How to Make a Silk Bridal Bouquet

A wedding is filled with lots of little details to pull together. One of those many details is the flowers. Real flowers are nice but they are quite expensive and a hassle since they wilt and dry so quickly. Using silk flowers to create your own bridal bouquet is a great option, you can save some money and do it ahead of time to help you stress less. Plus you can keep the bouquet forever and display it in a vase in your home. Making a silk bridal bouquet is a simple project that can be completed in no time.

Things You'll Need

• Silk flowers
• Silk flower fillers (baby's breath, leaves)
• Ribbon
• Hot glue gun
• Hot glue sticks
• Floral tape
• Scissors
• Wire cutters

Instructions

1. Choose your flowers. Make sure that you remove the price tags and other plastic or paper tags on the stems. Take all your main flowers and arrange them in your hand the way that you picture your bouquet. Tape the stems with floral tape to hold them in place.

2. Add in filler, such as baby's breath or leaves and additional flowers. Play with the arrangement until you are happy. Tape the stems again with the new flowers and filler added. Make sure that the stems are strong and secure so that the flowers won't move around and ruin your arrangement. If you find the flowers shifting, you may need to cut small pieces of floral wire and wire inner stems to keep them in place. To do this you simply cut a small piece of wire, loop or twist it around one stem and then loop or twist the other end to another stem leaving the straight section of the wire as a spacer to keep the flowers apart and in the correct place.

3. Cut the stems of the flowers to be of the same length. You may need to use wire cutters to do this step. Make sure that the stems are all the same length. Tape the rest of the stems with floral tape all the way to the bottom so that the entire stem all the way up to about 3 inches from the base of the flowers is taped.

4. Plug in and heat up your hot glue gun. Put a hot glue stick in to allow it to warm. Take a wide ribbon and cover one end of it with hot glue. Start at the top of the floral tape. Place the end of the ribbon on the top of the floral tape. Hold it down and smooth it to make sure that the glue sticks and allow it to dry.

5. Wrap the ribbon around the stems at a diagonal downward several times covering all the floral tape. When you get to the bottom of the stem cut off the ribbon. Cover the end with hot glue and hold in place to secure it. Tie a thinner ribbon around the center of the stems and tie in a bow.

Tips & Warnings

• Keep your bouquet covered after complete to avoid it getting dusty.

• Don't choose all large or all small flowers as the arrangement will look odd. Pick a variety of sizes.