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How to make a bridal bouquet?

It’s good for you, as a bride to be, to know some things that will help you choosing the right flowers, form or aspect of your bridal bouquet. Thus you can tell the florist what your expectations are respecting the bouquet or you will actually make your bridal bouquet by yourself.
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There are some advices for you to make a bridal bouquet:

* The bridal bouquet has to be easy to hold

* The bouquet’s height does not have more than 10-15 centimeters, so it will not cover the bride.

* The bouquet has to follow the lines of the bride’s body and not to exceed it.

* Not to be seen the wire with whom you tied the flowers into the bouquet and take care that the wire’s ends will not hurt the bride’s hands (that’s for the wires are flexed and filled it through the stems).

* The stems not to have awn.

* The bouquet has not to blot the bride dress (for example, the lily’s pollen).

* The bridal bouquet has to hold out and to be fresh for the entire wedding day.

* The green material has not to smell badly and that for you will not use the Tagetes (a species of Chrysanthemum ).

There are many types of bridal bouquet appropriate to each need or fitting special bride: the round, flowing, irregular bouquets.

The round bouquet is made from one single type of flower or many types, but it has to be harmonious by colors and forms. respecting the different forms of flowers, the biggest has to be the central one. This bridal bouquet fits a short youthful wedding dress and it’s not appropriate to a stocky bride, because this form emphasizes the imperfections of the bride. The small bouquet can be made by flowers like freesia, hyacinth, daisy, mini rose.

The folowing bouquet seams like a tear. Above you’ll put the noble, ponderous and the biggest or full-blown flowers and flowing effect comes from the flowers with a long stem (like the roses) and those with a tenuous and flexible stem. Those flowers are tied with wires and could be the punks, the fragile flowers like the orchids. This bridal bouquet is appropriate to each bride whatever the age is and we recommend it to the low or the pregnant brides.

The irregular bridal bouquet is made by the prevailing character flowers. It’s a modern type which puts to the proof your imagination, your common sense. This is a combination of all types presented before. It’s important the asymmetry and you can use every ornamental elements or materials.

For a bridal bouquet, you can use every flower you want, even the sunflower or immortal and field flowers, just to be in the same air and atmosphere of the wedding.

The bridal bouquet has to be very resistant, because the bride is carrying it all over and also there is the practice of throwing the bouquet. Therefore there are some special techniques of clenching the flowers. They could be knotted, wired or stick.

The most popular technique of making a bridal bouquet is that in which the florist uses a purchased bouquet holder. Bouquet holders are usually made of white plastic, are cone-shaped and have an attached handle. They come with floral foam already inserted into the cone.

There are a few steps for you to make your own bridal bouquet:

1. Choose the flowers that you will use (we recommend that the flowers from the bridal bouquet were bride’s favorites and will complement both the wedding colors and any other floral arrangements planned).

2. Keep the flowers into water and, while are you using them, maintain the flower up, thus the hydration process will deploy.

3. Place the bouquet holder upside down on the surface of a large bowl of water. Hold on to the handle and let the holder gradually sink to the bottom of the bowl. This will saturate the foam. Remove the bouquet holder from the water and dry the exterior.

4. Begin the placement of the flowers from the top of the holder. The flower’s stem could be as short as you need. Therefore you have to determine how much of the stem you’d like to have above the foam, and then cut the stem at a very sharp angle 1 1/2 to 2 inches below that point. If you want to rearrange an inserted flower, remove the flower, cut the stem once more and reinsert it in a different spot in the foam.

5. Wire every stem before sticking in the foam of the holder. The wire will pass through the foam and it has to be bended and knotted by the holder, for the best resistance. 6. To create a cascade effect, you have to insert various lengths of greenery such as ivy or fern at the bottom of the bouquet holder or let the stems of the flowers to be long and wire them by the plastic part of the holder. For a modern bouquet you can use an wool or silk material, even pieces of gunny.

7. You need to cover the holder with aspidistra’s leafs or cut stems or you can cover it with a purchased silk or tul material. A special bridal bouquet, a modern one, could be decorated by a wool material, especially if the flowers were field‘s ones or the wedding took place into a rustic space or outside.

Use a 2-inch-wide silk or satin ribbon in a color that complements the wedding colors. If the bride prefer, use some artifices: use a combination of different or complementary ribbon’s colors. Add a pearl spray or two as well. You can also use one or two flowing wired pearls or one warm colored butterfly.

4 Responses to “How to make a bridal bouquet?”

  1. […] The first thing for a bride to consider is whether she wants to work with a florist. Every bride will have a different budget, so this is an important consideration. Making a list of florists in your area can help in choosing a reputable florist. First you want to now what you want from the florist. Take advices from friends and family and other who worked before with a florist. Visit some flowershops and make an idea. Schedule a time to meet the florist in person and have some ideas ready. Talented florists will incorporate your ideas into his or her professional opinion. You can search the web for bride bouquets, candles and floral arrangement and print them. This will help the florist arrange your wedding flowers in the best possible way. Besides the bridal party, decide who else will receive wedding flowers to wear. Many brides give corsages to parents, friends, family and other people who were helpful in planning the wedding and not only. A helpful money-saving tip is to hire a florist to do only part of the overall job, whether he or she makes just the bouquets or just the table arrangements. […]

  2. Doing it Yourself aton 11 Nov 2006 at 3:05 pm

    […]  If hiring a florist to arrange your wedding flowers is out of your budget, you can try making the arrangements yourself. Take into consideration the need to purchase wedding flowers, containers, tape, wire, ribbon and other incidentals. It also is a fairly large job to undertake right before the wedding. It may be worth it to find an inexpensive florist to arrange your wedding flowers who can work within your budget. If you do decide to make the arrangements and bouquets yourself, you can follow a few basic guidelines to make the job a little less daunting. • Try to find a friend or family member with some skill or know-how about floral arranging. This would be a great time to ask for help from your bridesmaids. • Decide on the wedding flowers you want to use. […]

  3. […] We are from Romania and have a great pleasure to present you the Romanian wedding flower arrangements and special bouquets made by us. For a wedding, there are some special arrangements to make or buy from a flower shop. The most important and also popular is the bridal bouquet. It is different in accordance with the desire and common sense of the bride or her favorite flowers and, of course, with the financial possibilities of the godfather. Because, I don’t know how it happens in the other countries and cultures, but here in Romania the bridal bouquet is in his charge. The godfather also pays the two wedding candles. The godparents nominate a best man and a bridesmaid who have to carry on the candles, following the bridegroom from his place to the bride’s house and then during the religious ceremony. These are special candles, made by wax with an wooden rod integrated inside used for give stability and for the candle not to inflect because of the warmth. They are 1,5 meters in length, with floral arrangements attached on the above part. So called wedding candles are lighted in church by the priest and symbolize the godparents’ wish for them to be protected by the Christian light all them life together.The candles’ arrangements must have the same shape, following an identical style and also to assort with the bridal bouquet and with the entire wedding style and spirit. This is a part of our work: […]

  4. […] The flowers are a part of our life, excite and make us happy and also the flowers give us a reason to show the purest and sincerest feelings. A flower will never be associated to the lie, hypocrisy and cheat. By itself, the flower can command respect and also bring to light the deepest emotions. More often, the flowers are the messenger of love and passion and respect, making the eyes and especially the soul happy. Therefore maybe the wedding bouquet is one of the most important accessories for a bride to be. In the most special moment in a girl’s life, all has to be perfect as she always dreamed. And the wedding bouquet is for the bride, she is carrying it during all day long. That’s way she’s the one who chooses the flowers, her favorite flowers and her favorite colors. Because the flowers will complete the bride and put forward her feelings and her unique personality. The bridal bouquet has its meaning. Besides the fact that the flowers will be an unforgettable memory, the wedding bouquet is the natural perfume of the bride. Because every flower spreads a special and unique scent, the flavor of love. […]

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