How to Make a Bouquet for the Bride

Video Transcript

"Hi, today I'm going to show you how to make a bouquet for the bride. Basically it depends on what type of flowers you want to use for your wedding. There is, it's an infinite number of flowers. You need to figure out your colors scheme, kind of a theme you want to portray for your wedding. You can use Gerber daisies which are somewhat whimsical. Calla lilies which are a little more formal. Even sunflowers which are also a lot of fun to play with. So it really depends on what you're looking for for your wedding. Today I've chosen to use very traditional red roses, in two different color hues. And that adds a little depth, a little interest as opposed to just a red rose bouquet. First of all you want to make sure that your your flowers are free of all of the greenery. This is going to be somewhat cumbersome when you put it together. You start with your center flower which is the largest bloom. And you just continually wrap around in a circular motion. See the spiral? You always want to make sure that as your doing your flowers are in a nice round position. When you're finished you want to take it to a mirror, look at it like this and make sure that it's perfectly round, and the way, and the shape you want it to be. Prior to beginning you want to cut of pieces of green sticky floral tape. You cut pieces of about six inches long. And then you just take it and you wrap it around the base of your flowers. Not too tight because you don't want to break the blooms. And then you cut another piece, have that ready and you tape it to the bottom. When you're all finished you figure out how long you want your stems and you cut that accordingly. On a straight, on a straight plain and then you wrap it. In order to wrap it you're going to need double sided satin ribbon. That is the most elegant. And also these pearl or whatever type of pin you'd like to use. However you can get these pearl pins at any floral supply. In order to wrap you simply start from the top. And you just wrap it. You spiral it down. Kind of make sure that these are even so that it's nice and neat, and nice and tight. And again you want to determine how far you want the ribbon to come from the bottom of the stems. I think that looks very nice. We cut that. And then what you want to do is you just tuck this little kind of frayed piece in like that. And then you add your pearl pins. Now you can use as many pins as you'd like to give it the desired effect. You need to make sure that when you finish doing the pins that you put your finger along here in case any of the pins are sticking out. You don't want anyone to poke them self. This is how you make a bouquet for the bride. My name is Christine Holanda. I'm with Lily of the Valley Florist in La Quinta California."