Brooch Bouquets

Mine matched my colours, black, pink and purple. Those colours are "me" anyway, which is why we chose those colours for our wedding (colours/theme were chosen around my tattoos)

I matched my colour scheme - it was royal blue and this is my bouquet:

Pic isn't great as I'm at work and can't access all of them from here - there's more in my report (link in sig). I had it as my something blue but I did struggle to get the colours I needed so I ended up with a lot of white in it as well.

Thanks for your replies! I have to say, I love both your bouquets!!! They're stunning!!

As we're not having a specific colour scheme, I'm going to try sticking with a champagne base colour using a few hints of colour picked from bm dresses & flower centrepieces just so the whole day doesn't look too thrown together (although, that's me all over...just thrown together!)

Thanks again!

I think pretty much anything goes but a theme is useful. Gold colours are harder to find than silver though

My colours were black and white, I matched mine but did have a few coloured ones thrown in.

I'm making mine and planning to have a range of colours but mainly going for purples and blues with a couple of pinks and greens that are almost purples/blues if that makes sense! all with a base of silver. My wedding will probably be mainly silver with either blue or purple or lilac somewhere! Short answer is I haven't properly decided yet!

I am having silver diamanté and pearl brooches etc so quite a neutral colour base. This suits my wedding though as its all pastel colours. I recommend EBay for brooches, and using hair pins as space fillers x

Clip on earrings, pearl beads or crystal beads from old necklaces and rhinestone buttons also make great gap fillers

I originally planned on doing a jewel bouquet but then changed my mind but if beads are also a good way of getting the colours and are easy to craft into little pieces. I've attached a few pictures of some pieces I did with pearl beads, AB Crystal beads and some pave crystal beads. Didn't take long to do but my fingers were a bit tender from all the wiring.

Hi All! I love these photos of brooch bouquets, they are great! And I think the more colourful ones look really good, especially contrasting with a white dress.

I was the same, when I got engaged at the start of this year the first thing I knew that I wanted to make was a brooch bouquet. I also planned on making my bridesmaids smaller versions too, I bought loads of cheap brooches mainly from ebay for about £1 each. I've wired them all up and have been spending the past few months experimenting with silk flowers/foam flowers and no flowers to try and bunch them all together and get the shape right, but it is much much harder than I thought it would be! I think it is just going to take much more patience, but now I am wondering if I really do want to make 4 BM's ones too!

I also started trying on dresses for the first time at the weekend, and I like a lot of embellishment and beading on the dress and it's now making me wonder if the sparkle of the brooch bouquet will be too much with the sparkle on a dress?

Its annoying me even more because my OH said to me I was getting ahead of myself by buying all the brooches too early (I was just excited and wanted to get started!) before I knew what the rest of the wedding would be like, and now it seems he may have been right! And thats never good ;-)

Sorry for all the rambling, this has been going round in my head all week and feels good to get it out!