Joys of Bouquet Making for Weddings
May 2, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
When I mentioned making your own bouquets, corsages, and floral arrangements for weddings and special events, Lynn of Celebrate Green, shares with us the lovely story of how she made the bouquet for her son and daughter-in-law’s wedding. Such a lovely memory!
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This post [Flowers for Weddings and Special Times] brought back memories. When our younger son got married, his wife was so busy she had no time to prepare for the wedding, so Chip took over. When we arrived, he had a two-page spread from a Martha Stewart wedding magazine ready for me. It outlined how to make a bouquet. He’d bought all the necessities except the flowers which we bought together. In general Chip has about as much interest in this stuff as he does in jumping out of a plane, which is to say, none. But he was determined to make everything beautiful for Sam and despite the fact that I had never done a bouquet before, it came out beautifully. Looked like it had cost a fortune! Thanks for the reminder.
Have you created floral arrangements for special times? Share the memories with us.
Last spring, my son agreed to be his friend’s prom escort for her senior prom. I tried to save some money and make her wrist corsage – it turned out lovely expect I didn’t use floral glue, and had it sit in the fridge until prom time…well you guessed …the flowers came undone, and I had to hurriedly re-glue everything in place in the parking lot of the hotel on a wickedly humid day before they arrived. It all managed to come together, and even had a nosegay for her…but I learned a valuable lesson.