How to choose and make a wedding bouquet of sweets?

It is a pleasure to receive a bouquet and a box of chocolates as a gift to any person. A bouquet of sweets will cause not just joy, but surprise and sincere admiration, especially if it was presented on the wedding day. After reading this article, you can choose a decent bouquet for a wedding celebration and learn how to make a sweet bouquet with your own hands as a gift to the bride for the wedding.

The art of making bouquets of sweets - Sweet-design, one of the most famous areas of floristics. Types of sweet compositions are not much different from the compositions of fresh flowers.

Bold and welcome non-standard solutions:

• contrasting colors;
• bright juicy shades;
• decorative inserts of ribbons, artificial fruits, beads, butterflies, dragonflies;
• in winter bouquets fasten cones, nuts, Christmas decorations, cinnamon sticks, anise stars, tangerines;
• plaster figurines of pigeons and angels are placed in a composition for a wedding celebration;
• different finishing materials are used on the invoice: felt, floristic organza, lace.

These are voluminous and magnificent compositions. Contrast and variety of shades is rarely used. Work in one color scale very gently looks. Flowers have tight each other. The bouquet looks like a big fluffy hat. Decorative items are not used. The composition should look natural. All the beauty in the volume and easy negligence created by the hands of the master. Such a bouquet is a great gift for any holiday. To create a composition, a basket, a hatbox, a porcelain basket will do.

Bouquets are decorated with natural materials. Use:

• snags and twigs;
• tree bark;
• moss;
• dried fruit;

• dried flowers;
• nuts;
• seashells and stones;
• seeds.

In this kind of compositions, plants of strictly defined length are used, which are positioned both horizontally and vertically under a certain slope. There are works in the form of a crescent, an asymmetric triangle, bouquets in the shape of a letter S. The basis for such compositions is low woven baskets, breadbaskets, decorative plates, vases. Often girls order a cascade bouquet for a wedding, which always favorably emphasizes the beauty of a wedding dress. A hand-made cascade bouquet for the bride is formed on the netbook.

The shape of candy compositions and bouquets are:

• round;
• triangular;
• square;
• conical;
• symmetrical and asymmetrical;
• one-sided, where the front and back parts are distinguished.

Decorative compositions can have any shape. There are sweet bouquets in the form of hearts, balloons, ships, houses, butterflies, animals, musical instruments. Having defined the type of bouquet, you can make a purchase.

Do not rush to buy a gift on the Internet. You can order a job from a well-known sweet designer, but there is no guarantee that the mail or courier service will deliver your order in the proper form: candy compositions are very fragile things. You can buy a sweet bouquet in your city.Look at pastry shops, handmade gift studios, floristic shops.

Make a wedding bouquet of candy for the bride can be yourself. Enough to be patient, the right materials and tools. You will need:

• scissors;
• ruler;
• raskarivatel;
• heat gun and rods to it 15-20;
• skewers and toothpicks;
• floristic wire;
• stationery knife;
• awl;
• pliers, which is convenient to insert into the composition of flowers on toothpicks.

And also you need materials for work.

• Corrugated paper made in Italy with a density of 180 grams. You can buy it in the shops for creativity and crafts, florist bases and flower shops. Do not confuse crepe paper with crepe paper, which is in every stationery store. It is not suitable for sweet design.

• Penoplex. The material is very similar to foam, but more convenient for work. It creates the basis for the composition, which will be inserted skewers with candy. Sold in hardware stores. Regular foam is better not to use.

• Polyurethane foam. This is the best basis for bouquets. From it you can create a product of any height and width. Easy to cut. Squeeze the foam onto the newspaper and let it cool well. The material is ready for work.

• Floristic organza. Differs in greater rigidity, than usual. Used to create funtiku, which fills the space between the colors, and to decorate the base of the compositions.

• Satin ribbons. Inserted into bouquets, they can be draped leg portbuketnitsy.

• Decor: beads and semi-beads, artificial greenery, decorative figures.

• Candies. For a bouquet of sweets for the wedding, it is better to take Rafaello candies. They do not melt during hot weather and are not afraid of cold. They are very convenient for work: they are hard to crush in the hands, which sometimes happens to inexperienced needlewomen.

A great gift for newlyweds - a composition in the form of a heart of roses. Even a novice will perfectly cope with this variant of the bouquet. You can make one half of your heart red and the other white. If the wedding is themed: lavender, lilac, pink, use the appropriate colors. Universal gamma - white, peach, pale cream, tea color suitable for the bride's bouquet.

Choose the right color paper and get to work.

Step 1. Making a pattern: from a newspaper we cut out a heart of the required size.

Step 2. Create a frame:

• take penoplex no more than 5 cm thick;
• attach a pattern on it and circle it with a felt-tip pen;
• with a stationery knife along the contour we cut a heart.

Step 3. Decorate the base with corrugated paper.

The divisions on the paper will help determine the desired height of the parts.

1. Put the frame on a roll and cut out the heart 4-5 cm in size more than penoplex itself.
2. Using a thermal gun, glue the paper onto the base. Glue from the middle to the edges, stretching the paper.
3. Backing off at the edges of 1 cm, cut off the excess paper. Wrap edges carefully and glue to the base.
4. We also glue the back side of the heart, connecting the joints.

Step 4. We drape the sides:

• cut a strip with a height of 1.5-2 divisions, and the length of the paper should completely cover the sides of the heart;
• glue a piece of paper around the edge of the job;
• fingers gently stretch the top edge, creating a beautiful wave;
• the base is ready.

Step 5. Making the petals:

• cut a strip of corrugated paper with a height of 1.5 divisions;
• cut into rectangles 5.5–7 cm wide — these are petals;
• round the top of each piece, and make the base narrow - the petal should resemble a drop;
• for one rose you need 7-8 petals;
• we make the middle of a rose - cut a strip with a height of 1.5 divisions into rectangles about 10 cm wide;
• leave the base wide, trim the corners, and round the top;
• we take a skewer and with its help straighten and bend the flower petals towards the top;
• Notice that the paper has a front and back side, the outer part of the petal is the front side;
• stretch the petals so that they have an arched shape, twist the edges;
• form the centers - we stretch the central part of the petal, but not to the very edges, creating a bed for candy; the ready-made centers resemble small barrels.

Step 6. We collect a rose, for which we must perform several actions.

• Prepare toothpicks. If the base of the composition is less than 5 cm, they should be shortened by cutting off a little from one end. The blunt end of a toothpick is attached to the flower itself.
• Take the candy, tightly wrap it in the middle, putting inside a toothpick. Put a drop of hot glue on the place where the toothpick touches the base of the flower, trying not to get on the candy, and tightly twirl the paper around the toothpick. The middle of the rose is ready. Candy should not fall out, and should not be twisted very tight.
• Glue the first three petals to the rose, so that they lie on each other slightly overlapping. We drip glue onto the base of each petal and press it tightly against the flower.
• The following petals are glued in a circle on top of the previous row, pinching at the base. So the rose will look more natural.

Step 7. Sepals:

• cut sepals from green paper, for this we use a strip of paper with a height of 1 division and a length of 15-20 cm, 3 sepals will come out of this segment;
• retreating from the wide edge of the paper 1.5-2 cm and on the other hand using a scraper or nail scissors cuts sharp teeth;
• with the help of a skewer we smooth, and then twist the ends;
• Apply glue, and glue sepals to the bottom of the flower and toothpick, press and twist, and cut off the extra teeth.

Step 8. Make the rest of the roses:

• count how many flowers you need to fill the heart;
• make the rest of the roses on the model, while in the composition should be an odd number of flowers;
• flowers should not be fastened tightly to each other, the gaps are filled with funtika from the color of the organza.

Step 9. Funtik:

• organza cut into squares 8x8 cm;
• roll the square diagonally so that the ends are diagonally oblique;
• fold the resulting triangle in the same way again;
• Put a drop of glue in the middle and stick the organza to the toothpick.

Step 10. Putting composition:

• Spread the roses evenly over the base, starting from a sharp corner.
• Using a pair of pliers, gently stick the toothpicks into the penoplex, you can make holes for roses with an awl;
• firmly fix the flowers in place with hot glue;
• fill gaps with funtikami;
• wedding bouquet ready.

Ideas for original compositions of sweets are very different:

• miniature rotunda with figures of the bride and groom;
• wedding carriage;
• sailing vessel;
• Balloon;

• wedding rings in a flower basket;
• multi-tiered cake;
• a pair of gentle swans;
• cornucopia;

• wedding umbrella of the bride;
• handbag;
• bracelet bouquet;
• candy sweets;

• fantastic bird of happiness;
• compositions with champagne bottles decorated for the bride and groom;
• bouquets on glasses;
• compositions with candlesticks.

How to make a wedding bouquet of sweets with your own hands, look in the following video.