We wanted to have something special to give our parents at the wedding, but we didn’t want to pay an arm and a leg for flowers from a florist — especially since my parents wouldn’t be able to take real flowers home with them to the US. So we decided to make them ourselves, and all for less than $10.
So, behold our parental flowers, awesome and flippin’ cheap!
Materials:
- Fake-flower lei ($2)
- A small pack of seed beads ($2)
- A small pack of larger beads ($1)
- Fake greenery ($1.50)
- Brooch pins ($1)
- Hair clips ($2)
- A butt load of craft glue
- Fishing line
Step 1:
Cut up the flower lei. Glue flowers to each other in stacks of 4 to 8, depending on how fluffy you want them. We got six flowers out of one standard lei.
Step 2:
Make stamens. We did this only for our mums’ flowers. Take short lengths (about 2 cm) of fishing line and dip one end in craft glue, then slip a seed-bead onto the end. We had eight stamens per flower. Then take a larger bead and fill its hole up with glue; place the non-bead end of the stamens into the hole and arrange them so they are spread out.
Step 3:
Attach some greenery. We used a plastic fern, which was kind of hard to attach because it was quite stiff; fabric leaves would be easier to work with. For the fascinators we used a whole fern-ring, while for the dads’ buttonholes we cut them in half. Glue to the back of the flowers.
Step 4:
Jazz up the middle of the flowers. Put a big blob of glue in the middle and place one large bead on the pre-made stamens. Sprinkle smaller beads over the rest of the glue and let this set for several hours.
Step 5:
Attach the finished flowers to hair clips or brooch pins.
