How to Make Your Own Brooquet

I have been contemplating for months and months and months now whether or not I'll share my videos on how to make the brooch bouquet. Nope, it's not because I'm feeling selfish it's just that for the longest time I was planning to do another video because of my wrong pronunciations, lol.

But what the heck, here are the videos!

Part 1:









Part 2:






Now for part 3, i got lazy but basically you just wrap the stem with ribbon and then I followed this blog (just scroll down to the bottom):

http://www.fancypantsweddings.com/how-to-design-a-brooch-bouquet

I also found a bouquet stem's cover (the faux pearl you're seeing on the brooch bouquet's handle, don't know what's that called, actually, lol)  from michaels and I used that as additional accent. Here's my finished brooch bouquet. I used it for my civil wedding  last May 12, 2012 and will also be using it for our church wedding on January next year.



I used 50+ brooches on my brooch bouquet.

I got my brooches from ebay.com and flea markets and took me a year to collect them. Why a year? I was looking for certain colors and certain types. Also, I had to make sure I don't buy a brooche that's above my budget because believe me, those brooches can go as high as $30/pc on ebay, that's 1,200 pesos already!  So my advise is don't get carried away and be patient. Also, factor in the shipping cost. My favorite item to bid on are brooches being sold in bulk because it saves me on shipping.

I guess that's it! Enjoy.

new addiction...

i started hoarding these pretty babies as soon as i made up my mind about what i want to do with my bouquet...
unfortunately, it looks like these would cost more than what the real flowers would cost....i just had to keep reminding myself that at least it won't wilt and can turn into an heirloom...

did some mock-up bouquet today and realized it isn't as easy as i thought it would be.....wiring is a challenge since not all brooches are the same...... i'll try again as soon as i have enough "colors" that i want for my bouquet....

that's another advantage if you have enough time to prepare...... you have enough buffer time to collect the materials you need to use for DIY projects...... i had to bid these vintage brooches on ebay  and i only bid on certain colors and have to make sure i don't go over my bid budget....  the brooches would initially start at  $.99 but never stays at $.99 and can go up to  $30! ...... you also have to take into consideration the shipping fee.....shipping fee adds up specially if you're buying from ten different sellers or sellers  who are too greedy and don't give you shipping discounts and they'll charge you shipping fee for each individual item when what they'll actually do is to put your items in one single package, what a rip off..... shipping is just $2-4 for a single package with 1-5 brooches, just an FYI....

photo above shows my slowly growing collection of vintage enamel metal brooch .......some are signed and some unsigned..... some are clean, while some are not.....my favorite so far are the white enamel brooches and the milk glass ones..... i'm trying to collect peach brooches but that color is hard to come by.....

DIY vintage brooch bouquet

this is what's keeping me occupied lately....scout for as many enamel vintage brooches for my non-floral bouquet....


at your left is an example...but i want just shades of peach and yellow, our motif so it wouldn't look as cluttered.....but who knows, i might change my mind.....






photo credit:
http://www.brendasweddingblog.com/