Weddings are not cheap, we all know that, but planning your dream wedding doesn’t always have to break the bank. Wedding bouquets and centrepieces often take up a huge chunk of your wedding budget, and often there are much cheaper options and all you need is a little spare time and some creativity. Here are our top DIY wedding flower ideas for saving some cash and adding your own individual stamp to your big day:
DIY Flower Crown
A simple flower crown could not be easier to create yourself at home. Follow this simple tutorial to learn how to create your very own cute flower crown for your wedding day. These are perfect for bridesmaids, flower girls or even the bride, and depending on the flowers you choose, can fit with any colour scheme or wedding theme.
Design your flowers in advance
It takes a little more than just putting some pretty looking flowers in a vase and calling it a centrepiece. Take time to do your research and find a design that works for your big day but try not to pick something too technical. It is also a good idea to buy some cheap flowers from the supermarket and practice your designs, so by the time the wedding day comes around your wedding bouquets will be perfect.
Buy your vases
This step can go either one way or the other; you can choose your flower design and then find vases that fit well with it, or you find vases that you love and fit with your theme, and then design your flowers around them. It is important to keep scale in mind when choosing vases, a vase that looks huge at home will look very different once it is on a large round table. LSA glasses have some excellent options for wedding vases, check this website out to view their range.
Buy your supplies
Make sure you buy all the floral supplies well in advance. You will most likely need special floral tools such as scissors, tape, pins, foam, wire and ribbon. If you look around online, you can often pick all these items up for a fairly cheap price.
Pick high quality flowers
Even though you are creating the designs yourself, it is still so important to invest in high quality flowers that will last a while. Here is a great guide to which flower types are best for DIY bouquets. Once you have the flowers, get them straight into clean water, remove all leaves below the water line and store them in a shady, cool location until you are ready to use them.
Arrange help
The chances are you will need help to put all the flowers together, so make sure you’ve enlisted the help of your bridesmaids, families and friends. Arrange a time on the day before the wedding to arrange all the flowers, don’t leave it too late in the day, but equally don’t arrange them too far in advance as you need them to survive and look their best. Print off pictures of what you want the final bouquets to look like, so everyone is on the same page.
Organise transport
The likelihood is you will need to arrange your flowers in a different location and transport them to the venue before the wedding day. Transporting flowers takes a lot of space as they need to be carefully packed and can’t be stacked, so it is very important to make sure you make proper arrangements in advance.
