Do It Yourself Boutonniere

Make a do it yourself boutonniere for your groom, his groomsmen, your fathers, brothers, and grandfathers. This will be a lot cheaper than to pay a florist to make them. Use silk flowers for additional savings. That way you can make them ahead of time and use your valuable last minute time to get yourself ready for the wedding.

Making a boutonniere is simple. The hardest part is deciding what flower, greenery, and accent plant to use (if any).

Cut a bloom off of your silk flower stem, keeping just a short stem of about one to two inches. Wrap the stem in floral tape. These days floral tape comes in all sorts of colors so you can choose to use traditional green or you can match the groom's suit by using black, white, blue, gray, or brown. After wrapping the stem, add leaves or other greenery behind the bloom. You can also add some type of berries or anything else you think will look good with the flower you chose. Wrap that on to the flower stem with floral tape.

You can leave it as is or add some decorative wire by wrapping a bit of it around the stem for an attractive accent.

Then use a large floral pin that goes through the back of the wrapped stem, through the lapel, and back into the bottom of the floral stem to hold the boutonniere in place.

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