Weddingbee Blog

Oh, wait! That’s not possible, because as some of you know, we are not using any fresh flowers. The original plan for the bouquets was to make them all out of clay flowers, and even though I made a bunch of them back home in Chile, there were not enough for my bouquet, plus my 4 bridesmaids’ bouquets.

So, while making the pomander for my flower girl, I ran into a color problem. I could not find tissue paper in the color I wanted, but what I actually found were paper napkins in the exact color I wanted! So I made napkin flowers instead!

I found out that paper flowers were was faster to make and filled out our bouquets just as much as the clay flowers did. So, I ditched some of the clay flowers I experimented with and just kept the roses. I mixed those with the napkin flowers, plus some tissue paper flowers and some silk ones, and this is what I ended up with!

For my bridesmaids’ bouquets I stuck with just with tissue paper, napkins and silk.

Here is how they turned out:

To make all the flowers I used in the bouquets I only used 1 pack of 50 napkins, and it cost me $1.20, so I was pretty happy about that!

Here are the materials I used:

• 1 pack of purple napkins
• floral wire
• floral tape
• thicker wire
• silk leaves
• hot glue

I first cut the napkin in half, then I folded it again to make a long piece. After that I folded it in little pieces and cut the ends… the final result of that step is the picture on the left. After that I rolled both pieces together to make one flower. (Since you end up cutting the napkin in 4 strips, you get 2 pieces per flower.)

Once they were ready, I wrapped a little piece of floral wire around them to hold them together. Then I grabbed a long piece of thicker wire and hot glued it to the flower, like in the left image.Then I attached a silk leaf, like in the right image.

If you do that a few more times, you will end up with this:

Now, here are a few more pics of my bouquet!

[All pictures by yours truly]

I really like the way it ended up looking, but I was worried I will regret it later, because I really wanted to make them all out of clay. I chose this route because I have so many DIY projects left to finish, so time is of the essence right now!