I Made This Bridal Bouquet for a Real Wedding (Start to Finish)

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Ever wonder what really goes into designing wedding flowers?

In this behind-the-scenes floral design video, I'm taking you through my complete process for creating a real wedding using fresh local flowers—from cleaning and selecting every stem to designing a bridal bouquet, toss bouquet, boutonniere flowers, and ceremony arrangements.

You'll see how I:

Choose flowers for a bridal bouquet
Prioritize premium blooms for the bride
Prepare flowers before designing
Build hand-tied spiral bouquets
Select focal, secondary focal, filler, foliage, line flowers, and bits
Design with locally grown flowers
Decide which flowers hold up best for weddings
Finish bouquets with ribbon for delivery

This colorful spring wedding featured locally grown peonies, ranunculus, snapdragons, delphinium, roses, yarrow, poppies, Solomon's seal, Bells of Ireland, bachelor's buttons, Nigella, and more.

Whether you're a florist, flower farmer, farmer-florist, or simply love beautiful wedding flowers, you'll get an inside look at the decisions that happen before a bouquet ever reaches the bride.

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00:00 A Real Wedding in One Morning
00:45 Planning the Bridal Flowers
02:25 Choosing Line Flowers
03:48 Preparing Ranunculus
05:20 Cleaning Filler Flowers
06:25 Nigella & Campanula
09:10 Native Honeysuckle
11:35 Choosing Poppies
13:05 Selecting Peonies
14:25 Preparing Local Roses
19:30 Adding Bachelor's Buttons
21:20 My Favorite Spring Foliage
22:58 Preparing Wedding Peonies
25:35 Final Flower Selection
28:20 Cleaning Bells of Ireland
31:08 Organizing Every Stem
32:04 The Six Elements of Floral Design
34:25 Building the Bridal Bouquet
45:35 Taping the Bouquet
47:07 Designing the Toss Bouquet
52:07 Wrapping the Bridal Bouquet
57:44 Learn Wedding Flowers in FlowerMore

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