You’ve found yourself here because…

• You’re ready to plan your DIY wedding flowers but you’re not sure where to begin.

• You want to learn to make your own: bouquets, buttonholes, wrist corsages and/or hair flowers.

• Rather than making your whole wedding flowers package, you’d love to get creative with flowers for the people in your wedding party. Leaving the table flowers and venue decorations to someone else.

• Florist guidance and knowledge is what you need, rather than a flower shop making the arrangements for you.

• You want to source your flowers as locally and seasonally as possible.

• Creative is one of the words you’d use to describe yourself in that awkward office ice breaker.

• Making your own wedding flowers is something you always thought you’d do, rather than putting your wedding budget towards a florist making them.

• You’re not obsessed with getting the perfect shade of dusky pink, what’s more important is handmade, seasonal and locally grown.

• You usually have a homemade or upcycling project on the go and much of your wedding day is going to be handmade with love.

I made this course to sweep away any floristry overwhelm, and instead make you excited and confident about your DIY wedding flowers.

This video course will help you:

• save priceless time learning how to make your wedding flowers, so you can get on with confidently making them look beautiful instead

• understand which sized flowers create beautifully balanced arrangements

• have enough time to enjoy getting ready on the morning of your wedding because you’ve pre-made your flowers in advance

• make your own wedding bouquet look like it’s from a fancy florists

• arrange you wrist corsages and buttonholes for your loved ones and make them exactly how you’d like them

• put together you hair flowers that link through with your wedding colour theme

• begin your creative journey in the flower arranging world with ease and joy

Introducing Alex:

Hello! I’ve been a wedding florist since 2014, and I teach flower workshops, showing people they can be creative with flowers too. Having created over 100 wedding bouquets, I’ve put together my wedding flower knowledge to help you create your own bouquet, buttonholes and flower crown of your (Pinterest) dreams!

Choosing to make your own wedding bouquet and flowers for the people in your wedding party is amazing because…

- you can add your creative flare without having to create absolutely all the wedding flowers for the day.

- you’ll save money by learning how to make them yourself and having control of your flower spend at the flower farm you choose.

- you don’t have to be flower arranging on the morning of your wedding, that’s the time for sipping fizz whilst you get ready.

- the flower arranging knowledge you’ll learn will serve you far beyond the wedding day itself, you can now arrange flowers for home and gifts too.

- diy wedding flowers are a fun and creative way to add your personality into your wedding decor.

- your wedding guests will be wowed with your newly learnt talent and the florals will be captured in your wedding photos so you can look at them over and over again.

Chapter 2: Wedding Bouquets

The videos and workbook will guide you through the only technique you’ll need to make all your wedding bouquets,

including bridal bouquets and bridesmaids bouquets,

get your tools list and find out the stem count to make a beautiful wedding bouquet

Chapter 3: Buttonholes and Wrist corsages

These are great for your family and people who are close to you to wear.

They’re an indicator of who’s in your wedding party and who’s going to be playing a role in your wedding day.

People to wear buttonholes and wrist corsages could include: best women, ushers, groomsmen, bestmen, bridesmaids, family members and friends hosting your ceremony.

This chapter zooms in on how to make them and what you’ll need.

Chapter 4: Flower Crowns and Hair flowers

In this chapter, the videos guide you through how to make a flower crown and individually wired hair flowers.

Individual flowers are amazing to scatter through a braid or place alongside each other to look like a floral hairslide, but individual flowers creates more of a delicate and less concentrated look.

Now you’ve made all your wedding party flowers, this chapters shows you how to keep your flowers lasting and transport them to the wedding safely. I’ll show you my tried and tested way of transporting wedding bouquets so they look beautiful in the photos whilst you’re getting ready and they get to your venue intact!

By the end of the course you’ll:

• know how to prep flowers so they last longer and you get more out of them

• the best flower and foliage varieties to use for bouquets, buttonholes, corsages and hair flowers

• be able to choose your colour palette for your flowers

• have a count of how many flowers and foliage stems you’ll need for your wedding party flowers so you can control your budget

• have a timeframe for your flower arranging to avoid a last minute rush

• plan in time to practice so you’re extra confident when it comes to making the wedding day flowers

• how to use fresh and dried flowers in the buttonholes, corsages and hair flowers

• how to tie your wedding bouquet with a beautiful trailing ribbon

• learn tricks to help your wedding bouquets last longer on the day

• be able to create your own wedding party flowers for a fraction of the budget of using the services of a florist

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED:

What’s the course layout?

The course is video based with pdf workbooks that guide you through each step alongside the video tutorials. You can pause and replay the videos whenever you like.

Are the flowers included?

This is an online course that you can take at your own pace so the flowers are not included. In the chapters, you’ll learn how to find seasonal and local flower suppliers and how many stems you’ll need to source for your designs.

How is the course delivered?

Once you’ve bought the course, you’ll receive an email with log in details for your online portal. Please check your junk mail just incase the email’s gone in there. With your log in details you can enter the online portal and there you’ll find the five chapters of the course.

Do I need to be in the UK to take the course?

This online course shows you the techniques to use to make your DIY Wedding Party Flowers with a whole range of flowers, so it will work with other seasonal flowers in other countries too.

How long do I need to take this course?

Each ‘How To’ video lasts between 9-11 minutes approx. Some of the 5 chapters include 2-4 videos so the instructions are broken down into stages. It’s really important to practice your wedding flowers before you make them for the day itself. Work back from your wedding date and set aside plenty of practice time a few months before your wedding date. Get your free DIY wedding flowers timeline planner here to help give you an idea of how much time you’ll need.

Who is typically in the wedding party group?

The wedding party includes you and your very closest family and friends and those who are involved in your ceremony. Your wedding party is made up of your loved ones like: bridesmaids, ushers, best women, best men, groomsmen, parents, and the both of you.

When do I need to order my flowers from the supplier?

It’s best to contact your local flower farm or local grower as soon as you can. Sometime’s they’ll need to know a year in advance if there are exact seed varieties they need to plant for you. Get in touch with them 8 or more months before your wedding date to make sure they can supply you with flowers and they can tell you when and how to place your order.

When does the course start?

Once you pay for the course you’ll have instant access to all the modules. Sign up for the course is available from May 2023 until mid-Summer 2023.

Is this course just for weddings?

This course shows you how to make bouquets, buttonholes, wrist corsages, flower crowns and hair flowers and all of these can be made for celebrations that aren’t just weddings.

Are refunds possible?

As this is an online and digital course, if you are not happy with the course, refunds are available to claim within 14 days of the purchase.

How long can I access the course for?

Once you’ve signed up to the course you have business lifetime access.