14 DIY Floral Garland Ideas for Spring Parties and Weddings
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Whether you choose fresh, fake, fabric, or paper flowers, garlands can add the perfect touch to a spring bridal shower, summer wedding ceremony, or dinner party al fresco. This video from Afloral shows how to make a basic garland with artificial flowers. If you want more inspiration from there, we've got a nice lil bouquet of ideas right this way...
How to DIY a Basic Floral Garland
This video shows you how to make four different types of garlands, then weaves them together for a lush effect.
Eucalyptus Garland
To re-create this fresh-flower doorway garland, florist Jackie Reisenauer of Munster Rose recommends starting with eucalyptus, which looks nice even as it dries.
Tropical Flower Garland
This stunning fresh-flower garland features a cascade of additional flowers to use as a photo backdrop. The garland itself can also work as a table runner.
Tissue Paper Garland
If you want to use bright colors not found in nature, you can whip up these tissue paper flowers in any color of the rainbow.
Ruscus Table Garland
Dress up a humdrum table with some lush leaves — this one uses Israeli ruscus greenery.
Floral Garland Wall Hanging
This garland was used as the centerpiece of a nursery, but the color scheme works in any room in the house. The artist made it with artificial delphiniums, dahlias, and roses.
Garland a la Branch
You can use tapestry thread to sew together strings of fresh flowers to hang from a branch — this delicate wall hanging requires fewer blooms than you'd need to create a fuller, ropier garland.
Succulent Fabric Garland
If you're looking for forever blooms to kick-start your fabric garland, Amazon Handmade shop A Market Collection makes these gorgeous felt flowers. They come in lots of color combos, so you can string them together in your own creative way.
Paper Waterfall Garland
The flowers in this waterfall garland are made from a paper template, so you can vary the colors, shapes, and lengths any way you want.
Accordion Tissue Paper Garland
This tissue-paper garland features big, bold flowers that can be customized to fit the color scheme of any party — each flower only requires five sheets of accordion-folded tissue paper.
Garland Base
If you want someone else to handle the green stuff so you can decorate with the pretty flowers, Etsy shop Ratina Handicraft offers strings of artificial-flower garlands in many colors. You can build onto them as you see fit.
Faux Vine Letters
This garland, made with faux vines and floral wire, is extremely easy to make and can work at a wedding, bridal shower, baby shower, or birthday.
Fabric Patchwork Garland
If you're crafty with a sewing needle, you can buy the pattern for this garland of charming, stuffed-patchwork flowers perfect for a kid's room.
Watch: How To Make A Floral Wedding Crown
Make one to match your garland!
Marisa (she/her) has covered all things parenting, from the postpartum period through the empty nest, for Good Housekeeping since 2018; previously, she wrote about parents and families at Parents and Working Mother. She lives with her toy-collecting husband and daughter in Brooklyn, where she can be found helping out her team at bar trivia or posting about movies on Twitter and Bluesky.
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