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Hi. My name is Patty Roller and today I'm going to be making a beautiful wedding bouquet
for you. When the brides come into the shop to order their wedding bouquets, they usually
choose one of two styles.
This bouquet here has the stem showing. It's wrapped with a little bit of ribbon and its
called a clutch bouquet. The bouquet that I'm going to be making for you today is a
round bouquet and we start off with an Oasis or Sahara bouquet holder.
The one I'm using for the dried flowers or silk flowers is the Sahara bouquet holder.
The one with the Oasis would be for the fresh flowers. So you want to make a new cut on
here about as long as you think you want your bouquet to be and always like with the white
roses, some are more open and some are tighter.
So you want to use the open ones around the center of the bouquet and the tighter ones
we will use on the outside just as the flower is growing. You want the open ones to be your
focal point and then around the edge will be the tighter ones.
So we want to kind of try to develop a round bouquet. We will go on like this and then
I have some white lilies. I am going to leave the foliage on because as you can see in this
bouquet, it does have some foliage which takes up some room, keeps it interesting-looking.
You can make a bouquet with no foliage if you like although the bouquets today, they
are showing with no foliage. So it's totally whatever you would like.
I always put a little bit of glue on the end of each stem because I want to make sure that
everything is stuck very securely.
So to begin with, I'm developing like a round type bouquet. This is the Stephanotis. We
use this next.
So I'm starting off with all of my flowers. So I fill it in with all of my flowers and
then we will add the foliage. Then we will add some embellishment with, this one has
the feathers. It has some crystals and it has some pearls. You can use whatever you
like, whatever colors you want.
When you're out choosing the flowers for your wedding bouquet, try to see what you like
best and you can use a couple of different kinds of flowers. You could use all one flower.
You can make it however you like.
And the beauty of the silk bouquets if you make your own flowers is you can make it ahead
of time. You could make silk bouquets six months to a year in advance and it's one less
thing you have to do and get nervous about when it gets closer to the wedding.
So I have the round bouquet made and now I'm going to stick some foliage in. You want to
develop like a collar around the back of the bouquet.
This is a little bit of hydrangea foliage which is really pretty, a nice broad leaf.
This one doesn't have a stem on so I'm going to put one of the steel picks on it. Once
again, you try and keep it as round as possible.
Now I have the rose foliage. This tool really makes everything easy. If you do not have
a pick machine which I don't expect a lot of people to have, you can use wire and tape
and it will stick in just as well.
I really like the glue on the end of everything. It really holds everything in place. You can
use just the white glue instead of a hot glue. It holds very well. It will hold everything
in place for you. It dries clear which is really nice.
You can put as many flowers in as you want. You could make it real, real full. You can
make it larger if you like. You could make it smaller. You want to keep the longer foliage
toward the outside of the bouquet and the shorter foliage in the center.
So we have our bouquet pretty much in place now and now we will add our feathers. If they
have a stiff stem on them, you can just put a little bit of glue on and put them in place.
If the stem is a little bit wimpy, which in this pack there was some of each, so if the
stem is a little bit wimpy, you are going to have to wire and tape it or when you put
it in, if you could get the glue on like a piece of foliage, or a flower, it would hold
it in place.
When we wire our materials to put them into the bouquet, we get a little piece of medium
gauge wire. Hold it up against the feather. Take your tape and just keep twirling it in
your hand like so. You can put a couple of feathers together if you want on one wire.
It will just make it fuller.
Once again, a little bit of glue. Now the bouquet that I already have made has quite
a few feathers in it. You can put as many as you like and now we will put our crystals
and our pearls in. Usually they have a stem that is strong enough that you can just put
a little bit of glue on and push it in. You want to make sure that you leave the stem
long enough that when you push it in, it comes up out of the arrangement.
You don't want them to get lost down deep in the arrangement where nobody will see them.
You can leave them out far if you like. It's whatever you like and because you're going
to make a silk bouquet, you have plenty of time to think about it. You can make it, if
you want to redo it or you want the pearls to be out farther, you can redo them at a
later date. So you have time to think about it.
Now we're going to put the crystals in and they're on a wire stem also which makes it
really nice. You can shape these up a little bit if you like. You want to make sure that
you put the crystals in so that you see the stone, that you don't put them in backward.
The back of the stone actually has a little bit of metal on it. So if you get it in backward,
you won't really be able to appreciate the beauty of the stone.
You can, if you like, when you make your bouquet, you could get a vase, a tall vase, like a
bud vase with a small opening and put your bouquet into the vase and you could work on
it from the front. That way you can see what you're doing. You could probably just lay
it down in front of you too.
OK. So we have the bouquet like this. Now this bouquet also has the tulle on the back
so I'm going to back this entire bouquet with the tulle.
So I have cut pieces of tulle here that are about 15 or 16 inches long and you can use
the yardstick if you like. I make them all the same.
I laid the yardstick down on the table and pulled the tulle against it. So I had them
all pretty much the same. They don't have to be exact.
OK. So I have a little blouse type tulle and a little bit of glue. I stick it into the
bottom of the bouquet. That one maybe is a little long because I didn't measure it. But
anyway, we will back this whole bouquet.
Now if you like, you could make your tulle a little shorter. This one here is a little
tighter and it's a different type of tulle. It has got a little more open wave. So when
I put it into the bouquet, it has a little different look but it's whatever you like.
Now you want to make sure when you get these, that you're going to use a pick or a wire.
You want to make sure that you get them all the way in so that you don't see the workmanship
at the back of the bouquet. It's called mechanics. You want to cover up all of your mechanics
and make it nice and neat and professional-looking.
It might be a little big. I think I would rather cut that down but it still works and
then I have this one.
Now on the back of this bouquet, I finished it off with a little bit of silk foliage so
that it does look professional. I'm going to do the same here.
I love the hydrangea foliage because it's nice and big and broad. It only takes a few
of them. I think that first bouquet might have had seven on or something. I don't know.
I just go to what's all done.
So what I do is I put a little bit of glue on the front of the leaf. Make sure you take
off the extra glue and I will just hold it against the bouquet like so. I don't want
the glue on the back of the leaf because I don't want anybody to see it.
So I just go in a circular motion on the back of the bouquet to finish it all up. Cover
up the holes in the back of the bouquet holder. Cover up all your work.
You might press it with your finger a little bit just to make sure it's nice and secure
like so. One more.
So that's a nice professional finish and there you have your beautiful wedding bouquet. You're
all set.