Description
The bridal bouquet is the most photographed piece of floral design you will ever make. It is also the piece most likely to let you down, because it gets built the night before, carried for hours, held in the heat, put down on a table and picked up again with wet stems against a pale dress.
The Bouquet Build Guide takes you through the whole process in the order it actually happens. You learn how to size a bouquet to the person and the dress before you touch a stem, how to condition properly so nothing wilts by the ceremony, how to build a clean spiral hand-tie, and how to bind, finish, transport and hand over so your work looks its best exactly when the camera comes out.
What is inside
- Proportion and scale: how wide, how long the handle, how heavy is too heavy
- A size and weight guide for posies, hand-ties, garden styles, cascades and bridesmaids
- The six step conditioning sequence, plus the cautions that catch people out
- The spiral hand-tie taught step by step, with the checks to make as you build
- Binding and finishing: tying, cutting, drinking, drying, wrapping and pinning
- A finishing quality checklist to run before anything leaves the workroom
- Delivery day timing and a hand-off script you can say out loud
- A printable bouquet spec sheet and stem count planner
Who it is for
Florists building their wedding work, planners and stylists who want to brief a florist properly, and anyone making bouquets for their own wedding who wants a professional result rather than a hopeful one.
After you use it, your bouquets are the right size for the person carrying them, they hold up all day, and your handover stops being a rushed doorstep moment and becomes part of the service the client remembers.
What’s inside
- Proportion and handle length rules
- Size and weight guide by bouquet style
- Six step conditioning sequence
- The spiral hand-tie, step by step
- Binding and finishing sequence
- Finishing quality checklist
- Delivery timing and hand-off script
- Printable spec sheet and stem count planner
