3 DIY Bridal Party Flowers with a Phantom of the Opera theme: #1 The Bridal Bouquet

Masquerade Wedding Bouquet

     Welcome to our blog we are so happy you found us. This is our first post so I thought we would introduce ourselves. My name is Naomi Letcher and my daughter and partner in craft is Sierra. Together we make up Enchanting Event Design llc. Here on our blog we will share our adventures in the wonderful world of weddings and how we DIY our way though it.
    Now as the title promised here here is our 1st of 3 bridal party flowers from the wedding we are currently working on with a fantastic Phantom of the Opera theme. Britaney (the bride) chose a classic, round, hand-tied, bouquet.

What you will need

8 large half open red silk roses
5 large slightly wilted, dark red cabbage roses
8 large black rose buds (we used open roses and took off the two outer rows of petals)
Floral tape to match stems
Gold trim or cording
Gold mask
1” wide double faced black satin ribbon
Gold wire

Tools

Wire cutters
Scissors      

     The black roses had black stems so we switched them out with the excess we cut off the red roses. We trimmed the black stems to about 2 inches using floral tape we wrapped the two stems together. Starting under the rose head down to just below the black stem and back up to the rose. We did this to keep a more uniform and natural look of a hand tied bouquet.
    You can find the tutorial we used to make the shape of the bouquet Here.  (http://www.bridecraft.com/rose-wedding-bouquets)
 
    To accent the roses we cut the corsage pins to about 1” and hot glued them into the center of the red roses so they sit just above the inside petals.
    The mask we placed off to the side and wired it to the bouquet though the holes on each side of the mask and attached it under the head of a rose underneath the holes. Then we attached the trim to one side of the mask and looped it around the top of the bouquet and glued under one or to of the  petals to help keep it in place then attached to the other side of the mask. Our bride loved the way it came together and so did we! Hope you enjoyed our first post. Come back next week and we will show you how we made the boutonnieres for the groomsmen! We will have step by step pictures for these.

Let us know what you thought in our comments we would love to hear from you!