Pause September 2024 | The Venue, Paarl

“Here we go again”

We are still pinching ourselves thinking that we had an EIGTH Pause Floral Workshop. We found ourselves again at the beautiful THE VENUE in Paarl, with a special group of humans.

Beautiful flower souls from all around the country invested in this journey and trusted us with their creative hearts.

It is important for us to make our students feel special. Our little labour of love after each day of class is to set the table. We just love to see their faces when they walk in each day and see all of the special details put together just for them.

Day 1 was all about theory and tablescapes. When learning a new skill (or even just sharping up old ones) it is best to start at the beginning. So we start with the basics and build our students up to a point where they have the skills to do anything they put their mind to. We also have a social media session with the girls from Galvin Creative Studio – we just love these info sessions!

Day 2 was all about learning the relationship between a planner and a florist with Jessica from Mon Amour Events, phone photography with Debbie Lourens, bouquets, floral accessories and yes, a tad more theory.

Meet Mon Amour Events

We introduced you to another amazing friend of ours, Jessica Thiart, the founder and owner of the amazing Mon Amour Events. Jessica has been in the events industry for many years and really built herself a reputation as a planner that takes note of every detail. Her weddings is always elegant, always executed with immense passion and she always treats both her client and service providers with a great amount of respect. We just love everything about her and she treated our students to a glimpse inside the inner workings of a planner-florist-relationship.

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Meet Debbie Lourens

We are lucky enough to know amazeballs people in this industry. Some we even get to call our friends. Debbie is one of those people. Not only is she a crazy talented photographer, she also hosts phone photography workshop. Our students were lucky enough to get a crash course from the master herself!.

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Meet Galvin Creative Studio

Galvin Creative Studio is a social media agency who specialises in digital marketing and content creation. No, you are not seeing double! These two creative hearts are not only twins but also a powerful duo in this new era of social media and all the strategies behind it. They shared the tip of the iceberg with our students and we just love seeing all the creative juices starting to flow!

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Day 3 is all about the installations. Starting the day with a tad more theory, covering certain mechanics that you would mostly use when doing large installations. For the practical installation we only focussed on creating an arch using the mechanical opportunities the venue had on offer and finished it off with romantic growing floor posies. During this session, we love to take a step back and observe our students. It is really amazing to see how they’ve grown in only 3 days, hearing them laugh and chatting up a storm with their new-found-flower-friends. Have a look at our Pause September 2024 editorial here.

We wish we could share ALL of the beautiful photographs but that is just not possible! A big thank you again to all of our students who trusted us with their hearts and their hard earned cabbage. We feel blessed to know you and we look forward to see where your creativity leads you.

A Few Special Shout Outs

A BIG thank you again to our amazeballs suppliers. You can read more about them here .

A BIG thank you again to our amazeballs gift bag sponsors. You can read more about them here .