Wedding Forum - Dried Rose Petals- DIY?...

Hey ladies/gents

Our venue only allows dried rose petals as confetti and with 32 days to go, we need to get some.
My mum says she's only been able to find American sellers online but I intend to search as well. Buuut we're also thinking it might be more cost effective if we do the petals ourselves.

So my question is- does anyone know how to dehydrate rose petals and how soon before the wedding we need to get started?

I got some from the UK .... let me see if I can find the website and I'll post it on your wall.

i have been making my own ....really easy ,

remove petals and place on greseproof paper

put onto a large baking sheet

put into oven on low and leave , moving petals from time to time

done

its really quick to be honest ........ i have put them in there when i have done dinner and the oven is cooling down , just leave the door open

Thanks everyone! How long before the wedding day can we dry the rose petals? How long will they keep?

nisha as long as they are dried and kept dry in a storage they will be ok :)

if they only accept dry rose petals they might even except fresh ones :) just find out :) i'm drying my own from each bunch of flowers i buy or get with roses i try them myself and keep them stored nicely away :)

Ooh, that's brilliant! My mum can start taking advantage of the cheap roses in the supermarkets now.

And it gives us time to give it some trial and error... I see a lot of burnt flowers in my future...

Thanks! Definitely a good idea to have a back-up in case mum and I learn that we can't dehydrate rose petals without making them go black first. lol.

might be trying that one spooney :) but firstly i will have my bunch of roses in a vase and enjoy them as i have so much time :) but yeah nisha u should try different things (btw asda does cheap rose bunches like 10 mini roses for £2) sometimes they are even a bit cheaper coz they are sort of out of date for display :D so might be worth it looking in to that one xx

i do mine air dried at the moment :) as i got time i dont worry :)

That's a good idea- I work in a clothes shop so I can swipe a few of those if I need to unpack the accessories delivery again. Or ask the footwear girls nicely.

We've bought artificial rose petals to put on the centrepiece mirrors (never thought of them as confetti, might check with our venue). We got ours from hobbicraft in small pots. They weren't that expensive either (£4.29 for 164 petals).

Even though they're artificial, they're very good and you'd think they were the real thing lol. Hope that helps x