Origami wedding flowers

Floral Porn, Friends & Family Advice, Offbeat grooms By on June 14, 2008 20

w15Why kill flowers when you can just make one, in the case of this origami boutonniere.

The bridal party got origami necklaces, origami place cards, the centerpieces and even the bride's bouquet were made from origami flowers!

(Thanks to mysoldiergirl for the photo!)


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  • My fiance is really good at origami so we thought it'd be fun to have some shower flower favors that are paper roses made from the pages of bridal magazines.

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  • On June 14th, 2008 at 8:07 AM
    emily b said

    I just love this idea!!! Questions: Is this girl in the OBT? Wear did she get her dress (my best friend wants it for her wedding)? Where did she get the flower instructions; book, website?

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  • Hi! I'm worthy of Wedding Porn, I'm psyched!

    The dress is Nanette Lepore and is on clearance now (damn) at Neiman Marcus/Saks/Bloomingdales.

    There are good instructions on origami on Youtube, the best written instructions came out of an "Origami a Day" calendar.

    I have more pictures up here: http://flickr.com/photos/stein…579845699/

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  • Very cool! I tried something similar (though not as cool) by making fabric flower pins for everyone in the wedding party.

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  • my favorite thing about origami flowers, button flowers, fill-in-the-blank-with-other-awesome-crafted-flowers (other than how great they look, of course) is their permanence. keeping a few of those around in a vase would be a sweet, subtle wedding memento; the (live) orchids i carried at my wedding were awesome, but keeping them around for more than a few days was a bit too miss havisham for me. good on you, fauxflowering brides – i'm jealous!

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  • On June 16th, 2008 at 8:27 AM
    OffBeatBrideWannabe said

    I guess I'm not a wannabe after all! I'm also having paper flowers and I have a book waiting for me on origami flowers at the library. Awesome!

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  • Cute one! My most recent project was to create a white lily using gum paper. It was really tiny and you gotta have a good finger to play with… but the result was awesome.

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  • This post is such perfect timing. I have been wanting to do origami cranes and flowers for my wedding day, but couldn't think of how to combine them. Wonderful photos!

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  • I love the idea of origami flowers, and had considered doing them myself, since they can be made a few at a time way in advance.

    Thanks for helping me to see that paper flowers look AMAZING as wedding bouquets!

    :)

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  • On June 22nd, 2008 at 2:06 PM
    Stephanie BP said

    This is a really cute origami centerpiece, very delicate. I actually thought they were real flowers at first.

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  • Just want to say–thanks for the inspiration! After I saw this my fiance and I talked with my mom, who's always done origami, and she's going to make our table centerpieces and related decorations. It's going to have a very different feel, she's planning them around a modified Kawasaki rose design, but we're excited. For some reason she thinks we need real flowers for the bouquets and boutonnieres, though.

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  • my hobby is origami and for my own wedding I made origami favours and little roses for my hair – http://www.flickr.com/photos/o…740441322/

    this is a great site for beginners http://www.origami-club/en
    also for an origami rose – http://www.bloom4ever.com/HowToFold.php

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  • …The wild roses includes the species listed above and some of their hybrids…

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  • On July 6th, 2009 at 1:42 PM
    Chryse said

    I am doing origami for my wedding as well. Not quite done. I need to do some small centerpieces yet (origami flowers in wine glasses). I did the cranes, flowers (bouquet and boutonnieres), cake topper, and favor boxes in origami.

    http://galleano.weebly.com/origami.html

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  • On October 20th, 2009 at 10:43 PM
    F. Saunders said

    Why does everyone only ever do the iris or kawasaki rose? They are nice I guess but there have to be some more interesting flowers out there.

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  • Great post! Useful Wedding Tips on Origami Wedding Flowers… Very creative , thanks for sharing!

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  • I'm actually taking this to an extreme for my own wedding; I'm folding 1000 paper cranes to use for all manner of reception and ceremony decor. But aside from that, it's a very meaningful and beautiful tradition.

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