And they wore flowers in their hair.

Once we picked the girls dresses I knew that I wanted them to have headpieces. I battled with the headpieces finding SOOO many that I loved on Etsy and online. I was willing to spend the money to buy them. I thought the time it would take me to make them would be too much to handle.

But then I made the mistake of going to the trim shop (living in NYC is a luxury for this reason…there are amazing trim shops all around). I walked into the trim store and found these gorgeous ribbon flowers. And they even had the exact navy that my bridesmaid dresses were. I thought that all navy would be too much so I looked to see what else I could find. I found a really nice gray and decided to get that too. And then I got to work on these DIY headbands.


The flowers were all connected to mesh already so I needed to get the following supplies:
• Needle and thread
• Felt (for backing)
• Headbands & clips for securing
• Hot glue gun
• Beads for decoration

Instructions:
I separated each flower and got to designing. I didn’t want them all to have the exact same ones but wanted to make 3 examples for them to choose from. Here are the designs I came up with.

Design 1: No headband - just 3 flowers secured to a clip

Design 2: 4 flowers secured to a headband!

Design 3: 3 flowers secured to a headband

I secured each of the flowers to the felt and then glued the clips and headbands to the felt.

Adding the beads was a last minute decision. I felt like the beads gave it a more polished look.


I will also make a boutonniere to match for Patrick (my bridesman) and a few flowers for my cousin who is singing, my FSIL who is reading and my friend Becky who is reading. I am going to make a small one for my mom but she probably won’t wear it!


It was so fulfilling to finish. Did you feel this way when you finished your projects?