COMPETITIVE BRIDAL BOUQUET STYLING / Creative Edge November 2021 Article Now Available!

My November 2021 'Competitive Bridal Bouquet Styling' Article is NOW AVAILABLE to read on my website at https://www.hitomigilliam.com/creativ...

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Bridal Bouquet category in a competitive design contest requires more than designing pretty. The winning design must show good understanding of the Elements and Principles of Design, and show style and finesse technically, mechanically and creatively.

In a very competitive field, the design need to be beyond pretty and lovely..., it must have creative and technical application with excellent workmanship.

When reviewing your flower selection… first thing you do is to decide which product has the best potential for creative and technical application. And decide what kind of foundational structure you need to create to make your bouquet stand out above the rest.

Within the list of botanicals above… following applications are possible that’s outside of the norm.
Psittacorum with the side hard stems removed, can be carefully curved.
Achiote pods can be singly cold glued for texture.
Hala leaf can be sliced into thinner limp strips.
Rhapis leaflet can be individually bullion wrapped over aluminum wire to create carefully shaped linear flow.
Podocarpus is effective fill for chickenwire pillow.
Banyan roots can be made into long strands of garland with bullion wrap, with or without wiring internally.
With open hardgood supply use… you can use different materials that you are familiar working with, to create mechanics and structures in combination with the botanicals.

With the given botanical selection, you can play on contrasting shapes, contrasting textures, try unifying the color palette, work with linear quality of the stems (of Anthurium and Tropic Fleur), split hala, banyan garlands to complement hand-crafted yarn-wrapped midollino & wire vine in peach to unify the yellow orange to watermelon red. Off white is merely the lightest tint of any color, so the Dendrobium can be complimented by the spadix of the anthurium and/or addition of natural midollino to the design.

Make a decision to create a distinctive design that separates you from the others. Along with distinction, you must compete with superb technical execution.

I have created 3 gamechanger structures which will help shape creative bridal bouquets shapes.

Hitomi.

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