Besides hiring a photographer, there are many other ways you can preserve your wedding day memories forever. Why not preserve your wedding bouquet? Depending on the type of flowers and the look you want to achieve, you can either do it yourself or have a professional preserve your bouquet for you.
If you choose to do it yourself, you can either dry the bouquet as a whole, turn it into potpurri, or press the flowers onto a book. Either way, it’s a good idea to begin the drying process immediately. To preserve the entire bouquet, turn the bouquet upside-down and let it hang in a dry, dark place for about two weeks. By then, it should be completely dry and ready to grace your wall or your shelf. To turn your bouquet into potpurri, take out the petals and place it in a bowl for two to three days, keeping it away from sunlight. Once the petals are dry, add a drop or two of flower-scented essential oils.
Pressing flowers is a simple art form that doesn’t require complicated tools. You can use the flowers to adorn your wedding album or place them in a frame. Cut the flower close to the base and place them between a folded piece of wax paper. Place the wax paper between two heavy books and leave it there for two weeks.
If you don’t have the time to monitor the drying process yourself for weeks, you can have a professional preserve your bouquet for you. If you want your preserved bouquet to look as realistic as possible, you can have it freeze-dried. The process takes about a month since it involves taking the bouquet apart so that the flowers can be freeze-dried individually. The bouquet is then reassembled back into its original arrangement.
You can also have your bouquet pressed professionally. Just like the freeze-drying process, the bouquet will be taken apart so flowers can be pressed individually before they are rearranged and placed inside a frame. The process takes twice as long as freeze-drying and although the flowers are now in a two-dimensional form, they can be arranged in such a way as to retain the bouquet’s original shape.
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