Even in ancient Greece, during the wedding ceremony, the bride walked down the aisle, carrying in her hands the branches of blooming ivy and an orange tree. It was believed that such plants are symbols of eternal love, family happiness and wealth. In ancient Egypt, by analogy, the bride was presented with sprigs of rosemary and garlic.
This bouquet also symbolized wealth in the family, love and mutual understanding. Modern newlyweds are not limited to prejudices from the past. Therefore, they can go to the altar with any bouquet of the bride. Do it yourself is not difficult to do this. We offer you step-by-step instructions for creating your own wedding bouquets.
What materials and tools are needed?
Before you make a brideās bouquet with your own hands, you need to think about the concept of the future product. Moreover, you need to prepare the materials and tools that you may need. Suppose your bouquet is made of fresh flowers of white color.
To do this, take: 3-4 large chrysanthemums, 6-7 medium-sized hydrangeas (do not forget that the total number of flowers should not be even), a package of real twine, a coil of brown wire, buttons for the office, garden pruner and brown organza with a width of at least 5 cm.
We form the basic blank for the bouquet
So, when all the tools and materials are prepared, you can proceed to the very process of creating a brideās bouquet with your own hands. To get started, take all the flowers prepared for work and, with the help of a pruner or scissors, carefully trim all the leaves. Next, take three hydrangea flowers and connect them together so that a small triangle is formed from the flowers.
Connect the flowers into triangles
We add three more light hydrangeas to the resulting three flowers. Add them along the edges of the resulting triangle. In the center there should be a place for the last hydrangea. At the same time, it is recommended to lay it just above the level of all other flower heads.
Thus, you will set a rounded shape to your future bouquet of flowers of the bride. With your own hands, free some space in the center and insert three white chrysanthemums into it. You should get a kind of open triangle.
We fix flowers with legs with improvised means
After all the flowers are in place, fix them with floristic wire. At the same time, for reliable fixation, it is best to fix the wire at the top and bottom of the bouquet.
Flatten the excess ends of the stems with scissors or secateurs. Then wrap them with organza ribbon. Fix its ends with the buttons. Wind the twine loose over the tape.
At the end, fix the twine pieces with the remnants of the bendable floristic wire. The result was a pretty sweet and neat bridal bouquet. It is not difficult to make it yourself. The main thing is to adhere to the above work plan.
Three options for bouquets of fresh flowers
Creating bouquets of their natural flowers is a classic of the genre. True, there are several options to create the most beautiful and unusual bouquet. For example, you can use our previous tip and make flowers on stems. It is noteworthy that after wrapping the plant's legs with decorative ribbon, the flowers themselves can be supplemented with a variety of beads, rhinestones and even sparkles.
As an option, you can make a bride's bouquet with your own hands from fresh flowers using wire. This product is created by analogy with a bouquet on the stems. However, for greater reliability, wire is inserted into each of the flower stems. So you can more reliably fix all the flowers. A decorative tape fixed by clerical buttons is wound on top of the stems.
And finally, the most long-playing option is a bouquet using portbuketnitsy. This product is a special ball of foam, attached to a plastic frame. It is in this ball that fresh flowers on small legs are inserted.
And for the further preservation of the freshness of the flowers, this roller is recommended to be soaked in water properly. In conclusion, this product is neatly decorated with satin and other ribbons in order to hide the secret substrate for fresh flowers. This is how the brideās bouquet is made with her own hands. The step-by-step implementation of all actions is a guarantee of the quality of work. By connecting imagination, you can get an unusually beautiful bouquet that can easily complement the image of any bride.
Do-it-yourself brideās bouquet of satin ribbons
Fresh flowers are certainly beautiful, but impractical and short-lived. Therefore, many newlyweds prefer to create several wedding bouquets, of which one is the main, and the second is an understudy.
It is noteworthy that the first can be made from beautiful, but short-lived living plants, and the second - from any decorative materials. For example, a brideās bouquet of ribbons is very popular. Do it yourself with your own hands or itās better to order a ready-made one, a moot point. But if for your wedding you want to do everything yourself, then it's time to do needlework.
Create a bouquet of beautiful satin ribbons
So, we make a wedding product from satin ribbons. Itās not very difficult to create a brideās bouquet with her own hands. Another thing is that for work you will need the following materials and tools:
- 14-15 meters of ribbons of white or pink color with a width of at least 50 mm.
- 1-2 meters of white lace.
- 5-8 plastic beads, rhinestones or artificial pearls.
- Ball made of foam rubber or foam.
- 5-6 thin pieces of wire with white pearls at the end (these are future stamens).
- Glue.
- Nippers or scissors.
- Floral tape and wire.
- Oblong wooden sticks.
Take about 10-12 wooden sticks. Fold them tightly together. Fasten the top and bottom with wire. Connect the resulting beam with a hemisphere or soft ball. Slightly push and deepen the sticks into the sphere. Fill the hole with glue.
Wait for it to dry. Mask the junction with a rounded lace. Make it a kind of substrate. Glue the sticks well. Mask them with tape. Gently wrap its ends like paper in envelopes and glue.
Making Satin Ribbon Flowers
When the flower frame is ready, you can begin to manufacture the flowers themselves. The easiest way is to make roses of different shapes. To do this, take the wire. Screw the tape on top of it. Get a kind of knob. Fix it with wire or thread (it is better to tighten the tape).
Cut excess parts. Adjust the length of the wire and insert the finished rose into a previously prepared sphere or semicircle. There can be many such roses. If desired, they can not be strung on a wire, but cut under the root and glued to the sphere. At the same time, glue the roses in a circle. At the end, beads, rhinestones can be glued to their center, decorated with artificial pearls.
Now you know how to make a brideās bouquet with your own hands, using glue and satin ribbons.
How to make an original brooch bouquet?
Another original product that you can do with your own hands for a wedding is a brooch-bouquet. To do this, you will need materials and tools such as pliers, floristry wire, 70-80 diverse brooches or buttons, a glue gun, several artificial flowers, special green or brown tape (tape tape), a few safety pins and 50 cm light satin ribbon.
Before starting work, all brooches and buttons must be washed in soapy water and thoroughly dried. We attach each brooch or button to the wire and decorate it with a floral ribbon. We take artificial flowers and divide them into separate petals. Then, using a glue gun, we attach two such petals to each received stem at once.
Take five newly formed from buttons or brooches of flowers and fix them in a peculiar bunch of floral tape. With the remaining flowers, we do the same. And only after the wedding bouquet is ready, it remains only to carefully trim the stems of the product. Do not forget that it should have a rounded shape. At the end of the work, wrap the stems with satin ribbon. Fix the ends with glue or push pins.
How to make a bouquet of artificial flowers?
A bouquet of fake flowers is created by analogy with a product from living plants. At the same time, finding artificial flowers is not at all difficult. They are almost everywhere. For work, you can also take as a basis a frame with a sphere or a semicircle of foam. Or, ready-made flowers can simply be gathered in a bouquet and fixed with wire for strength and a beautiful satin ribbon for a greater visual effect.
Amazing bouquet of beads and beads
A bouquet with the addition of a variety of beads, jewelry details, and artificial pearls looks rather unusual. To create the appropriate effect, use a foam blank. It can be painted in green or pink, which will visually increase the density of your bouquet. Next, paste the beads, beads, buttons and anything else in turn. In the end, decorate with ribbons and cover with sparkles or gilded paint.
What other materials can I make a bouquet of?
In addition to the above materials, a bouquet for a wedding can be made of polymer clay. According to the masters in this field, such plants look extremely realistic. However, due to the certain severity that they give the product, this bouquet should not be thrown into the crowd. To do this, you need to prepare a second spare bouquet made of real plants.
In addition, an attribute inalienable for a wedding can be made of colored paper, napkins, corrugated paper, cardboard, origami material. Kanzashi flowers made from rich red velvet fabric look pretty. They can be of different sizes, due to which they look very elegant and spectacular. In a word, there are a huge number of options that help create an exclusive bouquet for a wedding.