Weddingbee Blog

Let’s take care of some business first, shall we?

Now that I am done with school for the semester, I have four weeks in which to really cram in my projects before the next one begins and I’m juggling 19 credit hours, work, and final wedding touches. So the last couple of days I have sat in front of Netflix (tons and tons of Grey’s Anatomy anyone?), and have begun part of my bridesmaids’ gifts.

Remember how I talked about the girls’ matching dresses? Well, I lied. They are now mismatched dresses. We had some bridesmaid exchanges. I had a bridesmaid ask kindly to be released from her duty as she wants to spend time with her newborn, and I, of course, agreed. I asked another friend in her place, and voila! We ended up with six different dresses because I tired of trying to coordinate everyone to go get theirs and what to get. Plus I have always loved the look of mismatched greatness, and decided to let my vision win out instead of the urgings of those more traditional.

So as a way to keep them somewhat coordinated, I have decided to make hairpieces for them all to wear the day of. I scoured the net for fabric flower tutorials and there was one in particular that I fell in love with.

Image via Holidash

They are meant to be brooches, but I figure that I can add  crocodile clips instead and the ladies can wear them  in their hair! They are actually really easy to make, but kind of time consuming. You can find the full detailed instructions here, (like the sizes you cut, etc.) but here is how I generally made them. I first gathered all of the materials that I would need to make the flowers.

Like my trusty hot glue gun and extra Christmas wrapping paper as a table protector?

The petals, and the stiff paper circle to make the flower more sturdy, base of the flower, and the middle insert (the spiraly thing)

The petals can be kind of tricky. You start with the biggest ones and glue them so they look like so:

It’s like you fold the bottom parts to meet in the middle to help give the curved look.

I like to do them all at once and keep them in separate piles so I can then just concentrate on gluing them onto the base. When you first start they will look like this:

It looks best when you layer them kind of like bricks, so they fill in the in-between. Once they are all filled, you glue in the spiraly middle part to cover the small petal  bottoms and abracadabra! You have some sweet ass bridesmaid hair flowers.

This is what mine have looked like finished:

What do you think? Do you think my girls are going to like them? I also am going to make miniature ones and connect them to a headband for the flower girlies.

Are you handmaking anything for your bridesmaids? If so, what?