Silk Boutonnière / Buttonhole Tutorial, ft. The Secret Bridesmaid!
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Fancy getting hands on with your wedding florals? Whether it’s a cost saving exercise, a budding passion for florals or wanting to be fully hands on with your wedding, experimenting with silk flowers is an excellent place to start. There’s room for trial and error, you can play around and start again, AND you have all the prep time in the world as there’s no risk of wilting! What’s even better is you’ll have yourself a keepsake after the wedding, or pass them along to another friend or family member who’s getting married…you can’t get more green than that!
So far in our silk florals mini-series, featuring silks specialist Steph from The Secret Bridesmaid, we’ve brought you step-by-step tutorials on how to create a wedding bouquet and a pocket boutonnière, and now we’re showing you how to make a buttonhole AND a corsage! (Follow all the steps for the buttonhole, then continue on with one simple extra step at the end to turn it into a corsage – magic!)
We created the floral bridal bouquet first and then used the little bits and pieces left over for our buttonholes! Genius!
Having a go? We’d love to see what you did with yours. Tag us in your photos over on Instagram @bridesociety_uk.
Special thanks to Steph for the Bride Society takeover this week. If you’d like to see more of what she has to offer (including her custom silk bouquets and buttonholes!), you can find her website here and Instagram here.
Want to have a play with more florals for your wedding? Check out our Floral DIYs playlist over on YouTube. For even more content from us, you can find us in all of these places:
— Rebecca and Laura, Bride Society.
