Do It Yourself Flowers

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To answer Melly's comment from our last post ...

If you want to try a DIY approach to your flowers, thereby saving even more money, then have a look at these handy little how to's for creating your own bridal bouquet:

1. To make the perfect posy, you'll need to take into consideration a lot of important elements. For someone who is a first timer I would recommend going for a style of bouquet which lends itself to a less than perfect approach. This means a more natural garden style bouquet which doesn't have much of a focus on shape. It's quite hard to create the perfect dome you might see in some all-rose bouquets, so go for something more natural and roughly shaped.

2. Next choose your flowers and foliages. The easiest to work with are hot house roses (buy them short because you pay for the stem!), most greenery, and singapore orchids.

3. The stems should all be cut so that you have at least two inches below your little finger when you clasp the bouquet from the top of the stems. This gives you a better balance so it's easier to hold all through the day.

Go {here} to view an "how to" video on beautiful bouquet DIY. You could of course adapt this basic instruction to include more flowers and foliage.

(Image Credit: Real Simple.)