DIY Wedding: How to Make Your Own Fall Wedding Bouquets

To save money on your wedding bouquets, rather than cutting down on the size of the bouquets, one option is to just put them together yourself. If you have a good eye for detail and can artfully arrange some flowers, making your own bouquets is not too difficult of a task.

How to Get Flowers to Make Your Own Fall Wedding Bouquets

To make your own fall wedding bouquets, you will obviously need flowers, which you will want to get as fresh as possible from a local florist. Unless they carry a large stock regularly, you will probably need to order in advance to make sure they have everything you need when you need it. If you are a good gardener and live in a reasonable climate, you could even consider planning ahead and growing your own flowers, which is significantly less expensive. Just make sure you have a backup plan in case the flowers bloom at the wrong time, or even worse, die before they get to bloom.

Supplies Needed to Make Your Own Fall Wedding Bouquets

In addition to flowers, you will need to have a good pair of scissors for trimming the stems, and also some small vases to arrange the flowers in before you tie them. To tie the bouquets, you will want ribbon (either white or a color that matches your wedding's color scheme) and some simple pins to secure it.

Flower Combination Ideas for Fall Wedding Bouquets

One option for a fall wedding bouquet is a chrysanthemum and hosta bouquet. Chrysanthemums come in a variety of colors, and they can definitely bloom in the fall. Hostas are very resilient plants that typically have green leaves with white edges, making them a great wedding greenery. For this bouquet, you will want a few colors of chrysanthemums, plus some hosta leaves to surround the bouquet, and even poke up through it. Because the leaves are so large, make sure that they are not sticking out of the bouquet too far, but do let the tips peek out from between the flowers.

Another fall wedding bouquet option that is great if you want to stay away from reds and oranges is one made with aster and dusty miller. Aster is a fall bloom that looks kind of like small daisies, and it comes in a few colors, including a lilac and a deep purple. Choose mostly deep purple aster, maybe with some lilac highlights to lighten up the bouquet. Dusty miller is a very resilient plant with a light silvery green leaf, which offsets the aster nicely.

Marigolds come in a variety of fall colors, and so if you want a fun and very brightly colored fall bouquet, you could arrange a bouquet of marigolds with autumn leaves and red berries. This makes for a very rustic and natural look that is sure to be memorable.

How to Arrange Your Fall Wedding Bouquets

Once you have all your flowers and other greenery, you will need to arrange your wedding bouquets. Start with the bridal bouquet, because you definitely don't want to run out of good flowers before you get there. Pick the best-looking flowers and put them all into a vase with a small neck. Then figure out where your focal points will be, and arrange the smaller flowers and greenery around them. Trimming the stems should be done last, because you wouldn't want to trim them too short. Make sure you do not trim the bouquet into too perfect of a spherical shape, but leave some variety in the texture to make it look more natural. Then pull it out of the vase, holding the stems tightly to make sure nothing moves, and wrap them with some florist tape. After they are secured, wrap ribbon around the stems to cover the tape. Secure the ribbon with pins, trim the stems so they are all even if they aren't, and your bridal bouquet is all done!

For the bridesmaids, set out as many vases as you have bridesmaids, and distribute the flowers evenly between the vases. The trick here is to get the bouquets as uniform as possible, so arrange one and then arrange the others to match it. Tie them off the same way you did with the bridal bouquet, possibly using another color of ribbon to differentiate them.