My daughter was just married . I'd like to preserve her bouquet. Any suggestions on how to do this?

YES!! i just read an article about this. you could take it to the florist and they can do it for you (the do some freezing thing to it). if you want to do it yourself. put a rubber band around the stems tie a ribbion around it and hang it in your closes in the back where its cool and dark and not touching anything!!! they say roses do have a bad smell when dried so you can spray them with perfume before. to make it more special use the perfume she wore on her wedding day!! hope that helps!!!

My daughter was just married . I'd like to preserve her bouquet. Any suggestions on how to do this?
take it to a dry cleanning business. sometimes they can


fixed it for storage for years.
Reply:Take it to a professional and have the bouquet dehydrated. (similar to making beef jerky) then place the bouqet in a shadow box style display. If the bouquet is placed in a low humidity area, it should last a lifetime... *this must be done shortly after the wedding.
Reply:I would say maybe freeze it.
Reply:Some people use hair spray, or you could go to a craft store they should have a spray for it then seal it after it is dry.
Reply:My daughter just got married in June and she wanted me to preserve/dry her bouquet. She told me to hang it upside down till it was dried and then she's putting it into a shadow box for safe keeping. Good luck to your daughter, the bouquet and to you too mom!!!! It's hard especially if you're "empty nesters"!!!
Reply:I preserved my wedding bouquet using a mixture of half cornmeal and half borax (the 40 mule team Boraxo stuff). You mix it half and half in a bowl. Get a box big enough to hold the bouquet in with the top closed. Put about an inch of the mixture in the bottom, then add the bouquet. Use a spoon to sprinkle the mixture all around and in the flowers as much as possible, and then add the rest of the mixture gently over and around the bouquet. You will need quite a bit of the mixture, depending on how big the bunch of flowers is- I used the entire box of borax and three boxes of cornmeal. When you have the bouquet all covered over with the mixture, close up the box and seal it with tape. Put it away somewhere dry, I put mine in a closet, and leave it for a month. After that time, open up the box and gently pour off the mixture until you can lift out the bouquet. Use an artists brush to sweep out the rest of the mixture from the flowers, turn it upside down over some papers and give it a gentle shake to get as much out as you can. Then you can store it in a shadow box, or something like that, where it can still be seen, but won't get dusty. I did this with my bouquet, which is now 15 years old and counting. The roses all held their color, except the white ones got rather beige, but the pink and coral ones did fine. The baby breath did just fine, but the ferns got a little fragile. I also sprayed the whole thing with a spray clear coat to make sure everything stayed pretty much together. I have it in a glass box which my husband made to fit, and it's in our display cabinet on view. I also have my husbands boutoniere in with it, dried along with the bouquet. I haven't had any problems with it, although it is brittle now with age and will drop bits if it is handled. I've used this method to dehydrate bouquets for other folks as well, and it works great on everything I've tried. I do put a dot of glue on the backs of mums and daisies, after they dry, to keep the petals from dropping. White flowers sometimes stay white, and sometimes go beige, but everything else will hold color just fine. Some ferns get darker grey/green, some hold the green, and I can't tell you why or how to predict it. Hope this helps some, good luck with your preservation efforts.