Wedding Flower Bouquet Preservation

How We Preserve Your Wedding Bouquet

Keep Your Bouquet Cool and Hydrated
The best results for preserving the most authentic colors, shapes and textures of your flowers is to dry the freshest blooms possible. It is very important that the bouquet is kept cool, hydrated in water and delivered as soon as possible after the wedding or special occasion. Friends or family members can also deliver, ship, or courier the bouquet if you are not available. To aid the flowers to take up more water it is also very helpful to recut the stems. It is important to note that any damage such as wilted, bruised, discolored or crushed petals cannot be reversed in the preservation process. Replacement flowers can be purchased from your florist if some of the blooms are too damaged to preserve.
Drying the Most Beautiful Botanicals
Once the bouquet is received, the best blooms are selected and carefully and individually dried in silica gel. Depending on the size and thickness of the florals, this can take aproximately 2 weeks. Some colors tend to change, darken, lighten or become translucent in the drying and resin process. This is completely normal and is especially apparent in pink, red and white botanicals. Once dry, a creative design is made in a mold and an image will be emailed for consideration and approval.
Pouring the Resin
The next step is pouring the resin. Over a number of days, many fine layers are very carefully poured over the delicate floral ingredients. Each layer of resin must set before the next layer is poured. As this is handcrafted art, some micro bubbles and small imperfections are expected. The resin is generally poured to aproximately 1.50 inches in depth. Any blooms that are deeper than 1.50 inches will be covered in resin to protect the blooms, but will not be submerged under the resin. This produces a stunning three dimensional effect!
Drying and Curing
Last of all is the time it takes for your art piece to dry. Approximately 10 days are needed to ensure that it is completely hardened and cured. The entire process takes aproximately 4 weeks in total, at which time you can expect to receive your preserved bouquet treasure. All resin art is non-toxic, and produces no VOCs or fumes. Please keep your resin art away from direct sunlight as you would with any piece of art. Some yellowing may occur over time.

a beautiful wedding bouquet of pink lilies and white roses

How to Order

We would love to transform your wedding or special occasion bouquet into a beautiful keepsake that you will cherish for years to come.

To order the 9 inch round or the 8 inch square ~ a $100 deposit is paid to reserve your date. Your final payment of $185 (plus $25 shipping if non-local) is paid before pickup or shipping. Payments are made using etransfer or our Resin Bouquet Square eCommerce account.

Save your date! Because of the labour and time intensive nature of making handcrafted art, we can only accept a limited number of flower preservations each week. Please leave a message in the contact section to check availability.

Serving the Vancouver, Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada area ~ North/West Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Richmond, Delta, Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, Surrey, Langley and Fraser Valley.

We also accept overnight or 1-day shipping of bouquets from across Canada. Shipping instructions are provided once your date and deposit have been confirmed. Important note: Resin Bouquet cannot be responsible for any damaged, lost or delayed shipments.

Unfortunately, due to Canadian customs laws the shipment of fresh and dried flowers from the US is prohibited. However, many of our American brides have chosen to order the same blooms that were in their bouquet from a florist in our local area, and we are able to preserve those instead.

Do you have comments or questions? We’d love to connect with you! Please feel free to reach out in the contact section. Looking forward to hearing from you if you are having a wedding in 2020/2021!