Project: Floral Lanterns
Almost a year ago my mom and sisters held a bridal shower for me at an amazing Italian restaurant in town...Ventano's. We had the shower outside on their patio with a beautiful view of the strip and kept the decorations fairly simple. It was mostly about good food and spending time with the most important women in my life before my big day. We did have a color scheme though...because I can't not have some kind of order. We went with a pink and gray theme...used poms to decorate around the patio, a simple glittery "congratulations" banner (thank you Martha Stewart), and used Ikea lanterns borrowed from Catherine, my florist, to decorate each table. The night before we hit up Costco and Albertsons for pink and white flowers to adorn the lanterns. I thought I would share the lanterns with you because they can easily be adapted to any color scheme! Here are our lanterns...
To create these we simply cut off the stems of our flowers and hot glued them onto a paper towel cardboard tube. The trick was to glue on your largest flowers first and fill in with smaller ones until you can't see the cardboard. Then, I stuck a few little stems of baby's breath around the arrangement and around the bottom to fill it in even more. I'm not a florist so I have no idea if hot gluing flowers is a no-no but it worked for us! Since we made these the night before my mom and I were worried they would die before the shower...so we soaked some paper towel, laid it on a cookie sheet, laid our flowers on that, placed it in the fridge, and crossed our fingers! As you can see the flowers survived and still looked beautiful! I think these would be beautiful in any color scheme and for any occasion.
