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Preserving Flowers - Advice Please

FingersCrossed_2
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Hi All,
I was at a wedding yesterday and was lucky enough to catch the bouquet. It was one of my very best friends getting married and he met his wife at my birthday party. So the bouquet is a lovely memento.
I'd like to preserve it somehow but have no idea what to do. I have had a look online and it seems pretty pricey to do it professionally. I tried taking one of the flowers out to have a go at pressing them but they are really quite thick so it's tricky.
It's a bouquet of roses.
Any advice would be much appreciated. I know there is limited time to do this.
Thanks
I was at a wedding yesterday and was lucky enough to catch the bouquet. It was one of my very best friends getting married and he met his wife at my birthday party. So the bouquet is a lovely memento.
I'd like to preserve it somehow but have no idea what to do. I have had a look online and it seems pretty pricey to do it professionally. I tried taking one of the flowers out to have a go at pressing them but they are really quite thick so it's tricky.
It's a bouquet of roses.
Any advice would be much appreciated. I know there is limited time to do this.
Thanks
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I put mine in between a few bits of kitchen roll and stuck a load of heavy books on it. Believe me, if you put enough weight, roses go flat:D. Left them for ages, months.
Then when they had completely dried out I bought a nice huge frame, some cream card to go in it and arranged them. It's still on my living room wall 9 years on, the ivy is still green and the roses are still deep red.
I have heard that you can dip flowers in glycerine to preserve them but you might want to google that.0 -
Thanks Gangstabird. Might try the pressing idea. Seems easiest and most MS.
I must say the name Gangstabird doesn't automatically conjure up images of flower pressing - ha ha.0 -
Gosh, I really really wished I had never started this. Everyone thinks I am a nutter but I am a shy little mousey librarian;)
Honestly my name was a joke after I heard two girls talking to boys on the train. The boy asked her name and she said 'it's Gangstabird innit'. The boy believed this and I was laughing behind me seat.
It really is a jokey name.0 -
I guessed that. Gave me a giggle though. Surely a minority group - flower pressing gangsters!0
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