DIY wedding flowers as a group activity for country weddings
Considering DIY wedding flowers? Hi, Amy Rose here. For country weddings, flowers and their charming, simple arrangements can be turned into a pre-wedding group activity that takes the group to local pick-your-own flower farms or even wild flower meadows where picking flowers is legal and not detrimental to the environment. For country wedding attire as seen above and on the rest of this page, for bride, groom, bridesmaids, flower girls -- enjoy our affiliate Recollections (TM) catalog of hundreds of historic and romantic clothing, many with choices of custom colors. Click on any photo. DIY wedding flower arrangements with simple country charm I’ve seen brides purposely mismatch vases, gathering simple or rustic containers including metal pitchers and glass canning jars from friends or second-hand stores. For the bride’s bouquet, our Rural Community author Barbara Berst Adams strolled with her fiance through a farmer’s market the day before the wedding and chose an explosively colorful bouquet of dahlias already arranged by the farmers, then wrapped the stems in muslin and cording right before walking down the aisle. 
Finding a source of u-pick flowersYou need a source of both flowers and greenery such as fern fronds or shrub branches. But be creative even if this is a winter wedding. I’ve made beautiful winter arrangements with nothing but fresh cut winter branches from evergreen cedars along with white baby’s breath that was harvested, dried and stored over the summer. During the growing season, flower farmers offer u-cut fields and pre-cut flowers for sale. Some even specialize in wildflowers of your state. Find nearby flower farmers at localharvest.org or via your cooperative extension agent. Remember that picking in the wild can be illegal for protection of the environment. You need to know a property owner if you want to pick from a farmer’s field or along their fence line. 
Putting flowers in the vasesImmediately get flowers and greenery out of the sun and into buckets of room temperature water. Be sure to first remove leaves that will be submersed in water in the vases you'll be using. If you’ve cut roses, put each stem end underwater first, then snip off the end underwater so that no air will seal the end and so more water can get up into the plant. Roses seal especially fast. Here’s a simple plan for arranging diy wedding flowers in their vases: first choose a larger central flower, then add more flowers and greenery around the center one. Though florists usually arrange flowers with a balanced mix of wispy (such as baby's breath) and large flowers, your natural wedding flowers can follow nature's patterns where you might find drifts of all one type and size of flower, or just one small wildflower peaking out from a deep sea of greenery. Each bouquet can even be different from the others. I think country wedding bouquets look best without too many florist embellishments such as lots of heavy ribbon or sparkles. But consider affixing realistic looking butterflies, dragonflies or birds (found in craft stores) to long, thin natural branches and placing them in with the bouquets.  Custom Search Return from DIY Wedding Flowers to Great Group Activities |
