Beautiful lush bouquets for women have always been an obligatory part of any holiday - birthday, anniversary or name day. And if we are talking about a grand celebration like a wedding, then you can't do without chic compositions of fresh flowersToday you can find a large number of photos, videos and master classes, where freshly cut flowers in skillful hands are transformed into masterpieces.
Fashion trends in floristry
Fashion, as a socially established characteristic of good taste, changes every year. This trend affects not only design decisions in the manufacture of clothing or the creation of new types of perfume.
Professional florists also create new styles every year from fresh flowers when creating beautiful bouquets, presenting photos of their work at various exhibitions and in catalogues.
In the package
Following global fashion trends, florists increasingly offer customers the option of arranging flowers in creative packages.
This original packaging with stylish handles has replaced the outdated film on the market and is offered in the following versions:
- Kraft bags made from stylish, pleasant to the touch, moisture-resistant paper.
- Cardboard packaging that is assembled by hand from a pre-prepared template at the factory. It is made in the form of a polygon or a circle, with a bottom or a slit for flower stems. The handles on such a package are usually made of fabric ribbons or in the form of ropes, which resembles a standard gift bag.
Considering that the whole world is fighting against environmental pollution, design solutions for packaging in the form of a bag using plastic are gradually becoming a thing of the past, giving way only to easily recyclable materials.
In envelopes
One of the latest fashion trends in floristry is packing small packages in boxes stylized as voluminous or flat envelopes.
Each master of flower arrangement has a wide range of products at his disposal:
- Craft, cardboard and water-repellent paper.
- Monochrome, using bright or delicate shades.
- With thematic designs, which allows the customer to precisely select the packaging for the occasion.
- With edging made of foil tapes or fabric braid.
- With a velvety surface, pleasant to the touch.
- With various interior finishing options.
- With congratulatory inscriptions, including personalized ones, made to order.
The size of the envelope is selected depending on the number of flowers in the bouquet and the presence of decorative elements. Such packaging can be stored with the bouquet for a long time, because florists provide special wet capsules to maintain the life of the flowers.
In a gift box
Beautiful bouquets of fresh flowers, photos of which are presented further in the article, are often packaged in gift wrapping.
In every fresh flower salon, the customer can ask the master for the following types of design:
- Rohozhka – the material was very popular 20 years ago, when flowers were sold at every station of the capital's metro. Today, such wrapping, along with colored textured mesh, is still used, although the design style has changed somewhat. In the windows of fashionable flower shops, you can find woven, paper and plastic meshes with large, constant or non-uniform cells of all kinds of colors.
- Kraft paper has become a style icon in the flower industry in recent years, widely used due to its impeccable appearance, variety of shades and eco-friendliness. A bouquet wrapped in such packaging has a decent appearance, but the paper does not tolerate contact with water well.
- Another type of paper packaging is crepe, which differs from kraft in that it holds its shape due to the rigidity of the material, and even the longest flowers will look perfect in such wrapping.
- Some craftsmen who want to give the bouquet a voluminous appearance, before using the packaging, fix the stems of the flowers on a special plastic or cardboard frame. After the design, this element is securely hidden under the decorative shell and the illusion of a lush bouquet is created.
- The last fashionable material in the rating is felt, which is not often used by florists. But with a high level of skill, you can create a beautiful bouquet of fresh flowers that will not be afraid of water or stain your hands due to weak pigment.
- Another squeak of fashion is hat boxes for flowers, which can be of any shape, size and color. The products are made of thick cardboard, and the flowers inside are placed in a soft damp sponge, which preserves their original appearance for a long time.
- Next season, florists will begin offering exquisite bouquets in metal buckets or boxes. This trend has been developing throughout Europe for a long time, and has gradually reached Russia.
All of the listed types of packaging can be found both in the windows of flower shops and ordered by looking at photos in catalogs on thematic portals.
A separate point is worth highlighting the wedding packaging for the bride's bouquet. Since the beginning of 2000, this element was installed in a wet floral flask, called a "microphone", which allowed the flowers not to wilt throughout the entire day.
Today, this method of decoration is gradually becoming a thing of the past, and brides willingly order bouquets for wedding photo shoots, decorated in long, lush ribbons.
How to make compositions from fresh flowers with your own hands, step-by-step master classes
The job of a florist is to combine several types of flowers and decorative elements into a single composition. The result of this work should be a beautiful bouquet, and not every beginner can do it on their own.
Compositions of fresh flowers should be successfully combined by plant species, color shades, packaging style and other parameters. For those who want to try their hand at this difficult craft, various master classes with photos and videos of professional work are offered.
Bouquet of red roses
Roses have always been considered the most noble flowers that can decorate any holiday. Delicate aroma, long straight stems and rich bright red buds cannot leave a woman indifferent. But over time, the fashion for red rose arrangements also changes.
This year, florists often arrange bouquets in the following way:
- An even number of flowers (5, 7, 9) are cut to the same length, and thorns are removed from the stems to the middle.
- Any herbaceous houseplant can be used as decoration, for example, aspidistra and one branch of maple or birch with a large number of shoots, but without leaves.
- The flowers are arranged in a “ladder” shape – the buds are located one under the other.
- A frame is assembled from tree branches, into which red roses are planted.
- An aspidistra is placed on the back side of the composition.
- The entire bouquet is tightly tied with rope in 2 places.
- The composition is wrapped in hard crepe paper of any bright shade so that the upper part of the bouquet is open on the front side.
- At the final stage, the packaging is secured with a stapler and tied with a wide ribbon in the form of a bow.
Such compositions will undoubtedly please every woman, regardless of the occasion.
Peonies
Peony is a large flower with a wide variety of colors and a delicate aroma, used by florists all over the world.
This season, elegant wedding bouquets of white peonies in combination with blue or red peonies are especially appreciated. are manufactured in the following sequence:
- To design the product, you will need 2 types of buds with small and large buds. The composition can be made up of 15 - 25 flowers.
- All the stems are tightly folded together so that the buds form a ball.
- The bouquet is cut to 25–30 cm, and the stems are inserted into a damp foam sponge.
- The sponge is tightly wrapped in large ribbons with freely hanging curled edges.
- At the customer’s request, the composition can be supplemented with beads or rhinestones and tied with a bow.
A beautiful bridal bouquet made of fresh flowers will look especially impressive in professional photos and will decorate a classic wedding dress.
Hydrangeas
A real trend of the 2021-2022 season can be called compositions of soft blue or pink hydrangeas, packed in craft paper of the same or similar shades.
The bouquet is assembled according to a simple scheme:
- For the bouquet you will need long, straight stems with large inflorescences.
- To prevent the fragile flowers from breaking, a thin wire is inserted into each of them. This is a painstaking process, since during installation you need to ensure that the tip of the metal does not come out from the outside of the stem, damaging it.
- To emphasize the expressiveness of hydrangeas, you can add 2-3 branches of bells or several medium-sized peony inflorescences to the bouquet. To give the bouquet originality, you can add rowan leaves on a thin branch to the composition.
- The main flowers are collected in a spherical structure, mixed with decorative elements.
- Finally, you need to cut a sheet of craft paper in a light blue or pink shade, carefully collecting the bouquet into a cone.
- The stems at the bottom are cut at a slight angle.
- The entire composition is wrapped with a fabric braid in a contrasting shade.
Beautiful bouquets of fresh flowers, photos of which adorn the portfolios of professional florists, in 2021 are almost always assembled using hydrangeas.
Succulents
Despite the fact that succulents in the understanding of most ordinary people are indoor plants (aloe, agave, milkweed and others), this does not mean that they cannot be used to create exquisite compositions. Bouquets of succulents can be called the latest fashion trend in the coming season.
You can create many interesting compositions from succulents:
- Interior decorative elements in clay pots or glass floral plates.
- Designer structures in wet flasks, placed in a gift box. Often florists offer such a composition in an open cubic form with an elegant ribbon on which a congratulation or an appeal to a loved one is written.
- Exotic bouquets of succulents are wrapped in craft paper of natural colors and tied with paper rope, which creates the effect of natural purity.
Any succulent inflorescences mixed in a bouquet can be used for the composition. When decorating gifts from cactus subspecies, florists often use dried immortelle flowers or other dried flowers, which are fixed with glue.
Beautiful bouquets of fresh flowers (photos and videos of the birthday boy with them will look, at the very least, original) are obtained if the composition is made from succulents of different types.
Iris
Unlike the flowers listed above, bouquets of irises are a universal gift and can be presented not only to the fair sex, but also to beloved men, or simply to colleagues or friends. Irises go well with tea roses, lilies, crocuses, chrysanthemums or tulips.
To assemble a stylish and brutal bouquet of irises, you need to do the following:
- Take white irises as the basis of the composition. It is desirable that the yellow core is visible on all flowers.
- Yellow chrysanthemums and gerberas are suitable as additional flowers, which go well with the iris cores.
- The decoration can be made from a spruce branch or palm leaf.
- All flowers are mixed and cut to the same length.
- The bouquet is inserted into a floral capsule with a damp sponge.
- A spruce branch or palm leaf is fixed on 3 sides of the composition.
- The finished structure is wrapped in waterproof material at the bottom and packed in a box or a cardboard bag with a bottom.
Yellow, blue and orange colors are considered trendy in the coming year, and the resulting composition will remind you of the good taste of the author of the bouquet for a long time.
Lily
This large flower is considered a symbol of beauty and grace, and its pleasant, long-lasting aroma instantly fills the room. Lily is one of the favorite flowers of florists in many countries of the world.
If a man wants to surprise his beloved with a bouquet of lilies, decorated according to the latest fashion, he should follow the instructions:
- The floral sponge is moistened in water.
- Once saturated with moisture, the sponge, called an "oasis", is immersed in a bouquet holder.
- The container for flowers is masked with decorative asparagus leaves or decorative fern, so that it looks like a cup for the main bouquet.
- The handle of the bouquet holder is wrapped with pink or purple satin ribbon.
- 7-9 lilies are trimmed to the same size.
- As an additional flower, it is better to take 3-5 wild daisies.
- The flowers are mixed and carefully inserted into the bouquet holder.
- The finished product can be used as a wedding bouquet or placed in a decorative paper bag.
Lilies will also look spectacular wrapped in craft paper with delicate, muted shades, or in a translucent white mesh. At the final stage of work, flowers can be decorated with artificial pearls of different sizes.
Orchid
Beautiful bouquets of fresh flowers, photos of which can be studied in the portfolio of florists, amaze the imagination if orchids are used in the composition. This flower in different countries of the world symbolizes harmony, purity of soul and personifies feminine beauty.
In 2021, florists offer the following exotic bouquet option:
- Take 9-11 fresh white orchids and the same number of floral flasks.
- Each flower is aligned and inserted into its own flask.
- The flasks are wrapped in natural linen fibre to achieve a “spider web” effect.
- All the flowers are collected into a bouquet, to which 4-6 tea roses are mixed.
- The entire composition is wrapped in lilac or pink mesh and decorated with a wide satin ribbon.
- The finished bouquet can be presented either in a bag or in a rectangular box, since the flasks eliminate the need to store the composition in a vase with water.
Depending on the occasion, the color scheme can be changed - the above option is ideal for a wedding, and when celebrating a birthday, the delicate shades can easily be changed to bright ones - red, yellow or blue.
Other ideas for flower mix arrangements
The work of a good florist is amazing, and some bouquets can be safely called unique works of art. Of course, the skill of the creator himself plays a huge role, but, for the most part, the main effect is achieved by creating exotic combinations of "live" bouquet material.
In the coming season, the most fashionable are considered to be color mixes:
- Scarlet and tea roses with cream lilies.
- Bright bouquets of mimosa branches with sunflowers.
- Roses and peonies 5 – 7 shades in one composition.
- Summer wild flowers in a crepe paper bag with a congratulatory sticker.
- Combinations of red roses, peonies and chrysanthemums in an XL hat box with satin ribbon.
- Pink roses and orchids in a box edged with ferns or palm leaves.
- Irises with white roses in a strict blue paper packaging.
Table of the most fashionable trends in floristry in 2021 - 2022:
| Basic flowers | Additional plants | Wrapper type | Type of decor | Reason for celebration | For what category of people is it suitable? |
| Scarlet roses, tea roses | Cream Lilies | Kraft paper, mesh, envelope | Spruce branch, aspidistra | Birthday, name day, anniversary, wedding | Girls, women up to 45 years old |
| Sunflowers | Mimosa branches | Crepe paper, bag | Gypsophila, asparagus | Anniversary, birthday, new addition to the family, children's party | Children, parents, close relatives and best friends |
| Pink roses, burgundy roses | Pink peonies, burgundy peonies | Mesh, envelope, box, metal bucket | Fern, palm leaf | Anniversary, Jubilee, Proposal | Women 25 – 45 years old |
| Bells, cornflowers, daisies | Tansy, Echinacea | Kraft paper | Gypsophila, bergrass | Birthday, romantic date | Young girls under 25, children |
| Red roses, pink and white peonies | Yellow or orange chrysanthemums | Hat box, XL envelope | Ruscus, fern, aspidistra | Romantic date, proposal | Girls, women up to 45 years old |
| Pink roses | White orchids | Envelope, box | Monstera, fern, gypsophila | Wedding, wedding ceremony, anniversary | Women of all ages |
| Irises | White roses | Kraft paper, crepe paper | Asparagus, monstera | Corporate event, congratulations to colleagues | Management, colleagues, partners (men) |
Before composing or ordering a beautiful bouquet of fresh flowers, it is better to find out the personal preferences of the hero of the occasion. The florist will help to correctly develop the client's idea by creating a unique composition or showing him similar photos from the portfolio.
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