Drying Wedding Bouquet At Home

If you ve ever looked into the cost of preserving a flower arrangement you know it isn t the kind of purchase you can take lightly.

Drying wedding bouquet at home. After it dries place it in a box lined with tissue paper. Experimenting before your wedding with the same kinds of flowers as those in your wedding bouquet will help you determine how long to dry them to ensure that you will not burn your bouquet. Professional preservation can cost several hundred dollars and the stress of delivering your wedding bouquet before taking off for your honeymoon can be enough to give even the calmest of brides a major headache.

How to dry a wedding bouquet. Gather the flowers in a bunch and secure the stems with a rubber band. Another flower preservation option and one that will work for the whole bouquet is to dry them yourself.

Hang the bouquet upside down in a cool dry dark place. Unfortunately bouquets can loose their vibrancy and much of their colour this way. How to dry flowers.

Hanging bouquets upside down is the most traditional technique for drying flowers. After the ceremony and pictures are over with put your bouquet in a vase with water. Another simple way to preserve your wedding bouquet is to let it air dry.

Unwrap the bouquet and cut away and tape or ties. Some kinds of flowers may need 1 1 2 minute of drying time while others may require 2 1 2 to 3 minutes drying time in a microwave oven set to full power. Photo by terryfic3d getty images.

It can become a beautiful work of art for your home hung or mounted on display placed in a vase etc and if you buy your bouquet with the intention of keeping it make sure you ask your florist for advice on which flowers are best for drying and preserving. If you don t have space to store the whole bouquet and know you would never look lovingly at a bunch of dried flowers select a few blooms to press. Keep your wedding bouquet hydrated and in water if possible.