anybody making their own bouquet and buttonholes?

My plan is to make my own and I'm buying bits as I go along. Pinterest, You Tube, Video Jug and the internet in general have loads of tutorials. BUt if you're not that fussed about what you have, you can get osme nice flowers from ebay for very reasonable prices. For me, I want to have a go as I like the idea of making as much as I can

Good luck

I'm making my bridesmaid bouquets. I went on a two day floristry course and they taught us how to make buttonholes, bouquets, pew ends, table centrepieces, etc...it was great! And much easier than I thought! Have a look at your local adult education centre or have a look at youtube tutorials.

My mum did a floristry course 30yrs ago, so I helped her make all our bouquets & button holes.

There is a large flower market on Sundays in Colombia road, London, E2- if you are anyway nearby, but they sell fresh flowers only

For wires, oasis etc, have you tried ebay or hobbycraft?

No where near lonon im afraid. Im in Worcestershire. Have looked on ebay and found a few. Didnt even think of hobbycraft and there is one by me so will take a visit.

Thanks x

I made my buttonholes out of felt and fabric; maybe not quite what you were thinking of but I am quite pleased with them and they were easy to do ;-)

They are fabulous!!!

I'm making the bridesmaids flowers and grooms buttonhole and jazzing up the other button holes (39p each from http://www.artificialflowersonline.co.uk/products/Ivory-Rosebud-Button-Hole-Corsage-with-Fern.html)

I am using fake lillies for the adults bridesmaids and will have three with diamante ribbon wrapped round the stems.

The flowers girls are having roses and I am using ivory picks in them and will wraps the rose stems with floral tapes to start and wrap the whole handle with satin ribbon and add a large bow.

For grooms buttonhole I am using two lily heads and some diamante and ivory picks and some long grass to make a sort of cage and will wrap in ribbon.

For the other button holes I am just wrapping the stems with ribbon.

hth x

Thanks ?

Yes out of pearls obviously it's unfinished

Looking fab. Can I ask what guage wire you're using please?

Wow mispinkprincess that looks AMAZING! , I would love a brooch bouquet or something along those lines. Havent the foggiest where to start though. Any advice x

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It was pretty easy just time consuming I'm still not finished! There's a link to my blog in my sig where I've written a how to, need to update tho as I actually used 1 middle brooch and 5 brooches around that to make the shape then carried on with the pearls. I also glue gunned the brooches together for stability

It was pretty easy just time consuming I'm still not finished! There's a link to my blog in my sig where I've written a how to, need to update tho as I actually used 1 middle brooch and 5 brooches around that to make the shape then carried on with the pearls. I also glue gunned the brooches together for stability

My mum is my DIY queen ...she is also making real flower button holes and corsages x

I saw those on your post the other day slou. Your mom has done an amazing job. She really should think of making it a business. She would get loads of custom.

I have decided to make my own bouquet of artificial red roses and a few white calla lilys mixed in. Have seen some pics on google and they look gorgeous. Also making a smaller version for my daughters posy.

Ordered some calla lilys off ebay tonight for 4 quid. Cant go wrong! X

I'm hoping to do all my flowers myself; buttonholes are so easy to do and had a go at doing centrepieces today; am going to start a thread and flash in a mo, which were obviously trickier but looked brilliant (if I say so myself!) am yet to try a bouquet, a long arrangement for the top table, and a round arrangement on a pole. I've done a Christmas garland for a mantle piece before so imagine that will be similar idea to top table and also bought a book from Amazon which has fabulous advice.

We will be using real flowers and so far for practising have got them from the market in my town and if their prices are anything to go by it will cost around £150 for 5 centrepieces, a top table arrangment, two round arrangements, my bouquet and 3 bridesmaids bouquets but am going to see if I can get them wholesale and therefore cheaper, obviously the main saving is the labour costs but would be cheaper again if you use artificial flowers because you can practise with those as well as using them on the day!

Omg I didnt even think about a top table display. See, im not that fussed with flowers lol.

Thought I would do my own. Saves money and need something to fill my boring days as I work nights x

I made my own bouquet along with my 3 bridesmaids. Everyone was really complementary on the day and they only cost me around £30 by buying the articifical flowers from a cash and carry.

I think I'm making things difficult for myself because of wanting so many flowers but love a challenge! There are lots of other things you could do for the top table that wouldn't involve flowers.