Whether you choose real blooms, preserved blossoms, fabric flowers or feathers, corsages can be worn on the wrist or lapel.
Celebrating a bride involves a lot -- planning showers, buying gifts, and assisting with the wedding plans. To make a bride feel particularly special, create a unique corsage for her to wear at a bridal shower. Whether you use exquisite fresh blooms or kitschy joke items, snap photos of the bride as she is honored -- or hazed. With some floral tape, floral wire, and a few chosen items, the bride will be adorned for her wedding shower, for better or for worse.
Instructions
Traditional Version
1. Look for the flowers you wish to include in the corsage; if you know the bride's wedding flowers, consider incorporating those into her bridal shower corsage. Other choices range from the bright and casual, like Gerbera daisies, to the exotic and elegant, like orchids.
2. Group several small flowers or choose to display one large flower. Make a corsage that features one color of different kinds of flowers, or one kind of flower in a variety of colors. Consider pairing a simple, single blossom, like a white rosebud, with a colorful ornament, like a peacock feather.
3. Practice arranging the corsage flowers until you find a design you like. Wrap the stems in floral wire, bending until they match your design. Wrap each stem in green floral tape. Use floral tape to tape the stems together in a bunch.
4. Refrigerate the bridal shower corsage until the time of the event. Sprinkle it with water and keep cool. Avoid making the corsage too far in advance to prevent wilting.
5. Provide the bride with a corsage box full of silica crystals to dry her corsage as a keepsake, if you use fresh flowers in the corsage.
Party Version
6. Assemble a variety of classic wedding "kitsch" items or, for some audiences, mischievous honeymoon items. For classic wedding kitsch, consider a small, inexpensive bride and groom cake topper, crafting foil wedding rings, a garter, a spray of tulle, miniature plastic doves, and small fold-out tissue paper wedding bells.
7. Group the fun wedding novelty items you choose. To assemble as a corsage, hot glue the novelty items like a cake topper bride and groom or wedding bells to a lollipop stick, or wrap with florist's wire. Wrap floral tape around each stick or wire; then tape the sticks or wire together to form a corsage.
8. Surround the "kitsch" party corsage with bunches of tulle and sequins. Spray paint with glitter for an even more over-the-top fun bridal shower corsage. Take pictures of the bride wearing her party corsage. Print them out on a home photo printer while guests are eating and place them in an album as a gift for the bride after the shower.
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