How To Arrange Wedding Bouquets

For this wedding bouquet, I've chosen a beautiful rose called crème de la crème. It's quite a new rose bit it's got a lovely golden yellow center to cream petals and I like it vey much. What I've done is I've taken off all the leaves for this particular design which is very easy to do.

If your roses have got thorns, also take those off. This is a large heavy rose. Therefore, I've got 15 or 16.

If it's a smaller rose, you'll need up to 20. I've also got some tape, I've got ready to use florist tape, and I just put that on the side of the table, a length of satin ribbon, some pearl headed pins and some aspidistra leaves. These are a very gated aspidistra leaves, not always easy to find, but a plain aspidistra leaf that you've kept from a pot plant will be just as effective.

I'm going to place these in the hand and create a dome of flowers. With this demonstration, it's really very easy. Some people like to take off the guard petals which are the ones on the outside of the rose but I prefer to leave them wherever possible.

A rose always thinks it's dying as soon as you start to remove some of its petals. So, very quick and simple, and create a wonderful show of flowers very very easily. So, take those around the hand, round and round that gentle dome shape, so keep moving.

If you feel that you're going lopsided, a good tip is to actually go and look at yourself in the mirror and adjust it so that you're no longer lopsided but the weight is equally distributed on both sides. So, very quickly, there we go, a lovely bouquet of crème de la crème roses. I take the florist tape and wrap it around the stem firmly like that to keep them in place and then just cut off that little end which I don't need and I have looped the aspidistras and kept the tip with the stem with a piece of cello tape.

I'm going to place them, not this way into it, but work it into the flower so they're going to support and surround the flowers with these lovely leaves, so one, two, three, another of the gorgeous stripes on there. I'm only going to need five or six of these leaves to surround my roses like that. That was perhaps a little bit too big, so one little tip is that the aspidistra is so good-natured, it doesn't object to be reduced in size, so tear it a little bit, make it a bit smaller and then that can just fit in much more neatly now into the design.

With the second piece of tape, do as you did before, around, over and round the stems, keeping it firmly in place. Take the satin ribbon, and I might not need all this, just to go over the tape that you've put into place and go around. And then, you've got a beautiful bouquet for the bride. .