What You Need to Make Dried Flower Buttonholes
Here’s a handy little list for the tools, equipment and flowers you’ll need for DIY dried buttonholes. If you’re looking to make your own boutonnieres for your wedding and feel like dried flowers and grasses would work with your wedding aesthetic, then this ‘What you’ll need’ guide is the one for you.
Below are the ingredients you’ll need…
You will need:
🌾 Assortment of dried flowers and grasses.
✂️ Scissors
🌿 Stem tape
📍 Pins
🎀 Thin ribbon
Group your flowers together with the colours and textures you’d like for each buttonhole. Try to include smaller flowers or seed heads, height from grasses or lavender and a larger flower in each buttonhole, this will create balance and interest in the design.
The grasses and dried flowers I used where:
pepperberries,
bunny tail grass,
lavender,
small sprigs of pampas grass,
craspedia,
helichrysum.
The best time for dried flowers is at the end of Summer when flowers and seedheads are open and almost about to naturally dry out as Autumn is on its way. You could grow your own flowers, cut them and then hang them upside down to dry in a warm and sheltered place with no damp.
Stem tape is an amazing addition to your floristry tool kit. When you gently pull it, it becomes adhesive on one side. This tape is also really good for making flower crowns with.
A top tip when you’re making your dried buttonholes is to make little piles of everything you’d like to go into each buttonhole. That’ll make it easier for you to gather together all the stems and tape when you get to the making stage.
You can also wrap your buttonhole stems in ribbon to make them even more decorative. I used a thin pale blue velvet ribbon.
So that’s all the dried flowers, grasses, tools and equipment you’ll need to create your own dried flower buttonholes. These would look great for a relaxed and rustic wedding and they last for absolutely ages so you can keep them after your big day in your memory box.
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