Hi! Sandy with Afloral. We are working with our hydrangea collection today and I’d like to show how to make a unity candle center piece that could double as your head table center piece. This will be something a little more elegant, oblong, and look beautiful both of the altar of the church, if you’re going to have a church wedding and also on your head table. And we’re going to start with this hydrangea bush. It’s FBH905, it’s a white hydrangea, and I’ve cut two of them apart to get make my center piece. I’ve got it a nice oblong container, this one is in gold that comes in other colors, and I’m going to add our unity candle or our pillar candle. And you can get a holder for it, or if you don’t have a holder we have wooden sticks, and I’ve attached three. Four is a good number.
We’ll use the floral tape, stretch it and wrap it around. To begin with it might be easier for you to attached one stick at a time. Wrap it around a couple of times and then add your second stick. By the time you get to the last stick, you’ll be a pro. And just wrap that tape right around the bottom. You don’t want to go too far up on the candle because we’ll have to hide this tape and the sticks. Once you have that stick, then you can stick it right into the center of your center piece and those wooden sticks will hold that candle securely. We also have candle holders available. I call this handy Sandy’s and then they hold the taper candle. And you want to put one of those, stuck into your foam on either side. And this will hold the two taper candles for you unity candle center piece.
Now, we have a block of dry flower foam. We have a container, our candle and our candle holders, and now it’s time to put our hydrangea. I’ve used two hydrangea bushes and I’ve cut them apart, and we’ll use our biggest flowers in the center because that’s where you want the most weight, and that will determine weight, the size of the flower. So, we’ll put our two biggest flowers on either side of the candle on the short side of the center piece. Then I have some mediums sized flowers and we’ll use those on the long side of the center piece. This is the one time that we’ll use four instead of an odd number for designing because we’re actually making something oblong or in the square family.
Now, we’re going to put some flowers in between. Each time I put a flower in the arrangement, I’d like to put one in between. So, get a good set up cutters. Cut your stems to the length they need to be. Start with four in the middle and then we’ll put four more stems around the base of the design. You’ll notice how I'm using every leaf that came with the stem. And any extra ones that we have we’ll use at the end.
In our bouquet, we also have some buds, and we’ll want to use those up near the candle to hide our foam and make it look nice and full. And any leaves that I’ve cut off, I’m going to stick back into our arrangement. I have two, stems left over and we’re going to use these at the end to elongate the design. This way we create a beautiful centerpiece that’s perfect for a head table and oblong table, the unity candle table at the church or if you’re having an outdoor wedding, if you have table set up for your unity candle, this will be very, very beautiful.
You really need not another thing to it. The leaves have filled that in beautifully but if you like ribbons or bows, you could add a little ribbon in their to tie it in with the rest of the items we have in our collection, or maybe you want to add a few roses or some pearl wisps, all of these things will looks beautiful in this bouquet. If you’d like to add pearl wisps, that will give a delicate look. If you would like to add a rose to coordinate with something else that will look beautiful, and you would need four of them to finish off this center piece. Once you’re done, then you can insert the taper candles into the holders, so that it makes for easy removal lighting of your candle and then return to the candle holder. Good luck with this.
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