[kcandle]

I want to make my own bridal bouquet. Does anyone know how I can do it cheap? Please help!

[the_admin]

I suggest using a wholesaler to purchase your flowers online, they have access to flowers from a variety of different growers from all over the world. Tell them what you want and let them do the work to find them for you. This can save you lots of money ad lots of time.

Designing the Perfect Arrangements

Take advantage of videos and articles that walk you through making different types of bouquets and other types of wedding floral arrangements. These will be extremely helpful as your learn some simple tricks of the trade.

Check out Russ Phillip as he takes you step-by-step through designing all types of different floral arrangements. Hes great at what he does and he's entertaining to watch too. Visit the blog section of usswholesaleflowers.com for all the instruction you need.

[edselone]

If you are using silk flowers, go to michaels.com to the crafts section and type in bouquets and they will give you step by step instructions. I'm going to try make my own also. this should prove to be interesting. I've got a little less than a year til the wedding so if i screw it up, I still have time to choose another option. []

[ladyhawke]

You can make all of your wedding creations. I made everything for my daughter and it was a blast, and will now happily share my success story with you and hope you all get your creative juices flowing. In the long run you will all save money too!

This was what I did for the bridal, toss, bridesmaids, and matron of honor bouquets.

There are many web sites offering instructions for almost everything (except my daughter's faux wedding cake, bridal bouquet shadow box and cake topper....for those I just used my creative imagination which, by the way, to my amazement just grew.

So, just find one website and follow their instructions to you liking and proceed. You have a choice to use either size wedding bouquet holder and lace insert. They offered 2 sizes at the craft store I went to; a medium size and a larger size. I made the first trial wedding bouquet using the larger size then disassembled that and used the smaller size since I felt the larger size bouquet was much too heavy for anyone to carry and although it looked gorgeous was too overpowering. I settled with the smaller size bouquet holder and lace collar for all of the wedding party bouquets (10 in all). I made my daughter's bridal bouquet and her toss bouquet using high quality silk flowers in her favorite color scheme of pale pink, cream and lavender, and used roses since that is her favorite flower. I chose to also use wired offray cream ribbon and completely covered the bouquet handles then added trails of cream trailing lilies so they flowed down the handle. I finished the handles off with cream pearl oval hat pins and all the bouquet handles looked the same. For the brides bouquet I chose a variety of various sizes of silk roses and added a lot of pearl sprigs and touches of lavender silk baby breaths to fill in the bare spots. I used white baby breaths too. Her toss and bridal bouquet are gorgeous as are all of the wedding party bouquets and many think we had a professional do them.

I also made all of the bridal party's boutonnieres, my daughters cake topper, faux wedding cake with the leftover flowers, a bridal bouquet shadow box to hang on the wall and a faux mirrored and plexiglass wedding cake display box to place her faux floral wedding cake and wedding cake topper as the centerpiece of her wedding cake display box. The faux cake looked great and looked very real so she will have her professional baker make up the exact same cake for her wedding reception which I accepted as a very nice compliment.

Don't be intimidated as I have never done anything like this before but was all for saving money. It seems all of my results for the items listed above paid off as far as looking beautiful and professional.

[jswan]

Hi, I've helped friends make theirs by choosing long stemmed flowers and wrapping the bottoms with dampened paper towels and then wrapping that with plastic wrap. Next use that green florists tape to bid it all together. Then wrap the majority of the length with wide (2 in) ribbon. This covers the plastic and gives a nice place to grip the flowers. Use some floral pins to get started and then secure at the top with a dot of hot glue. The ribbon can be tied in a bow or allowed to hang after being knotted. Ive also seen it get very fancy with two colors of ribbon overlapping each other. I hope this helps.

[the_admin]

The average cost of wedding flowers when using a florist can run you around $2,000. The flowers are not the expensive part of that equation; it’s the labor that the florist charges you. Spend a little time watching DIY videos and making a few “practice” arrangements and your efforts will pay off. Purchasing from a wholesaler will provide you with the same flowers at the same price that your florist would get. Then you'll just need a little creativity.

For all the flowers and supplies along with the instructional videos and articles, visit russwholesaleflowers.com. Let the world renowned flower expert Russ Phillip guide you to make the most beautiful arrangements at half the price of using a florist.