Saving $$ is my middle name...

When planning a wedding, a bride is faced with many questions. One of them is Real Flowers or Fakes? I chose fakes, after a quick calculation, I was able to make my bouquets for my bridesmaids for $16.08 - that includes flowers, tape, and dried naturals that I used to create my rustic masterpieces. My bouquet in the end cost me $24.50. A pretty good deal in my book!

The supplies I needed included:

• Fake Flowers
• Wire cutters
• Flower tape (Very cheap!!)
• Hot glue gun & glue
• & Accessories (you'll see what I mean)

I'm  using the antique buttons and the burlap as my stem "wrappers". What's great about the buttons I have is that they were my Great-Great Grandmothers. So I have "something old"

Start with two stems, and flower wrapping tape. Tightly wrap them together, sticky side (of tape) down.

 

Add the stems one by one, wrapping each one to the original base stem you have created. You will end up with this:

You will need to cut the access stems off the bottem to the length that you desire on your bouquets. Next I added the burlap & buttons:

I needed to cut the burlap to fit each individual bouquet. This is where your hot glue gun is going to come in handy. I ironed the burlap and folded over a 2 in section on the top and ironed it down, glue the sides of the folds together. I then selected antique buttons for each bouquet based on the personalities of my bridesmaids. I hot glued them to the burlap. Next create a glue strip going down the side of the base stem, add hot glue dots on the base stem to glue down the burlap.

When the gluing is done, I added scrapbooking brads to tie down the ends of the burlap.


And this is my finished product. I was able to make 3 bouquets per hour, 7 total bouquets. With the accessories included, it took a total of 5 hours!

And that's a the quick DIY of the day!