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The trend with brides this year seems to be longer and ever longer for bridal bouquets. Just curious as to how everyone manages these trailing bouquets. Do you have a favourite base - Oasis or Val Spicer? Do you glue flowers for extra strength or just wire.
On a similar note I used the new Oasis heart shaped bouquet holder recently and was completely baffled by the little white ribbon loop on it. Even Oasis didn't seem to know why it was there...... any ideas, anybody know what I'm talking about!!

Haven't a clue on little white loop.

The way i would do a really long trailing bouquet it to either use something like ivy to get the length then i would wire the longest flowers to give durability and length. i would glue them into the holder probably an oasis bouquet holder, the best in my opinion.

Hope this helps



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yeah pretty much the same, glue and wire anything that is trailing but all others seem to be ok. I use dry bridal holders for showers as they sit in better and they do last all day as long as you do them in the morning of the wedding.

Thanks all, pretty much what I thought.

In the olden days to get the length of a shower bouquet everyting would be wired and taped......then taped together working your way up the 'shower', sniping off the excess wire as you go, until you get to where you want the handle to be, then spool wire flowers in place to get the shape at the top. Find this method much, much lighter to hold, especially with the showers getting bigger and bigger. But VERY labour intensive!

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This is how I make all my showers.
It is a load easier with using silks rather than fresh, but even when I did fresh I still wired the bulk of them.

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Hi
I wire all my showers, just dont trust those holders.....I know I must be mad!!

My thinking is, is that if the bride wants a long bouquet then it must be all wired....and they can pay for the privilige!! If they REALLY want that style then they will pay the extra!

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Mr.T...you want long and 'trendy'? you pay for long and 'trendy'!!

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