Hi, welcome to Floral Design.
I'm Diana Ryan and today I'm going to design a rose bridal bouquet.
It's just a beautiful design and a very traditional, very classic design.
All right, let's get started.
First thing you need to do, you need to strip all your roses of all the foliage.
I leave a few of the leaves right at the top because I think it looks kind of pretty to
see the natural foliage, but for the majority of the rest of the stem, it's the thorns,
the leaves, everything is stripped off.
I'm going to pick my first center rose and then I'm going to lay my flowers right alongside.
I'm basically going to make a crown, if that makes sense.
This is slightly raised, my top flower, and so I'm going to just kind of place these around,
so this is the first part of it.
There are basically five roses surrounding the center rose.
I don't like this petal, it's a little bit bruised - let's take this off.
We don't want any blemishes at all in our bouquet.
OK, this is how we start off, and I hang on to it with both hands sometimes or just one.
Now let's keep building this - going to place flowers.
We're going to just keep going around in a circle and when I place them, you can see
it's got an angle to the rose - that way it will fan out nicely.
If I lay them on top, coming down like that, it's going to look like a torch and that's
not the look that we want.
So as I lay, they're laying across in this angle.
And I've already kind of taken off the bad petals on these roses as I did it.
That just saves time.
I have to switch hands now and then.
So I'm looking for a very symmetrical placement of my roses as I go around, and I'm holding
it firm enough, but loose so that I can make adjustments as I go.
OK, so we're going to continue around and, like I say, I got it held loosely but you
know what, I can make adjustments as I go.
Some of them are getting a little tall, some of are getting a little short.
Let's continue to go around my design and there - see that placement?
I've got that nice angle going with the flowers.
This guy is slipping down, let's pull him back up and this guy.
It's really just completing a nice rounded look to it.
See there's a gap right here, so I need another rose right there.
Now, this stem is going to help me out, it's a little bit curved, so I'm going to place
it right there.
OK, and the idea is we want this semi-circle of the roses.
It gives it the best look.
So I'm looking it over...let's see, there's a little bit of a gap in between these two,
let's put another rose right in there.
Pull him up a little bit, and I've got one more if I want to put it in.
Let's put it right over here.
So now look at my angles of my roses.
That's because I've placed them in that angle and that's the way they turn out, but I'm
going to bring these all down and it doesn't hurt the stems.
There, you've got some flexibility with rose stems.
The nice thing about roses, they're a sturdy stem, so they're going to take a little bit
of bending on our part.
Let's see if that's the way I want it.
You want to turn it so it looks good all the way around.
I'm going to lower some of these, so I get more of my semi-circle because it needs to
be nice and even all the way around.
OK, I think that's where I want it.
So, I'm going to take my floral tape just like I did with the other hand-tied bouquet
and I'm going to tape this together.
Some people use floral tape, some people use the wax string.
I like floral tape.
I've been working with it for a long time and I'm very comfortable with it.
Let's take out a couple of leaves.
Now is when I'm going to bring all these stems together and get them straightened out, and
then...let's get rid of these leaves, they're in the way.
You know sometimes when you leave those top leaves they add and then sometimes they get
in the way, so you can always take them off.
So let's go around and because the roses are right next to each other, they're not really
going to lose their spot.
I'm going to go down a little bit further, let's see how that's looking.
Oh yeah, that looks pretty, something about roses.
You know there is one spot right there, honestly I think maybe I need to add another rose.
Let me grab another one.
Let's take off this.
It just needs one right there - that kind of finishes it.
That's the beauty of this - you can always adjust and add if you need to.
All right, so let's tape him back in.
And I'm going to squeeze these all together.
Then get a tighter grip on them.
Let's see how that's looking.
Yeah, I'm happy with that.
Now we're going to wrap the stem with ribbon just like we've done in the past.
Oops, before I do that, I want to finish it off with Ruscus, Italian Ruscus.
The back is a lot of stems and, yes it's very natural, but it's not as attractive as it
could be, so I'm going to add pieces of Italian Ruscus that I've precut.
Beautiful foliage, very lacy, delicate, but that's going to finish this back for me.
See how that's going to look versus the plain stems.
So let's just add this around.
Oops, there's a little bad spot right there.
I'm going to add and hang on to as much as I can.
If you find that you can't hang on to all this, you can certainly tape and then come
back to it.
And I'll see if I want to keep that little bit right up there.
So now, see that's a much better look on the back than the plain stems.
So let's tape this in place.
Take that guy out.
Couple of leaves, stragglers in there.
Another reason we don't want any thorns is we don't our bride catching a thorn the day
of wedding.
She's got enough stress - she doesn't need that.
OK, let's get that to hang on there.
All right, I think I'll take off a little bit of these tips, they're a little bit too
high.
I don't want that.
I don't think I want that one either.
I don't mind a little bit of foliage; I just don't want tons of it.
Let's trim this guy back, too.
Yeah, it just makes it look more natural, but it's not overpowering the roses.
Now let's wrap this with our ribbon, so it gets a nice finished look to it.
So I kind of hang on to the ribbon with one finger as I wrap with the other, and we're
going to go all the way down till we get about to the length I want it.
OK, that's about right.
OK, so let's cut the ribbon.
Turn under the raw edge and then I'm going to pin this in place, and it just goes right
into the stems and works nicely.
That's a nice...then they've got - if they want to hold with two hands, they've got both
hands covered.
Then I'm going to cut off my stems.
I want them all the same length.
Then I always deliver my bouquets in a vase, that keeps it upright, keeps it from getting
bruised, gives a nice show to the rose bouquet.
There you have it.
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