How to Make A Rose Bouquet ｜ Ramo Buchon

So I'm going to be teaching you a tutorial on 50 roses. So welcome. To get started you will need 50 roses. They come in packs of 25 if you're buying them wholesale. If not, grocery store ones work as well. You will need some scissors, some kind of rose remover, or some shears so that you're able to cut your thorns. However, that will take a little bit longer. And you need a stapler. And you also, last but not least, just some tape. I really like like the yellow kind of clear tape. And just make sure it's not like shipping tape because shipping tape is a little bit too thick So the roses do not take them very well. I don't feel like they stick as much. And you also need five sheets of paper. You might need a little bit more but yes, minimum five. Okay so first step is to clean your roses. So each, whenever it's wholesale roses, they come in sets of 25 and they do come with the leaves and thorns etc. So I'm just gonna hold it from here and clean away. Kind of move lower the lower I get to the rose just so it can have some kind of stability. I do remove all of the leaves at the time of processing. And I do not, for my for our business, we do not process the flowers, the roses. We do cut them and put them in water whenever we receive them. But we do not open them and like process them or like whatever you'd like to call it, make up until we're about to make our arrangement. Because we do not want our roses to be bloomed. I want my customers to experience the blooming process while they are already being bloomed whenever I am giving them to them. And then you know them dying a little bit after. I want them to have their roses minimally a week and a half if not two to three weeks. Obviously if the roses are properly taken care of etc. So you just do all this with all of your roses and I'll be back a little bit after I'm done. So after you finish stripping off the thorns and the leaves from your roses you are going to do what is called makeup on your roses. And you are basically taking off the first three to four petals. See if you can tell. So you can tell how like this one you know it's it's bruised. It doesn't look its healthiest. And this one doesn't look healthy right here. And what you essentially end up with is a clean petal. I removed five petals. And this is just like the outer layer and then the rose is fine. I promise there is still plenty of rose left. I know that that's kind of it at first when you when you get into this business you kind of feel for the roses and you're like oh my god like I don't want like to ruin it or I don't want anything to happen to it. But it is completely fine if you actually press on your rose you're able to feel how many petals are actually in there which is quite a lot actually. And in order for you to tell that you have fresh roses each and every time I recommend that when you go to into your vendor and into your cooler you press on your roses and make sure that they have a firm bud because if it's soft that means that they've been in the cooler for a while longer and they are already processing. So please please make sure that you have fresh roses. So we do that to each and every rose. You can save the petals if you want. I know in the beginning when I first started I used to save the petals all the time just because again I would feel bad but I promise after a while it's just part of the process. I basically just like all of my roses to be cohesive. Again there's other people who rather their roses to be bloomed and big and in their rose bouquets they just want big and bloomed roses. So it is personal preference if you do wish to have bigger roses just whatever you get them get them like one or two days in advance cut them clean them and set them in the water they're going to bloom and you're going to see that they're going to get bigger. Once they get bigger remove your three to four petals and then you can work with bigger roses but it would be the same steps. However we we just prefer smaller buds and more polished buds in the kind of bouquets that we make and that's with bouquets or heart boxes in general. The only time I really use bigger roses is if the rose is naturally like a really really open rose and my client requested that rose or that kind of the color and that's all they had or if I am making a freestyle bouquet which is more of like mixed florals and then I'll use bigger roses then or like for a design. So these are my roses after cleaning them off I'm going to get this before getting started. So now this is actually like the building process you're going to need your scissors and your tape. With your tape you're always going to leave like this much ready to go. I stick it next to the table and then to get started I look for my straightest pieces it's just so you're going to notice like this one okay let me get a better example well these are all pretty straight but sometimes when you buy roses you're gonna find that there's like some funky funky funky roses okay like this this is not straight so I always but in your stack you're bound to find multiple straight ones so I use like some some really straight roses to get started that way I have a good base to get started. So I am going to put both of my buds next to each other and I'm going to make sure that they're aligned. Sometimes if you're using different kinds of roses you're going to have a bigger bud and a smaller bud just make sure that the top is aligned it doesn't really matter about the bottom because your client will not see that they're only going to look at your roses from the top so make sure that they're even and obviously look they're even here but they're like not even down here and that doesn't matter what matters is your evenness up here so I put it I put two next to each other and then I'm going to add my third one in between the crease of my two so now I have three and then I'm gonna grab it with this and grab it with this and I'm gonna rotate it just a slight bit and then I'm gonna add my next one into my crease which is like my right next to my other rose that I just added and I'm just gonna keep doing the same thing into my next one so whenever I am grabbing my roses so if you're just getting started and you're not too comfortable with handling your roses try to at least get this shape and then put your tape your tape do not tape up here because your roses will snap and it's going to become harder and your shape is not going to come out the way you want it to come out you want to tie under your hand and with my elbows I'm gonna grab my roses and then I'm gonna apply pressure whenever I go up I'm gonna pull down with pull my stems down pull my tape up so that it is getting some form of actually compressing into the tape and that way my roses are not going to move and I only twist about two to three times okay another thing to note is that you do not want to cross your stems your stems are always going to be able to go straight do not interlock your stems into here and do not crisscross them by crisscrossing I mean like like I place this one like this and this one is crisscrossing with this one that's not what I'm supposed to do I'm supposed to keep keep the pattern pretty straight and just keep adding right next to the rosebud so so you see not how this one is curvy you can kind of tell it kind of wants to like go this way I'm actually going to work with the curve and put the curve head on right here and push it down so that it straightens out and I'm just going to keep going and again I'm not crossing my stems I'm literally adding the roses right next to the one I finished placing I'm not going to cross my stems like this I'm going to leave them straight and I'm just going to twist and I'm just going to keep adding so right here is kind of where you'll adjust so this one is a little shorter a little shorter like this that way all of your stems are even again I'm grabbing with my elbow and I'm going to tape up I'm going to do two tape arounds and whenever I cut my tape make sure I'm leaving a space so that I'm able to not lose track of my tape and I'm able to kind of okay so you're just going to continue the process again this one's bent so I'm going to straighten it out at this point I am just adding it next to my bud notice how my hands are not up here because this is where they start to get bent my roses are all aligned and I am just adding it and then I'm just going to go through with the straight piece and I'm going to stick all of the new the straight piece of tape all on the new stems that I just added and then I'm going I'm able to let go of one hand I'm going to get done with my elbow again one that's enough and then I'm going to cut make sure I leave a space so that I am adding the tape back to my table and then you just follow the process over and over so right here you're able to kind of go through and fix your stems through here and making sure that they're aligned so there's not a certain amount of things that I add before I add tape once I feel like I can no longer like my hands are getting tired I just go ahead and tape because if you allow your hands to get tired then chances are that your stems are going to get misplaced and your work is just going to be moved around more so I just recommend you especially if you're barely starting off just tape whenever you start feeling like you're getting tired we're having four to five stems and like I'm grabbing with my thumb and my middle finger and then I add it on top of my finger I remove my middle finger and then I grab it again I add it I remove my middle finger then I grab it with my middle finger I add tape two times and then I cut and that's till it so whenever you first get started you are bound to run into issues like this I recommend if you if it happens where your tape flips on you just start over and that's why I recommend that you tape like every four or five roses especially when you're getting started it's because of incidents like that that way you don't have to remove 20 plus roses and then you're practically starting over again so right now I only have to remove the floor and then I can start once again and it's not really a big of an issue because I'm not sort of say starting from scratch right here stems are getting so that is all of my 50 roses as you can see they're all pretty straight my tape is roughly five to six inches down sometimes they do it a little bit higher it doesn't really matter just as long as it's not in like the first two to three inches stay away from that always tape towards the middle of your stems I'm going to go and give it a trim actually I'm going to show you how that process as well so this is our rose stem cutter it does come just this black part and we added a piece of wood and we added the trash can basically just to hold all of our stems we don't have to change the trash out that often because all that goes in there it's just stems nothing else but your stems I so usually I don't have short of roses like these two but in the process of processing my roses earlier these for some reason they both cut off at the same length and so these are my shortest stems but I'm going to cut at my shortest stems down here so I'm going to cut all of them this size to make them all even and I'm going to leave these shorter ones up here okay and this allows you to have a a cut that is more precise and even that you're able to have a standing bouquet in the rose making bouquet making world if your bouquet stands that means it is properly made however I found that it has nothing to do with the way you make it for the most part but it's more importantly how you trim your stems so this allows us to always have a precise cut whenever I add it I just make sure that my bouquet is laid horizontal and then it's able to okay so my client is actually about to get here so I'm going to finish off but before that I'm going to show you how to wrap this using the most simple method of wrapping so all of your Korean wrapping paper which is will be used for bouquets they all come in a square I always like to fold my paper with the line that comes pre-folded that middle line straight ahead of me this edge which is my right side is going to go in between the middle of this is going to go in between that line that's already pre-made so it's going to look something like this basically this this and this are going to be even triangles and then I'm going to grab again my right side and I'm going to put it in between this last intersection like so and I'm always going to look that my edges are all straight and that there's no gap in here and that's basically it so you're left with this I am then going to just staple and repeat the process and that is all of my pieces I as you can see I have two different kinds of paper so for this certain style I alternate so I'll do a gold piece a black piece a gold piece a black piece and then another black piece I am going to then grab my tape and I'm going to cut strips about two inches two and a half inches and with these strips this is what's going to go around my paper and I basically prep to get my wrapping done faster I grab my first sheet and I'm going to place my bouquet in that line that's created I'm always going to place my sheet with the fold inside of the bouquet so the fold this you see this side is the flat side the flat side is going to go towards the outside of the bouquet the one with the flap is going to go towards the inside of the bouquet and then I'm just going to grab one piece of tape and I'm going to put it on the very edge of my sheet halfway and then the other half is going to go on the tape of the bouquet so on the bouquet and I'm going to get you a different angle of this so that you can get a better understanding I'm going to place my next sheet with my next intersection and make sure it's even down here and do the same thing all over again so that one didn't stick as well so I'm just going to add another one and then I'm going to show you so I'm going to put myself in this other angle okay so that sheet is added so I'm going to grab another sheet I'm going to come in here and this last edge I'm adding it to this first intersection of my triangles so that this last corner I'm adding it to this intersection like so and I'm making sure that they're even about even I don't really fixate too much on it I know some of my other girlies do it's up to you if you are a more precise person then by all means you're more welcome to do that I then grab a sheet of tape and I'm gonna stick it to the bouquet again I'm gonna grab some tape and I'm gonna stick it on my bouquet so after that I'm just gonna go through in these indentions I'm going to staple them so then we're left with this and I am going to add my final two strips of paper as a skirt to my bouquet so I'm just going to fold so again my inside flap is going inside I'm going to fold about so making sure I still have some strips of tape left I'm gonna then stick one of the edges down here grab another one about so and then I'm gonna flip it over to the other side that I just covered and I'm gonna add my last strip like so and I'm just gonna stick one and my last strip of tape so then you are left with this and now we just have to add above so I am not going to go through the tutorial if you're wanting an in-depth tutorial on how to make a bow that is also available but if you're able to just eye it and follow through then it's not as hard to do it and then that's the bow that we're adding I find that my bows really elevate the look of my bouquets opposed to doing a silk this yeah silk ribbon bouquet is able to stand and have a really pretty bow but that is basically it thank you guys for watching and I hope you guys have a nice day bye