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Obtain fresh or silk flowers of your choice. Use three or five large flowers for each corsage, with fillers such as baby's breath, ferns or forget-me-nots. Match the flowers used in the wedding, and use colors that will complement the women's outfits.
You will also need floral wire, dark green floral tape, wire cutters (for silk flowers) or flower clippers, and ribbon. -
Lay the flowers out on a table. Corsages have odd numbers of large flowers; most have either three or five. Formal weddings should have five flowers. Roses and orchids are very popular, but you can use just about any flower that is sturdy enough to be in a corsage, such as lilies and carnations.
Other than the number of large flowers featured, there are no hard-and-fast rules for the arrangement of the flowers in the corsage. How you arrange them is a matter of personal taste. Place the flowers together and move them around as you see fit; then insert your fillers until you have a look that you like. Keep the focus on the main flowers, not the fillers.
When you are finished with the arrangement, the main flowers should look like they are sitting on top of the fillers. For example, you might have roses spread out on a bed of fern leaves with some baby's breath peeking out between each rose. - Use floral wire to fasten your corsage together. Wrap it around the stems of the flowers first, trimming the stems as needed. Then, place the fillers onto the wrapped stems, using more wire to attach them. Once all of the flowers and fillers are attached, place some leaves from your main flowers over the wired stems. They will help hide the wire. Attach the leaves with dark green floral tape, wrapping it around the stems of the leaves and the wired flower stems. Finally, add a ribbon over the floral tape and tie it in a bow.
