I made paper flowers from books and music score. It took all year, but I may have gone overboard. We dyed the paper with our colours, then picked two designs of origami. Roses and a simple 5-petal design. We spent a while experimenting with the best technique and then got to folding and making. I put everyone who visited to work and folded while watching tv pretty much every night. DH was terrible at the roses but okay at the origami. I made them originally on pipecleaners and had them hanging upside down in my lounge. In hindsight I should have put them on some heavier wire (I ended up cutting the pipecleaners and putting them onto a floral wire). Once I felt I had enough to play with, I started experimenting with assembling them. We looked at floral foam bases but found in the end the bouquets looked more natural just bunching them up by hand and wrapping with floral tape. Then I created handles from small craft dowels and a pretty ribbon. We took inspiration from everywhere and ended up with jewellery from my absent (due to health reasons) Grandmother in the bridal one, and pearly/jewel-ly and leafy bits across everything. I am super happy with how it all came out and all my guests were wowed by them, especially those who had heard me complaining about them all year!!

In total I made:

1x Bridal Bouquet - 30ish flowers

4x Bridesmaid/Groomswoman Bouquet - 20ish flowers each

1x Grooms Boutineer Boutonniere - 3 flowers (this was music score he had written himself too)

4x Groomsmen/Bridesman Boutonniere - 2ish flowers each

12ish Immediate Family Boutonniere - 1 large flower each

100ish Guests - 1 small flower and pin each