How to Make Bridal Bouquets With Tiger Lillies
A tiger lily features wide arching petals and visibly large pistils. The exotic flower is available in an array of colors that include orange, white and pink. Tiger lilies are bold enough to be the main focus of a bridal bouquet. They do not need many extra plants to fill out a bouquet's arrangement, but you can add smaller flowers to match your tiger lilies' color or to coordinate with your wedding's color theme.
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Things You'll Need
- Flower preservative solution
- Vase
- Four or more large tiger lilies
- Ferns, small roses, baby's breath or other flowers
- Scissors
- Floral wire
- Floral tape
- Ribbon
Instructions
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Pour flower preservative solution into the bottom of a vase. Place all of the flowers and plants you will be using for your bouquet into the vase. Let them soak in the solution overnight. This will make the flowers appear to be fresh for a longer amount of time.
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Hold your lilies so that they face outward in all directions, including to the side and upward.
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Place ferns or other green floral plants underneath the tiger lily flowers to form a moderately thick section. Add a few more ferns that are level to and above the flowers. Be sure to arrange the plants to suit your own aesthetic tastes.
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Add baby's breath, small roses or other flowers to the spaces between the tiger lilies, including above where the large flowers sit. These extra flowers should not overpower or block the tiger lilies.
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Use scissors to trim the ends of all the plants' stems so that they are even. You should still be able to grasp the stems in your hands.
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Wrap floral wire in a spiraling motion around length of the flowers' stems. Then tightly wrap floral tape directly over the wire, tucking the ends behind the rest of the tape.
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Tie a ribbon into a large bow around the top of the stems and underneath the rest of the arrangement.
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