I make paper flowers and sell them on Etsy and I received a message asking for a large order of the flowers to be attached to a gazebo for a wedding in Jamaica. I have no experience with this whatsoever and I was wondering how they would be attached to the gazebo so I can get an idea of how to make them. I usually make them with stems to be put in a vase, but I don't think the stems would work in this situation. The flowers are individual flowers, not like a garland. I'd appreciate it if I could have some ideas on how to attach the flowers to the gazebo. The clients want the entire gazebo covered in the flowers with no post showing.
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Do you use any kind of wire to make your flowers? ( I always thought flower-making was cool, wanted to learn but where to begin ) do you use bendable stems? You could have a wire bow on the back side of the flower, for tying to the gazebo. Or, you could invest in little clips to string to the back, small but wide mouth. You can get them at hobby lobby or any art supply store. You could use ribbon, hot glue a strip to the back ( green would be more realistic-ish ) long enough to tie around a pole from the gazebo. Also available a craft stores are strips of Velcro, cut squares ( they're usually self advesive ) and stick one side to the back of the flower, leave the other side atatched with the peel back adhesive on. Or .... Hmmmm .... You could have multiple, long, thick, green strings woven to the back of the flower and as they wrap them around the gazebo it would give a vining effect. Or just tack them on ... You being the flower designer, coul have a tack embedded in the flower, not viewable from the front, but sticking out the side so, they can just tap them in. Hope one of those helps. Good luck. (:
You could attach a thin wire (found at any hardware store) to each of the flowers (say white for example if the gazebo is white) so that you could wrap the wire around the pillar and twist it together on the other side, like a twist tie. You'd have to know what diameter the pillars are, so you can design accordingly. Also, you could make a string of flowers, like garland for a Christmas tree and wrap the wire from the top of the pillar to the bottom. These ideas all depend on how big each flower is. You could also make strings of flowers, securing each flower to the string with thread or wire and hang a bunch of them vertically.You'd have to know how tall the pillars are in order to do this. This might be pretty because it would look like cascading vines of flowers. One last idea is to get enough chicken wire to cover the pillars, you could spray paint it the color of the pillars, and you could attach all of the flowers to this. This might be easy to wrap around the pillars, making sure they are completely covered.
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