Top Tips for creating your own DIY Weddings Flowers
- Elizabeth
- Feb 17, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
Creating Your Own DIY Wedding Flowers
Creating your own wedding flowers is a deeply personal and rewarding experience. At Birch Farm Flowers, we’ve had the pleasure of helping many couples bring their DIY wedding flower dreams to life. Drawing on our experience as a British flower farm, we’ve put together this guide to help you plan, prepare, and enjoy the process.
By choosing seasonal British blooms from our Manchester-based flower farm, you’ll enjoy fresh, vibrant flowers while supporting sustainable, low-impact growing practices. Let’s explore the key steps to help your special day truly blossom.
Our Top Tips for Creating Your Own DIY Wedding Flowers
1. Keep it simple (and practice!)
If you’re planning to make your own wedding bouquet, start by researching styles you love and, if possible, have a couple of practice runs. Don’t be too ambitious — simple designs can be incredibly impactful, especially when you’re working with beautiful, seasonal British flowers.
2. Plan where, when, and how you’ll work
Once you’ve ordered your flowers from your local flower farmer, think carefully about the logistics:
Will you collect your flowers or have them delivered?
Where will you arrange them?
Who will help you?
You’ll need a fair amount of space and, ideally, a cool, dark room where you can both work and store your flowers.
3. Get your timings right
We recommend having your flowers arrive two days before your wedding. For a Saturday wedding, this means delivery or collection on Thursday morning. This gives you plenty of time to condition, organise, and arrange without feeling rushed. We explain timings in more detail below.
4. Gather your equipment in advance
Before your flowers arrive, make sure you have everything ready:
A clear, generous work surface
Clean vases, jam jars, and vessels
Secateurs
Buckets for conditioning and organising flowers
String or twine for tying bouquets
Ribbons for finishing touches
And perhaps a bottle of something cold and bubbly to enjoy while you create.
5. Organise your flowers first
When your flowers arrive on Thursday morning, transfer them into clean buckets of fresh water if needed. We deliver flowers in our own buckets, which will need to be returned.
Set aside a couple of hours on Thursday afternoon to organise your flowers:
Group flowers you’d like to use together
Decide which flowers will be used for specific arrangements
Select the flowers for your bridal bouquet and keep them together in a separate bucket
Having plenty of spare buckets or vases really helps — the more organised you are now, the quicker and easier arranging will be the next day.
6. Store flowers correctly overnight
Store your flowers overnight in fresh water in a cool, dark place. This helps them stay hydrated and looking their best.
7. Arrange the day before the wedding
Arrange your flowers the day before your wedding. If you’re working with your bridal party, gather everyone together and enjoy some relaxed, creative time.
Remember: simple hand-tied bouquets, posies, jam jars, and bud vases are not only beautiful but incredibly versatile. They can be easily moved from ceremony to reception and reused throughout the day.
8. Plan flower transport
Finally, decide who will transport the flowers to your venue and how they’ll be set up. Ideally, a trusted member of the bridal party will do this and know where each arrangement should go — leaving you free to relax and enjoy the build-up to the big day.
Feeling inspired but not quite sure where to start?
We’re always happy to chat through flower choices, quantities, and timings to help you feel confident creating your own wedding flowers. Drop us a message to see how we can help.
DIY Wedding Flower Workshops
If you love the idea of creating your own wedding flowers but would like a little guidance, we offer DIY Wedding Flower Workshops.
These workshops are a wonderful opportunity for you and your bridal party to:
Visit the flower farm
Pick seasonal flowers
Learn how to create hand-tied wedding bouquets, buttonholes, and simple vase and jam jar arrangements
They also make a beautiful and memorable hen party or bridal shower activity.
Our DIY Wedding Flower Workshops are perfect if you’d like hands-on support and a relaxed, creative experience. Please contact us to book a private session for your bridal party.
A DIY Summer Wedding
Steph & Rory’s Wedding Flowers - 2024
The lovely Steph chose our flowers this summer to create her own wedding flowers. Alongside her bridal party, she made her bouquet, buttonholes, jam jar arrangements, and meadow boxes.
Steph isn’t a florist, but she loves flowers and was passionate about sourcing sustainable, locally grown blooms for her wedding. After taking an online bridal bouquet workshop, she felt confident enough to get creative with her own flowers.
She chose a bright, meadow-style look, so we cut buckets of colourful, seasonal flowers and delivered them directly to her home. The results speak for themselves.
Thank you to Steph & Rory xImages by Monica Chatterton
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