Has anyone done one of these? Any ideas? I have a wedding the end of April and the bride wants a bouquet of Gerber daisies.
Thanks,
Sharon
Thanks,
Sharon
Gerber wedding bouquet
- Thread starter Pandalou
- Start date
- Status
felicityflowers
New Member
If the bride wants a hand tied look I just use a grande bouquet holder and place the gerberas into the foam. I save the stems and gather them around the plastic holder and secure with tape and ribbon. I cover the exposed plastic bottom with ribbon and greens. Then it looks hand tied but the gerberas are actually in soaked foam so they won't droop!
HTH!
HTH!
Michelle McMichael
New Member
I have done these two ways...
Although in our experience gerbs don't generally seem to like foam, we have used the foam bouquet holder and done a faux hand tied look with stems around the handle. If you do this, I recommend spray painting the handle green first (really frustrating when you can still see the white handle though the stems) and wrap a thin layer of green floral clay around the handle to help hold the stems in place. Gather a few around the handle, rubber band them and keep adding until it's covered. Then do a ribbon wrap THEN cut off the rubber bands.
The other way is hand tied. I have pushed a heavy gauge wire up from the bottom of the stem and this makes them mind their manners, if you want them to be placed very precisely with space between them and faces pointing just where you want them. We've also used them au naturale, just gathered tightly in a spiral just below the heads. Depends upon the look the bride wants!
Hope this helps...
Michelle
Although in our experience gerbs don't generally seem to like foam, we have used the foam bouquet holder and done a faux hand tied look with stems around the handle. If you do this, I recommend spray painting the handle green first (really frustrating when you can still see the white handle though the stems) and wrap a thin layer of green floral clay around the handle to help hold the stems in place. Gather a few around the handle, rubber band them and keep adding until it's covered. Then do a ribbon wrap THEN cut off the rubber bands.
The other way is hand tied. I have pushed a heavy gauge wire up from the bottom of the stem and this makes them mind their manners, if you want them to be placed very precisely with space between them and faces pointing just where you want them. We've also used them au naturale, just gathered tightly in a spiral just below the heads. Depends upon the look the bride wants!
Hope this helps...
Michelle
Joe Mioux
Well-Known Member
What style did you sell the bride?
Gerberas......... are nothing different that anyother flower. Tell us how you intend to use them.
Joe
I read this all the time........but for us, we have never ever had problems with gerbs in foam, as a matter of fact last week March 14th during March break 2 of my grandaughters were over and they wanted to make an arrangement each for grandma, both girls one 11 and the other 14 used gerbs in their arrangements and I just checked as they're in the house and all the gerbs are perfect....could sell them tomorrow if I wanted to and that's 9 days and counting!!
ctherose
New Member
The trend for me this year in weddings is gerbs, gerbs & more gerbs!!!! I've found it quite time-consuming to do the faux-stem thing aroung the bouquet holder, especially when they do want a hand-tied look. I always use the green stand-up gerb wires for all my gerbs and it really makes them mind their manners. I helped another florist do hand-tied gerb w/ bupleurum last year and she didn't know about the wires--what a pain!! It took me twice as long to get the flowers to look right. If the bride would have wanted a tight cluster of gerbs bound just under the necks it would have been no problem, but this wasn't the case. I know there are purists who would have nothing to do with sticking a wire in a gerb, but I think there's a time & place for everything. This happens to be one of them. One benefit: you can design them a couple days ahead, leave the stems long & put in bucket in cooler. Morning of, take them out, trim stems and wrap with ribbon. Don't forget the crowing glory! Voila!
We do hand tied gerbera daisy bouquets all the time, never an issue. We modify a little trick Cathy (CHR) taught us at a program once.
Use a thin guage wire to create a spine on the gerb, insert just the very tip into the base of the flower and wind light green corsage tape around the stem, stopping at the bottom of the wire.
For a hand tied bouquet the length of wire will be about 4-5". With this method you're stopping right about at the binding point and no corsage tape will be below the ribbon.
We did many, many gerbera bouquets last year. Tons of compliments on the gerb bouquets. No product failure at all. The biggest way to prevent this though is starting with the best gerbera you can buy. For us that is the Canadian gerbs.
Use a thin guage wire to create a spine on the gerb, insert just the very tip into the base of the flower and wind light green corsage tape around the stem, stopping at the bottom of the wire.
For a hand tied bouquet the length of wire will be about 4-5". With this method you're stopping right about at the binding point and no corsage tape will be below the ribbon.
We did many, many gerbera bouquets last year. Tons of compliments on the gerb bouquets. No product failure at all. The biggest way to prevent this though is starting with the best gerbera you can buy. For us that is the Canadian gerbs.
Connie
New Member
Cathy's a great teacher!
We use Cathy's method also, which we also learned from Phil. Great teachers, both.
We use Cathy's method also, which we also learned from Phil. Great teachers, both.
I too use this method, but I learned it at the flower market in Paris.
I was a happy (and welcome) voyeur.V
- Status
