Make Your Own Cheap Wedding Bouquets

It is easy to make cheap wedding bouquets for you and your bridal party by using silk flowers that you can buy cheap at craft stores like Garden Ridge or Hobby Lobby. Garden Ridge is my personal preference for buying silk flowers. They always have a wonderful selection of great looking silk flowers in many colors and varieties and most of their prices are low.

Go to the store and select the flowers you want to use for your bouquet, that of your bridesmaids, maid of honor, and your flower girl if she will be carrying a bouquet. (Mine did, instead of the basket of flower petals, but do whatever you prefer!)

Choose the colors and styles. You can have several kinds of flowers in one bouquet or they can be made of the same flowers such as just roses or just daisies...Choose some accent flowers or leaves if you want to, like Baby's Breath or some greenery.

Buy green floral tape and wide ribbon in the color that you want the handle of the bouquet to be. White is good, but choose the color you want that will go with your wedding colors. Also buy some floral pins to hold the ribbon on to the flower stems which makes the bouquet handle.

Once you are home, find some good sharp scissors and trim the stems if they are too long for what you want.

Start putting the flowers in your hand, one at a time, until you have four or five. Put a large flower in the middle and arrange the others in a circle around the center flower. If all of your flowers are the same size, just choose one to be the center of your cheap wedding bouquets for each member of your bridal party to carry.

Wrap these few flower stems together with floral tape while holding the shape of the bouquet. Now add another circle of flowers around the outside of the tiny bouquet and then tape again. Keep adding an outer circle of flowers to your cheap wedding bouquets and tape them until each bouquet is the size and shape you want it to be.

The bride's bouquet should be the largest. The flower girl should carry the smallest of the cheap wedding bouquets. The maid of honor's bouquet should be a little larger than those of the bridesmaids.

Once you have the right size and all of the flowers are taped, begin to wrap the stem with the wide ribbon, starting at the top of the stem, just a bit under the flower blooms.

If you want more green to show, that is fine. Just start a little lower. Fold about 1/2 inch of the ribbon under so there is no fraying and pin it with one of the floral pins, pushing the pin through the tape and stems. Test it and make sure the pin does not go all the way through so you do not get pricked on your wedding day!

Wrap the ribbon all the way down to the bottom of the flower stems, if you like. Some brides leave some green stem showing at the bottom. Others do not. Then wrap the ribbon all of the way back up to the top of the ribbon and cut and tuck 1/2 inch under the ribbon and secure with a few floral pins. Again, make sure that the pins are not poking through to prick you.

Finish up all of the other cheap wedding bouquets and test them for pins poking through as well.

Place the finished cheap wedding bouquets in a plastic container or bag and put them high on a shelf so they do not get dusty or crushed by anything and they are all set for your wedding day.

Add up all that you spent on the supplies and divide by the number of bouquets that you made. You will find that you did a florist's job for a fraction of the cost! Congratulations on being crafty and thrifty!