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Quick and Easy DIY Wedding Bouquet

By: Melissa Caughey

Add a personal touch to your special day with a homemade bouquet.

Learn how to make beautiful floral bouquets for the bride and her entire wedding party.

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Make Your Own Wedding Bouquets

Learn how to make beautiful floral bouquets for the bride and her entire wedding party.

For the bouquet you will need: assorted flowers/garden clippers/ribbon/floral pins/scissors/rubber band.

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Gather Your Supplies

For the bouquet you will need: assorted flowers/garden clippers /ribbon/floral pins/scissors /rubber band /Mason jars

Clean and dry your bouquet stems. Remove any leaves that remain on the lower three quarters of the stems.

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Make Them Pretty

Clean and dry your bouquet stems. Remove any leaves that remain on the lower three quarters of the stems.

Hold the stems in your left hand, add each bloom one by one until you are satisfied with the size and arrangement of your bouquet, like so.

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Arrange Your Bouquet

Hold the stems in your left hand and add each bloom one by one until you are satisfied with the size and arrangement of your bouquet.

Take a rubber band and wrap it around the upper portion of the stems to help keep the flowers in place.

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A Little Helper

Take a rubber band and wrap it around the upper portion of the bouquet stems to help keep the flowers in place.

Start at the top of the stems and begin to tightly wrap the ribbon around the bouquet. Insert a pin at an angle. Continue tightly wrapping the entire length of the stems until there is approximately four inches of stems remaining.

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Wrap it Up

Start at the top of the stems, begin to tightly wrap the ribbon around the bouquet. Insert a pin at an angle. Continue tightly wrapping the entire length of the stems until there is approximately four inches of stem remaining.

At the base, trim the ribbon and insert a pin at an angle to keep it in place. Insert more pins, at an angle, along the ribbon.

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Pin it Up

At the base, trim the ribbon and insert a pin at an angle to keep it in place. Insert more pins, at an angle, along the ribbon.

A couple of inches below the end of the ribbon, trim all the stems flush. To keep the bouquets fresh and to help with transport, fill a quart size mason jar with a little bit of water and stick your bouquet inside until ready for use.

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Pretty Blooms

Trim the stems flush a couple of inches below the end of the ribbon. For easy transport and fresh bouquets, store them in quart sized Mason jars with a little bit of water until ready for use.