Dried flowers are a great favorite with all those who love to give an outlet to their creativity. They are wonderful way to add a touch of class and vintage grace to any object. They delicate beauty of the dried flowers makes us eager to preserve the fast vanishing blessings of nature. You can use them to make all sorts of arrangements, from bouquets to centerpieces, to embellish cards, boxes and so on .

Centerpieces are a stunning way to give a twist to the wedding décor. To start with as we all know that these arrangements create stunning earthy tones for wedding reception tables. For your wedding you can use the following idea to make a centerpiece. This arrangement is perfect for fall wedding. It is very easy; just arrange the flowers and you are finished. They don’t have wilting problem too. If you want to do it by your own and don’t want to deal with last minute stress then it is the most suitable arrangement.

For the next one, the idea is to arrange a wreath-style around a huge candle or you can just shower the dried flowers onto the tables among tea light candles. If you desire for a clean look then, fill the large bowls with dried flowers and petals in potpourri style. You can even collect the dried flowers group them and tie them with a ribbon a keep them in a vase. You can choose dried flowers with wicker baskets too, which are beautiful to look at.

The third one is very easy to make and here we will describe you the procedure. You need two glass plates or any 1 china plate and one glass plate. Then you place the dried flowers in an arrangement on top of the bottom plate. Then place the other plate upon it. This will create a beautiful centerpiece. You can also use votive candles in a small glass jar and then a bigger glass vase. Then you put the dried flowers in layers and interesting arrangements inside the vase. At its top leave enough space to place the votive candle. This can also be a beautiful and attractive centerpiece for your guests.

The last idea is that if your wedding has time then you can select and collect the dried flowers slowly. Youi can even choose your own garden flowers. And then you can either approach to your local florist or simply make it following the above ideas.

Make the wedding of a dear friend memorable with a dried flower centerpiece.

Materials:

Low and round basket or vase

Foliage

Some flat headed flowers in yellow colors like sunflowers, marigolds etc,

About 20 roses

Dry foam bricks

Florist’s spike

Adhesive clay

Pruning shears and craft knife.

Instructions:

1: First of all dry these flowers by any method. You can even buy dried flowers to do away with it.

2: Roses which are dried have a closing tendency as they dry. To open them up hole the rose over the spout of a steaming kettle till the petals becomes soft and go limp. Then you open these petals using a hairpin or a piece of florist’s wire. Open the petals bringing them into the steam as per necessity.

3: Cut a piece of florist’s foam with the craft knife to fit it in the basket or vase. Remember that the foam must extend about 1 ¼” above the edge of the basket or vase.

4: Then affix the florist’s spike to bottom of the basket. Use adhesive caly for doing so. Then push the foam onto the spike.

5: Then you cut off the sharp corners as well as top and sides of the foam with a knife to fit it in the basket or vase.

6: When you put flowers, it will overlap the basket and will hide the foam.

7: At the center put some foliage like carthamus to attain the maximum height and width of the vase.

8: Then from the center go on filling groups of dried roses and yellow flowers tightly along the focal group of carthamus. Then angle the stems at the outward position so that the flowers can slope easily.

9: Always create a balanced shape from all sides as well as from below and tabletop.

10: Always work from the center making a curve posture by the flowers and foliage. This will look more natural if you curve the bottom edge of the flowers and foliage softly and partially to conceal the vase.

Your arrangement is ready for decoration.

There are a variety of options to decorate your house during Christmas. Well before Christmas, the market is flooded with decorative items of all kinds. All these years you have tried quite a few bur found most of them to be a rehash of the same stereotypical things. Well, this year turn your face away from the kitschy commercial stuff and embrace nature to give a never before look to your home. Decorate it with fresh and dried flower arrangements. They will not only add a graceful beauty to your house but also allow your creative juices to flow.

Dried flowers are quite easy to make at home and if done in proper manner turn out to be lovely pieces of art. The best advantage of dried flowers over their fresh counterparts is that they can be kept for a long time with a little care. The arrangements made with the dried flowers are numerous. We use these arrangements for our home décor, our weddings, our anniversaries and most importantly Christmas decoration. For decorating a Christmas eve, people normally use wreaths, Christmas trees and centerpieces which are made of either fresh flowers, the artificial flowers or the dried flowers.

Lets combine the wreath and centerpiece to make a Christmas Wreath Centerpiece.

The things you need are one dried flower wreath, some decorations along with a bow. The steps, which you must perform to make it, are:

Step 1: At first find a large tray or platter or even a piece of heavy plastic to place under the dried wreath. It will not only help in moving the wreath centerpiece but will also protect the table at the same time.

Step 2: Now you place the dried flower wreath on to the table, tray or platter.

Step 3: Stick or attach the wreath with many ornaments or floral picks etc for its decoration.

Step 4: Then you arrange the ribbons or garlands by either tying or placing them around the wreath.

Step 5: At last put or locate some colorful bows around the wreath, so that it looks more colorful. Make sure that the colors blend each other.

These were some simple steps to make a Christmas Dried Wreath Centerpiece so that you can decorate your home a bit differently this time.

Autumn, the season of luscious fruits and lovely flowers, of languorous afternoons and luxuriant foliage. Welcome the subtle sister of glamorous spring with a dried flower autumn wreath. 

Materials you will need:

large bag full of dried fall leaves in different shades red, orange

Long garden trimmings of magnolia, oak, larch and maple.

Dried fall flowers 

Red berries

Straw Wreath Frame

Preserved Fall Foliage

Wire cutters

Silk fall flower heads

Thin gauge Wire

Instructions:

1. Make small bundles of 10-12 nuts in pieces of transparent cellophane paper. Twist ties the top with tape and tie again with bright ribbons.

2. Make garlands of 15-20 chili pepper by piercing a thin wire through them. Intersperse the chillies with bright red berries you may use artificial peppers which will help you to preserve the wreath for a long time.

3.  Wrap the straw wreath with wheat sheaves and tie them firmly with floral wire. Try to cover the wreath as fully as possible.

4. Make several bunches of the trimmings and dried leaves and tie them firmly with gauge wire and also with floral tape to be double sure. Place each bundle on the wreath with one hand and with a floral wire tie it firmly to the wreath. Arrange all the bundles in similar manner. Ensure that the ends of the bunches face towards the center hole of the wreath.

5.  Now, wrap the chilly-berry garland over the wreath. For thi
6. s attach one end of the garland with floral tape and wrap the remaining by wounding the garland over and around the wreath.
7. Tie the bundles of nuts with bunches of straw and berries and tie the whole thing with a big bright falls colored ribbon. Pile them on the top of the wreath and attach with hot glue or tie firmly several times with floral wire.

Materials you will need:

• Straw or foam oval - shaped wreath
• Dried white longiflorum lilies, larkspur, roses, chrysanthemums and gerberas
• Fresh white calendula
• Cardboard
• Foliage
• Florist wire
• Wire cutters
• Floral tape
• White satin ribbon
• Scissors

You may follow the simple steps:

1. Arrange the foliage over the wreath base and secure with floral wire.

2. Snip off the flower heads of all the flowers except the roses. Trim the rose stems to a length of 2 inches. Divide the roses into two unequal portions and make two separate bunches by tying them with floral tape. You may add few decorative leaves to the bunches. Cover the tape with white ribbon.

3. Using hot glue cover the wreath with the flower heads.

4. Place the two bunches of rose on two sides of the wreath, in such a manner that they lie on the white flowerbed.

Attach two white candles on both the sides of the wreath and light them.

6. Make a large a bow with ivory white satin ribbon and attach a silver cross in the middle of the bow. You may also hang the cross with a silver color thread from the top of the wreath.

7. Now we shall make the star attraction of the wreath. Lets make the cross first. Cut 2 pieces of cardboard, one piece longer than the other. The cross should be long enough tom reach the lower half of the wreath. Secure the two pieces in the shape of a cross. Applying hot glue, attach the white calendula flowers to the cross.

8. Now place the cross on the wreath vertically so that the tip of the cross reaches the lower half of the wreath. After adjusting the position, remove it. Now, apply hot glue to the back of the cross and attach it to the wreath.

Communion is the remembrance of the sacrifice of Lord Jesus Christ for the sake of humanity. The communion table is representative of the Last Supper. During the Last Supper, Christ in order to teach His disciples about what He intended to do by doing the following symbolic thing. He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, then He gave the pieces to his disciples saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me”. Then He took a cup of wine and said that it was symbolic of his blood. This He did to save the world from sin. But denominations should refrain from teaching followers that during Communion we consume the flesh and blood of Christ. This is because during the Last Supper Jesus was alive.

Followers decorate churches and their homes with spring flowers and wreaths. You too may adorn your home with spring wreaths and add a touch of spirituality.

1. Collect a basketful of fresh spring flowers like hyacinths, crocuses, daffodils, irises, tulips, petunia and whatever you may find in the garden.
2. Make 5-6 garlands of the flowers and hang it in your parlor, balcony, and cornices.
3. You may make Communion wreaths with straw wreaths. For this, take a straw wreath, clean the flowers and trim them. Now, make bunches of the flowers and tie them to the wreath with florist wire.
4. You may also make a garland wreath with spring flowers. Make garlands of lovely fresh spring flowers and wind it to the wire wreath frame. Now, decorate the wreath with ribbons and bows and hang them in your house.

Now that you have completed decorating the house, assemble your friends and family and pray to the Lord, thanking Him for His sacrifice and confessing your sins

Materials:

• Grapevine wreath
• Silk white daisies
• Silk white gerberas
• Fresh water lilies
• Fresh white roses
• Florist wire
• Hot glue
• Scissors
• Fresh eucalyptus

Instructions:

1. This being a unique wreath, we shall first make the flower garlands. For this cut the flower heads of the silk daisies and gerberas. Pierce the florist wire through the base of the flowers and tie a knot at the beginning and at the end. Make 2 garlands, 1 each of gerbera and daisy in this manner.

2. Wrap the garlands on the wreath base and secure the ends with floral tape. Cover the wreath fully, leaving no space.

3. Add eucalyptus leaves with hot glue to the wreath.

4. Cut the flower heads of the water lilies and white roses and decorate the wreath with them with equal spacing.

Hang the wreath on the front door or the mantelpiece. You may also make few such wreaths and gift them to the church.

Materials you will need:

• Grapevine wreath
• Fresh spring flowers like Greenery Daffodils, Oxeye, Daisies, Dianthuses and Primroses
• Dried or fresh herbs (optional)
• Potpourri sachets (optional)
• Florist wire
• Sharp scissors

Procedure:

1. Trim the flower stems to 3-4 inches. Now make bunches with 4-5 stems of flowers and few leaves and other foliage tied with floral wire. If you do not wish the wire to be visible, wrap it with bear grass or any other ornamental grass. While making the bunches take care to ensure that there is at least one brightly colored flower in each bunch.

2. Take a bunch, place it on the wreath and tie securely with floral wreath. Arrange all the bunches in an overlapping manner and tie them tightly to the wreath with floral wire. No part of the wreath should be bare. If after securing the bunches you discover some gaps, fill them up with acorns or berries.

3. Hang a little toy lantern from the top of the wreath so that it hangs at the center hole of the wreath. You may hang few stars too, along with the lantern. Add ribbons and other baubles if you wish to make your wreath ornate.

4. You may include fresh or dried herbs along with your flowers, to give a fragrant welcome to your guests. Hide potpourri sachets in the flowers to make the wreath bursting with natural fragrance. There is one drawback though of making this wreath, your guests may refuse to leave your house!

5. You may make this wreath with silk flowers too. It will remain glorious for a long time and you can use the wreath for a variety of occasions with a few alterations. For instance, add a red felt heart for Valentine’s Day, few sprigs of faux or fresh holly for Christmas, scarecrow for Thanksgiving and so on.

Wish the freshness and vibrancy of the spring blossoms revive the romance in your conjugal life.     

“An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow.”

~Author Unknown

Anniversary is a special occasion to celebrate the sacred union of two human beings who bear the joys and sorrows of life together. It symbolizes the eternal truth that the tyranny of time cannot scathe love. If we glance at the history of wedding anniversaries, we will find that our ancestors developed the idea of anniversaries to break the monotony of day-to – day life. But with the passage of time, this concept has blossomed into a full-fledged tradition of rekindling the feeling of love and unity. Every anniversary serves to strengthen the marriage vows of sincere devotion and love.

Take some time out from your busy schedule and make this wreath for the one with whom you have climbed the hills and valleys of life.

Materials you will need:

• Twig wreath base
• Seaside grasses
• Fresh poppies
• Light green paper hydrangeas
• Seashells
• Paint
• Brush
• Construction paper
• Florist wire
• Wire cutters
• Hot glue
• Scissors

Instructions:

1.clean the grasses of sand, mud or any dirt. Trim them into roughly the same size. Make several bunches by tying with florist wire and re-tying with bear grass.

2. Place a bunch on the wreath base and secure it with florist wire. Arrange the other bunch in similar manner.
3. Paint the seashells in shades of light blue and orange.
4. Using hot glue attach the painted seashells to the bunches of grasses.
5. Tie the poppies in small bunch and attach them to the wreath. You may separate each poppy stalk and insert them in the grass bunches.
6. Make a colorful paper boat and attach it to the cradle of the wreath.

Hang this lovely seaside wreath on your front door to revive the sweet memories of your first honeymoon

The tradition of gold and silver wedding anniversaries has survived the onslaught of time, albeit with a few changes. The most significant among the changes is that couples of the new age not only celebrate the 25^th and 50^th years of their marriage but every year of their togetherness. Each year represents a different facet of the couple’s commitment, the stage their relationship is at and the number of years they have been together.

This anniversary, gift your beloved spouse a gorgeous wreath of freeze-dried wildflowers and a profusion of colorful preserved flowers and foliage, you have made yourself. Alarmed at the prospect of making a wreath yourself? Don’t be, for help is at hand. Read the instructions below to get an idea.

Materials you will need:

Twig wreath base

Freeze-dried or fresh wildflowers

Preserved roses

Preserved basil, lavender, eucalyptus

Rustic twigs,

Dried pink larkspur,

Yellow yarrow

Lavender

 Purple and white statice

Sheet moss

Spring green raffia

Hot glue

P.S (You may use fresh flowers and foliage instead of the preserved ones. However, preserved flowers retain their color and form for a really long time and are preferred worldwide. You may avoid some of the ingredients too, if you wish for a simpler wreath.)

Instructions:

1.      Trim all the flowers and foliage (except the roses) into 7-8 inches.

2.      Make several small bunches with the flowers and foliage and tie them with florist wire. Tie them once again with the raffia. Try not to use the same combination of flowers and foliage in every bunch, or the wreath will look monotonous.

3.      Soak the sheet moss in water for some time and take it out. Cut into wide sheets and wrap it around the twig base. Tie with florist wire firmly.

4.      Place each bunch on the moss-covered wreath and secure it with florist wire. In similar manner, cover the whole wreath with all the bunches, overlapping them a bit to give a dense look. Take a step back and check whether there is any gap in the wreath. If so, cover it up with flowers.

5.      Cut the flower heads of the roses and decorate the wreath by attaching with hot glue.

Your lovely preserved flower wreath is ready to make your dearest’s D Day memorable.