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I have my daughter's wedding bouquet.  I'd like to disassemble it and put in in a shadowbox with other wedding memorabilia. 

Do I need to "set" the flowers in some way? 
I've been drying the bouquet in the basement and it looks pretty good.  I really don't want to do anything to ruin it...
A basement might be too humid, which could cause mold to start forming.  I remember drying flowers using salt when I was in high school, but I can't remember exactly what was done.

Lynn,
I made a shadow box from some of the flowers from My Grandmas Funeral. I will try to post a Picture of it later. I am at my office right now.
What I did is I tied several rubber bands around the stems and hung them upside down in my dining room...every so often I tightened the bands. I did this until they were dry. Some flowers do not dry well. You could try to take a few flowers from the bouquet if it is rather large. And arrange it with the wedding invitation...or take a favorite photo and run it on copier in Black and White then enlarge it and have it as the back ground. The possibilities are endless. Have fun with it.
Lisa

#1inflamedOnline2009-11-11 07:56:30

It's very dry, no sign of mold.  I just want to be able to place it in the shadowbox without destroying it

This seemed like a good idea at the time [QUOTE=#1inflamedOnline]

Lynn,
I made a shadow box from some of the flowers from My Grandmas Funeral. I will try to post a Picture of it later. I am at my office right now.
What I did is I tied several rubber bands around the stems and hung them upside down in my dining room...every so often I tightened the bands. I did this until they were dry. Some flowers do not dry well. You could try to take a few flowers from the bouquet if it is rather large. And arrange it with the wedding invitation...or take a favorite photo and run it on copier in Black and White then enlarge it and have it as the back ground. The possibilities are endless. Have fun with it.
Lisa

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That's my plan...
 
Beautiful!
Post pic after you get it made.
cut them out of the holder Lynn, I dried my wedding bouquet with a silica desiccant I got at the craft store.  It preserved it very nicely and the color stayed as well.  Alas, I lost it in the flood back in '98, with so much else.  I still have pictures, memories and most of all, DH!   [QUOTE=waddie]Lynn, I dried my wedding bouquet with a silica desiccant I got at the craft store.  It preserved it very nicely and the color stayed as well.  Alas, I lost it in the flood back in '98, with so much else.  I still have pictures, memories and most of all, DH!   [/QUOTE]

Hmm... maybe it was silica, not salt that I used.  [/QUOTE]
I think I'm past the point of using the silica....I just don't want to screw this up.  I want it to be pretty and meaningful for her.
 
I think I'm going to have to just suck it up and give it a shot!
 
Sorry your bouquet was destroyed....DH is the most important thing to have anyway...Put the following words, without quotes in your Google search engine:
 
how to dry and preserve flowers

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