How to Make a Gerber Daisy Wedding Bouquet

The gerber daisy is known as the flower for all seasons and occasions. These vibrant daisies lend themselves to either simple or formal wedding bouquets with limitless choices of colors and combinations. Whether you're planning an elegant, candlelight church wedding or a casual outdoor gathering, a beautiful wedding bouquet, spray, nosegay, or corsage of gerber daisies will beautifully complement any celebration.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• 40 white long-stemmed single gerber daisies
• 20 single pale pink long-stemmed single gerber daisies
• 7 medium pink long-stemmed single gerber daisies
• 4 sprigs of white babies breath
• 1 spool of ¾-inch white satin ribbon
• 1 spool of ¼-inch white satin ribbon
• 1 roll of waxed floral tape (white)
• Gathered white netting ring or doily to go under head of bouquet (if desired)
• Rubber band
• 3 or 4 white-tipped sewing pins or short corsage pins

1. Assemble the flowers. Take one stem at a time and arrange the light pink daisies among the white and sprinkle the deeper pink ones evenly throughout the bouquet. The bouquet should be about 8 to 10 inches in diameter.
   
   
2. Make a tight nosegay-type bouquet or a looser bouquet and add the white baby's breath around the outer edge.
3. Gather the stems together and place the rubber band carefully around the stems about an inch under the flowers. Straighten the stems and wrap them together tightly with white waxed floral tape making a compact, straight handle.
4. Cover the handle by cutting a length of the ¾-inch white satin ribbon about three times as long as the length of the stems. Tuck one end of the ribbon carefully inside the top of the wrapped stems and start wrapping in a spiral down the length of the stem handle neatly covering the floral tape. When you reach the bottom, start wrapping in a spiral back up the stems. At the top, tuck the cut end of the ribbon underneath and secure it with a couple of pins pushed through the ribbon and into the stems.
   
   
5. Slide on the doily or netting up the wrapped stem handle until it is right under the flowers. Secure it with another pin or two into the handle.
   
   
   
6. Add several streamers by combining lengths of the two different widths of satin ribbon and tie around the handle just under the doily. Cut the ends of the ribbon on a diagonal. Bend up the end of the handle to make it shorter or leave long.
   
   

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Tips & Warnings

• Ask the florist to individually wire the stem of each daisy for added support.
• Place order for the gerber daisies early from a reputable florist and arrange to pick up the daisies the day before the wedding.
• Make sure no sharp ends of the pins or wires are poking out from the handle.