Your bridesmaids are often some of the most important ladies in your life and you’ll want to make sure they feel special and appreciated on your wedding day. One of the best ways to do this is to help them feel beautiful with bridesmaid dresses and bouquets. However, wedding flowers can quickly become overly expensive if you don’t stick to a budget and use some money-saving techniques. (Especially if you have a lot of bridesmaids!) So here are a few suggestions if you’re trying to make beautiful and affordable vintage bouquets for your bridesmaids.
Designing Your Vintage Bridesmaid Bouquets
Often, bridesmaid bouquets will match your wedding bouquet in some way to tie in their similar designs and aesthetics. However, their bouquet shouldn’t imitate your bouquet exactly. Instead, they should complement it, allowing your wedding bouquet to stand out. Sometimes, bridesmaid bouquets might include only one color of flowers, such as pink or white, to let the more varied color scheme of the bride’s bouquet stand out more. You can also make a stunning, budget-friendly bouquet with smaller, more simple flowers, such as wax flowers. Any of these bridesmaid bouquet designs will be unique and memorable.
Choosing a vintage style for your bridesmaid bouquets will help you to design flowers that will be stylish and timeless. Vintage weddings often include heirloom decor, old-fashioned lace, intricate details, muted color palettes, silk ribbons, and other fun elements. A few popular vintage bouquet styles include cascade bouquets, sphere-shaped bouquets, pageant-style bouquets, and more. These bouquet shapes have a distinctly vintage feel, particularly when they’re gathered in bridesmaid groups. You can even add some small pearls, feathers, and other details to your bouquets to make them feel even more vintage. For example, wrapping your bouquet stems with lace and trimming your flowers to a structured sphere shape will make your bouquets look like they’re out of an old fashion magazine! Remember to choose your favorite era to draw inspiration from when you’re creating your vintage bridesmaid bouquets.
How to Keep Your Vintage Bouquets Affordable
Saving money on your wedding can be a bit stressful. You might want to stick to a budget without having cheap-looking flowers or making your bridesmaids feel undervalued. Luckily, you can have the best of both worlds by making beautiful bridesmaid bouquets that won’t break the bank. Here are a few ideas that will help you to keep your bridesmaid bouquets affordable without skimping on style.
1. Stick to Greenery
First, you can make your bridesmaid bouquets more affordable by sticking to greenery. An all-green bridesmaid bouquet can be gorgeous and trendy, especially if you have a boho, nature-inspired style. You can create your bridesmaid bouquets entirely out of overflowing greenery, such as various types of eucalyptus. You can add some long streamers of ribbon to the stems of your greenery bouquets for the perfect finishing touch.
2. DIY Your Vintage Bouquets
You can also keep the cost of your bridesmaid bouquets down by DIYing them yourself. You don’t need to have any floral design experience to create bridesmaid bouquets, you just need to have a vision for your bouquets, including the bouquet size and style. Buying your flowers wholesale or from a local flower farm or vendor will be much more affordable than paying a florist to arrange your bouquets for you. Plus, you can involve your bridesmaids in this process and make a fun craft night and bonding activity out of it. Don’t forget to add your favorite vintage touches to your bouquets to make them match the theme and desired era aesthetic of your wedding!
3. Try Wood Flowers
Wood flowers are also an affordable, gorgeous option for your bridesmaid bouquets. A wood flower bouquet only costs a fraction of the price of a fresh flower bouquet. These pretty, long-lasting flowers are totally customizable. You can dye them to match any color, which is great when you’re trying to match a unique, vintage color scheme. Wood flower bouquets are easy to DIY, but you can also have them made for you if you aren’t confident in your DIY skills. Once they’re assembled, you won’t have to worry about watering these flowers. You can store them and they’ll look fresh and beautiful for your wedding day.
How to Arrange a Vintage Bouquet
If you’re interested in DIYing your own bridesmaid bouquets, follow these few simple steps! Remember, there are lots of blog articles and video tutorials that you can find online for additional tips. This will help you create bridesmaid bouquets that your girls will love to carry and display throughout your wedding day.
1. Gather Large Flowers: If you have any large or medium-sized flowers in your bridesmaid bouquets, start by gathering them together. Make sure that different flower types and colors are spread out to add a nice variety to your design.
2. Add Floral Filler: Next, add in your floral filler. This includes smaller, more intricate flowers such as baby’s breath. Cut your floral filler into small stems to work them throughout your large flowers. These small flowers are also great to fill in any gaps and add extra height and volume to your bridesmaid bouquets.
3. Don’t Forget Greenery: Frame and finish your bouquet by adding greenery. You can add small, delicate greenery stems in the middle of your bouquet, but the majority of your greenery should frame the exterior of your bouquet. For a boho touch, leave longer greenery pieces draping down.
4. Finishing Touches: Finally, tie off your bridesmaid bouquets with some floral tape and firm rubber bands. You can cover up these ties by wrapping the stems with some lace, twine, or ribbon. Don’t be afraid to pin your ribbon with a pearl or pretty brooch for an extra vintage look!