"Three Ways to Preserve Fresh Flowers as After-Bouquets: Transforming Real Blooms into Dried Flowers"

How to Preserve a Fresh Flower Bouquet as an After-Bouquet???

Many brides hold a wedding bouquet made of fresh flowers during their ceremony and reception, right? ♡

The charm of real flowers lies in their freshness, juiciness, and the wonderful fragrance that can be enjoyed, unlike preserved or artificial flowers. ***

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However, with each passing day after the wedding, the flowers gradually wilt, and eventually, it’s goodbye...

That’s certainly sad, so recent brides have begun to preserve their fresh flower bouquets as after-bouquets for a semi-permanent keepsake. ♡

But preserving a fresh flower bouquet as an after-bouquet requires certain processes and steps!

The most standard method is here...!

First, let’s turn the fresh flowers into dried flowers! ♡

To preserve a fresh flower bouquet as an after-bouquet, the first step is to **turn it into dried flowers**! This allows you to keep the fresh flowers used during the wedding without wilting them permanently. ♡

However, even though dried flowers are often seen on Instagram, some brides might wonder how to actually create them???

Here are three easy methods to turn fresh flowers into dried flowers that you can try at home.

Method 1: Natural Drying

The most common way to make dried flowers is through natural drying. However, simply placing the bouquet down won’t do the trick.

The key to successfully making dried flowers is to hang the stems upside down in a well-ventilated area that is not exposed to direct sunlight. *

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By doing this, the moisture in the flowers will evaporate, and in about 1 to 2 weeks, the dried flowers will be finished! People use various methods to hang them, such as tying them with rubber bands and attaching them with pushpins, or tying with ribbons and hanging them on hooks or hangers. *

Method 2: Water

The second way to make dried flowers is to place the flowers in a small amount of water, about 3cm to 5cm deep! As the water naturally evaporates, the flowers gradually approach the form of dried flowers. *

However, this method only works well for small flowers like baby’s breath or hydrangeas, so be careful!

It’s also nice to be able to decorate with them as interior decor while turning them into dried flowers. ♡

Method 3: Silica Gel

The last method to introduce is using silica gel. Silica gel is a desiccant that absorbs moisture. * It can be easily purchased at Tokyu Hands or online!

The specific method is simply to lay the flowers on top of silica gel that is spread about 1cm thick and wait for about a week. *

Unlike natural drying, the colors remain vibrant and create beautifully dried flowers, which is a major selling point!

➡➡➡ Check out ‘Silica Gel for Dried Flowers’ on Rakuten! *

After the ceremony, let’s transform fresh flowers into dried flowers! ♡

How was that? I introduced three methods for making dried flowers to preserve a fresh flower bouquet as an after-bouquet! All of them are simple methods, so please give DIY dried flowers a try! *

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