Making Your Own Artificial Flowers And Bouquets For A Wedding

Making artificial flowers and bouquets for a wedding is a great idea to achieve exactly the look and color scheme you want for your flowers, as well as preserving that look for all time. Making artificial flowers and bouquets for a wedding is a great way to create the desired look with no compromise for off-season flowers, wilting flowers, or delayed shipments. What you see with artificial flowers is what you get.

Before planning or creating your artificial flowers and bouquets for a wedding, do some research. Look through bridal books and floral magazines and decide which type of flowers you like most. The internet is also a great resource, and you can often find high quality artificial flowers for less, too.

When choosing artificial flowers to make for a bouquet, be sure that the flowers will go well with wedding colors and any other floral arrangements that will be used. If the bride has a favorite flower, this should definitely be incorporated into her bouquet.

Once you've decided which artificial flowers you will be using, purchase a bouquet holder from your craft or wedding supply store. These bouquet holders are usually made of a cone shaped white plastic with an attached handle. When shopping for your bouquet holder, attempt to find the kind that already has foam inserted into the cone so you dont have to mess around with fitting foam into the cone perfectly.

When you are ready to work on your artificial flower and bouquet for a wedding, remember to start at the bottom of the bouquet holder with greens and filler items and work your way up. Hold each flower or stemmed piece up to the arrangement before you decide on how much of the stem you want above the foam. When you have decided how tall or short you want the flower, cut the stem with floral wire cutters one to two inches below that point.

You'll want to cut each stem at a sharp angle and insert it about two inches into the foam. If you place the flower in the arrangement and it doesn't look good, you can always try again. You may need to clip more off the stem if you decided to place it in another location. Do this flower by flower until you have achieved the desired look. Don't hurry, making with artificial flowers and bouquets for a wedding can take many days, weeks, or even months.

You can easily create a cascading look by placing different lengths of greenery at the bottom of the bouquet holder so it spills out and over the holder. You can trim the lengths of greenery to get a symmetrical look. Artificial ivy or fern is usually best for this as it can be made to look very real.

For a decorative touch you can add a bow, ribbon, a pearl spray, or long strands of ribbon where the handle joins the cone. You can also hot glue artificial flowers down the length of ribbon for a unique look.

Making artificial flowers and bouquets for a wedding can be a very rewarding experience. You can come away from the project with a beautiful bouquet as well as a sense of accomplishment and making something that is seemingly so complicated.

About the Author

Rachel Johnson has been married for eight years and resides in Texas with her husband and children. Rachel, a freelance writer, planned her own wedding from start to finish with great success and continues with an interest in weddings and wedding planning.