Wedding Flowers that Last: How to Preserve Your Wedding Bouquet

Well done! You recently got engaged and are beginning to organize your ideal wedding. As you are likely well aware, there are numerous choices you must make to be prepared for your wedding. To make your wedding memorable, you will need to consider several things, including your dress, venue, color scheme, bridal party, invites, flowers, and many more. At least if you're a normal girl, you've likely dreamed about your wedding day for years.

But no one honestly discusses how fast your wedding day will pass. Many people will welcome you on this hectic day, and you'll be hurried from one event to another. It's possible that you won't be able to enjoy the atmosphere as you have always imagined fully. Of course, you can rearrange your schedule to give yourself extra time to enjoy the fantastic event you have planned. There are, nevertheless, other methods to save the various lovely aspects of your wedding that you will be able to appreciate for many years to come.

Preserving specific aspects of your wedding that you can keep in your house is one method to keep the memories of your lovely wedding day alive forever. You can, for instance, have some of your wedding pictures blown large and framed. For home décor, you can save some of the candles or decorations from your wedding reception.

Preserving your bridal bouquet is another fantastic option. The process of maintaining your bridal bouquet can be thrilling. By showcasing your bridal bouquet in your house, you'll soon be able to remember the lovely aesthetic of your wedding day. The following advice will assist you in achieving your objective of keeping your bridal bouquet intact.

How to Preserve a Wedding Bouquet

There are several ways to preserve your wedding bouquet to appreciate and remember the lovely flowers in the future. An article on Brides.com covers this exact problem in detail. Many couples invest thousands of dollars and months to create the ideal floral arrangement for their wedding. You ought to be able to appreciate those flowers for more than one day! These are some of the wedding sector's most widely used preservation techniques.

Framed and Pressed

First, you might press the flowers and have them framed in a lovely arrangement to preserve your wedding bouquet. You can pay for this service from some floral businesses. Nevertheless, you might do it yourself if your florist needs to maintain your flowers. Before arranging your flowers, ensure they are well-dried and pressed. This will lessen the likelihood that mold will grow. After your arrangement is framed, you can put it on display in your house as a lovely and significant work of art.

Dried

Drying your flowers is a common way to preserve your fresh wedding bouquet. Since dried flowers are obviously frail and delicate, you must store them so they won't be easily broken or touched. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is by using a ribbon or tie to secure your bouquet and then hanging it upside down. This keeps the flowers from wilting into tiny bunches by allowing the petals to dry in a more organic way.

Resin Art

Using your wedding flowers to create resin art is another way to preserve your bouquet, which has recently gained popularity on social media. This kind of preservation is a specialty of many resin painters. You may locate one of these artists online or on social media, and you can send them your bridal bouquets to be preserved. Alternatively, you can get molds and resin at the craft store if you make it yourself. Wear the appropriate safety gear when creating resin art to avoid breathing in fumes or endangering your health.

Using Wood Flowers

You may use flowers already preserved for your bouquet if you know you'll be leaving quickly for your honeymoon after your wedding and don't want to worry about giving your bouquet to someone to be dried, pressed, or sent to an artist. For instance, arranging dried flowers and wood blossoms can make a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind bouquet that won't wilt or die. Wood flowers come in a wide variety of designs to accommodate various brides' tastes. These designs mimic actual flowers. Additionally, wood flowers can be colored in different hues to complement any wedding color design. Wood and dried flowers could be ideal for you if you enjoy crafting. As part of an enjoyable and meaningful craft activity, you can order these items in a DIY bouquet kit and make it yourself.

Using Artificial Flowers

To assist them in preserving after the fact, you might incorporate artificial flowers into your bridal bouquet, much like wood flowers. You can purchase realistic-looking, expertly crafted silk flowers to create your stunning bridal bouquet. Once the wedding ends, you can display your bouquet at home. Your bouquet can even be used later if you need a lovely arrangement for an occasion.

Paint Them

Painting your wedding flowers is another method to retain the memory of them if you want to avoid bothering about actually keeping them intact. A watercolor version of your bridal bouquet might be created by hiring an artist. You can have this done on your wedding day, or you can have it done after the fact and provide your watercolor artist with pictures to use as inspiration for your bouquet. A beautiful and fantastic way to keep the memories of the flowers you had on your wedding day alive is with a painting.