How to Arrange a Nosegay Bridal Bouquet

"So again, I’m Amelia and we’re working on a bridal bouquet. This is a nosegay style, which is a circular, small, hand held bouquet. Now we’re going to start adding flowers. I’m going to start in the middle and kind of work my way out towards the edge. In this case, you want pretty much one flower to be the starflower, it’s going to be looking straight up at the bride. Then you’re going to kind of move out from there. You’ve got to cut your stems really short for these because they are pretty petite, little well, petite in the world of bridal bouquets. As you put your flowers in, you want them to be at the same level all the way around. It’s kind of difficult working with floral foam because you don’t want to be pulling your flowers in and out, in and out; otherwise, you’ll work yourself a big caverness hole in it and nothing will stand in it properly. A lot of times with these roses, if there’s an area where there’s leafs that come out, there will be a big knot in the stem and you can shave that down because it’ll also create a big hole in the floral foam if there’s a big knot that goes through it. Then the rest of the stem above it will be all bouncing around and it won’t stay snug in place. If you’re using a variety of colors, you want to make sure to get a good mixture all the way around so you don’t have an unbalanced arrangement. A lot of times people wire their roses. If you feel the top of the rose right here feel a little saggy or bendy and you’re making a bridal arrangement, I highly recommend wiring the rose. In which case you just wrap some floral wire around it really snuggly all the way down the stem to where you’re cutting it because it’s really sad for a bride to be walking down the aisle and have all of her flowers flopping over. You can save that with just a little bit of floral wire if you’re worried that might happen to the bride that’s taking this bouquet down the aisle. You’re doing one of these arrangements because there’s such a dense amount of flowers, you start competing for room in that floral foam, so you’ve got to think in a strategic manner to make sure you save yourself room all the way around. Again, you don’t really want to stick your stems much more than a half an inch because it’ll be sad on the other side if you don’t have room."