How To Make a Floral Arrangement for a Cemetery Vase
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2021
- TUTORIAL FOR DIY FLORAL ARRANGEMENT FOR GRAVESIDE VASE. How I make my flower arrangements for my husband's grave. Step-by-step instructions and tips.
Also check out my written instructions with photos from a previous arrangement: mywidowedheart.com/how-to-mak...
Check out these short tutorials:
Materials Needed for a Cemetery Floral Arrangement: • Materials Needed for a...
Choosing Flowers for a Cemetery Floral Arrangement: • Choosing Flowers for a...
Floral Foam and Vase for a Cemetery Floral Arrangement: • Floral Foam and Vase f...
How To Arrange Main Flowers and Fillers in a Cemetery Floral Arrangement: • How To Arrange Main Fl...
How To Use Wood Picks in a Floral Arrangement: • How To Use Wood Picks ...
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Thank you for this video.
I am very sure your husband was standing watching you do this arrangement (and others).
I am also very sure that he is really appreciative of all the effort you go through.
I'm looking for ideas for my mother's grave, who was buried 2 weeks ago.
Sendig Love, Healing and Blessings for you and your family.
I'm so sorry for the loss of your mom. I'm sure whatever idea you'll come up with for her arrangement will be beautiful and filled with love. I hope making it yourself will bring you some comfort also, as it does for me. Sending lots of hugs your way,
Daisy
Your arrangement is most beautiful! I also want to offer my most sincere condolences to you with the loss of your husband. 🙏✝️ 🙏
Thank you so much!
You put so much love and care into your floral arrangement, and it shows in your finished product. This is what I was looking for, so thank you so much! I want to make my own so that it will be personal. I lost both of my parents, my sister, and my nephew within a few short years. I am so very sorry about your loss of your husband. God bless and comfort you.
I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine what you're going through, having lost several loved ones in such a short amount of time. I'm glad the video was helpful to you. Thank you for your comment and your kind words. Many hugs,
Daisy
Prayers for comfort and healing. Was a beautiful video. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for sharing this video tutorial. I made my mom's cemetery vase arrangements last year with the help of your picture tutorial on your website. I'm fixing to make more, and I visited your website again for a refresher, and was glad to see a video.
Hi Christina, thank you for your comment. I'm so glad my website and video were helpful to you.
Thank you for the help. My husband passed last year and I am learning how to make the flower arrangements for his grave.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Sending lots of hugs your way!
Wow. What a beautiful job you did. My daddy passed away the first of the year & his vase is very small. I’m trying to learn how to make floral arrangements for it. Thank you for you video.
Hi Karen, thank you for taking the time to write and sharing your loss. My most heartfelt condolences. I hope making the arrangements will be comforting to you and a beautiful way to reminisce and remember your dad.
Bless your heart. My heart breaks for you. God bless and keep you. ❤
Prayers for comfort & healing
Beautiful, thanks
Thanks, glad you like it
Thank you so much! so helpful. I'll try your method for our Decoration Day flowers at the cemetery this year!
You're welcome! I'm glad this has been helpful to you.
So pretty! You must be a professional! Tfs🎀
Thank you. Glad you liked it!
Thank you
You're welcome
So pretty!! Thanks for the video..
Thank you. Glad you liked it.
Thank you so much. We travel every Christmas to my husbands family’s hometown in another state and no one puts flowers on his grandmothers graves so I take flowers when we visit and do it, and I have never known how to do it properly. This is very helpful.
Thank you for taking the time to write. It always makes me so happy to know that my video was helpful to someone. It's so nice of you to place flowers at the grave when you visit each year. Sad that no one else does.
Thank you This has helped me so much
You're welcome!
Beautiful! Thank you for this video. My husband passed in 2021 and like you, I think it would be therapeutic. I’m detecting a very slight accent. Are you maybe German? Just curious.
Sorry it took so long to reply, somehow missed your comment. I'm so sorry for your loss. Yes, I'm originally from Germany. I've been here in the USA for over 30 years. I guess the accent never goes away completely.
Hello there I like the arrangement. I want to know what kind of ribbon I need to put around the pot and do the ribbons come pleated or do you have to pleat it yourself let me the name and where to get thanks a million
I don't use any ribbons. Sorry I don't have an answer to your question.
Beautiful job! Where did you purchase the stand?
Thank you so much! The vase I'm using to hold the arrangement while I'm working on it was given to me as a gift many years ago. Sorry, I don't know which store it came from. If you mean the vase that's shown in the photo at the very end, the one at the cemetery, this was part of the grave marker installation done by the cemetery. I don't even remember if I was given an option for the design of the cemetery vase back then, it's all a blur, but it seems that everyone at this cemetery has the same kind.
The vase I ordered is quite large and the foam is too narrow for it. How can I keep the foam from wobbling in the vase?
Depending on how much space there is in between, perhaps you could just wedge something between vase and floral foam. Maybe some extra foam or styrofoam pieces, or several thick sticks or dowels inserted vertically along the foam to make a tighter fit.
If you happen to have a pool noodle hanging around, you could cut some "slices" off it and use those to add material in between.
Another option might be to insert very sturdy toothpicks or short floral picks (just remove the wire) or something similar in intervals horizontally into the floral foam, kinda like branches coming out of a tree trunk at a right angle, like shown on this short foam insert:
mywidowedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/PSX_20220516_153318.jpg
You'll probably have to play around for a bit to make it work. If you could, please let us know how you ended up solving the problem.
Thank you for responding Daisy. I love your name! My daughter named her brown lab Daisy Mae. I was surprised to get an answer to my question. I did wrap a piece of thin foam around the same insert you show in your video. It worked great. Your video was very helpful. Can’t wait to put my arrangement on my grandsons grave. ❤
@@karenlafave5892 Thanks so much for sharing your solution to this problem. I'm glad you were able to make it work. My sincerest condolences on the loss of your grandson.
Beautiful! Please tell me, I just lost my beloved husband and the tombstone was finally installed with its granite vase. Do I make the floral arrangement at home and then take it to the cemetery and put it in the granite vase. This is my first time doing this. I have been taking bouquets and just placed them on the grave,, but now the tombstone is finally installed. Where can I get that Styrofoam? Thank you so much for your tutorial you did a great job with the beautiful floral arrangement my dear. I did subscribe to your channel.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Yes, you would make the arrangement at home, then bring it there. But first you want to make sure that the foam insert will fit your vase (you may have to cut it to fit). I have a short video explaining all about the foam inserts, see link below. You should watch that first, please (and the other videos too), it will probably answer a lot of questions you have.
You can buy the foam insert at craft stores like Hobby Lobby, Michaels, etc. or at Old Time Pottery, some Walmarts or Amazon.
If your vase is right next to the tombstone (and I assume you mean the kind of tombstone that stands up, not laying flat on the ground) and is very close to it, you may have to take that into account for the width of your arrangement.
Please watch my recent short video tutorials, they'll explain all the steps thoroughly:
Materials Needed for a Cemetery Floral Arrangement: czcams.com/video/2JGQ9j3_Bx4/video.html
Choosing Flowers for a Cemetery Floral Arrangement: czcams.com/video/8rPZH51IWRY/video.html
Floral Foam and Vase for a Cemetery Floral Arrangement: czcams.com/video/9__7c1DYfwU/video.html
How To Arrange Main Flowers and Fillers in a Cemetery Floral Arrangement: czcams.com/video/cz7hMUWXRS4/video.html
How To Use Wood Picks in a Floral Arrangement: czcams.com/video/oVN21tVUluU/video.html
If you have any more questions, please let me know. I'll be glad to answer them as best as I can.
Sending hugs your way,
Daisy
Oh,thank you so very much. I thought of measuring the granite vase. The vase was installed on the upper middle of the stone. It has my name there too except for my date of death. We made it a double depth for the two of us. I need to ask you, how long do artificial flowers last and when you take them out to put new flowers does the foam stay stuck inside or do they come out together with the flowers? I appreciate all your help and I most definitely will check out the links that you sent me. A million thanks and God bless you for all that you do. 🙏
@@Cassy84744 The artificial flowers should last a couple of months at least. It will depend on the kind of flowers, the weather, the season, etc. Some flowers will hold up better than others, but all of them will eventually fade. My arrangements usually look pretty decent for about 6 months or more. I've had some of them last for almost a year, but a few of them had to be replaced after only about 4 months or so. It just depends. It's also a matter of how new you want them to look. Personally, I don't mind if they're faded some as long as they still look okay otherwise.
Each time you replace the flower arrangement, you'll need a new foam insert for the vase. It will come out together and you won't be able to reuse the old foam. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.
@@mywidowedheart oh thank you so much you have been very nice and helpful, I subscribed to your channel and found you in pinterest. May God bless you always. ❤
@@Cassy84744 Thanks for subscribing. Let me know if there's anything else I might be able to help you with.
Take care,
Daisy
How do I know how many flowers to get? It’s the first time making one. I want it to look good. It’s for my husband too. 😢
I'm so sorry for your loss. How many flowers you should get depends on how you want your arrangement to look and how big you want it to be. Generally, if I do my focal flowers in 4 tiers, with the top tier being the tallest focal flower and the other three tiers having 4 focal flowers each, I would need 1+4+4+4=13. So if you use this method, you would need 13 focal flowers. Plus filler flowers and greenery like fern leaves for the bottom. When buying the flowers, I find it helpful to hold them like in a bouquet to see what it would look like and how full it looks. I suggest watching my short tutorial "Choosing Flowers for a Cemetery Floral Arrangement", the link is in the description box right below this video. I also recommend watching my video "DIY Cemetery Floral Arrangement," just go to my channel and you'll find it there, as well as other videos you might find helpful. If you can, I would buy more filler flowers than you think you need, it always amazes me how many I end up using. And if I don't use them all, I just hold on to them for a future arrangement. I'm sure your arrangement will turn out beautiful, and it will be made with love!
Hugs,
Daisy
@@mywidowedheart thank you
Can I watch you make the cemetery peace which was a fall arrangement I could hear you I can't really hear you now so I'm not sure what you're doing different and order to hear it I have to put my ear against the phone but then I wouldn't be able to see what you're doing. So if you could do something to make yourself be heard that would be terrific
Sorry the audio is not that great in this one. It was my first video and I'm learning as I go.
Your foam will not fit into the cemetery vase!
Hi Sandra, you may have to cut the foam to fit your vase. I talk about that in the beginning of the video, at around 0:55. I hope you can make yours work for your particular vase.
😊I’ve used this foam many many times and yes it does fit the cemetery vases. 12:43