Easy Guide On Wedding Bouquet Preservation

How to Preserving Wedding Flowers are not difficult as you think. With little effort, you will be able to keep your wedding flowers bouquet for years to come. Preserving your flowers bouquet is possible if you will to spend some time and some money in it.

Wedding Flower Preservation

Professional Floral Preservation

Usually people will let the professional florist to preserving their wedding flowers. They have the more realistic solution, the freeze drying. Talk with the florist before your wedding day to make sure they can get the flowers bouquet in a right time. Commonly, these processes expect you to make something inside a timeframe from one to four days after the ceremony to reach the best results.

Below are the advantages and disadvantages of using a professional florist to Preserving Wedding Flowers!

Advantages:

- Professional floral preservation knows the best way and experience on preserving the specific type of flowers in your wedding bouquet.

- Pressing and freeze drying will keep the flowers look more naturalistic.

Disadvantages:

- You will need to pay at least $100 for preserving the wedding flowers.

- Not every type of flowers can be freeze drying.

Preserving Wedding Bouquets

DIY Wedding Flowers Preservation

Maybe you want to try Preserving Wedding Flowers by your own? You can find some DIY bouquet preservation method and tutorial at below!

1. Sand

- For best results, use river sand.

- Move out the base of each stems (about an inch).

- You need a box to drying the flowers, fill it with sand.

- Put your flowers at top with blooms face up.

- Sift the sand over the flowers until all petals covered.

- Store in a well ventilated place for 5 days.

- After 5 days, check the flowers. If not too dry, add more sand on the flower petals and store again for one or two days.

Preserving Ideas: River Sand

2. Glycerin

- You can find glycerin liquid product specially made to preserving flowers at a craft store.

- Gently clean the flowers from dust or debris, take away all imperfect petals and leaves.

- Press the stems about 2 inches from the cut ends. Use pair of pliers or hammer for this.

- Put the cut ends into glycerin at least for 3 weeks.

- Remove the flowers when they are not brittle and dry.

Preserving Ideas: Glycerin

3. Pressing

- Firstly, prepare the materials you will need for pressing: newspaper, blotting papers, background paper (use construction paper for best result), tweezers, glue and big heavy book (phone book).

- Split the leaves and mosses, attach the flowers with finger and thumb.

- Place flowers in the background paper, use tweezers to set the tiny flowers.

- After set up, place the background paper between the blotting papers.

- And then put the package between 2 sheets of newspaper.

- Place the flower package on flat surface and put the big heavy book on the top.

- Leave them for 2 weeks.

- Take them out and see the final result. You can place the Preserving Wedding Flowers in a scrapbook or frame them.

Preserving Ideas: Pressing

It is important to take some precautions after Preserving Wedding Flowers. For example: Do not place the flowers in direct sunlight, because can fade and dissipate the natural colors. And if you don’t want too much dust collecting on them then you can place them in a vase or shadow box.

Always practice before the big day, find flowers or plants that you will use for your special day. Get more experience from practice, to make sure when the day has come you already know how to do the job.

No matter which process you will try on Preserving Wedding Flowers. But one thing for sure, you can enjoy a fresh long after your wedding day has arrived.

You may want to check out my other guide on: White Wedding Bouquets

By: Mayweddi