Dye Your Own Wedding Flowers

Have you checked to see how much it will cost you to get a florist to dye flowers so that they match or coordinate with your wedding colors? Dont bother; its very expensive! Why should you pay extra for blue carnations instead of pink ones? For purple roses instead of white ones? Sometimes, we love the look of a certain flower, but we wish we could change the color. Nature makes many flowers, in a huge assortment of colors, but some of those colors dont match the flowers we like. Change all that, and save yourself a fortune, by dying your own wedding flowers! Sound complicated and messy? Its quite the opposite! Its a breeze to turn white flowers into flowers of unusual color. Turn white daisies to blue ones, white roses into orange ones - most any white flower can easily have nearly any color you desire. All you have to do is water them! Take freshly picked flowers from the roadside or your garden, or purchase flowers from a florist, or save even more by purchasing the flowers from a greenhouse. Fill a vase with warm water and add 20 drops of food coloring for each half-cup. This can be all of the same color or part one color and part of another. Before preparing the vase its a good idea to experiment a little with combining food coloring drops. That way, you can be certain of the color youll be dying the wedding the flowers.

Cut at least a couple inches off of each stem. Set the flowers in the vase of colored water. Within 24 hours youll see them changing color. Flowers take in water constantly, and therefore, they take in the food coloring as well. Although the water evaporates, the dye doesnt, and it is stored in the petals of the flower.

If you use colored vases to display the flowers at the wedding it wont be necessary to remove the flowers from the colored water and place them in clean water. However, if you use clear vases its advisable to place the flowers in different vases before decorating the tables. If left in the colored water for a short while, the flowers will barely show the new color, but the longer theyre left in the water, the darker the color can become. Keep this in mind so that, when the desired color is achieved, you can then place the flowers in a new vase. Your homemade, dyed flowers will be just as lovely as the ones you would have gotten from the florist but youll save a small fortune over his price. Now, on to the placement for all those beautiful flowers...