Wedding Bouquets Inspiration Compiled by Lols – Lols Flowers www.lolsfunction.co.za B gathered from ivy (fidelity), myrtle (passion) rides have been carrying bouquets since the middle ages. Of course back and roses (love). then the gathered bunches of herbs and Bouquets remain a special tradition spices were intended to ward off evil spirits today, with plenty of styles and variations and protect the fragile, innocent bride for brides to choose from. You can have from bad luck and misfortune. anything from cascading waterfall Happily by Victorian times bouquets bouquets to sweet, simple hand tied posies. had moved on from garlic and dill to It all depends on the style and theme you include fresh flowers – often made up using envision for your wedding – and ultimately the “language of flowers”. Bouquets were your own sense of style and personality. © Jeanine Bressler photography Nov/Dec 2013 Brides Essence Magazine 49
When designing your bouquet, keep the following in mind: The tone and theme of your wedding A formal wedding in a large church or cathedral might require the drama of a cascading bouquet, while a loose (hand-tied) bouquet would be more appropriate for a casual, perhaps outdoor event. Colours and textures Chat to your florist about the colours you love – and how to use different tones and hues in your bouquet to maximum effect. Some of the more popular flowers by colour choice include: White: rose, lisianthus, gerbera, carnation, lily, chinks, stocks, tulip, snap dragon, orchid. Pink: rose, lisianthus, carnation, tulip (seasonal), protea, hydrangea (seasonal) and lily. © Gavin Withers Photography Lavender: rose, carnation, lavender, lisianthus, snap dragon, stocks, hydrangea (seasonal). Yellow: rose, gerbera, tulip, sunflower, carnation, lily and freesia. red: gerbera, rose, carnation &lily. Seasonal flowers Be open to using seasonal flowers in your bouquet (and throughout) as they are plentiful and therefore much, much cheaper. Also bear in mind flowers such as snap dragons, proteas, tulips, irises and delphiniums have a limited growing season. It is best to find out what is in season before you set your heart on a particular flower for your bouquets. Out of season and imported flowers are very expensive and beyond the reach of a great many brides. Holidays and special events Flowers like roses, gerberas and lilies are available all year round - but often more expensive in winter or on special Continued on page 53.../ 50 Brides Essence.com - Issue 10 © Veronique Photography
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© PC Benade Photography /...Continued from page 50 days like Valentine’s Day and Mothers’ meeting) to ensure that you end up with Day. If possible, try to avoid these dates a bouquet you love. for your wedding because your flowers could literally double in cost over © Bijou Belle photography this time. Your wedding dress Ultimately everything starts and ends with the dress. If possible give your florist a photograph or sketch of your dress so she can guide you on the best choice of bouquet. Large trailing bouquets are dramatic and romantic but tend to work better with princess-style ball gowns as they over- power anything simple or understated. A more modern bride might consider exotic flowers or an interesting use of foliage such as succulents in her bouquet or perhaps a wrist bouquet, pomander or dramatic head piece while a stylish bride may want to add crystal or pearl embellishments for a glamorous finish. Your bouquet will be the most special and intimate arrangement of the day, so brief your florist well (don’t be scared to take pictures, mementoes, fabric swatches and sketches along to your © Sarah Wood photography Nov/Dec 2013 Brides Essence Magazine 53
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Date of Wedding: 9 March 2013 Bride and Groom names: Maryke & Jéan du Randt Venue: L’Aquila - Pretoria www.laquila.co.za Dress: Cinderella’s closet www.cinderellascloset.co.za Hair: Exclusive Bridal Hair www.exclusivebridalhair.co.za Make up: Naaznien Laher [email protected] Music: LMH Productions www.lmhproductions.co.za Wedding stationery: Paper shaper [email protected] Flowers and Decor: Pebble & Lace www.pebbleandlace.wordpress.com Photographer: Kaimara studio www.kaimara.co.za Wedding Cake: Johan’s Wedding Cakes [email protected] What was your memorable moment on your special day: The most memorable moment was when I first saw my husband standing at the end of the aisle as I entered the church. I was so overwhelmed and overcome with emotion and I knew for certain that this moment was the beginning of our happily ever after. What advice do you have for other brides getting married? Enjoy each and every moment. This special day goes by so fast, so many people tell you this, but it is so true! When I think back on my wedding day I can remember almost each and every detail. Make memories and cherish them, at the end of the day that’s all we have left. Nov/Dec 2013 Brides Essence Magazine 55
AWedding ensemble P of South Africa’s most talented arrangers/ romenade-ensemble are the musi- cians to call when you need classical en- composers, “Recently we have acquired tertianment for a wedding or other occa- Rock tunes by Led Zeppelin, Coldplay, sion. Founded in 1984 by members of the Sting, Gloria Gaynor, U2 & others.” former NSO of SABC, Promenade Ensem- The group has performed at public ble are a group of professional musicians concerts for Classic FM, Walter Sisulu & bound by the same concept-that music is Pretoria Botanical Gardens, Alice Art an integral part of life as old as mankind. Gallery, Theatre on the Square and at Because it is a form of positive and con- numerous private and corporate functions. structive communication, it enhances the At present members of the Promenade quality of life. Ensemble are with the high ranks of the Over the years, Promenade Ensemble Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and have accumulated a vast repertoire of the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra, also light classics and contemporary pop, the performing as solo artists in recitals and latest commissioned to Peter McLea, one chamber music concerts. 56 Brides Essence.com - Issue 10
Maria Branco - Violin Born in Lisbon, Portugal, she started playing violin at the age of 7. Maria obtained her diploma from the Lisbon National Conservatory in violin & composition and was a member of the Radio Symphony Orchestra & the Sao Carlos Opera Orchestra in Lisbon & participated in many Chamber Music concerts & festivals. In 1983 she came to South Africa to join the National Symphony Orchestra of the SABC and played with the Chamber Orchestra of SA, the Johannesburg Philharmonic & the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra. Maria has been the manager of the Promenade Ensemble since 1990 and is currently teaching violin at the National School of Arts. She has also a passion for dogs & is a qualified instructor. Susan Mouton - Cello Susan was born in Durban & started playing the cello at the age of 10. She received her B.Mus at the University of Pretoria, studying under Prof Gerard van de Geest. She joined the National Symphony Orchestra of the SABC in 1983, and was appointed Principal cellist in 1987. Susan was a member of the Chamber Orchestra of SA & the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra. Since 2000 she has been the principal cellist of the Johannesburg Philharmonic. She loves participating in Chamber Music and enjoys recording on the albums of many different South African artists. Judith Klins - Viola Judith was born in Leipzig, Germany, and grew up in Berlin. She started playing the violin at 14 & switched to viola 3 years later, studying at both Berlin’s artistic Universities. She was a member of the Flensburg Symphony Orchestra & teacher at the City Music School, & the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2006 Judith moved to South Africa where she started playing for the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of SA & as a permanent extra for the Johannesburg Philharmonic . Currently Judith is freelancing & teaching at various schools. Serge Cuca - Violin Serge was the Associate Concertmaster of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra & later of the Cape Town Philharmonic. He was also a member of the Johannesburg Philharmonic,& lead the Kwazulu Natal Philharmonic for 2 months – on loan. Serge is an avid chamber musician, has also appeared as soloist with all the major South African Orchestras, teaches privately and has also recorded for film, radio & television. Click here to listen to some of their music. For more information Contact: Maria Cell: 082 452 8538 Email: [email protected] www.promenade-ensemble.co.za Nov/Dec 2013 Brides Essence Magazine 57
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Wedding stationery trends for 2013 by Bronwyn Hendrikz T or copper foil, pearlescent card and rends come and go. The art is to be creative and make it your own. Here are paper, with satin sheen ribbon. some ideas of what’s in at the moment Letterpress printing is extremely and what’s to come. popular due to the beautiful textured Vintage will still be big next year, but finish created by the old-fashioned not the current ‘rustic vintage’ as much printing method. Paper choices range as ‘luxury vintage’. Lean towards the Art from thick boards (450gm) to 90gm Deco (1950) era and include more glitz, cotton rich papers in a variety of colours glamour, ‘sparklies’ and bling. Lace is still and shades however cream or white the classic and most popular element. remain the ,most practical. Lazercut designs are in high demand; Florals - big blooms, softer country they create a lace look. Combine with styles and Shabby Chic – with colours pearls, diamante, hints of silver, bronze like blues, lavenders and rose, or deeper Nov/Dec 2013 Brides Essence Magazine 59
hues like navy, deep purple, jade and written on leaves, or made up in a box slate, or spring yellows and lime greens for example, but a big point to consider are all still in. are the high postage costs. For adventurous brides looking for The sky is really the limit; your invitations something different, 3D concepts are don’t need to cost a fortune, but this is gaining popularity; invitations etched into the one time you have opportunity to put wood, printed on vintage handkerchiefs, your mark on paper so make it count! Click here for a FREE Printable Invite 60 Brides Essence.com - Issue 10
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The Diet everyone is talking about The Low Carb High Fat Diet (LCHF) is the diet that everyone is talking about. Brides Essence was priviledged to have the opportunity to ask Monique more about the diet while she was in South Africa by Grant Derrick A you will loose your cravings for the foods re you worried that your gorgeous wedding dress may not fit on your wedding that cause obesity and all manner of day? Join every bride on earth. There is a sickness and disease…and you will feel solution ladies – you will never look back the difference not only in your body, but and you will see and feel results in a shorter in your mind and soul too. time than most diets out there. LCHF is not What a delight it was to meet with the a diet, but a way of living. On this “diet” author of “Low Carb living for families”. © Photograph coutesty of Struik Lifestyle Monique Le Roux Forslund 64 Brides Essence.com - Issue 10
We had the honour of chatting with Question: How have your children coped Monique Le Roux Forslund. Monique has with this diet? put together a delightful collection of her favourite tried and tested recipes in this Monique: My children are aged 20, 17 and lovely and easy to follow recipe book. She 9. The older kids fend for themselves when has been living the LCHF way for many it comes to dietary choices because they years and her entire family are grateful for already have established eating habits. My the quality life-style that they lead. 9 year old eats many foods but is herself very aware of what is good and that she Question: everyone, including the medical needs to have extra butter or cream with fraternity, the media and pharmaceutical her food. She knows that bread and pasta industry tells us that it is the natural fats that for example are not good. My 20 year old are causing heart disease and that certain son suffers with migraines. When he has people are just susceptible to Cancer, an attack then he always says “mom I diabetes and a host of other diseases. Low- know that I should be eating more strictly”, carb high fat seems to contradict everything because he knows that then he does not we have been taught. do you think that get the headaches. Although he sometimes LCHF will be beneficial to people who suffer binges on redbull and junk at late night with AdHd, Add, High Cholesterol, diabetes gaming sessions, he says that “at least when and Hyperthyroidism? I want to eat healthy, I know what to do”. All of my kids are very aware, and at home Monique: Absolutely. I have worked with I don’t stock the bad foods. If my kids want pre-school children for 20 years or so. We something that is not healthy then they must don’t feed them low-carb and high fat, buy it for themselves. but we have taken away all the sugars and almost all white flour. We feed them natural Question: What are the alternatives yoghurt, real butter and lots of eggs; all to something like chocolate or other the good things. The difference that we confectionaries? notice in the group is amazing, especially the children that are active. We have been Monique: The best is to rule out bad following this regimen for 3 or 4 years now. foods, rather than try to find substitutes The concentration of the kids and their or alternatives. Chocolate, although, energy levels are drastically improved. Nov/Dec 2013 Brides Essence Magazine 65
is one of the better baddies. One can still spent will probably be less than a normal have 70% chocolate occasionally with high carb diet if you compare grocery some degree of safety. spending on a month to month basis. You cannot compare cake flour which is cheap Question: For people suffering with high to almond flour which is pricey because cholesterol, do you recommend that they you will eat a lot less with LCHF. stay away from carbs? Question: What is the timeframe that one Monique : Diets that are high in sugar and can expect to notice a difference once on carbohydrates affect the LDL cholesterol the LCHF ? particle, making it compact and thus more likely to adhere to the walls of arteries. Monique: It really depends from individual LCHF causes the LDL’s to become big and to individual. It generally depends on your fluffy, reducing the bonding to the walls of weight. If you are very overweight and the arteries and thus reducing clogging. need to lose 40kg, you will find the weight Vegetables are also carbs, so you cannot loss rapid. If on the other hand you only really get away from carbohydrates need to loose 3 kilograms, then it will take altogether unless you want a totally boring longer. Mattias is Monique’s boyfriend. diet. On the other hand vegetables have His mother was diagnosed as a type 1 a much lower carbohydrate content than diabetic, meaning that she always has to breads or grains, flour and sugars and they take insulin. She suffered with fainting and are full of essential and helpful nutrients. insulin highs and lows. Once she started the LCHF diet, she lost 12 kgs in 4 months, and Question: What about people wanting to she is using ¼ the amount of insulin. When follow LCHF but cannot afford the high cost her doctor asked her what she was doing of the specialised almond flours and other to have this miraculous turnaround in her products such as Psyllium husk? health, she told him that she was eating LCHF. His first response was “Don’t do that, Monique: I usually say that it is generally its dangerous!!”. not a more expensive way of eating. If you consider the junk food and snacky things Question: What cookbooks are there that that people on a high carb diet eat, and are suitable for baking? add up the cost, then it adds up. With the LCHF diet, because you are eating more Monique: I have written 2 books and am fat; fat is what fills you up, and you also eat currently working on book number 3. Having a lot less often, then the amount of money come from being overweight, my approach is still to avoid baked confectionary. A lot of the cookbooks that are available still use things such as non-nutritive sweeteners, of which most are unhealthy to say the least. So the best approach is to avoid the sweetness in foods, which still leads to cravings. If 66 Brides Essence.com - Issue 10
you are going to have something sweet, us by society and the media as being the and don’t have a weight problem, then cause of many sicknesses and diseases. honey is a good substitute. The additional fat in the form of cream, I started this diet due to being overweight. butter, mayonnaise, fatty cheeses, oily fish I have lost a lot of weight and maintain a and other sources such as nuts, avos and good physique easily since being on LCHF.A olive oil. These will now give you that much lot of people who try LCHF want to give up needed energy without you having the after a week. They experience headaches, traditional insulin spikes with the ensuing low lack of energy, tiredness and some even energy slump that follows. You will have a suffer flu like symptoms. Do not be afraid. steady flow of energy available when you This is a typical detox or withdrawal need it. symptom. People will not be able to notice the benefits ( not only weight loss but all the Look out for Monique’s new 1 month other benefits ) in 1 or 2 weeks. If they are dieter’s book and her soon to be released not going to commit to at least 1 month on Baby food cook book. LCHF then they will not realise the benefits. Initially it seems like punishment; “what You can visit Monique’s health blog about bread, pasta, cake and sugar in my www.lifezone.se/eng tea or coffee”? Once your body has gone through the sugar and toxin withdrawal Further resources: then you will no longer crave these very Dietdoctor.com – Dr Andreas Eenfeldt foods that you think you will miss the most. is a close friend of Monique. He is Another key now that carbohydrates one of the top dietary doctors in are no longer powering your body, is to Sweden. Also a friend of Professor Tim take in additional fat. Nooooo!!! you may Noakes, the 3 have lectured together be screaming as this has been taught to at UCT. “Low Carb Living for familes” Continued on page 68.../ Nov/Dec 2013 Brides Essence Magazine 67
The Reviews LOW-CArB LiVinG FOr FAMiLieS MONIQUE LE ROUX FORSLUND The New buzz is LCHF or Low carb. What does it mean and what does it entail you may ask? It sounds like just another diet fad like all the rest that have gone before. This is where the paths of the old familiar “DIET” and “ a lifestyle change” diverge. I am sure that if you are reading this article, then somewhere in the back of your mind you have the nagging reminder “I should be eating more healthy food and less junk”. Monique’s book is written for you. There are also so many questions associated with any new ground breaking and controversial way of living but Monique le Roux Forslund answers all these questions and explains why changing your habits of eating “easy off-the-shelf” snacks full of carbohydrates to focussing on healthier natural ISBN: 9 781432 301248 alternatives and eating healthy fats are good for you and RRP: R180.00 your family. She also explains the bombardment of the arsenal of media representation and information that confronts us THe AUTHOr Although Monique le Roux at the shelves in our local supermarkets. By being informed Forslund now lives in Sweden, and knowledgeable we can make our own decisions when she grew up in Cape Town and it comes to our health and that of our families. is still a regular visitor to South In her book, you will find over 100 delicious and healthy Africa. She is a health coach, recipes for every meal of the day as well as something fitness instructor, teacher and mother of three, with over 20 for special occasions and snack time for the whole family years’ experience working (including babies!). Low-carb Living for Families is packed with children. Monique is also with easy-to-follow, practical tips as well as encouragement living proof of the benefi ts of for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. a low-carb high-fat lifestyle. Professor Tim Noakes, one of South Africas foremost sport Since changing to a ‘diet’ that includes good fats and restricts scientists and Dr Andreas Eenfeldt have written forewords in carb intake, she lost 40 kg and is Monique’s book. Professor Tim Noakes is one of LCHF’s leading fi t, healthy and full of energy. endorsers, having himself been a strict follower of the low- carb-high-fat lifestyle for a number of years with astounding improvements in his health and quality of life. Dr Eenfeldt is a Swedish medical doctor who specialises in family medicine. He also advocates a low-carb high-fat diet and lectures on the topic at various medical conferences all over the world. 68 Brides Essence.com - Issue 10
Low-carb © Photograph coutesty of Struik Lifestyle cheesecake Tip Makes 1 cake (12 servings) Make sure you use unsweetened vanilla if Crust you choose to use vanilla 100 g butter essence as a substitute 250 ml chopped mixed raw nuts for vanilla pods 10 ml ground cinnamon Seeds from 1/2 vanilla pod 200 ml desiccated coconut Preheat the oven to 175 °C. Melt the butter in a small saucepan. Mix all the remaining crust ingredients together and add the melted butter. Press the crust into a pie dish and bake for 5-10 minutes. . WIN We have 3 Copies of ‘Low-Carb Living for families” to give away. To enter, Like our facebook page then email your name, contact number & address to [email protected] Winners will be notifed via email on the 15th December 2013 Nov/Dec 2013 Brides Essence Magazine 69
Pizza Topping 1 serving Selection of your favourite topping ingredients 200 ml grated cheese 2 eggs 200 ml grated cheese Preheat the oven to 200 ºC. (use any hard cheese like Cheddar or Gouda) Whisk the eggs and add the grated cheese. Spread the 25 ml tomato purée mixture in a circle on a baking sheet on a baking tray. Bake the pizza base for around 10 minutes. Remove from the oven when it is crisp and golden brown. Spread the tomato purée over the pizza base and add your favourite topping. Sprinkle over the grated cheese and place in the oven for around 10 minutes until the cheese has melted. © Photograph coutesty of Struik Lifestyle Tip If you wish to make a family-sized pizza, then double or quadruple the quantities for the base. Toppings can include ham, tomato, onion, mushrooms, Brie cheese, olives, feta cheese, peppers, etc. 70 Brides Essence.com - Issue 10
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