If you are struggling to think of flowers that you might like in your bouquet that won’t break the bank and will match nicely with your desired color theme, making your own bouquet is always an option. What is nice about making your own bouquet is that you can use materials that will last forever so that you can keep your bouquet past your wedding day.

Consider a hand crafted DIY button bouquet for your wedding day

Button bouquets are becoming more and more popular as an alternative to fresh cut flowers, and can work out much less costly too.

If you won’t have time to make your own button bouquet, there are now professional crafters who specialise in button bouquets. This beautiful silver, crystal, pearl, ivory and feather bouquet is from “I Heart Buttons” based in the Isle of Wight, UK.

Using a mixture of buttons and material also works well to create rose like shapes. Using a variety of different materials can give you a very different depth and texture to your bouquet. A pink and blue layered bouquet has been written about by Krystal Bowman on her blog Hello Darlin’.

Another method for a different style bouquet is to stack buttons of different sizes on top of each other. If you would like a less rounded bouquet, then longer pieces of covered wire can be used to add height to the stems of your buttons flowers. The pink bouquet in the picture is from Something Old, Something New in Atlanta.

Felt bouquets can be much more eco-friendly than fresh cut flowers

Felt is a great material to use in a home-made bouquet. Layering different colors of felt and using stitching detail creates good contrasts. If you are having a hen party at home, you could have your hens help you make the flowers out of felt. A sentimental touch would be to ask each person to bring a button with them to include in your bouquet so that they can be a part of your lasting memory, especially if anyone is unable to be at the wedding ceremony for any reason.