Making your own wedding flowers can appear, at first, like a quite daunting task. However, it’s something I’d never done before and I found it simple and lots of fun to have full creative licence over the look of my bouquet.
Plus, by using silk flowers I was able to keep my bouquet as a beautiful reminder of the day.
As you’ll see from my original post about my wedding flowers, I ended up hand-making everything flower-related from buttonholes for the groomsmen to flower posies for the tables.
However, to keep things simple I’m going to run through the steps I took to make my own wedding bouquet using a gorgeous collection of silk flowers I picked online.
Firstly, I need to understand the basics of making a fake flower bouquet and where better to find out than YouTube!
I found these videos the most helpful and easy to understand.
- To cut up larger silk flowers/posies into single flowers. You can use wire and green stem paper to make the stem longer. It takes a while but gives you more flower for your money, more creative licence for how each flower sits and a better-looking bouquet.
- Remember that you’ll usually want the bouquet to be symmetrical so consider buying enough duplicates of the same flowers.
- Take enough time playing around with flower order and arrangement before securing the whole bouquet with stem paper. Try not to secure too high up the stems so that the bouquet has ‘room to breathe’ and is nicely spaced out.
- Think about any other sentimental elements you might want to include in your bouquet and attach them with a glue gun to stem wire. I added pearl elements that were used in one of my best friend’s bouquet she gave to me as a gift from her wedding.
- Choose 5 to 6 flowers for your bouquet of varying sizes. Then select at least 2 types of foliage to complement the flowers and fill space to ‘plump out’ the bouquet. These could be ferns, grasses or leaves.
For my wedding bouquet I wanted a muted, soft vintage look and so used a mixture of white, pink, cream and brown flowers. Having no idea where to start I looked online to get some ideas of best colour combinations.
My bouquet was 24cm in diameter and 33cm in height and used a combination of peony’s in peach and cream, pink sweet peas, chestnut brown roses, Lambs Ears in Dusky Pink, Magnolia, Ivy, Flocked Maidenhair Fern, coral flower buds and Snow Berries.
I was so pleased with the result and love that my wedding bouquet is everlasting. It now sits in a shabby chic vase in our bedroom.
So, are you tempted? If so, I’d love to know how you get on!
But if it all seems a bit too much Amazon does some beautiful pre-made silk and artificial bouquets. These are a couple of my favourites below. Click on them to take a closer look.
Love
LC
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