Do It Yourself Wedding Bouquet
Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Margaret. Filed under Do It Yourself, Luxe for Less.
I love the do it yourself wedding bouquet entry from msblossom. Absolutely stunning.
Like most of the brides in this economy I couldn’t afford a $200+ bouquet so I decided to try my hand at making my own bouquet. I decided to do a trial run before actually making the real bouquet for my wedding day. With a little bit of patience and lots of excitment you can create your perfect bouquet. It’s extra special because I know it’s exactly what I want and I saved some money along the way.
Materials:
- Half a dozen of roses of your choice. I used pink and red intuition roses for texture and dark red roses for color contrast.
- Half a dozen of red and pink gerbera daisies.
- One string of red feathers I purchased from TonyHill.net
- One string of burgandy eyelash feather
- 30 sprays of beads
- Dark red ribbon to cover the stem
- Tassels for decoration
- Some floral wire and rubber bands
- Floral tape from Hoby Lobby
- Floral pin without pearl head from Hobby Lobby
Tools:
- Scissor to cut flowers
- Wire cutter for the bead stray
Assembly:
Take one rose and put three spray around it and then bind them together using floral tape. Do this for about 3 flowers. When you’re done hold the three flowers together and make sure the heads are level and they don’t stick up. This is thecore of the bouquet. Use floral tape to bind them togehter so it’s easier for you to hold. Now you can add bead sprays and flowers as you go. I add 2-3 sprays for each flower. Don’t worry about the spray running in each other since it’s wire you can adjust them afterward. I added each flower around the core and keep going in a circle. Till the bouquet toward you to make sure it’s a dome shape, pull the stem a bit lower to make sure that the flowers around the core is a bit lower. Keep adding flowers in a circle around the core until you’re happy with the size.
Once I’m happy with it, I used floral tape to go around the top of the bouquet making sure it’s secure. I only did the top and then i used rubber band to secure the stems. I used one near the head of the bouquet, one 3 inch down and one at the end about 7 inch from the flower head.
Now you can hold the bouquet up and cut the stems so it’s shorter. Depending how big your hands are you can cut accordingly so it’s comfortable for you to hold your bouquet. I left 2-3 inches longer since I will be storing the bouquet for the next day. This way you can submerge your bouquet in water without wetting your ribbon and cut the stem before you use your bouquet.
I use floral tape to tape around the stems creating my bouquet’s handle. Floral tape will create a stickiness that will help you wrap the ribbon around easier and secure your bouquet.
Now I add the feathers. My feather came in a string so I pin one end of the string to the stem and then rotate my bouquet and keep pinning the string to my bouqet. Go around in a circle and it will create a nice look from the top of your bouquet. I added the eyelash feather first and then the red feathers.
Once I’m done with the feathers I used a red damask red ribbon to wrap the steam hidding the floral tape and the bottom of the feathers. I started from the top and pin my ribbon to the handle of my bouqet. Keep twisting and pulling until you reach about 2-3 inches from the bottom of the handle. When you’re done use a couple of pins to secure it. I use a tiny white pin without pearl head so it can be hidden when I pin it in the ribbon. I aslo pin a few more pins along the handle to make sure the ribbon doesn’t infold itself.
Now I just tie my tassles around the handle in a knot and I’m ready to go.
Here are a few pictures of the finish product.
Hope this inspire some of you to make your own bouquet. It’s really a fun experience for me and I would do it over and over again. I spent around $24 for flowers, $15 for feathers and tassles and $5 for beads and floral tape. A total of $44 for my bouquet.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:53 am
This is beautiful! I love these diy / handmade options!
I found a new unique item using buttons for a bouquet. The one I bought was from this artist: http://www.emmalinebride.com/letters4lilly.html.
May 21st, 2009 at 9:06 am
i love this idea!! where can i find the spray of beads?
July 8th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Wow, I really love the textures…a striking bouquet! Great job. ^__^
November 30th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
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December 29th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Thanks for the detail information , i will definitely try to make my own bouquet.
$44 dollars not bad,
December 30th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Many people think that wedding bouquets are complicated, and take hours to make… Thanks for ideas! From http://www.mayweddingflowers.com
March 1st, 2010 at 12:17 pm
wow! Love it! I can’t wait to make mine!
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March 29th, 2010 at 7:22 am
You can never go wrong with flowers and weddings. Love the ideas that you have,
Rachael West
June 6th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
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June 24th, 2010 at 3:17 am
Great red roses are my fav,and was a nice idea about organic stuff, flowers and plants,Thanks for the share.
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January 4th, 2011 at 11:02 am
Thanks for the write up. I had trouble with making my own flower bouquet as non of the flower shops understood exactly what i wanted.
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March 27th, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Doing your own is so much fun or having someone do them without the extreme cost of a florist is the way to go.It actually has helped me end up taking many many orders to do floral work so that people could cut their cost in half.
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