Weddingbee Blog

So, school is back in session and I didn’t quite get everything crossed off my list. But I did get a lot done, so I’m not going to beat myself up over it. One big thing I wanted to cross off my list? Bouquets! So as of today I almost have all the bridesmaid bouquets done and plan on having mine finished by the end of the week. Remember last time I talked about flowers and showed you all the tutorials I was using? Now I’ll let you on to how to finish up the bouquets after you’ve made your flowers.

These are smaller bouquets since they’re for the bridesmaid’s. Each one takes six of the larger flowers and five of the smaller ones. I used pipe cleaners as the stems for the larger flowers and hot glued floral wire as the stems for the smaller flowers.

I put one large flower in the center and arranged the other five around that center flower. Once I liked how they looked, I duct taped them together.

Then I added the smaller flowers into the arrangement and duct taped those in.

Once the flowers were arranged as I liked them, I did the stem covers. For those, I used half an empty paper towel roll cut down one side. I duct taped the pipe cleaners and wires to the paper towel roll and then duct taped the paper towel roll closed as tight as I liked. Then, I ran ribbon through my Xyron and wrapped it around the paper towel roll for decoration.

So you can see the paper towel roll aspect

A bit more detail

Bouquets! Obviously, you can tone down the colors and not be as ridiculous as I am. I also considered adding fake leaves or paper leaves, but ultimately preferred the pure flower look. I’m interested to see what my bridal bouquet ends up look like. I think I’m going to go crazy and just keep putting more and more flowers in it. I’ll definitely have to call on Papa Tim for my editing powers.

Any other paper flower people use the paper towel roll trick? What do you guys think of my crazy colored flowers?