How to make a Fresh Floral Arbor with Bloom Culture Flowers

1. How to Make a Ceremony Arbor with Bloom Culture Flowers: Hi everyone. My name is Alice and Fleck and I'm a professional floral designer. I am the owner and creative director of Bloom culture flowers. Bloom culture is a national company that specializes in plural education. Floral designers and DIY clients with over 10 years of experience in the floral industry, working in weddings and events, we are excited to teach you how to create a double arrangement ceremony Arbor. We will teach you the basics of prepping the harbor along with construction techniques of how to make each arrangement with are easy to follow step-by-step instructions. This class will break down floral design that can be intimidating to many. In using our design approaches and techniques, you are sure to learn a valuable skill and floral design in a fun and unique way. You can do this and thanks for watching. 2. Bloom Culture - Ceremony Arbor: Prep: Hi everyone, It's Allison with Bloom culture. And today we are going to be talking about arbors and DIY floral design for your arbors, lots of people tend to get nervous when they do large-scale ceremony pieces like Ann Arbor today, we are going to break that down into a really simple, easy to do tutorial. So starting out, we are going to be using a large floral foam cage that you can easily zip tie to the arbor. But first you're going to want to soak it in water. One thing that you need to remember when soaking your floral foam is to let it submerge itself. You do not want to push this down. You do not want to spray it with a hose or a faucet, just fill up a bucket or your sink and just gently place it on top of the water and it will slowly submerge itself once the light green turns to a dark green and it's fully submerged in the water, then you know, it's ready. Okay. So next is a pro tip for you. I like to put my zip ties on the floral cage before I put it up on the arbor. When you put the zip ties on the floral cage beforehand, you're not having to have somebody hold the floral cage up there while you're trying to thread as it ties through and it can just everybody's arms, he gets tired, so I suggest putting them on beforehand so that you can easily zip tie it up there quickly. So like I said, if you put the zip ties on the floral foam beforehand, this can easily be a one man job or if you have a helper which I highly recommend, just makes the whole process run a little bit more smoothly. So what I do, I position the foam cage where I think it would be best fit. And then I start to hello visit ties together. I like to pull from both sides so that I know that my placement is sturdy. One thing I want to note is when you are tying to zip ties, you do want to tie them fairly tightly, but you also don't want to tie them so tight that your root damage to the phone. Now you will squeeze it a little bit and that's totally fine, but you just don't want to completely demolish it. It's always handy to have an extra zip tie or two on you in the event that you might need to thread and other ones through an event like this one. So I am going to put another link to my zip tie that way I can wrap it around this side and don't worry, all of this will be covered up by floral. Okay. Now that that is firmly secure, I just take my snips and you want to get rid of these little satellites or the excess zip tie. 3. Bloom Culture - Ceremony Arbor: Greenery: Okay, so moving on. I always start with greenery. I found like a broken record and all of my tutorials, but I always start with greenery. Greenery helps elongate your product and then you don't have to use as many flowers to cover up the phone or to feel your vase or whatever you're working with, greenery is going to be your best friend. So to start this design out, I'm going to be using some Italian rest. Guess what I love about this greenery is that it gives you a lot of length. And sometimes with Arbor pieces, you want the length like this so that you can create more of a dramatic and a statement piece. You'll notice that before I place each stem, I will hold it up to kind of gauge if I like where it's going, if I like the length of it, so on and so forth. So I would suggest to do the same thing. When you're placing the greenery. I like to break down the stems, especially longer stems like this. One thing that's really helpful in Arbor floral design is to place some of these smaller pieces when you cut them down in the center, the floral cage, that way it doesn't get super dense with flowers right in the middle. It'll really help break up your floral and create a lot of depth and it'll look really professional. In most of our floral tutorials, we'd like to use various types of greenery. That way you can have some variation in your leaf size and your color at all. So just adds to the dimension and overall texture and just helps break things up so you don't get bored. In this design. I'm going to be using some of this really beautiful eucalyptus. I also like the variation in the color and then differences in the leaf size of thing gets really, really pretty. One thing while designing is don't be afraid to layer in pieces. So going behind some of the stems that you've already placed or even coming out in front of, as long as it makes them somewhat beautiful to you, I say go with it. Also. When you're working with greenery, don't be afraid to break up some of these larger chunks. When you're working with something like this, it might start to look a little too chunky and places. So if you want just to split off some of the smaller pieces in place, those that can make a lot more sense and a lot more impact. From time to time. I take a step back and look at it from a farther perspective. That'll really help me see if I've got any holes or any places that I need to fill in with greenery. I just did that and I really think that we need some length right over here to help balance the piece. 4. Bloom - Culture Ceremony Arbor: Floral: All right, so moving on to floral, I like to place my linear blooms next. These are white snap dragons. I like to clean off any of the excess greenery, but since this is just going to be a onetime use, I like it so that it doesn't damage the floral foam even more. And it just makes things a little bit messy, so clean off all of the excess leaves. Other thing too is you want to note that you want to measure twice, cut once. But try not to cut your stems too short here. So you can always cut length off, but you can never add length. So if you're unsure, just maybe make it a little bit longer than what you think. And if you wanna go shorter than you can always do so. Okay, once I have the longer blooms placed, we typically give you a range on these. So sometimes I like to save a few for the end if I feel like I need to fill in with those. But right here I think that these complement the shape that we're going with nicely. So I'm going to start moving on to some of my bigger blooms. I am going to use some of my roses Next. Again, if they haven't been cleaned off yet, go ahead and take off your excess leaves and thorns. As you can see, I have staggered the length on each of these roses. I don't want them all to be hitting on the same plane. When you have some that are shorter and some that are longer, it just helps add dimension to your design. And I think that it actually helps you to use less floral in the long run. Okay, next, I am going to move on to our mini or spray carnations. I like to do linear flowers and then some of our focal flowers so that you can space them out accordingly in your design so that you're not using all in one dense area that you can space them out and make sure that you've got enough spread across your design. These many carnations are really great because you can break them down if, if a stem has snaps, That's okay. You can still use these little guys to fill in little holes and to create little moments here and there and just tuck them in throughout. Once we have all of our mini carnations placed, we're going to move on to one of our specialty roses. This is a toffee rows and it's a really beautiful rose. I love the mat color to it. It's really popular right now, almost like a terracotta, but less orange. So we've got a few of these in our design. They are a little bit more of an expensive rows, so we're going to use few of them, but we wanted them to be placed at this point so that they could still stand out. Hey, now that we have are tophi rose is placed, I think everything is looking really beautiful, everything starting to fill in. Typically with Arbor designs, we want you to have a good amount of floral. So I always use carnations and these design because they are hardy. They hold up outdoors. Come when rain, snow, son, whatever carnations are your best friend for arbors. Also, they come in a variety of colors that fit most color palettes. And the best part about them is that they are really affordable. So you can get a lot of bang for your buck. You can do an entire arbor incarnations. And one thing that I've noticed too is that a lot of people don't recognize them anymore these days. They're like, What kind of rows is that? And I'm like, Girl, it's a carnation. One thing I like to do too, if the carnation hasn't opened up very well, you can always just tease it open a little bit. I mean, don't really get in there and bruise it, but you can kind of fluff it a little bit with your fingers to help it open up. I'm really happy with how this is turning out. After I've placed all the carnations, I took a step off the ladder just to make sure that everything seemed balanced, that there were no big holes and I'm really happy with it. So moving on, what I like to do is there are a few little holes in there that I can see from far away. You just want to make sure that nobody can see the foam or the zip ties. So what I like to do next is I like to fill in with a filler flower. That can be a baby's breath, a wax flower. Status. In today's tutorial, we're gonna be using something called rice flour. That's really pretty. Rice flour has these beautiful little pops of color at the top. It's a really woody stem and it's really hardy. It's not always in season, but in spring It's really great to use with the bits of rice lover before you place them, just make sure with anything else, you clean the stem. Okay, once you have all of your filler flower place to I would just say look through the arrangement one last time, take a step back, have somebody else have a second pair of eyes on it and let you know. But once you feel like you've gotten to the end point, if you feel like you need a little bit more, if you haven't used all of your allotment of greenery or all of your flowers. This is where you can go in and backfill. But I think that this is looking absolutely gorgeous and we are done. Okay guys, that wraps up our Arbor tutorial. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments below. Or you can always email me or email address is hello at Bloom culture flowers.com and I'm Allison with low culture flowers.com. And thanks so much for watching. Hello. 5. Bloom - Culture Ceremony Arbor: Second Arrangement: Just like in our previous tutorial with the top-left corner arrangement on the arbor, you'll want to treat the second arrangements similarly. First you'll soak your floral foam as we showed at the beginning of this class. Second thread, your zip ties through the floral foam cage. And third, attached the plural thumb cage to the arbor at the desired location. The only start with greenery. I am using the same greenery reused on the top corner arrangement to create, reach and lengthen the arrangement a bit so it's not so compact. You want to balance the top arrangement. And a good way to do that is with a few longer pieces of greenery. At the second arrangement is too big or too small, it will feel off balance. Next I start to fill in the floral cage with a few smaller pieces of greenery. I do this so that you don't have to use as many flowers to make your arrangement feel full. Greenery really creates a great foundation to build upon. And that way you can stick to your floral recipes without feeling like you are running out of product, are running out of floral to use. I typically like to use three different varieties of greenery. One variety that creates length, like the Italian rescues. A second variety that covers surface area and covers mechanics like the solo, also known as lemon leaf. And a third variety that adds texture to the foundation, such as eucalyptus. All three varieties play a role in making your arrangement look professional. As with the first arrangement, I'm going to start with some of our linear blooms. These are snap dragons and create a really beautiful Reach and link to any arrangement. I like to measure my stems by placing it next to the arrangement to see how long I would like it to be. I always preach that you can make a stem shorter, but you can't make it longer. So make sure you're cutting it at a longer length than you might originally think. You can always take a little more off the stem, but you can never add. Next, I started arranging with our focal flowers, such as roses. I like to work in groups of three as odd numbers can help create balance. After I get the initial trial of roses placed, I move on to our toffee roses. I used the focal flowers first as they are the second part of the foundation of the arrangement. They cover a lot of surface area and help guide the design. Once placed, you'll see other areas are holes that you can place smaller accent flowers. And I start using smaller exit flowers, such as these mini carnations or in some cases I use spray roses. There are a great addition to any arrangement as they are different scale with their smaller blooms size, which helps break up the arrangement to make it more dynamic. I also add in these beautiful terracotta carnations. I love them for their texture. Although they have a similar scale, if the roses we used, they have a different petal structure and different color. This complements the overall color palette and helps give interest to the arrangement with our texture. At this phase of the design, we're almost done. Use the rest of the flowers in your recipes and fill in any holes you see. Here, we've used rice flour as the filler flower. We also use wax flower in babies breath a lot in this phase. Continue to fill in the holes until you feel like the arrangement is complete. Make sure you take a step back from time to time and look at it from a distance. Doing this will help you see holes in, give you more direction and placement. I hope this tutorial has helped make this design less intimidating and has given you the confidence to try it yourself. Thanks for watching and happy designing.