Step by Step Tutorial: Palm Sunday Décor on Altar

This is how the altar of Cathedral St. Peter Church’s décor on Palm Sunday, March 24^th, 2013. It’s elegant, right?

The materials used are mostly kinds of palm leaves such as ‘cula’ palm, ‘lady’ palm or raphis exelsa, cycas, ballon plant or asclepias fruitcosa and woven palm leaves made of ‘yellow’ palm.

Step by step how to make the altar décor on Palm Suday:

1.         Prepare the long vase then fill it with wet floral foam.

2.        Place the leaves of 'cula' palm in the middle, left and right side of the arrangement, starting from the largest leaf at the back then the smaller one in front.

3.         Put the cycas leaves in upright position in front of the 'cula' palm leaves.  

4.         Place the leaves of ‘lady’ palm to fill the floral foam at the front.

5.         Then continue to place cycas leaves around the vase so as to form an oval shape.

6.         Prepare some woven palm leaves then place 3 pieces of them at the middle, bend them if necessary so that looked like a ball shape. Do the same at the left and right side of the arrangement. Now we have 3 'balls' as focal point.

You can find how to make the woven palm leaf here.

7.         The last, put some stems of asclepias fruticosa to fill the place among the woven palm leaves. Make sure the floral foam wasn't seen. Done.

The view of the altar from the front left side

The up close look

All the credit for this lovely church decoration goes to the Margriet Team of course, in which the coordinator for the Palm Sunday is Mrs. Liani. Good job ladies.

Note:

The image taken on Palm Sunday, March 24, 2013 at Cathedral St. Peter Church, Bandung.