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Summary: Hide the back of a silk bridal bouquet with silk leaves. Learn how to glue leaves on the back of silk 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
"Ok, the next step is finishing it off and making it look as professional as you can and you have a nice bouquet here but when you turn it around you see all the back ends of it and the plastic container that we are using. So one of the things that you try to do is you take large leaves, silk leaves, and you glue them all over the back of this to kind of finish it off and hide this handle. It's just a very nice clean way of finishing the bouquet off and this is when you usually get your fingers with hot glue and burn. Just got to be careful about it and this is what you are doing is covering the bouquet so that you don't see the handle and you carry that all the way around and that's giving you the next professional look of doing a bridal bouquet."
eHow Article: Adding Silk Leaves to Bridal Bouquets
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ladydrizzt said
on 5/3/2009 This whole series was amazing and helpful! I'm looking forward to doing the bouquets and bouttoniers for the entire wedding party and these videos are going to really make it a snap.