We are in the home stretch with our non-floral centerpieces! They are almost complete, so I thought I'd take photos of the mock-ups to share with everyone!These were made using Martha Stewart's directions for tissue paper poms. I drew the inspiration from Vintage Glam's pomanders as well.
I loved the non-floral alternative. We've made them months in advance and they won't die. They also cost a fraction of what flowers would have set us back. Originally I thought of doing these exact designs, only with carnations. The idea of clipping 500 carnations two days before my wedding just didn't fly. So - plan B - tissue paper!
My awesome cousin provided us with the tissue paper from Bags & Bows (excellent quality, by the way - much nicer than you find in stores). The tall centerpieces sit on gloss pillar candle holders from Home Decorators Collection - these will go on our large round tables and sit on flocked damask linens. The smaller centerpieces are made with floral foam wreaths and an 8.5 inch glass cylinder filled with water and floating candle. These will sit on the many cocktail tables on top of black linens. Foam balls for the tall centerpieces were purchased at Save-on-Crafts, foam wreaths purchased at A.C. Moore, glass cylinders purchased at Michael's (on sale!), and floating candles purchased on eBay.
These have been a lot of hard work - FI and I sit in front of the television every night after work and make a million little paper flowers - but the results have been well worth it - I couldn't be happier with them!
9 comments:
hello, these are fab!! well done. how did u attach the paper to the ball?
Cheers
Nic:)
Hi there! We attached the tissue paper flowers to the styrofoam using hot glue, held in place for a minute as it cooled.
Ok I love this idea! I've been planning on making the same thing with carnations as well, but this maybe way mor cost effective!
- What size foam ball did you use and how many flowers did you have to make for each ball?
-how many sheets of tissue paper and what dimensions of the paper did you use?...Trying to figure out how much paper I would have to buy...
Thanks!
We used 8 inch foam balls. Use styrofoam balls, not the floral foam (green) - the hot glue sticks to styrofoam better. We used about 70 flowers per ball, but we left the bottom open so it rests on the pillar, so it would probably take 75+ to fill the whole ball. As for amount of tissue, I couldn't even begin to estimate the number if sheets. We used 20x30 inch sheets and cut them down, my cousin got me one package/ream from Bags&Bows, you can order online. We only used about half the package for 4 pomanders and 16 wreaths.
how much did you cut the tissue paper down? cut it in half would you say?...I need to make more like 10 pomanders! I will be leaving the bottom open too...how tall were the pillars you used?
sorry one more question...how many sheets of paper did you use for each flower? Did you use 8 like it says on Martha Stewart's website? There are 480 sheets of paper in one package of tissue paper on Bags&Bows, so I'm trying to figure out how you got that many flowers out of half the package. thanks
If you click on the link above, for Martha Stewart's site, it should take you to the instructions. I can't remember how many cuts we made, I think 4 cuts horizontally and 6 vertically? Read the instructions - I think the pieces have to be cut down to 5x10. FYI, these are extremely time consuming. It took us several weeks, a few hours every night, to make 400 of these. But they're worth it!
Yes, we followed Martha's instructions exactly, read them and they may answer all your questions. You buy the tissue in 20x30 size, but you cut them down to 5x10, so you actually get several small sheets out of one large sheet. Check out the Vintage Glam blog, she takes you through the process step by step.
Thanks so much! Yes, I know they will take a long time to make...but we have 6 months to get them done! And, like you said, the other option of cutting all those carnations the day before is not my idea of a stress free wedding! :) Plus I'm telling my fiance its a great way for him to be a 'part of the planning' :) He'll have to make his quota every night to get his dinner ;) Thanks again for your help!
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