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).
  The photo at the top of the post shows the result. Sue has captured the vibrant shades so well, even the Sweet Peas!⁠ 
  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