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How-to Guides
Step-by-step floristry guides — hand-tied bouquets, bridal bouquets, vase arrangements, flower arches, centerpieces, and wrapping techniques.
Step-by-step technique guides from our working florists — from vase arrangements to bridal bouquets and large installations.
- Floral Tape and Wire: Gauges, Types & Three Key Techniques
- Flower Baskets: How Florists Build Them & When They Win
- Flower Frog — how to use one (and why to switch to them)
- Flower Pressing: Book, Iron or Microwave — What Works
- Flower Vases: How to Choose the Right One for Any Bouquet
- Flower Wrapping Paper: Types, Sizes & What Florists Use
- How to Arrange Flowers in a Vase — the working method
- How to Build a DIY Flower Arch — the working guide
- How to Make a Bridal Bouquet — the working florist's method
- How to Make a Centerpiece — a working florist's guide
- How to Make a Hand-Tied Bouquet: Spiral Technique Step by Step
- How to Wrap a Bouquet — a florist's guide
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How to Arrange Flowers in a Vase — the working method
The professional method for arranging cut flowers in a vase: stem prep, grid mechanics, placing focal blooms and fillers — works for any vase shape.
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How to Make a Hand-Tied Bouquet: Spiral Technique
The spiral technique working florists use to build hand-tied bouquets of any size in under 15 minutes. Step-by-step: stem angle, layers, and tying off.
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How to Make a Centerpiece — a working florist's guide
Step-by-step: how to build a compote-style flower centerpiece. Mechanics, palette, timing — the technique we teach in our floral design course.
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How to Build a DIY Flower Arch — the working guide
Real-world DIY flower arch build from a wedding studio. Structural framework, flower selection, budget, timing, and the pitfalls that trip up first-timers.
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How to Make a Bridal Bouquet: The Working Florist's Method
A step-by-step method for a round, hand-tied bridal bouquet — flower selection, spiral construction, ribbon finish. Written by a working wedding studio.
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How to Wrap a Bouquet — a florist's guide
The wrapping styles working florists actually use — kraft, tissue, silk ribbon, linen, and matte film. How to fold each and when to use which.
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Flower Frog — how to use one (and why to switch to them)
Pin frogs, glass frogs, wire frogs — how to use each type, when they're the right choice, and why they're replacing floral foam.
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Floral Tape and Wire: Gauges, Types & Three Key Techniques
How floral tape works: self-sealing, stretch-activated. Wire gauges 18–30 explained; pierce, hook and hairpin techniques for boutonnieres and corsages.
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Flower Baskets: How Florists Build Them & When They Win
Flower basket mechanics — liner and foam-free options, proportions, occasions where baskets beat bouquets, cost tiers, and care after delivery.
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Flower Pressing: Book, Iron or Microwave — What Works
How to press flowers three ways: book press (2-4 weeks), iron shortcut, and microwave method. Best flowers, preparation, and how to use them afterward.
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Flower Vases: How to Choose the Right One for Any Bouquet
Vase shapes explained by a working florist — which fits a hand-tied bouquet, tulips, hydrangeas or one stem, the water-line rule, and five useful types.
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Flower Wrapping Paper: Types, Sizes & What Florists Use
Kraft, Korean matte film, tissue, cellophane — what each wrapping paper does, standard sheet sizes, how many sheets per bouquet, and when to skip it.
