Preserving Your Wedding Flowers

Preserved Bridal Bouquet

  So you have spent hours scrolling through Instagram & Pinterest images for inspiration, deliberating over the perfect colour combinations & flower shapes. There have been detailed discussions with your Florist about flowers in season & your favourites. And finally, on your wedding day, the Bridal Bouquet will be placed in your hands for the very first time. I hope you love it, enjoy the scents & colours, knowing this bouquet will be captured in photographs to look back on for years.
  And then what?
  Perhaps you'll pass flowers on to your Mum to enjoy in a vase. Or toss in the traditional way for the next Bride to catch. But an increasing number of Brides choose to keep it as a lasting keepsake.
   If that sounds like you, this will be of interest. I'm often asked by wedding couples if I would preserve their wedding flowers. While I do dry & press flowers, taking them to the next stage & presenting them as a finished piece of art is more than I've ever attempted. ⁠
  So I wanted to shine a light on the work of Sue MacBride, as her work is beautiful & it's an unusual skill to find.⁠ I gladly recommend Sue to those couples instead!⁠ Sue preserves flowers & arranges them into pictures full of memories of a special day. It makes a fabulous keepsake doesn't it?⁠
  I arranged wedding flowers for Hannah & Dan last August, & a selection was taken to Sue after the wedding. The flowers were bright & colourful when fresh (see photo below of Hannah's bridal bouquet). Sue has captured the vibrant shades so well, even the Sweet Peas!⁠ The final picture above.
  The preserved flowers were arranged on a backing & carefully placed in a frame so the results can be enjoyed for a long time.⁠
  Sue is based here in Dumfries & Galloway. To arrange for Sue to preserve your wedding flowers as a unique & lasting keepsake, her business can be found on insta @border_gardens ​

August Bridal Bouquet