My bouquet is done!

Finally, my bouquet is done! 100 felt flowers have been cut and sewn and all the buttons assembled and the full stems made. Yikes. I'm sort of sad it's over!
Punching the holes to put the wire through was an absolute nightmare. My hands are still stupidly sore! But we got there in the end and, I have to say, I absolutely love it!

I need to learn how to tie the bow better and I really dislike the white on the underside of the bouquet holder so I'll need to figure out a way to cover that..

As I said, I'm stupidly happy with how it turned out! Can't wait to see what it looks like with my outfit :)

A good night & a well spent day.

One bridesmaids bouquet is done! This was quite a challenge but I got there in the end. Trying to keep this post short and sweet as I'm exhausted but once a few wee hitches were resolved, it went great and I think it looks amazing.

And today was a good wedding day! Venue had an open day where everywhere is set up how it'll be on the day and it. is. stunning! The room where we're having our meal had the exact amount of tables with the exact amount of chairs around them we'll need! And it just looked so fab. Remember I told you all about the top table backdrop I wanted but it turns out the other wedding reception in the same venue had put their deposit down on it? I don't know if I told you but I got an email a couple of days ago saying they'd pulled out and it was now available. Guess what? Our room had the exact backdrop (from the supplier I was talking to) and my god, it is beautiful! It's very pricey though... £345! I showed it to my mum on the website and she scoffed at the price. She saw it in the venue this morning and couldn't stop going on about how beautiful it is. So she's told us if it's still available, she'll put a desposit down and pay for it for us! I'm so lucky! After that, it was a trip to hobbycraft and I now have all the bits needed for my bouquet :D

Bouquet supplies:

More wedding DIY.

Well, I couldn't sleep last night so I decided I was going to finish up the felt flowers for the bouquet. And I did! Well, I finished the felt at least. Once I'd done that, I constructed something of a similar size to the bouquet size I want and pinned the flowers to get it gauge to how many more I'd need and about just under the same amount again will do it! So another trip to hobbycraft will be needed soon for another sheet of each colour. I think I'll get 2 of each just in case ;)

The centres of the flowers aren't as neat as they could be but what does it matter? The buttons will cover them anyway!

More buttons arrived this morning, too! The toadstool ones this time.

So whilst I'm waiting to get more felt, and the rest of the buttons and new bouquet holder, I decided to crack on with something else. This morning, I made the first of 2 pinwheels. We'll have one for Colin, one for his best man, one for my male bridesmaid and one for my brother (he's walking me down the aisle). Then I'll make a mini one for my mini ring bearer! Colin will be in the one combination and the rest of them will be in the other. He can't decide which one he prefers!

And one to show for size!

I love them! I'm not sure where I'm going to store them though. Perhaps we have a small box lying around somewhere? I just moved all bouquet related things into a box that's just the right size but I think I'm going to have to find a smaller one to fit inside that to hold the bouquet pinwheels; they're not faring too well just now!

Adventures of a bouquet!

Well, I had a little play around tonight.

Oasis bouquet holder thing... Got the wet one. Only one they had! If it proves annoying/impossible, I'll order the dry one.

Lace trim.

Felt flowers.

Pinwheels.

As I said in a previous post, buttons will hopefully be ordered tomorrow. Until they arrive, I have lots more felt flowers to cut!