Channel 4 Billionaire Blooms Featured Florist
Channel 4’s Billionaire Blooms welcomes you ‘to the world of fabulous flowers …to go behind the scenes with the high-end florists making the dreams of the super-rich blossom’.
I was honoured to be featured on the new four-part series, joining them for the first time to showcase the modern and stylish Special Occasions we get to work on here at Afmena Events in and around London. I was really intentional about highlighting my amazing team who I’ve worked with for many years as well as my awesome family who are the backbone of this wonderful business.
The show featured our execution of a gorgeous outdoor Wedding Ceremony where we worked with our partner Production Company to have an aisle runner built as well as a custom stage installed. With hundreds of stems of gypsophila and roses our stunning Perspex and Multi Crystal Chuppah was styled beautifully . It was the prettiest of backdrops for the fairy-tale wedding fit for a princess that it was.
The show takes you on a journey from the site visit with the Wedding Planner who commissioned us for the Wedding booking to help her visualise the design we had, to the many challenges we were presented with on the day whilst we were racing against the clock.
It was the perfect combination of drama and design and if you have not yet had the opportunity to watch it, you are in for a treat!
Intermixed with the footage from our Floral Installation were interview snippets with me - Afia Bayayi - and for these segments, the Channel 4 Producers Raise the Roof Productions asked me to make some floral arrangements that would provide the perfect setting. As I was given complete creative licence, I took the opportunity to use my favourite type of flowers to work with - tropical and colourful blooms. It was so fun to play with different textures from anthurium to palm, astilbe and celosia to name a few, for the stunning arrangements. Side note - It was such a pleasant surprise to find that Channel 4 chose my picture to use for the official TX card.
FILMING WITH CHANNEL 4
It was so lovely to have the Billionaire Blooms crew follow and document all the behind the scenes with us for three consecutive days. They had the opportunity to get to know my family as I work from home with the amazing support of my husband and children and my wonderful team as well as my fantastic colleagues in the industry.
So the only question is, have you caught up with the series yet? We feature on Episode 1, the opening show. Have a watch and let us know what you think!
Afia Bayayi x