All those brides can now make your own wedding bouquets, albeit majority of them prefer florists to get it done. Proper selection of the flowers, little bit of creativity and neat assembly makes a wedding bouquet more unique, personal, beautiful and memorable. It can be made either from real or silk flowers. If a bride has already singled out the wedding dress, then making a bouquet becomes easy. If a wedding dress has intricate laces or embroidery, then an individual has to avoid luxuriant bouquet, whereas if wedding dress is simple then decorative bouquets can be used. Flowers required to make your own wedding bouquets can be bought from cultivator.

Steps To Make Wedding Bouquets:

1. An individual can refer to floral magazines, books, catalogues and internet to get clear idea about various types of flowers, bouquets and styling that can be done.
2. Make selection of the flowers to be used. Check the availability of the flowers, green foliage with the florists beforehand to avoid any kind inconvenience at last moment. Keep the flowers upheld, stems dipped in water to keep them fresh and prevents them from getting dried.
3. To make your own wedding bouquets, bouquet handle is required to hold flowers. It is usually conically shaped made up of white plastic with a handle attached to it. It also has foam inserted into it.
4. Put the bouquet holder with its topside in big bowlful of water. Let the handle slowly sink underneath the water. This soaks the foam. Then take out the bouquet holder from water and pat dry out its outer surface.
5. Start placing the flowers from holders’ top. Decide on length of the stem that has to be above the foam. In order to make your own wedding bouquets, it is important that stem are properly fixed into the foam. It can be chipped off 1.5 to 1 inches from below.
6. All the stems of flowers have to be properly bonded or stuck to foam with wire. Bent the wire and tangle it to the holder. This makes the bouquet tolerant because, bride carries it everywhere and there is a custom of hauling the bouquet. So proper binding has to be done.
7. To make your own wedding bouquets more decorative, green foliage, small artificial articles such as butterfly, bird can also be added along with flowers. Holder can be covered with silk, satin ribbon or aspidistra’s leaf.

Types of wedding Bouquets:

There are 3 main types of wedding bouquets. Teardrop bouquet has the shape of bunch of grapes, which are broad at top and gets narrower till bottom. Posy bouquet that is circular in shape with simple detailing. Sheath bouquet which is elongated and flower shaped.