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Why not have a Hawaiian style wedding and dress all the bridesmaids in a wedding flower garland. It would be seen as adventurous and add colour that could compliment the dresses and elaborate hairstyles. Do not be frightened into thinking they are hard to make, flowers are highly pliant and making a wedding flower garland could not be easier.
How To Begin Creating Your Silk Wedding Flower Garland
Before you start to craft your wedding flower garland you will need to find the basic materials. These should be easily obtainable from your local craft supply store.
Ribbon in your wedding colours
Floral tape
Floral wire
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Silk flowers in your wedding colours (around 10 medium sized flowers per garland)
Greenery (ivy, ferns, leafs, etc.)
Silk flowers are advised as fresh flowers will wilt before the wedding is completed, and a silk wedding flower garland can be preserved for generations if taken care of properly. The silk flowers you opt for ought to compliment the theme and colour of your wedding. A lot of craft stores have floral departments where you are able to decide from thousands of flower examples. Try to choose the flowers that appear more realistic and less like plastic. Flowers that are airbrushed with colour are more pleasing to look at than ones that have a general matte colour.
In addition, you'll also need to select greenery to go with your flowers. These can be bought in bunches very cheaply. You might want to as well purchase a few crystal beads, seed pearls, or different pieces to lend an individual feeling to your wedding flower garland.
Creating the Wedding Flower Garland
First of all, clip all of the smaller branch flower stems from the main stem that connects them together, so that you have separate flowers. Then, snip off all the stems so they are a uniform three inches long. Put one flower on the first’s stem just under the first flower and tape the two stems together. Keep doing this until you have a string of flowers l sufficient to go around the person’s head you are doing it for. Tie in the ends of the chain by taping the two final flowers together.
After that, prune separate leaves from the bunch of greenery you purchased and hot glue them across the wrapped stalks. Finally, loosely wrap your ribbon about the wedding flower garland, attaching it with a bead of hot glue at the end. Add streamers of ribbon on the section of the wedding flower garland that is at the back of the head and your wedding flower garlands are complete.
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