How to Hand Tie a Wedding Bouquet
When simple and elegant fit the wedding style, make the flowers classic and tasteful with chic designs. Choose your favorite colors and flower varieties and then make your own beautiful hand-tied bouquet with a few basic materials.
Other People Are Reading
Things You'll Need
- Flowers and foliage (with 10-inch stems)
- String
- Scissors
- Pruning shears
- 2 yards satin ribbon (2 inches wide)
Instructions
-
-
1
Place the center flowers together to create the center of the bouquet. Group three or four flowers together tightly, grasping them tightly by the stems.
-
2
Cut a 15-inch length of string and tie it tightly around the stems to hold them together. Position the string about 4 inches below the stems. Leave the length of string attached.
-
-
3
Add additional flowers and foliage around the center flowers, to surround the center flowers. Hold the flowers together tightly.
-
4
Wrap the string around the additional stems tightly to secure the flowers together.
-
5
Add another group of flowers around the existing flowers, if you desire. If you add additional flowers, wrap the string around the stems again tightly. Make the bouquet as large as you want with this process.
-
6
Tie the string in a tight knot and cut off the excess string.
-
7
Cut off the stems with the pruning shears to make them all 6 inches long.
-
8
Find the halfway point of the ribbon and position this point on the ribbon at the point on the stems where the strings encircle it. Bring the ends of the ribbon around the stems and tie them together in a tight double knot.
-
9
Wrap one ribbon tail around the stems neatly three times toward the bottoms of the stems while holding the other ribbon tail off to the side. Hold this ribbon tail with your finger after you finish wrapping it.
-
10
Wrap the other ribbon tail around the stems neatly from the other direction three times to meet the first ribbon tail.
-
11
Tie the two ribbon tails together in a tight double knot and then tie them into a simple bow. Trim the ends of the tails off at a 45-degree angle and allow the tails to hang from the bouquet.
-
1
References
- Photo Credit Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images
