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Dried Flowers For Your Wedding

Dried Flowers For Your Wedding

There is no denying the fact that weddings can be one of the most costly expenses people can have in their lives. With all the preparations, you can spend a lot of money on bigger and more minor details. Flower pieces and floral arrangements can take up a big portion of that cost, but with the fantastic option of dried flowers for your wedding, you can cut down on the cost of your botanicals.

Since these flower alternatives are already dried, not only will they last longer, but you won’t have to worry about them wilting or blooms not opening fully for your special day. You will also be able to keep them after the wedding and for years to come. Perfect for vintage and contemporary weddings, there are many ways and techniques to incorporate dried flowers into your marriage ceremony and wedding party.

A bouquet of dried flowers, featuring various beige and pink blossoms and cotton plants, arranged in a clear glass vase.

Here are some ideas and ways in which you can utilize dried flowers for your wedding.

  1. Wedding Favours Or Gifts

Wedding gifts are an essential part of every wedding. To show your friends and family that you care, you will need some special wedding favours for the guests and gifts for the bridal party. From your closest family to your bridesmaid squad, you would like to gift them with something special to make them feel that you value their support and presence on your big day. Ideas for dried flowers to gift at a wedding are bountiful. You can use dried flowers for your gift-wrapping accents and essentials, as well as on the items themselves.

Dried flowers look dazzling when used on presents. Additionally, they can enhance and accentuate your plain and ordinary gift items. With little effort, your wedding favours become instantly attractive, allowing their recipients to feel giddy guessing what’s inside the gift box.

Whether bridal party gifts you want to give to your bridesmaids or souvenir items to your guests, adding dried flowers is a fantastic idea to make them look more vibrant and elegant. Aside from the gift wrap, you can even use dried flowers in your gift items themselves. For instance, you can give photo albums as party favours and use dried flowers to elevate the album and make it more unique. Tie dried flowers onto creative items to make gifts for your family or even your future spouse.

Check out some wedding favour ideas which can work great with dried flowers as decor accents:

  • Potpourri

A fantastic way to use dried flowers as a wedding favour is to go for potpourri. Dried flowers that can be used to elevate the smell and vibe of a home or office. This wedding favour is perfect for both men and women.

  • Jewellery Box

You might think that a jewellery box can only be gifted to your girlfriends, but it could also be perfect for the men in your life. Your guy friends would love to have a box to place their watches and other accessories too. Add some dried flowers inside the box to elevate the overall packaging look. Or you can customize it by adding the flowers outside of the box using a glue gun.

  • Cosmetic Compact Mirror

Depending on the material chosen for the mirror’s case, dried flowers can be glued if plastic. However, if you choose stainless steel case, leave these flowers on the box as decor for the gift.

  1. Use As Wedding Cake Decors

A dried flower on your cake or even on desserts at the reception will also add to the vintage or natural look. These are perfect decors for any confection or pastry. Try creating a dessert table and flood it with dried flower decors to make it a focal point at your wedding venue.

Dried botanicals on your cake will replace the need to use any other costly cake decorations. This could be a non-conventional wedding cake idea that is unique for you. You can have a plain and single-coloured three-layer cake baked by your favourite patisserie and have them decorated with dried flowers instead of fondant icings.

Let your creativity run wild creating a unique design and look with your dried flowers. The key is to communicate with your patisserie or bakery vendor and relay what colours, design, and kinds of dried flowers you prefer for your cake.

The same thing goes for other pastries and sweets. You can use dried flowers on cookie jars, pastry trays, and the dessert table itself. Remember to focus on their colour palette together, so they’d look uniform and well-put-together with your wedding theme.

  1. Create Bouquets Made From Dried And Fresh Flowers Together

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To keep your wedding more interesting, you can veer away from fresh flower arrangements for your wedding bouquet. Try combining both fresh and dried flowers to recreate a beautiful and fragrant display. The colours and scents of dried flowers may not be as vibrant and as fragrant as their fresh counterparts, but they offer beautiful muted and warm tones and an endless range of shapes and textures.

You can incorporate bold stems and seed pods into bouquets throughout your wedding, as well as ethereal grasses and flowers. They are the perfect addition to make wedding bouquets stand out.

Let your bridal bouquet include bright colours, even in dried flower versions, depending on your wedding mood board and colour palette. You can find them in different hues, so don’t be afraid to mix and match their colour combinations.

  1. Hair Accessories And Flower Crowns

A wedding often requires the bride or bridesmaids to have beautiful hair accessories to enhance their look. A flower crown is always a fantastic idea and a dried flower crown is a fantastic new trend. If you want something which doesn’t feel too heavy on your head, then this is definitely an excellent choice. You can make complimenting elegant boho flower crowns for all your bridesmaids.

If you want to try out making a DIY dried flower crown on your big day, here are some steps.

  • It is best to prepare all the dried flowers you want to be incorporated into the flower crown. Select the most suitable colour mixes for your dress, theme colour and season.
  • To begin, measure a soft wire around the head. This can be an average measurement, so you or your bridesmaid can adjust it accordingly. Create a circle, but allow for some adjustments on both ends of the circle to narrow or widen it according to head size.
  • Fasten both ends of the wire with tape or ribbon cloth and start preparing the dried flowers. Cut the flowers and leave some stems to be easier to tape into the wire.
  • Bundling together around four flower pieces will allow you to create mini bouquets which look great on the flower crown. Line the flowers up parallel to the rustic wire to make them look nice. Twist the wire on the crown and secure it with tape so these bundles won’t fall off.
  • Multiple bouquets can be made and taped together before being attached to the crown. You can recreate many bundles as your crown wire gets filled with flowers. Maybe add a beautiful ribbon. Your flower crowns are now ready.
  1. Venue Decorations

Another way to integrate dried flowers is around your wedding venue. Using floral accents is a sure-fire way to elevate the wedding venue and help create stunning photographs from free-standing displays to table centres. When using dried florals, your guests can adore them instantly. Stay true to your wedding design and find floral species that work well together.

  • Colour

To use dried flowers in the décor, you need first to determine what colours will work best with your chosen theme and which hues you prefer. Refer to your mood board and research which varieties of dried flowers are within your colour ranges.

  • Placements

Once a colour has been chosen, think about where to place them. Perhaps they would look great as centrepieces on each table. Maybe you can incorporate them in your arch entryway or a backdrop to your top table. With every area or corner of your wedding venue, you can enhance the decor by adding more dried flowers. You can even go to the slightest detail, such as pasting dried flowers into the guest’s place card.

 

Conclusion

It is so easy to work with dried flowers for your wedding, no matter how you choose to incorporate them. With the ideas mentioned above, you can see how useful and practical it is to use dried flowers rather than all fresh ones.  It also takes off a great pressure as so much can be prepared in advance allowing you more time to relax and enjoy the run up to your day.

 

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