DIY Weddings
Knottie34559892
North Carolina! member
DIY flowers : I need all the help I can get!
Knottie34559892
North Carolina! member
in DIY Weddings
I am doing ALL my own flowers for my wedding. As of right now, I am wanting to use baby's breath, blue hydrangeas, and orange gerbera daisies. My bouquet will be filled with all three flowers, the MOH will have baby's breath and gerbera daisies and my three BM will just have baby's breath. My groom with have a gerbera daisy boutonniere but his 4 GM with have just babys breath. Also I will need 6 corsages with mainly babys breath and gerbera daisies. I am also doing 30 centerpieces but they will all just be babys breath.
I need all the advice I can get because I've never done flowers before but will be saving a lot of money doing them myself and I'm very crafty!
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Re: DIY flowers : I need all the help I can get!
This is all good advice! My wedding hasn't happened yet, but I've been experimenting with flowers for bouquets and centerpieces. The centerpieces can be made a day or two ahead, and should have plenty of water in them. Make sure just the ends of the flowers for bouquets are in the water. You can find lots of tutorials on making bouquets and flower care on pinterest.
For the sake of my sanity I went ahead and made the bouts out of artificial flowers, because we needed lots of them and I didn't want to worry about it right before the wedding.
Hydrangea has woody stems. It can be very hard to cut. Have a pair of gardening shears ready. Don't cut any of the flower stems until they've been secured together (either before or after wrapping them; you can use a rubber band if you plan to completely cover the stems), otherwise they won't end up as even along the bottom as you wanted.
Have two pairs of scissors, with one used only for ribbon. Not only will the flower-scissors be covered in green damp wetness, they may have also been dulled, and you'll wind up with ragged ends on your ribbon. Clean your flower scissors immediately after you're finished if you ever plan to use them for things other than flowers.
Once you've got the bouquets down, use the practice flowers to practice with the boutineers and corsages. Bouquets can be fairly easy to make (even with more difficult flowers), but boutineers and corsages are usually much harder. You can sometimes buy frames with ribbon and all, and use floral glue to secure your flowers--this makes it much easier. We would reinforce gerbera stems with floral wire because they break easily during the making, but you have to be careful when doing this or you could end up with a sharp wire end poking out. Make sure to tuck the wire in carefully and wrap well with floral tape if you do this.
Quilting pins are a better length than regular pins when it comes to securing them to outfits--the longer the better.
If you decide not to make the corsages yourself, you can check with your local grocery stores and ask how much they charge to make corsages and boutineers. It's much cheaper than using a regular florist. You can make these the day before and keep them in fridge overnight to save time.