, specifically at 800 Powell St, the University Club is the best kept secret in San Francisco!

Real Wedding | wennie & dave

Ceremony St. Regis San Francisco (Conservatory, Level four)
Reception St. Regis San Francisco (Gallery Ballroom, Level two)
Photography Martin Lam Photography

Events | The Knot Industry Networking Event (recap)

It turned out to be a fun-fun-FUN night! Seeing a lot of familiar faces and meeting new ones!

Here's Fu of F.C. Wong Photography (above)

Here's Elley of Elley Photography (above)
Here's Janae Shields of Janae Shields Photography, Gabby of Cake Coquette, Duncan Reyes of events by design (above)
Here's Mary of Very Merry Events, who's that trying to get in our picture? (above)
Is it Andrew of Studio MSV? (above)
IT IS ANDREW of Studio MSV! (above)

And here's the mastermind of this event, Michelle of MB Wedding Designs (above)

Real Wedding | lisa & keith

Ceremony Sts. Peter and Paul, San Francisco
Reception Marines' Memorial Club, San Francisco
Photographer Cohn Frankel Photography

Events | The Knot Wedding Network's Industry Networking Event

WHEN: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Galleria at the San Francisco Design Center

101 Henry Adams Street

San Francisco, CA 94103

www.sfvenues.com

I'll be here tonight! Hope to see you all there!

Events | Filoli's Kaleidoscope of Flowers

Filoli, had its annual Mother's Day weekend Flower Show event last weekend, this year called the "Kaleidoscope of Flowers". (View earlier post of my initial thoughts and inspiration here). Literally at the eleventh hour, I was still searching for inspiration. I went back to IKEA, still nothing stood out. The initial idea of the hanging utensil holders were not going to "hold" well because they couldn't be hung against the wall, thus the flowers would most likely fall out and even if they didn't, it would literally just be hanging buckets of flowers. What's the big deal?, I thought.

Then I thought to browse around Macy's kitchen department since I was starting to form a "baking scene" in my head (mostly because in real life, I've been baking and loving it!). As I neared Martha Stewart's kitchen collection, her distinct signature turquoise color hit me with a "ah-hah!" moment - that color completely matched the distinct turquoise colors of the cabinetry in the Butler's pantry! I can't believe I didn't think of that earlier!

Then the rest is history and I went to town, drawing also from the red, grey, green, a lighter shade of blue, and another shade of the turquoise blue of MS's ingredient cups, and came up with my design, titled "A baking scene in a modernized kitchen, inspired by the same turquoise blue of Martha Stewart's kitchen collection as in the blue of the cabinets in the Butler's Pantry", see below:

Events | Floral Presentation at the College of San Mateo

I've always wanted to give back to the school that's given me so much - College of San Mateo - the school that's taught me the fundamentals of floral design and where I received my certificate in Floristry in 2003. So when asked if I would like to be a guest speaker for their monthly meeting, I immediately said YES! I've been bursting with so much knowledge from the past 5 years of being in the business that I wanted to share it all with all the new aspiring students!

I wanted to do my program that's focused more on the practical, everyday techniques of wedding design, instead of designs that are so "out there", (although inspiring) it's not applicable to everyday wedding design. While demonstrating and explaining the techniques, I also talked about the wedding business as being a business, making sure the students know that it is beyond designing - the realistic side of the flower business.