Wedding bouquets can be very expensive when they are purchased from a professional florist. Many people do not realize how easy it is to make a wedding bouquet themselves.
Homemade bouquets can be as beautiful and gorgeous as a professional bouquet. They are also more personalized.
In addition, you can use the beautiful flowers from your own yard to make you bouquet. Your homemade bouquet will be more beautiful and much cheaper than anything you could purchase elsewhere.
Start by planting flowers you know will do well in the bouquet that spring, if you can. Hardier flowers, such as roses, are the best for the bridal bouquet.
The bridal bouquet will need to withstand the forces of the entire wedding day and still look beautiful for pictures. You will not want wilting flowers in your hand.
Most bridal bouquets are about eight inches in diameter and use thirty to sixty stems. The bouquet should take 30 to 60 minutes to put together.
You will also need a bucket, paper towels, one to two inch wide ribbon, rubber bands, green waxed floral tape, a stem cutter or sharp knife, a stem stripper, and straight pins or pearl tipped corsage pins.
To begin, remove all extra foliage and thorns from the flowers. Make sure all of the wilting or damages outer petals are removed as well.
Then, fill a sink or bucket with water and hold the stems under the water. While the stems are underwater, use the stem cutter or sharp knife to cut the stems off two inches about the bottom.
The cut should be angular. Continue to hold the stems under water for a few seconds and then place the flowers in a bucket filled halfway with cool water.
If the flowers you are choosing to use are closed and you would like them to be open in the bouquet, you can put them in hot water for a few minutes to force them to open. However, do not leave them in too long or you will kill them and you will have wilting roses instead.
Keep the stems as long as possible while you are creating the bouquet. Do not cut them short until you are done.
Then, take one stem as a time and place them. Place four flowers at the same height in the center in a square shape.
These flowers form the middle of the bouquet. You will have to hold these flowers in place as you add other flowers around them.
Make sure that you are forming the dome shape as you are arranging the flowers. The dome shape complements most brides the best.
You may want to place a large mirror nearby so you can see what the bouquet looks like in your hand. It would be very disappointing to finish and realize that you made the perfect arrangement for a vase, but not to be held.
Use a rubber band and floral tape to hold the bouquet together, when you have added all of the flowers. Do not add the rubber bands and tape any closer to the heads than about three to four inches below the flower heads.
However, bind using the tape down to two inches above the ends of the stems. This will leave room for you to trim the stems later.
Then, put the bouquet in water until you are ready to finish the handle. To finish the handle, cut off the stems so that they are about seven to eight inches long.
Make sure the stems are as dry as possible by patting them with paper towels. Then, cut a ribbon that is three time as long as the stems.
This will be about 24 inches long. Tuck the end of the ribbon in the top of the binding.
Then, wind the ribbon around the stems from the top of the binding down to the bottom of the stems. At the bottom, start winding the ribbon back up to the top.
Tuck the end of the ribbon underneath the previously wrapped ribbon and make sure it will stay with a few of the corsage pins. This will be a decorative touch as well as a functional one.
If you want some hanging ribbons or a bow, now is the time to add these extras. Now, all you have to do is preserve the beautiful bouquet until the wedding.
Put it in the refrigerator for to help maintain the freshest look. If you can, make the bouquet the morning of the wedding. However, if you cannot, keep it in water as long as possible and wrap the handle right before the ceremony.
About the author of this article:
Jack R. Landry is a former landscaping architect and has authored hundreds of articles relating to the industry and Las Vegas landscapers. He owned his own landscaping business for over 15 years.
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