Flower girl halo

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I have to make 3 flower girl halo's this weekend. I have never done one before, any tips? I have done flowers glued to ribbon or a hair clip, but never the halo. Do you use wire and tape the flowers on? How do you get the round shape? I was just going to get in there and wing it, but I think I need some expert advice.
This is the look I am going for:
 

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There are a few ways to do it, which I'm sure you'll hear from others. One way I keep it lightweight is to make kind of a thin garland with paddle wire and your greens, say ruscus. Make it to the length you want and then make it into a circle. Then glue in your flowers, weave some sheer ribbon in there, whatever.
Hope that helps.
 
glueing sounds nice

I should try glue.

I wire and tape mine the old fasion way. Wire the posies (not the green) and them tape them on to a couple 12" 20 gauge wires. ribbon and bow in the back where they join together.

more time consuming than you can believe!
 
If at first it doesn't load, keep trying. It played for me about the 5th time I tried.
 
I am going to try and describe the method I use. I start with a fluffy material, like Baby's breath, sprengerii, ming fern, or other fluffy type material. I break that apart into little segments and group them together into clusters that measure about the size of a quarter. After I have about 10 to 15 clusters, I take lengths of 26 gauge wire......the really thin wire.

I take a cluster and the wire and grasp them together with the cluster about two inches down from the end of the wire.....At that point I spiral the sire tightly about three or four times around the cluster.....I move down about a half inch and hold another cluster to that point and spiral the wire around that cluster.....and I keep repeating. When I reach the end of the wire, I simply spiral on another length and keep on going.

When my length is as long as I need it, I join the ends together....( THis method makes it light and kind of floppy ), I make a bow with streamers to hide the join, and then I glue in streamers, ribbons, and other materials into that garland base.
 
I do about the same as Ricky, except I use cloth covered wire.
Your wholesaler should have it in 20" length, in light green and white.
If I'm making my base with gyp, I use white. If the base is plumosa, then the green. I don't necessarily join clusters, I just keep spiraling the wire around small amounts of the base material - I guess you could call it clusters??? Kind of the same way one would make a garland.
I used to tape and wire, but this method is sooooo much quicker, lighter, an easier to do.
 
I've used these methods with success, but my question is on pricing for a halo. We go around and around on pricing these beauties.

We started to charge by the inch. right, wrong?
 
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I usually start with a base figure and go from there. Let's take the halo with baby's breath as a start. It usually takes about 1/2 bunch of baby's breath to make the base and about 3 lengths of wire. I figure that at about 40.00 retail. I then just add on the retail price of whatever additional flowers and accessories I will use.

Other florist price differently, that's just the pricing formula I use.
 
The way I do it, doesn't quite take that much gyp. And, it depends on the kind of gyp I'm using. I like million stars to do halos, more mass. I would say it takes no more than one third of a bunch and about 10 minutes to create. I just keep adding on gyp in small sections and wrapping with cloth covered wire. I charge $25.00 for a base of gyp, more when I add on sprays roses, daisies, or other small flowers.
 

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That video was intersting, I have always wired and taped everything, very labour intensive I find, I am going to try it with the glue though, seems much quicker, those of you who do glue, do you find that the flowers stay on okay, think Id worry that they would drop off?
 
Just use Oasis Floral Adhesive and not hot pan glue or a glue gun, and you'll be all set! I heard a rumor that you guys even have clear Oasis glue over there. ;) We only have the yellow stuff that you have to be reallllly careful not to let show. I hate wiring and taping. And it makes it so heavy too.
 
yeah, it does make it heavy, Im going to have a play now tomorrow, I bought a tube of floral adhesive not that long ago and before that i used hot glue for everything. Ive got some ivy trails etc, so I will have a go with the adhesive and see how it holds up, maybe use it as a frisbe or something and fire it round the shop, see how it withstands the rough treatment :rofl:
 
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Hi DeeDee
Did you try? I am going to experiment too when I get time, it looks so much easier than all that wiring grrr I just had doing them because of the fiddly wiring.
Yes SpringCity Flowers we do have clear glue over here
 
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