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Summary: Cover the holes is a silk bridal bouquet with filler flowers. Learn how to add filler flowers to wedding bouquets in this free floral arrangement video clip.
Jim Tomasits has been a floral designer for more than 20 years. He has distributed flower arrangements on both the national and international level and is considered an international...read more
"The next step after you've got your primary flowers in and your secondary flowers that give you the rough shape of your bouquet, you need to start filling in the holes. And you do that with filler flowers, and that's when you go to your smaller flowers, accent flowers if she wants color in it. And what you need to do is just like you would with fresh flowers, you can make little bundles out of them, hold the two together with your floral tape, just twist and pull. It's a little bit snug, holds the flowers right in shape, and then you can start adding them in the holes to try to cover up. What this does is add a lot of contrast to your bouquet as well as a lot of depth, so it's not quite as flat looking and it looks more natural. If you treat the silk flowers very much like you do fresh flowers in any arrangement or even bridal work, the more natural they look, the better off you are, so what we do is just treat them as if they were fresh flowers. Any positive, or not the only, but one of the positives things is that you get to manipulate them a little bit easier than you can with fresh. And after you make your bundles and fill in the holes, that's how you make your filler flowers and add them into the bridal bouquet."
eHow Article: Adding Filler Silk Flowers to Bridal Bouquet