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Thank you 😊 you will get past that stage! Everyone goes through it 😀🌼

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Thank you 😊 enjoy - the agapanthus is nice to use, especially if each flower it is big and strong. Enjoy getting creative!

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Thank you! I love watching the craft programs on telly - anything - could be cooking, clothes making, jewellery. It’s always interesting and I learn something as well as finding them therapeutic as well. Have a great week - enjoy the little things ( And indeed the big things too ). 🌼😊

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Thank you 😊 that is a good point - hydrangeas are very popular just now but really they don’t stand well, even in arrangements they can be tricky. The fashion just now is soft summer flowers - so these don’t do so well in the fully wired corsage designs. But a corsage can be make as a little tied bunch and kept in water until needed - so they have open stems and just brought together at the tie point.

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@@FlowerJoos exactly 👍🏻

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That’s unusual but special to do. 🌼

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Wow - that was a lot of work to take on - and it’s also the stress of it can be a problem. Spray roses are ideal for corsages - my other favorite are the dendrobium orchids - they are nice and lightweight as well 😀

@@FlowerJoos that would be beautiful! They are very dainty. Maybe next wedding-one more wedding to go for my last child. But she has a huge family and I can only imagine the size of her wedding party. Around here recently many of the brides have those extremely large number of bridesmaid and it makes the flowers and rehearsal dinner more expensive. But I’d never say no-I just look a live class and with your videos learned the basics and did the flowers myself. Love flowers but wish you could do wedding flowers over a week instead of just a few days!

@@susancook1448 I was just looking there to find the video of a tied corsage - but I haven’t made one, so that will be a future video! But you just gather the flowers in your pinched fingers and arrange them to sit nicely - like a corsage, then tie them off and pop in water. When needed just cut to length required and add a bow or finishing touch! Just persuade her to get married at the best time flower wise / weather wise! 😀

@@FlowerJoos thank you! Great idea! So far I’ve convinced the two already married to select the first week in June. I did have peonies and garden roses available. But in 2021 a large portion of the greenery I ordered didn’t arrive until the Monday after as well as two other order mistakes. Fortunately I over ordered so I had plenty. I just used what I had for the greenery and it was fine and received a refund. But glad that didn’t happen in the first wedding I sure do have trouble with lilies though. Seems like they drop petals if they even touch anything.

Yes, just bring a stitch from the back to the front then back again, fold into a loop like with the leaves here. Then it will add support and allow you to bend it a little. But you are right that leatherleaf is more brittle, and more likely to snap. I tend to use it at the tip or back of a corsage and then finish the return with something like ivy which can take a bend!

@@FlowerJoosthanks, I’ll give that a go next time 😊

The day before is ok - but earlier than that they won’t last well when actually used. But the flower choice is also a factor - soft flowers last least well - whereas something like an orchid will be much better

Thank you 😊 traditionally men wear theirs on the left lapel facing up and ladies on the right hand side of their outfit. Wrist corsages are a more recent creation - but the corsage is made in a similar way. They can then be attached to a bracelet or ribbon. We do have a video showing a wrist version 😀