Wedding Forum - Making my own Brooch bouquet. **UPDATE**...

Hi

So I love the brooch bouquets and the lady who is doing my flowers holds a workshop to make your own and it's £250-450 depending on which one you choose- well iv seen online quite a few people have made their own and it makes it more personal and I can put personal jewellery in etc iv ordered the materials I need from the bay of e and just need to start gathering up more brooches (I have 14 already)
I'm not very crafty but iv watched so many tutorials I'm sure I can give it a good go.
Anybody else considering making their own bouquet?
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I had never heard of them so I just we nt on tube of you. Wow they look awesome really different.

Im using flowers and brooches don't want a whole brooch bouquet personally but they are lovely xx

Ive seen a few ways to do it im going to try it without anything and then might try a wire collar xx

I only want a wire collar if it will be hidden and I have found a nice sparkle wrap to put around the base of the flowers xx

Oh ill need to have a look thanks!

full names aren't aloud on the forum try to disguise the name h088y cr@ft xx

Yes I will put pics up through the making process aswell just Incase anyone else wants to do it they can get some tips on how to do it :-)
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Ill defo be adding pics! I have my flowers, wire and some brooches in the house to start practicing but I haven't got round to it yet xx

I love the look of brooch bouquets ( also am having real flowers for mine as only time I'll really have flowers haha, but am having brooches in it. You'll defo have to upload pics of it during process and at end :) x good luck I'm sure it will look fab x

Pretty :) just out of curiosity are they expensive? I'm tempted to have some pearls put on my bouquets too x

I got these from a user that on the bay of e who just sells brooches but I need to go and pick some other designs up and will keep my eye out, iv been told that pr!m@£k is pretty good for getting bits like necklaces or rings but just loop the wire through them. They else weren't too expensive the little ones were about £1.50 and the bigger ones were £2.80.
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Oh did they Sarah? The only reason I wasn't using the china ones was because usually they take up to 20-30 days and I didn't want to wait that long, I will have to take a look at them ones then
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Yes china is delivering fast at the moment

No they don't, some iv seen have used rings and even earrings for the bouquet if you have somewhere to loop the wire through and secure it then you can use it
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So here's 2 of my stems done, I ran out of wire so couldn't do any more considering I had 10feet of wire that's crazy!! Ha (one snapped because I twisted it too tight) my fingers are hurting now though and that's only two...only another 58 to go!!!! Aaaahhhh
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You are geeing me on to maybe think of trying this again :)

Your all so clever, I'll defo be bookmarking this thread to see how your all doing and see if I can gets some hints and tips from you!! Out of curiosity are you just doing brooch bouquets for your own bouquet or are you doing your BM's as well? Also once they are made are they easy to change and adapt? I love the idea of brooch bouquets and I was thinking I might ask my BM's to spend a couple of evenings with me making mine and there own as a kind of bonding session, if I do this I would ask them to provide some pieces which they like or that are special to them so that if they would like they could keep their bouquets and when the time comes they could use them as a starting point for their own wedding bouquet if they would like.

Thanks for the tip on the wire sazzle will definitely take note

Thanks Idl i'll have a look too xx

Looking good so far, pretty brooches. :)

Looking good. I just keep ordering brooches I think I have an addiction lol

I'm making my own bouquet too only with buttons and brooches yours is looking amazing

**UPDATE**
hi, so its been a few months since i said i was starting my own brooch bouquet and iv nearly finished it, still need to add some more pearls and some diamante wrap on the handle but other then that I'm quite happy with it. let me know what you think :-)

Wow that is stunning! Well done you! Xx

That is gorgeous! Well done! x