While your bride's bouquet may be gracing one of your friend's or relative's mantelpieces right now, there are often piles gorgeous flowers left over from a wedding. You can take the figurines from the top of the cake, bring home your namecards from the table, and take as many photos as you like … but there's nothing quite like having something living from the day of your wedding to keep that spirit of love, commitment, hope and togetherness. Preserving your wedding flowers is a beautiful way to do this -- we show you how to achieve it at home!
Drying your wedding flowers
You can do this to your wedding flowers in bulk -- as long as you have enough wardrobe space, there is usually no limit on the number of flowers you can preserve by drying them. Just remember that you might want some vase space for fresh flower bouquets at some stage in the future! Dry your flowers by:
- Pegging them individually upside down from clothes hangers
- Alternatively, lay them in a drying agent like silica or borax
- Carefully put them back together as a bouquet when they are completely dry
Pressing your wedding flowers
You probably have some experience with this method of preserving flowers -- almost every little girl in the world has done it at some stage! It's simple:
- Collect your flowers and place between two sheets of paper, preferably not printed
- Place the two sheets of paper inside a large, heavy book
- Leave for a few days, depending on how humid the weather is
- Once your flowers are pressed, framing them is a lovely way to keep them
Freeze Drying Your Wedding Flowers
This generally has to be done by professionals, and has quite a charge associated. It does help preserve your wedding flowers with most of their original color and shape, however, and the more flowers you want to freeze dry the more cost effective the process is.
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