Wedding Flowers

Make Your Own Wedding Flowers

Working with flowers when it comes to a DIY wedding planning can be seen as a nice and relaxing experience, especially when you set your mind to make your own wedding flowers. You can ask: what means ‘make your own flowers’? To arrange the fresh flowers in a bouquet and have them decorating also the centerpiece of the tables, or simply making flowers out of several fabrics resulting in artificial flowers to decorate the hands of a bride and those of the bridesmaids? Mostly, the first option is the one chosen by the brides-to-be, since fresh flowers inside a photo can not at all compare to the silk made flowers. And what is the thing that makes them so distinct when it comes to comparing them with their artificial peers, is the sparkle of life, of nature that shines inside their displaying.




A combination of colorful flowers in the bouquet that you have to hold during your wedding ceremony is a nice and lively addition to the overall bridal aspect, the choice of these blooms depending on the theme of your wedding, on the symbols you want for these flowers to have inside their aspect, symbols that have to reflect your faith, your wishful thoughts regarding the huge step you take once you have decided to commit yourself to the man of your dreams. Therefore the decision on the wedding flowers choice being taken you can proceed on arranging them in the shape of the bouquets.

The fact is that the flowers you will choose have to present a hard port regarding their stems since introducing them in the bouquet might need a steadier shape of the final format. For a round shape you will need paper towels, ribbons (their color has to be complementary to that of the blooms) or waxed floral tape, pins, and a sharp knife to handle the stems. Then taking one stem at a time you may proceed in formatting the bouquet arranging the flowers one by one around the ones that form the center of the bouquet. After finishing with their arrangement secure the bouquet with a rubber band close to the spot where they join naturally and the same binding should be done almost at the end of the stems.

For the final shape wrap the bouquet with several rotations of the colored ribbon (or the waxed floral tape) in such a manner that you handle the ribbon with a spiral motion of your hand. The ends of the ribbon, the one that starts from the top and the ones that ends at the bottom are secured with pins that you push them into the stem. In case you want to have a bow to decorate the bouquet you can cut an extra length of the ribbon and tie it in a bow on the flowers stems.

When you make your own wedding flowers you can search through the web for other instructions that will help you create a cascading format of the bouquet in case you want something more elaborately done with the aspect of your bridal bouquet. For the centerpieces you can use the classic style of arrangement going for glasses recipients or porcelain vases to hold the blooms, or use small round glass recipients and half fill them with water and throw either colorful petals inside or tear the heads of the flowers, generally the ones that present a flat arranging of petals and have them float inside on the surface of the water. Addition of burning candles work as well next to the floral decorations of your reception tables.