DIY Bouquets for Wedding

If we talk about the making of a bouquet for wedding, then it is not a difficult task but needs some of your creativeness if you are really interested…

 

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Making the DIY bouquets or a bouquet using single flowers can be done by anyone easily and you may easily give it a dome shape. It is also in accordance with most of the wedding gowns that will easily complement them taking care of mainly of the color of the dress.

Flower Ideas

You may better sticking with the ideas of using the stuff of some hardier-flowers like the roses that are easy to be arranged in any of the arrangement and requires the lesser amount of man handling.
 
For making of the bridal bouquet of around eight inches in the diameter for which you have to give thirty to sixty minutes, and the wedding bouquets may consists of thirty to sixty stems of a hardier flower like rose.

Requirements 

 
For the making of the bouquets, the things that you will need are Pins that are of straight type or you may also use the corsage pin with pearl tip, stem stripper, a very sharper knife, ribbons of matching color, tape of floral type for pasting, paper towels and bucket.

The steps that you want to follow for the making of the bouquet are as follow:

1. Preparation of the Flowers

You may use the stem stripper for removing the thorns, foliage part and extra unwanted petals. You have to cut the stems of the wedding flowers around two inches from the bottom after sinking them inside the water in the bucket by holding them in the water with the help of the knife. After a few seconds, remove them from the water and place them in cool water.

  

2. Assemblage of the Flowers

Now by holding the flowers in one hand, you have to add the flowers one by one to the arrangement with the other for assembling the whole of the arrangement. Now you have to make the square shape by assembling 4 of the flowers at the same height considering it as the center of the arena.

Now you have to make the full arrangement of the bouquet by adding other flowers one by one around the central arrangements creating a shape of the dome.

3. Binding of the Bouquet

 A floral tape can be used for binding of the bridal bouquet from the point around three to inches from the head of the flowers. You may repeat this process of binding till you reached the point that is nearly two from the bottom of the stems and you have to leave them for trimming later.

4. Finishing of the Bouquet

Make the lengths of the stems to be same around seven to eight inches in length by cutting them and dried them off with the help of the towel.

Its time to wrap the bouquet in the ribbon that should be at least three times the length of the stem and tucking it starting from the top of the handle, wrap it down spirally till the end. For tucking of the ribbon into the flowers, you may use the pins.

5. Preservation Part

The bouquet can be preserved by wrapping it in the tissue and for storage purpose you have to keep them in refrigerator till the time of the wedding ceremony.

After the full making of the bouquet, you should put the bared stems in the water misting their heads with water.

After using these simple steps, I hope you will be feel this task of making the wedding bouquets but the much better result than your expectation can be made by adding some creativity into it and some more of the wedding ideas…

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'Calla Lily Wedding Flowers' Decorate in a flowery way

'Calla Lily Wedding Flowers' Decorate in a flowery way

One of the simple and traditional flower having long refined lines, magnificent shape and gaudy blooming features that makes it a popular choice for giving an elegancy to different stuff of the wedding is – CALLA LILY FLOWER.

Calla Lily Flower

Starting from the Wedding cake to the bridal bouquets and up to wedding centerpieces, the perfect vision of a wedding can be made using these flowers… 

Calla lily have a beautiful property of harmonizing with any of the wedding themes with the variety of colors they come up starting from white, yellow to vibrant reds and up to the way of black and deep blue.

For providing a splatter of luster and coordinating the appearance of festivity to the celebration, two or three or more colors of calla lily flowers are sufficient for decorating the wedding arrangement and wedding bouquets. 

The premium callas works great for lower centerpieces, boutonniers, corsages and bridal bouquets while for the upright vases having tall height and cascade style bouquets, extra tall callas are needed.  

Calla Lily Bridal Bouquet

Make a prominent statement of the wedding centerpiece which will not overpower the table decoration, in spite these will help to make the scheming of the centerpiece easy with much lesser endeavor.

A glass vase that is used for holding of the candle which is being placed as a centerpiece can be make stunning by the use of calla lily flowers which can be used to surround them in a lush green bed making the whole of the arrangement as floral wreath like style centerpiece which looks just AWESOME!

Tall vases of glasses in which the stems of the calla lily are shown in particular and which comes in different shapes are used as a modern way of providing elegance to the vases. Adding more glamour to the above arrangement, flowers petals or willow branches can be used and more garnishing to the vase can be provided. Submerging of calla lily inside a tall and wider vase is a hottest and newer idea to be created for giving a different look.

Calla Lily Vases

The effect of the calla lilies of same color looks to be more forceful for an event at a sunny garden while it will be more restrained and subdued in its tone at a candlelit dinner in evening and same is the case with the photos of these flowers.

Calla lilies are available in an array of colors starting form white, ivory, green, deep chocolate, dark burgundy, black, deep purple, gold, yellow, copper orange, peach, cream and pink and you can take a lot of benefit from this large array.

The number of calla lily flowers that are going to be needed by you if you are planning for a wedding depends on certain things including the number of bouquets, vases, tables, corsages that needs to be decorated with these flowers and also the count for decoration of wedding car.

Calla Lily Wedding centerpiece

This traditional flower has been taken by different florist and vendors for adding modern panache with fresh up to date arrangement of flowers for wedding decoration. Hobby Lobby or Michaels or Whole Blossoms are the stores which supply the calla lily flowers and also floral arrangement which are made by arranging these flowers beautifully.

Calla lilies should be kept away from cooling or heating vent or direct sunlight and should be kept inside a room which is cool having a temperature of approximately 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Also, the the availability is varied throughout the year and climatic conditions determines the period of these flowers.

 

Seeing so many beautiful features of this lovely flower, you should always wanted to use it as a means of decorating your beautiful wedding...

'Gerbera Daises' Use the love and innocency of these as Wedding Flowers...

One of the trend that has been started as one of the newest decorative ideas that is being followed is to use the GERBERA DAISY flowers as the wedding flower as a modern way of wedding decoration... 

 

Even the trend has come up with so much popularity that this flower has been given another name known as THE NEW ROSE. And due to this reason, the flower is being used at the places where the person wants to add up the flavor of roses in their wedding planning. This advantage can also be taken by the people who want something different than the usage of the roses for their wedding.

About the Gerbera Flower

  
This flower is one of the main flowers of the sunflower family that is enough for symbolizing the glad and joy along with loveliness, surprise and enjoyment. A lot of feelings can be expressed with the help of only one thing!

Color Patterns of Gerbera



Very colorful flowers and also very impressive color property due to the property that has been mentioned ahead: All of the colors of a rainbow are hypothesized with the help of this flower and mainly the orange, pink and yellow colors are used more than other ones.

Save your Wedding Budget 

Wanna to save some of the amount of your precious money as per the wedding budget and utilize it for some other work??? Then this is the invitation for you to have a saving with these wedding flowers which are cheaper than the roses and many of the other wedding flowers. These flowers are also easily available and you don’t have to wait much for this thing which makes you avail these whenever you want to plan for the wedding in any of the season. 

Wedding Decoration Using Gerberas

If you want to celebrate in an older way, then you want can have the choice of the wedding decoration of having a combination of the bright colors of yellow and orange with the blue color. And if you want to go for a garden wedding, then the addition of the pinkish color can be done.

White gerberas can be used to decorate the wedding of fairytale style for symbolizing the wedding to be filled with the feelings of love, purity and innocence.

Wedding Bouquets

A beautiful wedding bouquet can be made using some of the greenish look of leaves and addition of roses. They can be made more of like a modish arrangement of bridal bouquets by binding them with a ribbon or organza type with a little bit addition of sparkles making a more sparkling effect. 
 

This all will make you to think once more for the choice of the wedding flowers that you want to choose for your grand event or your wedding...

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'Orchid Wedding Flowers' Make a lovely impression for your Wedding...

ORCHID is one of the most beautiful, graceful and striking wedding flowers that has been given some preference above others and if you are going to use it for your wedding then it will add the plus factor in your wedding also…
 

 This wedding flower has become so much popular that there a wedding theme named as “Orchid Wedding Theme” has been named after this flower in which the main point of attraction are Orchids.

Orchid is a beautiful flower that is used to symbolize the feelings of love, thinking, intelligence and improvement and all these qualities can be fully expressed with the help of this flower. Now if we are talking about the meaning of this flower, then I wanted to add that ink color of this flower is used to show the likings and the cattelya is for representing charisma.

If you want to use the most famous variety of this flower in your wedding and want to do no compromise on it, then you should go for the option of the cymbidium-orchid, vanda-orchid,  dendrobium-orchid and phalaenopsis orchid. And the favorite colors among all are pink, white, blue, green and purple.

Dendrobium orchids seems to be providing the effect of striking island or the continental environment and phalaenopsis shows to be with the effect of graceful traditionally style and thus you may be able to let your wedding guests drowned into the sea of these effects in your wedding.

 

Orchids Wedding Bouquets

One of the most useful way of representing the orchids as one of the possessions that has been used by you is to use it via bridal bouquets or wedding bouquets as the main focus is on the bride when walking down the aisle, so it seems to be the perfect way of adding and showing glamour. These wedding flowers can be used lonely or in a mixture with other flowers and easily adjustable in any type of wedding theme.

For giving the idea of the main theme of using the orchids to your guests, you may let the images of orchids on the wedding invitation cards and leave the rest of the thing of guessing on your guests. Excitement should be there!

Orchids Wedding Centerpieces

Wedding centerpieces can be easily equipped with these wedding flowers and can be easily arranged within the candle-holders, around candelabras or inside the vase along with the pebbles to decorate them and will make the wedding centerpieces looks just fabulous. 

Wedding table decoration can be stuffed with orchids by providing place cards, menu of the wedding and other table-cards with orchids attached with them either the embossed one or the real ones…

Now, these all wedding ideas are only for you and if you like these, then you may use any of them to for your wedding decoration and if you want to ask about any of the additional information then you are most welcomed on our wedding blog…

'Groom boutonniere' Getting attention of all

One of the personality statements of any of the groom can be used as his personal style can be judged with the help of one of the smaller wedding dress accessories of the bridegroom and that is the GROOM BOUTONNIERE…

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In general, any of the option starting from the miniature guitars and ending at the exotic species of wedding flowers can be chosen by the groom to be used for this wedding accessory about which we are having this discussion.

Wedding Flowers

Wedding flower is the best choice and is one of the most commonly used choice for boutonnieres and this needs important consideration as which of the wedding flowers among a long list should be chosen for any of particular groom.

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According to one of the criteria, the thing that should be considered while choosing for it is to know the details of the bridal flowers and to make the final choice accordingly. This has one of the advantage over choosing the one for yourself and that is generally the choice of the brides is nice and thus the wedding ideas depending on that should also has to be good.


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This will also provide the romantic touch to the wedding as the same styles and colors have been chosen by the couple which will make a good combination for others also to have a look and feel.


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One of the main wedding ideas of using the boutonniere for the wedding attire of groom is to make a unique fashion statement as the options are very vast to choose from and you may go with any of the uniquely think one.

Following are the options among which you may choose for which includes:

• Minuscule carnation
• Freesia
• Stephanotis
• Rosebud

These all are single blossoms flowers that can be used independently and is big enough for providing the overall effect as a whole. It looks to be more impressive if you are going with the unusual boutonniere on a funny note that will definitely strike the guests.


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You may also go with the smaller, clear and simpler style that may include the adornment of nuts or herbs with the smaller blossoms. And for making it more attractive, you may go with the option of using the following things:

• Ribbons
• Leaves of roses
• Floral Tape
• Floral wire
• Wedding flowers
• Babies breath

Calla lily is one of the choice that is light and can be used easily without any of the self staining process and can be used with the help of both the methods either singly or in the combination of other wedding flower. Along with calla lily, you can have the choices of berries that have autumnal presence also. 



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Thistles of blossoms or acorn or ivy twigs can also be used as wrapping materials for the boutonnieres along with the usage of ribbons. One of the way to make something interesting the overall view is to make some of the lovely notes along with the boutonnieres and some of the artistic options that you may go for with some of your creative ideas.  

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‘Baby Breath’ Wedding Flowers

To create a classy and blooming glory of the decoration for wedding, flowers of baby breath can be used for making a grand bang for the big day…

Baby Breath Wedding Flower

Baby breath’s are used in groups or with a mixture of other beautiful flowers for making the bridal bouquet and also for the bridesmaid bouquets.

Baby breath forms the bouquets which are featured with feather and lusciousness and seems to be gorgeous and for adding a flimsy and moderate touch along with providing a more prearranged contour of the succulents.

The aisle of the wedding can be decorated with Baby Breath and you will look the way which will be provided by the groups of these flowers.

Baby breath has a quality of molding with any of the season of wedding, so it works well for giving the touch of rustic to garland type in your wedding.

The vases containing baby breath’s flowers can be used as great centerpieces with different sizes and this may be considered as a flavor of the vintage type. A small number of these flowers are used for making the fantastic centerpieces and this is a great option you can also make use of.

Baby Breath Wedding Bouquets

 For using the baby breath as a part of the boutonnieres, both dried and fresh flowers can be used which ever is your choice for summer season but for winter wedding dried flowers give more good effect.

The wreath made with the help of these types of hangings works well for the ceremony of indoor type and if you are having an outdoor type of event, then it will be great if these flowers are hanged up with the help of trees.

The working with the hanging of baby breath in wedding is being loved by your guests and the hangings can be done by with the help of cans of tin with different colors and looks beautiful and stylish.

It may be considered from the above discussion that baby breath is a stylish and multipurpose wedding flowers that is suitable for your big day…

Nosegay Bouquet

Have you heard the name of Nosegay Bouquet? Have you heard about tussie-mussie? Do not get confused by the two names both are same and are the wedding bouquets that might interest you after reading some of the facts about it.

Getting started from the older Victorian Age and back to the fourteen century, there is a usage of nosegay bouquets for the masking of the unpleasant odors and the name of these wedding bouquets have also been given based on its property.

Features of the Wedding Bouquet



General description of this flower can be given as to have the small round clustering of flowers which are packed out in a denser way. And the fully prepared wedding bouquets pretend to be simple, small, modish and hand-tied. The trend of using the larger wedding flowers has also been started as with the changing fashion and likings.

Greenery Effect




One of main characteristic with which the flower can be wedding bouquet style can be easily identified is that much of the green effect is provided in these wedding bouquets by including a lot of green color via the herbs, leaves etc.

Wedding Flowers 


Any of the wedding flowers can be used for these wedding bouquets but as there are some of the things that are more likely to be matched with certain things so the case is with for including the following wedding flowers:

• Rose 
• Gerberas 
• Ranunculus 
• Mini carnations 
• Freesia 
• Asters 
• Monte casino

Wedding Bouquets Decoration 

For the purpose of the wedding bouquet decoration, many of the embellishing materials can be used as pearls, satin, organza ribbons and laces. The holder that is being used for the placing of the wedding flowers are generally made of the metals or glasses which are cone shaped and this is a tussie-mussie like shape.

Wrapping of the stems are generally done with the help of these ribbons by wrapping the stems totally or by keeping some of the part to be exposed. A bow of the size of your choice can be attached with the stems making of beautiful bridal bouquet.

Color Tone

Soft and pallid colors are used in older ages of Victorian and you may follow the same trend of white and ivory colors or may include the flavor of a newer and modern color with a lot of greenery.



At last I want to conclude one more thing that these wedding bouquets can be easily used as the wedding favors also and for presenting the wedding guests with the wedding ideas like this for celebrating the grand event. Feel free to find us at Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+.

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Bridal Bouquets

Bridal bouquets are overpowered by the stunning ideas and creativity and thus making the bride eye-catching and stunning...

A stunning bouquet is needed when you walk down the aisle which is a sign of your way of style and represents you. More glamour can be added to it if the bridesmaids will also carry a bouquet along with the bride.

Bouquets should consists of flowers of longer stems which are best for retro themed wedding. Free flowing look is provided by a cascade bouquet in which creates effect of a waterfall image that looks great.

If you want to have a structured effect, then a biedermeier bouquet is the best choice for this which have an arrangement in which features rings of flowers fan out at the center and is round style bouquet.

A casual and loose look is provided by hand tied bouquet in which the ribbon is bounded on the hand and flowers. Classic look is provided by a nosegay bouquet that is round and wound tightly.

Magical Miranda Rose, Simply Luscious Roses, Calla & Crystal, Gypsophila Bouquet, Loves Orchids, Romantic Blush, Pretty Pomander, Romantic Ranunculus are the simple and beautiful choices you can have..

Sensational Spring, Monochomatic Fantastic, English Country Style, Champagne Shower, Crème Delight, Exotic Trail, Richly Jewelled, Pearls and Cream are some of the styles that comes in the best choices.

Everyone has their own taste and style, and so of the bride and so your creative choice might be able to make a unique selection of bouquet. Start thinking!!

Now a days, unique and back history names are provided to bouquets which may be confusing and you might not be able to get any idea from their names only, so seeing their pictures is a better option. Beautiful bouquets can be searched by feasting your eyes on the beautiful pictures of bouquets and so think about it...

Choose a type of bouquet according to your height and size, like you may never want to choose large flowing bouquet if you are slim and your height is small. So, your choice should be such that it will not exaggerate you. Bouquets which makes you feel comfortable is also a criteria for choosing it, after all you have to ENJOY all the things.

Bridal bouquets that consists of edible elements like fruits and vegetables are also gaining ground these days and are also helpful in making the wedding personalized for wedding lovers.

Wedding flowers designs can be best represented with the help of wedding bouquets that will pour our heart...