how to wrap a handtied bouquet

Welcome back to Ephemeral Fall. Finally, it is my blog post on bouquet wrapping. This blog post might be slightly longer than the others but it would definitely worth the read. All the best in wrapping your own bouquet.

Tools required: floral scissors or garden shears, jute twine or binding wire, aluminium foil, cellophane, cotton, wrapping paper

1. Arranging flower:

• Take a large bloom (or a group of same flowers) as your center flower.
• Start adding in different flowers following spiral method.
• turn the bunch slightly in the same direction everytime you add a flower or foliage to create a neat spiral of stems for easy adjustment of the arrangement.
• If you are using flowers with different colours, make sure they are distributed evenly.
• the colour distribution would look overwhelmed at one side if there are too much dark-coloured flowers on the left and light-coloured flowers on the right.
• Tie the bouquet up with jute twine or binding wire.
• Adjust the arrangement again before tying a dead knot.
• Make sure to move up flowers that sink in and adjust foliage position.
• Cut stems diagonally to desired length at similar level for water absorption.

Arranging flowers

2. Wrapping up with cotton:

• Place the bouquet on top of a sheet of aluminum foil.
• Cover the stems with dry cotton (do not wet the cotton before wrapping stems as it would be difficult to adjust wet cotton).
• Make sure the bottom part of cotton is thicker for better water absorption.
• Fold the aluminum foil up and wrap together.
• Put into plastic bag or wrap with cellophane and seal with jute twine or binding wire.

Wrapping with cotton

3. Paper wrapping: wax paper (inner) and flod paper (outer)
*There is no right or wrong when it comes to paper wrapping. you can always try wrapping with different styles and combination. This is only a basic guide, it is not necessary to follow step-by-step.

• Inner wrapping sequence

• background: cut the wax paper same as the bouquet width
• front: create wave or straight wrap

• Outer wrapping sequence

• background: cut the flod paper about 1.5 times the bouquet width and fold both ends inward and hold together
• side: cut two pieces of flod paper with a width similar to that of the bouquet and fold one end 1/3 inwards on both sides at a slant
• front: cut another two pieces of flod paper about 0.5 times the bouquet width and fold one end 1/2 inwards on both sides at a slant

• Use a binding wire to seal at the same position and tie a ribbon at the binding point. 

Inner wrapping: background and front

Outer wrapping: background

Outer wrapping: side and front

Binding wire and tying ribbon