Things You'll Need:
- Flowers
- Green floral tape
- Needle
- Thread
- Elastic lace
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Step 1
Choose your flowers. Smaller buds work best for a corsage, with perhaps one larger bloom as the centerpiece of the corsage. Choose flowers that match or coordinate with your dress, and add in some baby's breath and fern leaves for background and filler.
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Step 2
Arrange the flowers. Before you begin attaching the flowers to your corsage, you should lay them out on a tabletop to see if you like the look of your corsage. This way, you can rearrange them a few times until your corsage works out just right. Place two or three fern leaves down as your background, then choose your blooms. Hold them together like a tiny bouquet and add a few sprigs of baby's breath on either side.
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Step 3
Tape the flowers. Now that you have your mini-bouquet ready to go, use the florist tape to bind the stems together. Florist's tape is sticky on both sides, so you can just wrap a length of it around the stems to make them stick. You may want to bind two or three stems together at once, and then use another length of tape to attach them all together.
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Step 4
Make the wristband. Use your elastic lace to make your wristband. Measure your wrist and cut the elastic to be approximately 1/2-inch shorter than the circumference of your wrist (so it will encircle your wrist tightly when you wear it). Sew together the two short ends to make a circle.
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Step 5
Attach the flowers to the band. Use your needle and thread to sew through the stems and florist's tape and attach your flowers to your wrist. You can even use two mini-bouquets and layer them end to end so that the blooms overlap the stems. Use small, tight, straight stitches to attach the stems to your wristband. Your corsage is ready to wear.
