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Winter flora on parade: 16 of our favorite winter wedding bouquets

See that fabulously rustic winter-themed bouquet up there? The bride, Fern, was totally at the whim of her florist — who just took the idea of a winter bouquet and ran with it. Sometimes when you let creative folks free, you get some seriously amazing results, like some of the the winter wedding bouquets you’re about to eat through your eyeballs. We’ve got red with green, sparkly crystals, paper flowers, GIANT paper flowers, stunning brooch bouquets, clean and simple white arrangements, multicolored succulents, winter wildflowers, and so much more. Let’s get our flora on.

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How to make fabulous paper rose bouquets

My fiancé is allergic to all the pollen from essentially ALL the flowers. Therefore, standard wedding decor, typically involving floral arrangements was a challenge. I’m resourceful, crafty, and obsessed with efficiency. This lead to Operation Paper Roses. From prototype to final product, here’s the recipe for making this fabulous paper rose bouquet…

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How to make large paper succulent centerpieces (or bouquets!)

These paper succulents are a larger version of this amazing Lia Griffith tutorial. Her templates are built so that all 10 petal pieces fit on a standard letter size sheet of paper. This is great for the smaller, 2.5″ size flowers, but we needed to get beefy with these leafy blossoms!

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How to make multi-layered paper flowers by hand

I based my flowers off of this tutorial, but, that tutorial requires tools that I don’t have — a special machine that cut out the flowers, and that’s awesome. But, if you don’t have that machine, it can be done by hand! Here’s how I made mine…

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Make these gorgeous wedding flowers out of coffee filters

Are you endeavoring to make your own flowers for your wedding? Well then, you must be nuts. I myself am in that same boat. I’ve scoured the internet looking for coffee filter flower tutorials. I’ve found some good ones, and I’ve sort of combined them all into my own method. Let me tell you how I made these, because I’ve made about 24,145 of them, and I want you to join me in madness. Here we go…

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How to make a travel-ready paper flower bouquet

I love flowers and definitely wanted to have something to carry to our ceremony, but my flowers had to survive a road trip from Seattle to Moab, the desert environment, a trip back, and still had to look good a month later at our reception! That’s a tall order for a bouquet. I ended up inventing my own method for making paper flowers…