how-to: hand-tied bouquet

create your own beautiful hand-tied bouquet with these easy steps!

1. lay out all your flowers, materials, and tools.
2. start your bouquet with a center flower, something full and strong like a rose.
3. cross your second flower to the left of your first and turn the flowers to the right.
4. continue adding other flowers or leaves wherever there is a gap.  we added summery mint to this bouquet…
5. tie raffia or ribbon around the stems.
6. trim your stems.
7. now you have a gorgeous hand-tied bouquet!