Wedding Flowers Crafts
Flowers are pretty enough in their own right, but if you're looking for ways to trim a little from your wedding budget or are just craft-minded, wedding flower crafts can help you get the look you want for your wedding flowers. If you're getting crafty with your wedding flowers, it's wise to give your creative effort a trial run a few weeks before the wedding so you don't have any unpleasant surprises when you're close to the big day.
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Go for Pattern Power
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If you're trying to stretch your centerpiece budget, pick up lots of cheap flowers like carnations in two of your wedding flowers and transform them into a chic, modern centerpiece. You'll need a large, shallow container, so scope thrift stores or make your own with inexpensive plywood. Paint the containers in one of your wedding colors and arrange the flowers inside to form a cool graphic pattern, like stripes or checks. Since the craftiness of this project is in choosing colors and patterns, once you've made those decisions you can enlist help from other people to put the arrangements together.
Rustle Up a Little Whimsy
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If you're a romantic at heart, there are several ways to add whimsy to your wedding flowers. Gather bouquets into pretty balls with long ribbon streamers, then add sparkling brooches, dainty butterflies or quirky ribbon and silk flowers to the arrangements to make old-fashioned flower arrangements. Attach a small grouping of these flowers to a ribbon-wrapped wooden dowel or glitter-dusted wand to make a charming flower girl accessory or use them to decorate the aisles at your wedding ceremony.
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Make Your Own Flowers
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If you're up for a big project and have a specific look for your wedding flowers, making your own flowers can be the way to go. Felt, stiffened fabric or ribbon are all good make-your-own-flowers materials, and you can find simple and elaborate patterns for making flowers online. Choose colors to suit your wedding palette, or be playful by choosing a bold mix of colors and prints. Test the waters by making a small project, like boutonnieres for the groomsmen or a cake topper, before trying something large-scale, like a table arrangement or bouquet.
Try Pompoms
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Whether you're using paper flowers or silk ones, monochromatic pompoms can be a dramatic addition to your wedding flowers. Pick up foam craft balls in various sizes, and use straight pins or a hot glue gun to attach your flowers to the ball until they're so thickly packed that you can't see the foam underneath. Hang strings of medium-sized flower pompoms along the aisles of the wedding, string a few huge pompoms from the ceiling to make a dramatic statement, or attach a few small pompoms to the back of the getaway car with a "Just Married" sign.
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