How to Make a Button Hole Flower

How to Make Dried Flower Buttonholes

Here's a handy little tutorial for DIY dried buttonholes. If you're looking to make your own boutonnieres for your wedding and feel like dried flowers and grasses would work with your wedding aesthetic, then this 'How To' is the one for you. You can also have fun making these if you're having a pretend wedding day at home, whilst you wait for your real wedding date to arrive.

Below are the ingredients you'll need and the instructions to follow…

You will need:
🌾Assortment of dried flowers and grasses.
✂️Scissors
🌿Stem tape
📍Pins
🎀 Thin ribbon

1 - Group your flowers together with the colours and textures you'd like for each buttonhole. Try to include smaller flowers or seed heads, height from grasses or lavender and a larger flower in each buttonhole, this will create balance and interest in the design.

The grasses and dried flowers I used where: pepperberries, bunny tail grass, lavender, pampas grass, craspedia and helichrysum.

2 - Pull off a piece of stem tape and gently pull it - this makes it sticky on one side. This tape is also really good for making flower crowns with.

3 - Gather the stems for your first buttonhole together and arrange them so they're ready to be secured into their buttonhole design. When you're arranging the stems, place the longer stems at the back, the larger flower in the middle(ish) and then the smaller textures can go low down or fill in any gaps at the side or in the middle.
4 - Squeeze the stems together and firmly stick down and secure the stem tape at the top of the stems (just below the flowers) and tightly wrap it down the stems so they're secured together. Pull tightly so the stems are brought together and can't move around.

5 - Leave a little gap so the stems show at the bottom and trim the stems so they're the same length. Watch out for any fly away pieces of cut off stem and be careful with your scissors. Pull off the excess stem tape you don't need, this can be ripped off.
6 - Follow the same steps above with the rest of your buttonhole designs. You can make all your designs the same or create different ones for each person.

7 - You can leave the stems as they are with the tape around them or you can add ribbon. I used some scraps I had left over from some thin blue velvet ribbon.

Place the ribbon down the back of the taped buttonhole stems, leaving a little tail of ribbon at the top for tying. Then tightly wrap the longer length of ribbon, at the bottom of the buttonhole stems, back up to the top of the stems. Bring the two tail ends together and tie them very tightly together in a knot at the top of the stems at the back. Trim the ends of the ribbon if they're too long.

8 - Use a pin to attach each buttonhole and look glam for the rest of the day!

And there you have it, that's how you can create your own dried flower buttonholes using lots of nice grasses and dried flowers. These would look great for a relaxed and rustic wedding and they last for absolutely ages so you can keep them after your big day in your memory box.

Hope you have fun making these, let me know how you get on and tag me in your creations on Instagram @WebbandFarrer I'd love to see your amazing buttonhole designs.