Origami wedding flowers
Floral Porn, Friends & Family Advice, Offbeat grooms
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on June 14, 2008
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Why 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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Author of Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides, Ariel acts as the publisher of all the Offbeat Empire websites. She lives, loves, and dorks out hard in Seattle, WA.
blablover5 said
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.
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?
Michelle (mysoldiergirl) said
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/
Sara Cotner said
Very cool! I tried something similar (though not as cool) by making fabric flower pins for everyone in the wedding party.
lauren said
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!
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!
Anna K. Design said
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.
Sarah said
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!
Jess said
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!
Stephanie BP said
This is a really cute origami centerpiece, very delicate. I actually thought they were real flowers at first.
Suz said
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.
Emma Tysoe said
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
RoseFan said
…The wild roses includes the species listed above and some of their hybrids…
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
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.
WhiteWeddingFlowers said
Great post! Useful Wedding Tips on Origami Wedding Flowers… Very creative , thanks for sharing!
Carolyn said
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.