What We Did That Day

Now these, are the bunga telur for my sister's wedding (May 2008). Bunga Telur is actually one of the most common form of wedding favors or giveaways. Bunga = Flower and Telur = Egg. From the picture above, the egg would be placed in the tiny piece of transparent cloth and is tied up with strings.

My aunt made all these bunga telurs herself, and last Saturday she came with a boxful of these and two packs of shiny purple ribbons and gave me an assignment. My sole duty was to cut the purple ribbon (into 18 inches long, each) and tie the ribbon around each stem.

Sounds easy enough, isn't it? Not really. The real challenge is to do it neatly and perpendicular to the flower and the leaves. Luckily I learned the skills to do that, and my three sisters voluntarily helped me. By Sunday evening it was done. We are expecting more, once my aunts are done with all 400 stems of flowers in total. They are for the akad nikah and majlis khatam Al-Quran.

A pack of ribbons

measure it to 18 inches, more or less (doesn't have to be really accurate)

take one of these, and tie it around the stem just above the cloth

there you go...

this box contains 78 stems (but we've already finished it on Sunday evening)

And hey, if you are wondering why the color is purple ~ DO NOT ASK ME. Ask my Mom, she selected the theme - purple. But be rest assured that she will have NO SAY in my wedding. None, whatsoever!

On that same day (Saturday) my parents attended like, four weddings. And they brought back so many wedding favors, some of which are displayed here:-

Candle, sweets, egg & a box of sweets

Candle (unscented, though)

this is the Telur Pindang. (dun really know what they call it in English so, telur pindang it is heheh).