Making A Homemade Baby Shower Corsage

Organizing a shower for a friend or relative is a great way to have fun and celebrate the coming of a new baby. One of the fun little touches you can add to a shower you are throwing is to have homemade baby shower corsages for everyone.

This will help everyone feel extra girly and the flowers can be dried and kept as a memento by the mother to be. Making corsages is not only more cost effective but it allows you to choose a design that the mother to be will truly like.

What To Use

Use flowers that are the mother’s favourite kind or choose colors to tie in with the theme of the shower. You might also want to choose pink and blue flowers based on the baby’s sex. The great thing about a homemade baby shower corsage is that you can use flowers that a florist might not normally use.

You can also add silk leaves and flowers to jazz up the presentation. Special baby shower corsage pins will also add that something extra to make your corsages truly unique. You should also head to your local florist and look for floral wire and tape to help hold your designs together.

Simple Tips

When trimming your flowers you want to leave about three to four inches of stem on the flowers so that you can work with the flowers more easily. After cutting the flowers for your homemade baby shower corsage let the flowers soak up some tepid water three hours in advance of making the corsages. You need to make sure the flowers have absorbed plenty of water to stay fresh. Store the completed corsages in Ziploc bags in the fridge.

Wire the flowers you are going to use by pushing the floral wire through the stem of each flower. After doing this use wrap the stems with floral tape to keep the wires in place. Your homemade baby shower corsages will look very professional if you do this before trying to arrange the flowers. Floral tape is also the perfect way to hold a bundle of flowers together.

You can use simple ribbon to tie the homemade baby shower corsages to each guest’s wrist. Alternatively you can buy wristlets that can be glued to each corsage. Wristlets range from simple to elaborate and depending on the level of formality of your shower can be the thing to transform your homemade baby shower corsages.