Cherish Your Memories With Dried Flower Wedding Bouquet

Besides the beauty of the bride and her dress, flowers are the most memorable part of a wedding. Your personal taste and tradition decides the color, style and look of your flowers equal to what they mean for you. At times you may love the flowers so much that you would like to keep them for ever. It is possible for you to keep them for ever in the form of a dried flower wedding bouquet.



Professional Or Personal, It Is An Aesthetic Technique

A dried flower wedding bouquet can be arranged in many ways. The most popular will be an ordinary box frame that you can hang any where in your home. At other times, people may use the individual flowers from the wedding bouquet as book marks and framed prints for their special circle of family and friends.

Either you can have a dried flower wedding bouquet by paying for it or you can yourself create one. Only thing is to examine if you are confident of creating the costly bouquet and whether you have the necessary skill to make it. Silica gel, air drying and micro wave have to be employed in making the dried flower wedding bouquet. Most professionals use freeze drying method and you may have to spend about $ 100 -$200 for the process.

A few flowers are suitable for all kinds of presentation methods of dried flower wedding bouquets. A few other flowers suit only one type of process. Flowers that are best for freeze dried process are tube roses, Calla lilies, gardenia, orchid, narcissus and bird of paradise. Lilacs and chrysanthemums are not suitable for this process. You must be prepared for some of the flowers not surviving for your dried flower wedding bouquet.

The Creative Process

The flowers should look fresh and just hand picked from the garden in a freeze drying process, Not all the above listed flowers have this quality. So you can think of the air drying process where you hang the flowers upside down in a fan shape in a dark. Non humid dry place after several weeks the result will be an attractive dried flower wedding bouquet with slightly less color than the original fresh flowers.

It is time consuming to treat each flower with silica gel to preserve it. This process is done in a proper bag or box. After treatment they are stored in the bag or box in a vacuum to create a dark dry environment. After about four weeks with a gentle blowing and shaking, the silica gel is removed. The flowers are thus preserved and ready for an aesthetic and artistic framed arrangement or whatever plan you have in your mind.