How to Make Your Own Hydrangea Wedding Bouquet

Making a hydrangea wedding bouquet is a great way to get the bouquet that you want with the customization that will truly make it yours. DIY hydrangea wedding bouquets can be put together in just a few minutes using basic flower arrangement supplies that can be picked up from a craft supply store.

The following are basic instructions for a DIY hydrangea wedding bouquet that is simple enough for a beginner to make and leaves plenty of room for creativity once you become comfortable with arranging the bouquets.

Supplies Needed
10 to 12 stems of hydrangea flowers, color of your choice
5 stems of another flower-- rose, tulip, peony, babies breath and lilies all pair well with hydrangea
Bouquet holder with fitted piece of floral foam (optional)
Green floral tape
Straight pins
Stem cutter
Ribbon matching the color scheme you have chosen to go with

Basic Instructions for a DIY Hydrangea Wedding Bouquet
There are so many ways to arrange a hydrangea wedding bouquet, but the most basic consists of just hydrangea blooms being used. For this type of bouquet there is no need for a bouquet holder and floral tape can be used to hold it all together. A basic hydrangea wedding bouquet calls for ten to twelve blooms to be used, though more or less can also be used in a bouquet. Because of the variety of colors in hydrangea blooms you have the ability to choose between using a single color or a mix of colors when it comes to the blooms that coordinate with your chosen wedding colors.

To start you need to prepare all the floral stems for the bouquet by removing any leaves and thorns with the stem stripper. Hydrangea stems do not have a lot of foliage to worry about, but you will have to remove all the leaves at the base of the blooms. Since you are not using a bouquet holder for this arrangement, place the stems in a pitcher filled with water so that they can absorb as much water as possible. Absorption is increased with a fresh angled cut at the base of each stem.

Leave each stem in the pitcher of water, removing stems as you use them. Starting with a single stem, use a single hand to hold the bouquet as you arrange it. Hold each flower by the stem so that the blooms are arranged as tightly together as possible. Continue adding hydrangea floral stems to your wedding bouquet, one by one, placing each bloom on the outside of the bouquet and working all the way around the arrangement. As you move outward from the center the blooms should be placed lower than the blooms immediately inward so that the bouquet takes on the shape of a dome.

When your bouquet is as large as you want it, or when you run out of hydrangea stems, use floral tape to secure the stems together as high up to the blooms as you can, without breaking them. Tie the stems together again about an inch from the end of the bottom of the bundle of stems. At this point you have several options to customize your hydrangea wedding bouquet, and you do this with your choice of ribbon. A thin silk ribbon can be used to wrap around the entire bundle of stems or the bouquet can be tied of with a single bow with a wide ribbon. Your basic hydrangea bouquet is now done.

Option 2: Using a Bouquet Holder
A bouquet holder with fitted floral foam is a great way to create a floral bouquet with more than one type of flower. The holder and foam allows you to create layers to the hydrangea bouquet that would otherwise be hard to maintain without the foam. An easy way to create an attractive bouquet with the foam is to work from the bottom of the bouquet to the center. Place smaller blooms such as babies breath or tight tulips ad foliage around the perimeter of the bouquet holder . Then place the hydrangea stems in the center and of the bouquet until the entire arrangement has been filled.

Other Variations
Some interesting floral combinations that work very well include hydrangeas with tulips, hydrangeas and roses, and hydrangeas, babies breath and lilies together in an arrangement. Roses, tulips and lilies can be placed in between tight hydrangea arrangements. Dainty flowers like babies breath, daisies and miniature roses look great in a crown around the outer edges of a bouquet.

Even more variation can be achieved with the choice of ribbon with everything from thin to wide ribbons being used to a single well placed bow to ribbon streamers dangling from the bouquet. Be creative in the materials and flower combinations that you use to make beautiful DIY hydrangea wedding bouquets.