DIY Silk Bridal Bouquet Ideas Tips – Make Your Own Silk Bridal Bouquet

Choosing a beautiful silk floral arrangement for your wedding doesn’t have to be a thorn in your side.

Because a DIY silk bridal bouquet is an inexpensive way to shave costs off your wedding budget without sacrificing any style or splendor.

For crafty brides, using these “silk bridal bouquet ideas” using ferns and morning glory garland is the perfect design opportunity to infuse your creativity into your wedding without hiring a florist.

While there are different types of floral bouquets and wedding flowers, from a cascading floral display to creating a pomander (or globe of flowers suspended from a ribbon), you can use items purchased at a flower shop or craft store to create your silk bridal bouquet yourself.

Things You’ll Need to Create Your Own Silk Bridal Bouquet:

• Wire cutters
• Floral tape
• Scissors
• Silk flowers
• 3 or 4 stems of maiden fern and morning glory garlands
• Babies breath
• 3  colors of your favorite wedding flowers
• Sheer ribbon for loops in between flowers
• Long white ribbon  for the bow and the streamers.

1. Select a maximum of three silk flower colors to create your bouquet. Choose contrasting colors like pale lavender and raspberry red with a hint of white or green flowers and red roses. If you are choosing one color in your silk bouquet, add flowers with different textures to your design to create dimension and depth.
2. Remove all stems off the foliage. Wrap each individual silk flower stem with tape. Lay the ferns down and cut the stems neatly.
3. Combine the baby breath with the ferns. Cut the wedding flowers of your choice or the morning glory garland into small sections.  Secure all of the twigs together with a floral wire.  Arrange all of the flowers and ferns into a tight ball of foliage to make the bouquet.
4. Cut the twigs to a uniform length at the bottom. Starting at the top of the twigs to beneath the flowers, place the end of the floral tape around the twigs and stretch the tape to make a singular stem.
5. Wrap the white ribbon around the stem. Starting at the base of the flowers, wrap the white ribbon around the stem. Leave a minimum of 2 to 3 feet of ribbon to create a large bow. At the bottom of the stem handle, fold the ribbon over the bottom end and up towards the base of the flowers.
6. Cut the sheer ribbon into small 1/2 inch sections. Create beautiful loops with the ribbon to insert into the bouquet. Secure them individually with floral wire. Glue  each piece of ribbon between the flowers.
7. Insert decorative accents.  Form two bows (one slightly larger than the other) with the ribbon and secure them with floral wire.  Stack each bow one below the other, so that the bigger bow will be visible.   Glue any remaining flowerbuds on top of the bow.
8. Add pearl or sequin accents to your floral bouquet. Glue and insert these decorative accents in between the flowers and satin ribbon loops.

With floral wire, glue, floral tape, and scissors, along with the choice of flowers, like roses, dahlias, carnations, chrysanthemums or calla lilies, you can create a traditional and classic bouquet with these silk bridal bouquet ideas.