How to Preserve your Wedding Flowers
If you are reading this, chances are you are either getting married soon or you already got married and you are wondering how you can save your wedding flowers forever. I am going to hold your hand when I say this, leave this to the professionals. Unless you are quite experience in drying and pressing flowers of all varieties, I would not try this yourself.
I know that is not what you wanted to hear, but please read these reasons why you shouldn’t try and preserve your flowers yourself:
Added Work and Stress Right After Your Wedding/ Having a wedding is a ton of work and so is preserving your wedding bouquet. It is so important that the flowers are processed asap after the wedding so they are still fresh going into the press. Unless you want to wake up the morning after your wedding and spend 2-3 hours meticulously deconstructing your flower petal by petal to then wait a month and have them come out wrong, hire a professional. Another thing I see all the time is people just hanging their bouquet upside down to dry because it is super easy and quick. While this works about 25% of the time, more often than not the flowers were not cared for properly and develop mold on them rendering them unusable. No one wants to stress about this after all the work of putting on a wedding.
Chance of Mold/ As mentioned above, mold is a huge risk when people try to preserve their flowers themselves. Once mold has taken a hold of a flower, it is pretty much gone and cannot be saved. When you hire a professional, they know exactly how to prevent mold growth and ensure the flowers actually last forever.
Lack of Design Experience/ Even the most creative and artistic of people will struggle with designing a pressed flower frame (given the flowers actually came out well). I know this because I was one of them. Pressed flower design is an entirely different beast from anything I have worked with in the past including traditional floristry. It takes many months of practice to realize what looks amazing and what looks like a flower tornado on a page.
Logistics/ Do you have a flower press ready to go for the day after your wedding or are you going to use 20 books from your personal collection and have a mess in your house for the next month? Do you have the right kind of paper for pressing flowers? Do you have the right kind of glue to adhere them to your background? What kind of background are you going to use? What kind of frame are you going to use? How are you going to load the flowers into the frame without damaging them? What will you do if a strand of hair or a piece of dust gets into the piece and you can’t unsee it? Hire a professional.
Sorry to be a downer, but I don’t want you to take on something with very little knowledge. Especially when precious memories of a very special day or person are on the line. When in doubt, please just reach out and ask about our services. We would love to help!
