By Sharen Kaur
The love for art and flowers led a teenager to relish her dream of running an event management company-cum-decorator.
Now, almost two decades later, Mrs Sachdev is proud owner of Classic Floral Services, a premier wedding, event planner and flower specialists, founded in 1998.
The custom of enhancing an event, especially wedding and engagement parties dates from ancient times. Nowadays, a celebration can be made merrier with the establishment of event organisers and wedding planners such as Classic Floral Services.
Classic Floral Services creates beautiful flower arrangements with inspiring designs for all occasions including indoor and outdoor corporate events, annual dinners, wedding and engagement parties, as well as birthday celebrations.
Mrs Sachdev and her team offer infinite creative choices for any design or theme for any event. They always look to impress their clients with personal care and attention as well as creativity that one expects when working with a professional company.
Through the request of the company's very influential list of clientele, the concept for live fresh arrangements is used.
"It is important when planning a corporate event of a wedding reception that you carry a theme throughout the entire day, and one of the better ways to get this going is through flower arrangement," says Mrs Sachdev.
"There is nothing lovelier than a reception venue decorated in the same theme and colour as your bridal bouquets and costumes," she adds.
Flowers as we know have many uses. They can be arranged exquisitely as hand-held wedding bouquets, backdrops, poises and corsages, or neatly over arches and stands, main table for guests and VIPs, and cars. Flowers can be scattered on dinner tables and on walkways to enhance the ambience.
Mrs Sachdev use roses, daisies, carnations and gerberas that come in pink, yellow, white, orange and red to decorate a hall. White flowers, especially roses, are coloured according to the theme of the event to blue or black, which is unusual and outstanding.
She also uses jasmine flowers for some occasions, which breaths the air with a tantalizing fragrant aroma.
Besides transforming the venue into a haven, Classic Floral Services offers laser and fairy lightings, brightening up the place in a hue of colours.
The family-run business, which is managed by her husband, Mr Sachdev, lives by its motto, "To deliver the best in quality and service".
"I have been planning and organising weddings since my early 20s. It is something I have enjoyed doing as it keeps me at a healthy pace. You must have a passion in doing what you do," says Mrs Sachdev, the proud mother of three charming kids.
Being a professional decorator means going (more often than not) beyond the call of duty and being prepared to handle last-minute requests.
Mrs Sachdev says that decorations are planned in accordance with one's budget and she does her best for her clients.
"Its all about being artistic and having the right equipments and expertise to make everything smooth and pleasant for our clients," she says.
Classic Floral Services works closely with several hoteliers in the Klang Valley, golf resorts and community hall operators in booking the venue for an event on the date requested by a client.
Mrs Sachdev has had many wonderful experiences over the past decade, designing and enhancing the most lavish wedding parties and company gala dinners.
To spice up the event, Classic Floral Services uses smoke machines, bubble machines or snow machines, an array of fresh flowers from the hills, amazing lighting system, making the hall bright and colourful, or soft and romantic, on some occasions.
"When customers require something that’s not in our portfolio, we do our best to accommodate where possible. It is all about being humbly creative to make the event memorable," Mrs Sachdev adds.
Classic Floral Services has had some of the most uncommon corporate events to take care off. In 2008, the company had used 8kgs of fresh red chillies to decorate a college hall, being the theme for the night.
On another occasion, a hall was decorated with more than a thousand coloured bangles from India.
One other event had all the tables decorated with leaves and green apples to the amusement of many. When the event was over, some of the guests literally 'plucked' the apples from the tables.
As for weddings, the company was the pioneer in Malaysia to make wagons using coloured papers from India, as requested by a client.
"There is so much that needs to be done when planning an event that is special to somebody. We single out every detail in every project that we have to make it perfect," Mrs Sachdev says.
While there are many reputable event management companies in Malaysia, many of them outsource the services and request made by a client and it is players like Classic Floral Services that provide the necessary "ingredients" for the event to run with success.
Seeing is believing but decorating a hall or tying the knot will no longer be a hectic affair thanks to companies like Classic Floral Services. The company goes every step to ensure that all events that it undertakes run smoothly, leaving a lasting impression, not just for the host but the guests, too!
If you have a forth-coming event, be it a corporate function, wedding, engagement or annual dinner and parties, call Mrs Sachdev at 016 6980008 / 016 3332385. You could also email her at classic.floral@hotmail.com.
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