How to Make a Wedding Bouquet With Artificial Roses

When wedding planning intersects with wedding flowers, you may find yourself overwhelmed with options for wedding bouquets and the need to explore all options. While fresh flowers are a traditional selection, artificial bouquets have emerged as a smart alternative offering the perfect blend of aesthetic appeal and practical advantages. If you are considering the use of artificial flowers for your wedding day, we’ll take you through this detailed guide on how to make a wedding bouquet with artificial roses to equip you with the resources to confirm your decision.

At Something Borrowed Blooms, we specialize in premium silk wedding flowers for rent, saving couples over 70% in the wedding budget. Serving over 30,000 couples across the United States and Canada, we know a thing or two about wedding bouquets and artificial flowers. We offer a variety of wedding bouquet styles from hand-tied, round, cascading, and garden-cut, each perfectly designed by our team of highly skilled, professional florists. 

Benefits of Choosing Artificial Roses for Your Wedding Bouquet

There are numerous advantages for selecting artificial roses for your wedding bouquet, but we will narrow it down to our top 3 benefits for faux flowers on your wedding day.

- Longevity and Durability: Silk flowers have an endless lifespan compared to fresh flowers. Fresh roses typically last about 4-5 days in peak bloom, while a faux rose can last forever and serve as a beautiful keepsake from your wedding day. Fake flowers are also very durable and can withstand just about any conditions on the wedding day, including extreme heat. On the other hand, delicate fresh flowers can be a challenge for outdoor summer weddings. With an artificial wedding bouquet, your flowers are guaranteed to look picture-perfect no matter where or when you tie the knot.

- Cost-Effectiveness: Opting for artificial roses for your wedding bouquet can be a budget-friendly choice. By doing a little wedding DIY or renting your artificial wedding bouquet from Something Borrowed Blooms, you can save a few hundred dollars or more depending on your overall selections.

- Variety and Availability: With silk wedding flowers, the options are truly endless. Silk flowers offer a variety of colors and styles available year-round. Meaning you can have exactly what you envisioned no matter the season or supply chain. That’s a huge piece of mind, knowing there won’t be any day-of surprise or changes in your wedding flowers.

Materials Needed for a DIY Artificial Rose Wedding Bouquet

With those benefits in mind, silk wedding bouquets are an easy decision! So let’s explore the DIY process further. Before you get started, there are a few materials and tips to consider when making your artificial rose wedding bouquet.

List of Supplies: First, you will want to gather the material needed to complete the design. We recommend a sharp pair of wire cutters, zip ties, floral tape, and silk ribbon. The silk ribbon is used to finish off the bouquet, hiding all the mechanics. So, be sure to choose something that fits your overall design and vision since this will be visible in the final product. 

Choosing the Right Artificial Roses:  Selecting the right artificial roses is key in creating a beautiful artificial rose bouquet. In our experience, the most realistic faux roses are made of high quality silk or real touch material. Other materials, such as foam or wood, can stand out as being unnatural. But when carefully mixing premium silk roses and real touch roses together, the outcome will closely mimic a fresh rose bouquet. In fact, the average person may not even know the difference.

Color is another important aspect to consider when selecting artificial roses. Be sure to choose colors that are found in nature. Although it can be tempting to select an artificial flower that matches other elements in your design objectives, if that color is not found in nature, it will stand out as being a fake rose indeed! 

Just as color is important, the size and shape of the faux rose is equally important and for the same reasons. By selecting faux stems with the right proportions, or just as you would find in nature, you will ensure the most realistic wedding bouquet design.

For those interested in broadening their DIY skills with artificial flowers, our guide on How to Make Artificial Flower Arrangements can offer additional insights and inspiration.

Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Bouquet: 

Now that we have our supplies and faux flowers, it’s time to start designing the rose bouquet.

Shape Your Bouquet:

Let’s discuss the overall shape. There are many different shapes to choose from, but the most common for a rose wedding bouquet are the classic round shape, an organic hand-tied, or a simple garden-cut. 

- Classic round bouquet: A classic round bouquet may be the most difficult to design, given the need for balance and symmetry and perfect curvature. But with careful placement and patience, this timeless look can be achieved. Start by prepping your rose stems by removing any greenery that is further than 1-2 inches down from the base of the rose bud with your wire cutters. If you are looking for a green-less bouquet, you will want to remove all greenery from the rose stem. 

Begin with two roses crossing the stems at the base of the rose bud, this will be the top of your bouquet and the highest point. Next, add additional roses on each side, keeping the top of the roses level, but doming the additional roses in shape. Continue to turn the bouquet, adding additional roses on each side. Continue turning the bouquet and adding additional roses in empty spaces, until the overall shape takes a round form, usually about 20-24 roses.

- Hand-tied bouquet: A hand-tied bouquet is a little easier to create than a round bridal bouquet, since there is less symmetry involved and the overall shape is more organic. In this wedding bouquet design, greenery is typically used and/or different rose varieties, which provides dimension and texture. Consider a mix of tea roses (traditional roses), sweetheart roses (petite roses ranging 2-3 inches in size), spray roses (even smaller roses, with multiple buds on one stem), and garden roses (more textured roses). 

Again, start by prepping your faux rose stems by removing any greenery that is further than 1-2 inches down from the base of the rose bud with your wire cutters. Next, we recommend starting with a filler flower, which in a rose bouquet would be the spray rose or sweetheart roses or greenery. Start by crossing two rose stems in a X-shape, intersecting about 2-3 inches down from the bud. Continue the criss-cross method with additional rose varieties, crossing and intersecting stems in every direction. Vary the height of the stems to create the desired shape.

- Garden-cut bouquet: A garden-cut bouquet is what we consider to be the easiest design to create for beginners. Think of a garden-cut bouquet as a simple gathering of flowers, more natural in shape and less of an overall design. For garden-cut bouquets, we recommend having just one or two rose varieties, the simpler the better for this style rose bouquet. 

Once again, we start by prepping your faux rose stems by removing any greenery that is further than 1-2 inches down from the base of the rose bud with your wire cutters. Next take 4-5 roses side by side, arranging them tallest in the center and tapering down on the sides. Then layer 3-4 roses side by side using the same method, adding that gathering in front of and slightly lower than the larger grouping. Repeat the same steps for the backside of the original grouping. Finish the design with a layer of 1-2 roses on each side of the design. 

Secure Your Bouquet

To finish each of the above designs, take a zip tie and secure the bouquets stems closest to where your hand is holding the stems together. Directly above or below your hand, whichever is easiest for you. Secure the zip tie firmly, allowing you to remove your hand from the design. Place another zip tie about 1 inch below the original zip tie. Next, we recommend using floral tape to cover the zip ties and wrapping around the rose stem. Typically, we cover about 3 inches of the stems in floral tape, leaving the bottom stems exposed for a natural bouquet look. 

Lastly, you can hide all the mechanics of your artificial rose bouquet with a satin ribbon of your choice. Wrap the ribbon around the stems, covering floral tape completely. Start in the middle of the taped area, leaving about 1 inch of ribbon out, wrap the ribbon tightly around the stems covering the top, then going back down the base to cover the bottom. Meet the ribbon back in the middle, where the 1 inch of ribbon sticks out and tie a knot at that point. Cut the ribbon tails to the desired length.

At Something Borrowed Blooms, we pride ourselves on the overall quality and design of our artificial bridal bouquets. Our faux bouquets are often mistaken for fresh flowers due to the time, skill, and artistry invested into the overall design. To shop our artificial bouquets, pre-designed and available to rent, visit our website. 

Tips for Personalizing Your Artificial Rose Bouquet

There are many ways to add your unique touch to your bouquet design. Creativity can blossom through the selection of rose varieties, the color palette, or the overall shape and design. The options are truly endless! You may even consider adding personal touches like unique accessories that hold sentimental value to you.

Bringing Your Vision to Life

Once your artificial rose bouquet is complete, you’ll be able to enjoy it long past the wedding day. Often couples will display the artificial bouquet within a vase in their home, providing for a beautiful floral arrangement and a sentimental token of their special day.

If you love the idea of an artificial bridal or bridesmaid bouquet, but are less inclined to DIY, you may consider our pre-made bouquets and wedding flower arrangements for rent. 

With Something Borrowed Blooms, you’ll have all the benefits of artificial flowers, but without the added time, skill, and even the cost of purchasing silk flowers associated with doing it on your own. And if the sentimental aspect of keeping your bouquet forever is important on your list, we offer a purchase option on our artificial bridal bouquets. 

We hope this blog provides you with all the information needed to have the wedding flowers of your dreams.

XOXO, 

The SBBlooms Team