How to Say ‘I Do’ with Hawaiian Flowers & Foliage Webinar & Trade Show Friday, October 9 & Saturday, October 10, 2020 Broadcast from the Komohana Research & Extension Center, Hilo, Hawaii Schedule of Events Moderators Hitomi Gilliam, AIFD (live from Bowen Island, Vancouver, British Columbia) Josh McClung, HFNA Director (live from Hilo, Hawaii) Friday, October 9 9:00 a.m. Hawaiian Blessing Kumu Moses Kaho’okele Crabbe 9:15 a.m. Welcome Message Eric Tanouye, HFNA President 9:30 a.m. Say ‘I Do’ Kauai Style Dorothy Yadao, Kauai Designer 10:15 a.m. Say ‘I Do’ Big Island Style Alison Higgins, Hawaii Island Designer 11:30 a.m. Keynote Presentation: Say ‘I Do’ with Tropical Nouveau Hitomi Gilliam, AIFD 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break 1:15 p.m. Say ‘I Do’ Oahu Style Sue Tabbal-Yamaguchi, Oahu Designer 2:15 p.m. Say ‘I Do’ Maui Style Lois Hiranaga, Maui Designer 3:15 p.m. Virtual Tour of Hawaii Flower and Foliage Nurseries 3:45 p.m. Saturday Line Up & Closing Remarks How to Say ‘I Do’ with Hawaiian Flowers & Foliage Webinar & Trade Show Friday, October 9 & Saturday, October 10, 2020 Broadcast from the Komohana Research & Extension Center, Hilo, Hawaii Schedule of Events Moderators Hitomi Gilliam, AIFD (live from Bowen Island, Vancouver, British Columbia) Josh McClung, HFNA Director (live from Hilo, Hawaii) Saturday, October 10 8:30 a.m. Welcome Eric Tanouye, HFNA President 8:45 a.m. Say ‘I Do’ Canadian Style Brenna Quan, British Columbia Designer 9:30 a.m. Kauai Exhibit John Gordines, Kauai Director, & Team 10:00 a.m. Say ‘I Do’ Canadian Style Poppy Parsons, Saskatchewan Designer 10:45 a.m. Maui Exhibit Carver Wilson, Maui Director, & Team 11:15 a.m. Say ‘I Do’ with Tropical Nouveau Hitomi Gilliam, AIFD 12:30 p.m. Lunch break 1:00 p.m. Say ‘I Do’ Canadian Style Susanne Law, British Columbia Designer 1:45 p.m. Oahu Exhibit Kathleen Yoshinaga, Oahu Director, & Team 2:15 p.m. Say ‘I Do’ Canadian Style Bruno Duarte, Ontario Designer 3:00 p.m. Hawaii Island Exhibit Gordon Inouye, Hawaii Island Director, & Team 3:30 p.m. Wedding Designs in Lili’uokalani Gardens, Hilo Hawaii Designers & Teams 4:15 p.m. Mahalo’s & Closing Remarks HFNA Wedding Celebration 2020 Moderators Hitomi Gilliam, AIFD: Hitomi Gilliam, AIFD of Design 358, is an internationally recognized floral artist who has guest-designed throughout North America, England, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Bermuda, Singapore, Australia & Colombia. She was a Silver & Gold Medal winner of the Great American Design Competition in 1986 and 1987 and served 6 years on the AIFD Membership Review Committee and Educational Committee. In 1998, Hitomi became one of only eight people to receive AIFD’s coveted ‘Design Influence Award.’ As an educator, Hitomi presents numerous programs throughout North America as a Teleflora Educational Specialist, as well as conducting her own DESIGN358 workshops. She is also the 2006 recipient of American Horticultural Society’s “Frances Jones Poetker Award” for excellence in floriculture education. Joshua McClung: Josh McClung relocated to the Big Island with his family after selling his California interiorscape company. He is currently the owner of Hawaii Global Nursery Exporters, a certified wholesale nursery shipping Hawaiian tropical foliage throughout the United States. Josh is passionate about the Hawaiian tropicals industry and is an active board member of both the Hawaii Floriculture & Nursery Association (HFNA) and the Hawaii Export Nursery Association (HENA). Josh lives in Waimea with his wife, two children, his mother and their dog, Riley. Eric S. Tanouye: Eric S. Tanouye is President of Green Point Nurseries, Inc. Green Point Nurseries is located in Hilo and is a grower / exporter of Hawaiian Tropical Flowers, Foliage and Plants. Eric is a second generation anthurium grower, having learned his extensive knowledge from his late father, Harold Tanouye. Eric's industry involvement includes serving as current President of Hawai'i Floriculture and Nursery Association (HFNA) and as President of the Synergistic Hawaii Agriculture Council (SHAC). Eric is married to the love of his life, Lolita. They have three sons, two grandsons and a granddaughter. Meet Our Designers Bruno Duarte: Bruno grew up surrounded by flowers on his family's farm in Madeira, Portugal. His approach to floral design is both sculptural and emotional, blending organic materials and found objects together to create works of art. When he's not at his studio, Bruno can be found creating arrangements in front of a live audience in many places in the USA, Northern Ireland and the UK. Bruno has won the CAFA award at Canada Blooms Florist Alley in 2017 and 2018 and people’s choice award in 2018. He has also won the Pacific Northwest Floral Design Competition in 2018. He had the great opportunity to represent Canada in Singapore in 2018 in Windows of the World at their garden show. He won Floral Artist of the year 2019 at Canada Blooms, received second place at Maple Leaf Cup 2019 and won the CAFA award for most creative use of materials at the Maple Leaf Cup 2019. Hitomi Gilliam, AIFD: Hitomi Gilliam AIFD, of Design 358, is an internationally recognized floral artist who has guest-designed throughout North America, England, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Bermuda, Singapore, Australia & Colombia. She was a Silver & Gold Medal winner of the Great American Design Competition in 1986 and 1987 and served 6 years on the AIFD Membership Review Committee and Educational Committee. In 1998, Hitomi became one of only eight people to receive AIFD’s coveted ‘Design Influence Award.’ As an educator, Hitomi presents numerous programs throughout North America as a Teleflora Educational Specialist, as well as conducting her own DESIGN358 workshops. She is also the 2006 recipient of American Horticultural Society’s “Frances Jones Poetker Award” for excellence in floriculture education. Lois Hiranaga, AIFD: Born and raised on Maui, Lois has always been passionate about flowers. She earned a degree in marketing and management from the University of Hawaii at Manoa followed by 16 years of horticulture experience at Howard’s Nurseries Inc. She co-authored the Hawaii Neotropica Hawaii Tropical Flower + Plant Guide and is an accredited member of the American Institute of Floral Designers. As the principal creative of Lois Hiranaga Floral Design LLC, she has the honor of providing flowers for destination weddings and has created large scale lobby designs for Maui’s largest resort. In her spare time she loves traveling, especially taking workshops abroad to keep up with current trends and meeting passionate florist and food enthusiasts Meet Our Designers Alison Higgins: Alison was born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii. Her parents owned and operated a plant nursery in Waimea for most of her childhood, and this spurred her love of botanicals. She learned to make lei in elementary school. Alison, her siblings, and friends would pick ti leaves and plumeria, make lei and sell them on the side of the road. At age 17 she started working at a florist shop at a resort on the Kohala Coast. She became assistant manager by 18, and then manager for 5 years, where she began to make contacts and create relationships with coordinators on the Island. Later, she worked exclusively for small ag related businesses on the Big Island, including the Hawaiian Vanilla Co. and Rob Farms, a large-scale organic farm in Waimea. In 2012, Alison decided to open Grace Flowers Hawaii. She chose the name to honor her grandmother Grace who was a florist herself in her younger years. Drawing off of knowledge she gained working for small local businesses, she slowly built up Grace Flowers Hawaii from doing everything herself, then adding a few casual employees the first few years, to employing a mix of 15 amazing casual, part time and full-time employees (before COVID-19). Grace Flowers Hawaii works with numerous resorts and coordinators across the Big Island and has the honor of being on many of their preferred vendors lists. The shop has grown from designing a handful of weddings the first year to the team averaging 35 weddings and events monthly before life changed pace and events shut down in March 2020. The Grace Flowers Hawaii shop is currently still open six days a week and Alison is getting back to her roots with a small plant nursery outside her shop on top of the fresh flower bar, lei and arrangements for sale. They have even created a GFH sticker line with fun plant puns like "It's the CYMB-ple things in life" with a picture of cymbidium orchids. They are also still offering contactless delivery across most of the Big Island and shipping tropical flowers, foliage, lei and lei making kits. Although Alison has no formal education or floral training, she has won awards at the Honolulu lei contest for her lei making, and she and the Grace Flowers Team has been published several times in Florist Review Magazine. This year her and her staff was thrilled to have one of their floral dresses make the cover of Florist Review Magazine (June 2020 edition). They have also been featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, on the Wedding Chicks blog and many other publications for their floral work. Alison has been working professionally with flowers for over 20 years, and still strives to continually improve her design and management styles. Meet Our Designers Susanne Law, AIFD, EMC: Susanne is an educator and floral artist. She was inducted into the American Institute of Floral Designers in 2008 and in 2012 completed her European Master Certification. Susanne has taught for Design 358, Surrey Continuing Education and Surrey College.