How To Dry Your Wedding Bouquet

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.

How to dry your wedding bouquet. How to dry flowers. A dried bouquet makes for a beautiful memento of your wedding day. Unwrap the bouquet and cut away and tape or ties.

Remove the bouquet and dust off any remaining powder. At this point you can spray the bouquet with fixative spray but make sure to let it dry out completely before placing it in your display box. Give your wedding bouquet the marvelous modern display it deserves with this simple method for preserving your petals into a show stopping piece of art.

Once you are home. Gather the flowers in a bunch and secure the stems with a rubber band. Keep your wedding bouquet hydrated and in water if possible.

A closet is a great location as long as there s enough room to hang the bouquet where it will not be touching anything else. Hang the bouquet upside down in a cool dry dark place. 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.

I kept mine in the sweetheart table. After it dries place it in a box lined with tissue paper. How to dry a bridal bouquet.

When i got to the hotel i made sure to put the bouquet in water again. Photo by terryfic3d getty images. Place the container somewhere warm for a week and a half.