How to Preserve a Wedding Bouquet

Keep your wedding bouquet as fresh as possible before preserving. An inexpensive Styrofoam cooler is a great way to store your bouquet until it can be preserved. Lining the bottom of a cooler with frozen ice packs works well to keep flowers fresh. Flowers should ideally be preserved within one to about four days of the ceremony.

Dry your bouquet yourself at home. You can purchase anyone of several types of drying agents and slow dry your bouquet. Buy borax, silica gel or sand to use for the drying process. With this simple process you cover the flowers with a drying agent to slowly dry them over time. This type of drying process can easily be done in a used box and the only other expense is the cost of the drying agent.

Get the bouquet professionally pressed at a floral shop. This process can take as long as two months to complete. Your bouquet is gently taken apart and each flower is pressed. The flower arrangement is rearranged to look like the original bouquet and put back together in a picture frame. This type of process provides a beautiful keepsake and lasts forever.

Place an order to have your flowers freeze-dried by professional florists. This will usually take about one month to complete and looks just like your wedding bouquet when finished. All the components of the original flower arrangement are taken apart and each piece is individually freeze-dried. Individual floral pieces are reassembled to their original floral design of your bouquet.