Rosette Designs & Co: Classic Chic Styling Part II

On one fine day, in Rosette Designs & Co compound, when we are feeling a little nostalgic and romantic… we decided to roll up our sleeves and dress up, by digging up our black and white collection and do a little styling.

Here in Rosette Designs & Co, we have a common obsession. We love Black and White. Stripes, checkered, chevron.. love love love…Black and white can’t go wrong. It is listed in one of Kate Spade’s 20 Inspiration Yearbook.

But of course, only the brave ones embrace it for a wedding. Please see our works in our website here.

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast” - this quote by Ernest Hemingway might be one of the thousands reasons why everybody adores the idea of Paris. While the city itself might not be as romantic as the mental image, we are still spellbound by the idea of eloping to the City of Love.

If you are keen to do a Paris-theme wedding, please focus on one specific era of the Parisian life. Whether it is Belle Epoque, the Chanel-era, Renaissance, they have distinct characteristics that separates them from each other. Another way, is to focus on the city itself and it’s beauty.

We created this lovely arrangement that housed the silhouette of one of our couple. Love how it turns out.. graphically poetic..

Introducing our best steals yet, emerging from one of the vintage flea market in Singapore.. this mellowing fellow has been a regular resident in our decor line up.

There’s something romantic about the idea of writing letter on a typewriter, which leads to the trend of having it on a wedding. Although this trend was popular around 2-3 years ago, people still loves it. I used it for my own wedding and for my clients. Vintage won’t go out of style.

What puzzles me is the fake-all metal-China-made-typewriter that actually mimic real typewriter…

But having a typewriter is good just for the display sake… because when I tried to type a letter using my retro Olympia, it frustrates me! Where’s the backspace key??!

Guess I’m not ready to give up my digital life.

Now, lets step aside from the mellow zone to an after party of Minty Dessert!

We love seafoam or minty of tiffany color.. they are look-alikes.. and they bring the same feelings.. coolness personified.

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CHIJMES: Walk Down the Aisle in Grand Vintage Style

Getting married in CHIJMES is the closest you can get to a Royal Wedding, think Westminster Abbey. Built in 18th century, this convent building carries a Gothic architecture style and it has been well preserved since then. The last activity for religious and education purposes was in 1983 and it was adapted for public use till now. Thankfully the hall managed to survive over the years and now is a popular wedding hall.

We (Rosette Designs & Co) have planned and designed a few weddings in CHIJMES and are still in awe of their potential & beauty. Having the characteristic of a cathedral with tall columns, beautiful ceiling and huge stained glass, it was perfect for Western and Vintage inspired wedding. The best part is, you don’t have to be a Catholic to walk down their aisle.

The hall can fit in up to 30 round tables, but of course the best arrangement is the long table!

Since the hall is generally sports cream and off white color, it’s a designer paradise! We have done weddings in a few colors.

Purple Vintage

Peach Perfect – Vintage Lovely

This wedding gave us a chance to challenge ourselves.. turning a theatre setting for Holy Matrimony…

to Dinner setting in an hour during Cocktail timing! Challenge accepted and completed!

The trick is to hide all the tables into the side wings and hide them behind the elegant drapes. Love how the draper elegantly merged with the venue.

I even recycled the posies from the ceremony to decorate the drapes gatherings. Not a detail is spared!

What is a vintage wedding without antique typewriter and real old books? The books are imported from the father of the Groom’s library. Since both of them are law practitioner, these law books hold bittersweet memory during their study days.

Check out our full portfolio here!

Garden Setting

One of our favorite flower and somehow a lot of our bride love them too!

So if your eyes are drawn to this look and feel, maybe you can consider this venue. Of course, we will be delighted to plan and design your wedding too! We love creating wedding in CHIJMES! Expect Pinterest-worthy wedding.. haha..

Introducing Our New Website!

Finally our website is up and running!! After a long period of juggling everyday work and designing this website, finally I can proudly say, “Please go to our website!”

The link is www.rosettedesigns.com.

Inspired by a French memory board that I saw in Europe during our honeymoon, this design doesn’t really follow the typical look of a website. I always love pinning my inspiration on a board and while now we have Pinterest to do it digitally, the analog form of an inspiration still holds dear to my heart. So, this is my way to share my obsession of a gorgeous board. The look of the website is non-traditional, fun and whimsical. It reflects on our taste and value in designing every wedding. It should be fun and pretty, without losing your own identity.

Please feel free to click the polaroid icon inside to lead you to different directory.

Start from About Us, a short introduction on who we are and a link to meet the founder and principal designer, (ehem…) Hellen Lie. As most of you might know (or not) that I co-founded Diary & Design Wedding together with a fellow planner. Cut the story short, starting this year, Diary & Design Wedding is no longer in operation and both of us have move on with our own things. So this is my thingy now! Nothing changed, the passion is still the same (even stronger) and the works still fabulous.. the best part, the team remain intact and ready to do bigger and prettier weddings.

 

The Gallery page is inspired by Photo Gallery that we often do for our client, with clothes pegs clipping the pictures.

 

Sp please check it out and let us know what do you think about it!

Love,

Hellen Lie

Real Wedding: Jeremy & Cheryl

It is a custom in most Chinese families to have a proper wedding dinner banquet. Especially in Singapore, where we are based, hotel dinner banquet is the norm. They comes with a convenient package of food, decor, wedding favor and even invitation. Which can be dummy-proof and a very safe option to save money (or spend more depending on how you see it) and for fuss-free couple. However, increasingly we see couple putting more effort and heart into their wedding banquet.

We are featuring one of our client’s wedding, Jeremy & Cheryl. Their wedding embodies the good example of mixing their personality in the traditional setting. Adding their whimsical personality  into the Victorian setting of the Four Seasons ballroom, shows that they’re a fun and loving couple.We designed this board for them, Classy with a Twist. Jeremy who is also a designer himself, wants to have a well-designed, well-coordinated wedding matching their personality.

Here’s the actual wedding montage:

Instead of the usual flower centerpiece, we had a bowl full of windmills doubling up as wedding favors.

The reception area doubled up as solemnisation venue before the the rest of guests flocks in.

Fancy those backdrop stands in the red carpet event that printed the event or company’s name? Why don’t you do it for your own wedding. Jeremy & Cheryl had their names printed all over the photobooth. Talking about branding your own wedding.

The other special items are the wishing table with vintage typewriter for the guests to type or paper to write in their wishes for the couple.

Who says photo gallery can only display pictures? We brought in a vintage cupboard to display their memorable mementos to share with the guest.

We did the bird theme for their stationery and it carries on to their birdcage angbao box.

This wedding proves to us that even a hotel banquet wedding can be fun and personalized. It was really nice working with such a creative and lively couple.

Please check out our gallery here for more portfolio & our Facebook page!

New Design Gallery in our Facebook Page

Happy Chinese New Year to everyone who celebrates! Can’t believe it’s already the new year! We, the team from Rosette Designs & Co, recently revamped our portfolio and branding in preparation for the next move from Diary & Design Wedding. Please have a fresh look on our past & new works here and contact us at hello@rosettedesigns.com for quotation and inquiry!

Here’s some pic to whet your appetite!

 

 

 

 

 

Weddings in Singapore are Going To Get Prettier!

After co-founding Diary & Design Wedding, Hellen has headed the design team to expand into a new company, Rosette Designs & Co which specialised in wedding design & decor. Our website is still in progress, but you can see our portfolio here or in our Diary & Design blog.

Simple set up to showcase our props. Cupcake by Twelve Cupcakes. they are super yummy!

Please check our previous works here . You can visit our Diary & Design Wedding blog for portfolio too!

Pictures by Ian Photography & Rosette Designs & Co

She Says: Have a Lovely Year Ahead!

No doubt 2012 has been the most interesting and life-changing year for me so far. We have a few additions to our little family, a cute baby and a capable helper. I’d never imagined myself to be one of those mothers who is pushing a stroller with a helper following behind. It is perfectly fine and increasingly becoming a common sight in Spore. It’s a norm in Indo to have a Suster (nanny) to take care of your newborn. I grew up with helpers too. Guilty. However my helper has become my secret weapon in order to continue my passion in design & my normal life as a working adult. I couldn’t imagine juggling motherhood, work and business.

Another exciting news is that Diary & Design Wedding is expanding! We are currently undergoing corporate restructuring, so don’t worry if you can’t get to the website. We are still around, but it will not be the same anymore. It’s gonna be better! Yay!

So here’s a sneak peak of what I am currently is up to. A little greeting for our lovely readers.

Wish you a lovely and fabulous year ahead!

Photo courtesy of : Ian Photography & Rosette Designs

She says: Uber Chic Wedding @ Yacht

Some of you might know that I am closely linked to Ian Photography. This creative and fast growing company grew together with this blog as we were his first client back then. Of course it doesn’t hurt that Ian was one of my disciples in church and Irene is my sister. I took credit for matchmaking them at the earlier stage. Now the link is further deepened with their marriage! Check out the pics here at Rosette Designs & Co gallery

I am really proud of this uber creative couple. Seeing them grow and blossomed as a couple and as business partners is a privilege. Nothing short of drama, sometimes thrilling, inspiring yet challenging. Mixing love and business can be a real pain in the marriage. Theirs wasn’t immune to it either. However, thank God that despite all the drama, they decided to put business and differences aside. Love conquers all.

Always a fan of their works, I knew their wedding will be picture perfect! Shoot by their second line, Bunny&Co, their wedding is ultra chic. Salute to the couple who always dares to be themselves and not confined by tradition & pressures. Love every bits of the details, starting from their wedding e-invite.

Irene & Ian came up with the theme Sail Away, with white & Navy blue as the main color. The decor & design is super chic! The wedding favor is sailor hat for female and bow tie for male. All the guests followed the color theme closely. The result was picture perfect wedding!

Winston & I, Dad, Mom, Ian, Irene, Imelda, Trisia & Bro Will

We say: (Secret) Dream Comes True!

We have been waiting for Style Wedding magazine’s September issue for a month after our interview. In the initial stage of our wedding preparation, we secretly wishing that our wedding will be featured in a magazine one day. It didn’t happen on the year we got married, only a year after that, our vendor called us asking if we are interested to be featured, since the theme of the issue is vintage. Yay!

For those of you who wonder how to get featured in bridal magazine, it is actually more complicated than having a very nice looking wedding. It also has to do with whom you engage. Anyway, we are really happy that 2 of our vendors approached us at the same time, without knowing each other’s intention.

A big shout out to Jasmine, who wrote the article so descriptively and positively. Also Adeline from Alvinadeline Weddings & Wansheng from Feldberyl for their referral.

Although there’s a small hiccup (but with big impact!) of our blog address, instead of welovelaughkiss.wordpress.com, it written as welaughwekiss.wordpress.com, we managed to salvage the situation by creating a page with the wrong blog address and direct it to this one! Problem solved!

For you who didn’t have access to Spore’s Bridal magazine, here you go!

She says: It was all worth it..

Today Lily and I met a lovely couple who has a beautiful idea of having their wedding solemnization and dinner outdoors and indoors. They chose the path of what seems to be a rising popularity in Singapore’s wedding scene, a non-typical Chinese wedding dinner. We have met many couples, who have the similar interest. I would say, most of our couples prefer this path. I couldn’t agree with them more, that wedding should be representing their love and their personality. They still honor their elders and follow tradition in the morning and tea ceremony. I think that is great, preserving your tradition is the way to go. Yet, when the sun goes down, it’s show time!

Back to the lovely couple, they mentioned that they loved my wedding, read my blog and found out about us, Diary & Design Wedding.. (You probably also came to our shore the same way as them..) We had a great time talking and they showed strong interest in engaging us. At the end of the conversation, I asked them for their last question or comments. The groom-to-be paused, and said, “Your wedding is amazing”.

I might not get the wedding magazine coverage I always wanted, nor being known as “The Best DIY Wedding Ever!”, Singapore might not remember my wedding last year, but I can honestly tell you, when he said that, I know in my heart, it was all worth it..

I may not inspire thousands of couple to love their wedding as much as I do, but if I can inspire one more couple to have the wedding they always wanted, I will do it all over again.

Please, bride-to-be and groom-to-be, if you are already going to spend a lot of money on your big day, be passionate on your wedding day so you can look back and say, it was all worth it..

worth every penny..