Wedding Bouquet Jewelry
Your Wedding Flowers, Made to Last
Your bouquet was chosen for one of the most meaningful days of your life. It doesn’t have to disappear when the day is over.
Turn flowers from your wedding bouquet into one-of-a-kind jewelry, handmade to preserve a little piece of your wedding day. From earrings and necklaces to bracelets and meaningful gifts, your flowers can become something you can wear and keep close for years to come.
Every flower carries a memory. Let’s turn yours into something lasting.
From Your Bouquet to Your Jewelry
Your wedding flowers are completely personal to you, and your jewelry will be too.
Send me flowers from your bridal bouquet and I’ll carefully transform them into custom jewelry using clear resin. You can choose the type of jewelry, shape, gold or silver details, and how you would like your flowers to be incorporated.
Because we’re working with your actual flowers, every piece is completely one of a kind. Their natural variations, colors and imperfections become part of the story.
What Flowers Can I Use?
CH Design specializes in gypsophila, also known as baby's breath, making it particularly well suited to preserving these delicate little flowers in jewelry.
If your wedding bouquet contains gypsophila, the individual flowers can often be incorporated beautifully into smaller jewelry designs while still keeping their recognizable shape.
But your bouquet doesn’t have to contain baby's breath. Other flowers can be used too.
Larger flowers may need to be adapted to fit the jewelry you choose. Depending on the flower and the size and shape of your chosen pendant, I may use:
- A small section of the flower
- Individual petals
- Smaller details from the flower
- Carefully cut pieces
- A mixture of finely snipped petals and flowers to create a delicate floral confetti effect
This means even a flower that is far too large to fit inside a pendant can still become part of your jewelry.
Every Flower Is Different
Jewelry is small. Wedding flowers sometimes aren’t.
The way your flowers are incorporated depends on both the flowers you send and the jewelry design you choose. A tiny gypsophila flower may fit beautifully inside a pendant as it is, while a rose, peony, hydrangea or other larger flower cannot be preserved whole inside a small piece of jewelry.
In these cases, I may need to use individual petals, cut the flower into smaller sections, or create a floral confetti from different parts of your bouquet.
Rather than trying to force a flower into a shape it wasn’t made for, I work with its natural characteristics to create a design that feels balanced and beautiful.
The smaller the jewelry, the smaller the elements of your flowers will need to be.
If keeping a particular flower or detail recognizable is important to you, let me know when submitting your request so we can choose a design that works best for it.
How to Preserve Your Wedding Flowers
Option 1: Dry Your Flowers With Silica Gel
Best for preserving more of the flower's original shape.
Silica gel is ideal if you would like your flowers to retain more of their three-dimensional shape while drying. This can be particularly useful for smaller flowers and individual flower heads.
As soon as possible after your wedding, select the flowers you would like to preserve. Remove excess stems and make sure the flowers are not wet before placing them in silica gel.
Fill the bottom of an airtight container with silica gel, place your flowers inside without overcrowding them, and gently surround and cover the flowers completely with more silica gel. Be careful not to crush delicate petals.
Leave the flowers sealed until they are completely dry before removing them carefully.
Important: Silica gel, rather than ordinary decorative sand, should be used for this method.
Option 2: Press Your Flowers
Best for flatter flowers and petals.
Pressing is a simple option if you are happy for your flowers to become flat. This works particularly well when you know you would like petals or smaller floral details incorporated into your jewelry.
Place the flowers or individual petals between clean, absorbent sheets of paper and press them inside a flower press or underneath something flat and heavy.
Make sure the flowers are completely dry before packaging them.
Keep in mind that pressed flowers will naturally look different from flowers dried in silica gel. They become flat, which can influence how they are eventually incorporated into your jewelry.
Before You Send Your Flowers
Your flowers must be completely dry before being packaged or sent.
Please do not send fresh, damp or partially dried flowers. Moisture can cause flowers to deteriorate, discolor or develop mold during shipping, which may make them unsuitable for use in jewelry.
I would also recommend sending more flowers than you think will be needed. Flowers are incredibly delicate once dried and can occasionally break during drying, transport or handling. Having a few extra flowers gives me more flexibility when creating your pieces.
You do not need to send your entire bouquet.
Choose several flowers or petals that are meaningful to you and that you would be happy for me to work with.
Before sending, check that your flowers are:
✓ Completely dried
✓ Free from visible moisture
✓ Free from mold
✓ Carefully separated and protected
✓ Flowers you are comfortable with potentially being cut or separated
✓ Accompanied by a few extras where possible
How to Send Your Wedding Flowers
Once your flowers are completely dry, they can be carefully packaged and sent to CH Design.
Because dried flowers are extremely fragile, do not send them loose in an envelope.
Place the flowers in a small, sturdy container or box that prevents them from being crushed. Add soft, dry packing material around them so they cannot move excessively during transport, without pressing directly onto delicate petals.
Place this container inside your shipping box or padded packaging for additional protection.
After placing your order, you’ll receive the information you need to send your flowers to CH Design.
Please never send irreplaceable flowers without tracking. We recommend choosing a tracked shipping method so you can follow your flowers on their journey to us.
What Happens When My Flowers Arrive?
Once your flowers arrive, I’ll inspect them to see which parts are suitable for your chosen jewelry.
From there, your flowers are carefully selected, arranged and preserved in resin before your jewelry is finished by hand.
Depending on your chosen design, your flowers may be kept as recognizable as possible, separated into petals, trimmed into smaller sections, or transformed into a floral confetti design.
The goal is not to make every flower look exactly as it did on your wedding day. It’s to preserve the actual flowers from that day in a form you can continue to carry with you.
From bouquet to keepsake
How It Works
1. Choose Your Jewelry
Select the jewelry pieces you would like to have made from your wedding flowers.
2. Dry Your Flowers
Preserve your flowers at home using silica gel or by pressing them. They must be completely dry before sending.
3. Send Them to CH Design
Carefully package your dried flowers and send them using the instructions provided after ordering.
4. Your Design Is Created
I select and arrange your flowers according to the jewelry you have chosen. Larger flowers may be cut, separated into petals or incorporated as floral confetti.
5. Your Memory Becomes Wearable
Your flowers are preserved in resin and transformed into one-of-a-kind jewelry, handmade especially for you.
Share a Piece of Your Wedding Day
Your bouquet doesn’t only have to become jewelry for you.
Use flowers from the same bouquet to create meaningful pieces for your mother, mother-in-law, maid of honor, bridesmaids, sisters, witnesses or other loved ones who shared your wedding day with you.
A necklace made with a flower from your bouquet can become a deeply personal thank-you gift, while matching or coordinating pieces allow several people to carry a little part of the same memory.
One bouquet. Multiple stories to keep.
Natural Changes Are Part of the Story
Real flowers are natural materials. Drying and preserving them can change their color, shape and texture, and flowers may continue to develop subtle changes over time.
Some flowers preserve particularly well, while others may become darker, softer or more translucent when preserved in resin.
These natural characteristics are not imperfections. They are part of working with real flowers and part of what makes every finished piece completely unique.
If you’re unsure whether the flowers in your bouquet are suitable, send me a photo before ordering and I’ll be happy to take a look.
A Little Piece of Your Wedding Day
The flowers may have only been carried for a day, but the memory behind them lasts much longer.
Instead of leaving your bouquet tucked away in a box, transform part of it into something you can actually wear. A necklace on an anniversary. Earrings for a special dinner. A bracelet that quietly carries a flower from the day everything changed.
Your flowers. Your wedding. Your story, preserved.