How To Create Christmas Wedding Flowers

Wedding flowers at Christmas. It's a lovely idea to use strong jewelled colours which are very fashionable this year and I'm going to create for you a simple tied bouquet of roses in the hand. I'm using choice roses.

They really are nice. These came from Kenya and what I'm going to do is use the spray form and the standard form together because one softens the other and I'm just going to mix the colours and place them to create a gentle dome in the hand that is very very simple. When you've got glorious roses like this, it's very hard to go wrong and you don't need to have big hands, you can still make this if your hands are quite on the small side.

With just a dome of love, what we can do is use a ribbon in a matching colour or you can use raffia to tie it up. This point, once I've got that lovely bunch in the hand, I'm going to take some of the florist's tape, just one length. It's always a good idea to actually take it off before you start to make your bouquet.

That's my deliberate mistake and then you'll not find it a lot easier. So around that, you need to go around several times and then just take it round to secure the stems. Okay, we'll try again, round like that, hold it with one hand and bring it around with the other.

Once you got that in place, cut another piece and perhaps it's a good idea to actually cut it before you take the bouquet back up into your hands and just put it over the table so that it's ready to use when you're ready. Pick them on the hand and then you need foliage. This is skimmia and I'm going to frame the flowers with this plain green skimmia which will compliment the brighter colours in the bouquet.

So, round like this, and the lime green flowers that are just starting to develop are just lovely against this, so you've got this ring of green. Just pop that in there and then you get the tape and take it again over the stems, take it around and pull it around a few times and that gives really good security. I've taken some wide ribbon and I've wrapped it around the tail and then I've tucked the end over and I'm going to take two of these pins with matching tip and place it through the ribbon to the stems to secure and here's a perfect bouquet for the winter or Christmas wedding. .