How to Make Handheld Wedding Bouquets

A handheld wedding bouquet is compact and easy to carry.

Making handmade wedding bouquets lets you experiment with a wide variety of flora and foliage. Making handheld bouquets allows for ease of transport during a wedding event as a popular bouquet style for brides. Your handheld bouquets can comprise practically any type of flower and have any type of color scheme depending on the general theme of the wedding. Using your creativity to its fullest potential allows you to create stunning, one-of-a-kind handheld wedding bouquets.

Things You'll Need

• 3 large flowers
• 6 small flowers
• Decorative grass
• Rubber band
• Silk ribbon roll
• Hot glue gun

Instructions

1. 

   Roses are popular wedding bouquet flowers.

   Gather all nine flowers in your hand, forming a fist around the center of the stems. Choose three large blossomed flowers and six smaller varieties. Use flowers with 6-inch long stems for a compact handheld bouquet.

2. Pull the flowers out of the arrangement and reinsert them to create your own custom design of flowers. You can arrange the largest flowers into the center of the bouquet, surrounded by smaller blooms. You can also insert the larger flowers sporadically through the bouquet of small blooms to create your own asymmetrical effect.

3. Wrap the rubber band around the center of the stems of the bouquet.

4. Squeeze a line of hot glue along a 12-inch length of ribbon.

5. Wind the glued side of the ribbon from the bottom of the stems all the way up to the underside of the blooms in a spiral pattern. Go back down in a spiral pattern with the excess ribbon, tucking the end of ribbon beneath the stems. Let the bouquet dry for about 10 minutes.

Tips & Warnings

• Three large roses and six small carnations is a classic accompaniment of flowers. Alternatively, you can mix and match a variety of flower types, not sticking to just two varieties.

• Add accents that enhance the look of the handheld bridal bouquet. For instance, gluing gems to the flower petals creates points from which light can twinkle at the wedding.

References

• Save On Crafts: How to make a Fresh Floral Bouquet