If you’re reading this it’s because you’ve thought about preserving your bridal bouquet or wedding day flowers. It’s no surprise after all the hours planning and dreaming up your perfect wedding day blooms you’re wondering how to preserve at least some of them. Enter wedding bouquet preservation artists. Specialising in pressing, preservation and framing of your wedding flowers, these expert floral preservation artists can create a bespoke piece of art you truly love and can cherish forever, and a heirloom art piece to be passed down through generations.
Not only is it a great way for a couple to preserve their wedding flowers but also wedding bouquet preservation can be an ideal gift from bridesmaids or family members, who want to give a unique wedding gift idea.
And while many newlyweds choose to preserve their wedding bouquets or boutonnières, any big-day arrangement can be preserved for years to come. Elements of your ceremony or reception blooms, mother of the bride or groom corsages, and flower girl bouquets can all be preserved if you plan ahead.
Below, we’ve made a list of some great wedding bouquet preservation artists in Ireland whose beautiful pieces are painstakingly intricate, with each carefully dried and pressed bloom gently arranged and secured in place over many hours to create the prefect custom heirloom for you.
Wedding Bouquet Preservation Artists in Ireland
Heirloom Botanicals
Claire Barry of Heirloom Botanicals is a Dublin-based artist who creates beautiful floral art by drying and preserving flowers in resin, making it the perfect way to immortalise your bridal bouquet (or any meaningful blooms!). As a bridal hair stylist, Claire’s love for flowers flourished, inspiring her to craft unique, lasting pieces that capture the essence of a wedding day. Using several different techniques to dry flowers in their best possible state, her pieces are then carefully arranged and cast in epoxy resin, and once taken care of can last a lifetime.
Find out more at www.heirloombotanicals.ie
SIÓG Botanicals
SIÓG Botanicals is a flower art studio founded in 2021 by friends, Lorna Frawley and Joanna Brien-Sammons whose mission is to preserve the beauty of cherished flowers and create sustainable art and gifts inspired by Irish nature to celebrate life’s precious moments. With over 10 years of experience and 7 different methods of flower preservation, you can choose to have your bouquet preserved whole in a beautiful shadow box frame, or have elements of your wedding day flowers pressed and preserved in frames, resin or jewellery pieces.
Find out more at siogbotanicals.ie
The Flower Bandits
The Flower Bandits are flower preservation artists based in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary but accept bouquets and flowers for commissions from all over the country. Choose from various wedding bouquet preservation options from framing your entire bouquet or arrangement in in wooden display frames, to pressing your blooms in circular ‘floating’ frames. There’s also other keepsake options such as pressed flower jewellery, bookmarks, Christmas tree decorations, candle holders and more.
Find out more at theflowerbandits.ie
The Florist on the Hill
Catering to to couples looking for unique, alternative and colourful wedding blooms, bespoke wedding florist and cut flower grower Carolyn Duggan of The Florist on the Hill can also preserve her bridal bouquet creations for you after the big day in a beautiful resin casting that can be used as a decorative piece. Her truly one of a kind ‘From Seed to Ceremony to Forever’ service means she’ll not only design, grow and arrange your wedding day blooms, she’ll also preserve them after the big day so you can cherish them forever.
Find out more at thefloristonthehill.ie
Eleme Creations
Based in Ballincollig, Co. Cork pressed flower artist Laura Maquieira of Eleme Creations rediscovered her love for her craft during the Pandemic and quickly found that her pieces were in high demand among Irish couples keen to make their wedding flowers last forever. You can choose to create your piece in canvas or double glass frame, in many sizes and styles and your bouquet (and boutonnière) will be pressed and preserved to create a bespoke piece of art that you will be able to cherish forever.
Find out more at elemecreations.com
The Flower Press Co.
Creators of beautiful Irish-made wooden flower presses, The Flower Press Co. also offers custom commissions for flower preservation. From small framed pieces to large-scale installations in acrylic, designer Ann Marie O’Leary would be delighted to explore the possibilities with you. Passionate about Irish native flowers, when you purchase from The Flower Press Company, they will donate 5% of all profits to the Irish Wildlife Trust, a conservation charity committed to raising awareness of Ireland’s rich natural heritage and protecting it for future generations. How wonderful!
Find out more at theflowerpresscompany.ie
Pressed Flowers by Nell
Pressed Flowers by Nell was established by artist Nell Stritch. Known for her artistic designs, Nell creates a magnitude of bespoke pieces incorporating delicately pressed flowers in a mystical way. Nell began by pressing a number of bridal bouquets and turning them into beautiful pieces of art to preserve a couple’s special moment in time. Since then, she has branched out her bespoke designs into her own collection of art work, tote bags, bookmarks handmade cards and a series of timeless fine art prints.
Find out more at pressedflowersbynell.com
RUBINA PRESS
Rebecca Edgar is the artist and designer behind RUBINA PRESS whose specialises in flower preservation designs that are simple, elegant and understated. Designed using unique patterns made by petals, every component of your original floral arrangement will be carefully broken down and professionally hand dried. Once fully dry these individual structures will then be carefully rearranged into your selected design and delivered back to you. Each artwork is hand-made to order, finished off in a bespoke, hand-painted frame – made entirely unique to you.
Find out more at rubinapress.com
Flower Beauty
Flower Beauty is a Limerick City based flower art studio who creatively press, preserve and frame flowers, create pressed flower jewelry and accessories. Flower Beauty will preserve your wedding flowers arrange and and present them in a frame that will last forever.
Find out more at flowerbeautyfloralart.com
Lost Forest
Handmade in Co. Cavan by Irish jewellery designer Gillian Corcoran, Lost Forest offers bespoke wedding flower preservation in the form of wall hangings and magical jewellery pieces such as looking glass necklaces and cufflinks. Using her mastered and skilled techniques, Gillian will immortalize your wedding flowers in miniature scale and can even include snippets of fabric from your wedding dress.
Find out more at lost-forest.com
The Floral Artist
If you are looking for alternative ways to have your wedding bouquet preserved, or if you no longer have your bouquet, you can commission Grace Killen of The Floral Artist to create an oil painting interpretation of your bouquet or wedding arrangement to live on in your home forever. Painting with knifes and oils, her beautiful loose, thick style illustrates the beauty and texture of your flowers. Based in Northern Ireland but available to travel, Grace offers both live bouquet painting on your wedding day, as well as painting from an image after your celebration.
Find out more at thefloralartist.co.uk
Etsy
There are literally tons of options to preserve, or immortalize your wedding flowers on Etsy. From artisans offering custom framed pieces and textile designers creating embroidered wedding bouquets, to artists offering watercolour and oil paintings and jewellery designers making bespoke creations.
Find out more at etsy.com
What to Consider Before Wedding Bouquet Preservation
If preserving your wedding bouquet is something you are certain you want to do, you need to plan for it now as often there is a lead time with preservation professionals, and certain preservation methods require you to act much quicker than others after your wedding, so your blooms can be immortalized in the freshest possible state.
On the day, try not to set your flowers down on their side, when not holding them pop them in a vase or hand to someone to hold as his will help to prevent any bruising on their delicate petals and flower heads.
Different artists will have different methods, but typically the fresher the flowers are for the drying or preservation process, the better. To help keep your wedding bouquet fresh until your professional can preserve the blooms, make sure to pop the stems in water as soon as possible. Store the flowers in a cool, dark place away from direct sunlight until you’re ready to send them to be preserved. This is particularly important if the weather, venue or your home is hot as it will prevent the flowers from wilting. However, it is advised not to place them in a fridge or freezer.
Shipping to your wedding bouquet preservation artist is done within five days of the event, and ideally within two to three days for best results. You can then arrange to drop off your bouquet, or blooms in person, or your preservation artist will tell you the correct way to ship your bouquet safety to them so you can jet off to your honeymoon knowing it is in safe hands.
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