How Do you Decorate With Dried Flowers?

Dried flowers make beautiful decor for any room of your home or wedding event.You can use them to create a variety of different kinds of decor like wreaths, decorative signs, napkins, wedding bouquets, corsages, boutonnières, photos, table decor, and floral arrangements to make your home or wedding day decor extraordinary.

• You can make amazing looking wreaths with dried flowers.
• Add a small bunch of dried flowers to a decorative sign.
• Tie a napkin with a ribbon and attach a small bouquet of dried flowers to it.
• Wedding bouquets made from dried flowers are exquisite.
• Dried flowers make beautiful corsages.
• Boutonnières made from dried flowers are very natural and attractive looking.
• Add a small bouquet of dried flowers to a photo on display.
• Lay a garland of dried flowers in the middle of your table.
• Dried flowers can make a variety of floral arrangments to decorate your home or wedding event.

I love working with dried flowers. It is like enjoying your flowers twice over. First when they are fresh and picked from the garden and then as they dry you can use them in a variety of decor. When put together and arranged right, they make a beautiful stunning display. I had a friend who grew flowers just for drying. She and her husband had a large field and in the evening after working their day jobs, they would grow and harvest all kinds of flowers perfect for drying. They sold them once they were harvested. I learned a lot from her about dried flowers. That started my love for dried flower decor.

Create A Wreath

Dried flower wreaths are so amazing! Love how natural and stunning they look. Globe Amaranth, Straw Flowers, Roses, Ranunculus, Rodanthe, Babies Breath,Wheat, Hydrangea, Everlastings, Dahlias, German Statice and other flowers. To make a wreath you will need a grapevine wreath or brass ring. Purchase flowers that you can dry. Once the flowers are dry, put flowers in piles. Stack all the globe on top of each other, stack all the Babies Breath on top of each other and so forth. Take a few flowers from each pile and hold it tightly in your hand. Then take a few more flowers and continue to add to the bunch in your hand. Put wire tightly around the stems of the flowers. Wire that bunch to the wreath base. Wire flowers around the entire wreath. Add a ribbon or you may not need a ribbon. The flowers are pretty without it. Personal choice to ribbon or not is yours.

Add A Floral Touch To A Sign

Decorative signs are really popular and have been for a really long time. Add a nice upgrade to your sign by putting a small bouquet of dried flowers on your sign. You can attach it with glue, staples, whatever will work for your wooden sign. I added a bundle at the top of the sign on a diagonal. Then some flowers at the bottom of the sign. I glued pinecones to the top and the bottom. If you want to go all out, you can put flowers all around the sign creating a wreath look.

Napkin Decor

Add a little touch of class to your kitchen table by adding small details with dried flowers. Tie a ribbon loosely around a folded napkin. Then tie a few dried flowers together with twine with a simple knot. Tuck this bundle of flowers underneath the ribbon on top of the napkin. Oh…charming and quaint and will definitely make a cute statement and impress your guests. Easy to do and doesn’t cost much but the impact is powerful. Love little things like this to make your guests feel special when they sit at your table!

Wedding Bouquets

If you want a more au natural look to your wedding flowers, choose a dried floral wedding bouquet. You can even take flowers, dry them yourself by hanging them upside down. Once the flowers are dry, layer them on top of each other in the order you want them to be, and secure wire around the stems at the bottom. Cut the stems off under the wire so they look uniform. Spray your flowers with hair spray to make them less fragile. Finish off your bouquet by tying a raw silk ribbon (the color of your choice) around the wire and let the ribbon cascade down. Cradle your wedding bouquet on your arm. Beautiful way to accent your wedding dress. Then match corsages and boutonnières flowers to your bouquet! Voila! So very chic!

Dried Flower Corsages

Just like the wedding bouquet, dried flower corsages can be very exquisite looking and very natural. Follow the same technique above. Start with a background flower such as Babies Breath or German Statice, Wheat, Dried Oats, Caspia, Evergreens or even some Juniper or Boxwood as a background for your flowers. Then add some fillers like Statice, pastel Globe, Rhodanthe. Top it off. with a dried rose or two. Ranunculus is a fav of mine. So stunning looking in your flowers. Each corsage you make could be individual or you can match them. Whatever you style is. Unique and beautiful looking to compliment your wedding attire and party. Side note here: You could also use these for prom or other school dances.

Boutonnieres

Like the corsages, boutonnieres (hate typing this word haha! Too many ways to spell it wrong!) make gorgeous wedding florals too. Just follow the same procedure for the corsage just make it smaller. Spray it with hairspray to protect the dried flowers and add ribbon.

The great thing about using dried flowers in your wedding florals is that they last a really long time if you don’t display them in direct sunlight. I sadly made that mistake with my wedding bouquet. Had it put under glass and it faded away because I didn’t realize the sun would damage it.

Photo Decor

Take a small bundle of dried flowers and attach them to a photo frame. This will dress up your photo and accent it so beautifully. If you don’t want to attach the small dried flower bouquet to your photo, lay it in front of a photo that is displayed on a table. You’ll be amazed at the instant charm it gives to your picture and table.

Dried Flower Garland

Creating and putting a dried flower garland down the center of a table is SWOON worthy! I’m telling you! Nothing more beautiful and game changing in your dining room than to add a garland down the middle of your table. Decide the length you want your garland to be. Cut 2 pieces of twine about 18-24 ” long. You will be making 2 garlands the same length that you can fasten together. Make piles of each type of flower or greens you use for your garland. Pinecones can be a nice addition as well. Then you can easily pick up each piece of greenery or flowers making small bundles to attach to your twine.

Take a stem of 2 or 3 types of dried greenery but make your bundles thinner and lightweight. It can be as thick as you want it to be but if you don’t want it to interfere with plates and other things you put on your table so keep the flowers under control. Haha! Next wire with 24 gauge paddle wire , attach the first bundle to your twine by wrapping your bundle with the wire. Next grab a bundle of dried flowers that you want to alternate with your greens. Pick up the wire and wrap it tightly (not so tight that you break your stems though) and continue to alternate greenery and flowers. Then attach the two lengths of twine wired with flowers to complete your garland. Fill in any gaps with leftover flowers or greenery. Either wire them or attach to your garland with glue. You can display your garland on a mantel, around a door, on a bookcase. Possibilities are endless! No matter where you put them, it will be eye catching and no doubt a highlight of your room decor!

Arranging Dried Flowers

Don’t you just love flower arrangements that are unexpected beauty? With dried flowers you can do the unexpected easily! Take a suitcase and just layer your dried flowers in a way that looks inviting and beautiful. It can be that simple! Just decide on the flowers you will use. Put them in piles (this is key because it makes arranging quicker and easier because you can easily see the dimensions, colors, and shapes and how they put them together.) Stack your flowers on top of each other in a carefree type look. You could always make it look more symmetrical or structured if you want but nothing wrong with the carefree look. Try other creative containers as well for your flowers. Discover that using your creativity and sometimes thinking outside the box can bring extraordinary results in your home design and decor.

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