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I want to make my own confetti, but how?

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lacrimosa · 03/06/2006 19:27

Can anyone help me? I want to make natural wedding confetti, I buy flowers every week and thought if I use these for 1 year untill my wedding, I could save some money, the only problem is how do i do it?

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LadyCodofCOdford · 03/06/2006 19:28

apprently according to an article in ? todays times oyu need dried coconute na drosepetals

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LadyCodofCOdford · 03/06/2006 19:30

“Instead of confetti — which contains dyes and bleach and swells in the stomachs of birds that eat it, as does rice — we had dried rose petals from the garden for my wedding,” says Culver. “You can also throw linseed — great for getting in the bride and groom’s underwear.” Or try biodegradable confetti (www.confettidirect.co.uk).

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lacrimosa · 03/06/2006 19:33

Oh you cruel thing!Wink Linseed! I have to remember to ban it from my wedding, thanx for the tip though!

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LadyCodofCOdford · 03/06/2006 19:34

\link{https://vault2.secured-url.com/confetti/rose.asp?catalog=2\my mum and dad had rice int he 60s!}

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lacrimosa · 03/06/2006 19:37

Thanx for the link ,but I already have their catalogue, I wanted to learn how to make it myself as I buy loads of flowers throughout the year, any tips?

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LadyCodofCOdford · 03/06/2006 19:38

\link{http://www.thehandcraftedcardcompany.co.uk/display.asp?product=305\get one fo these and get stamping!)
wonder if you coudl get everyone who works in an office to give oyu their hole punch waste!

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LadyCodofCOdford · 03/06/2006 19:38

\link{http://www.thehandcraftedcardcompany.co.uk/display.asp?product=305\here}

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apronstrings · 03/06/2006 19:41

don't really know how to do it ,but think it is a lovely and romantic idea. I had heard that you dry roses in sand? A woman at our lacal organic supermarket told me that they hang the roses that don't sell upside down to make dried floweres

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lacrimosa · 03/06/2006 19:44

I need to have completely natural confetti as I am getting married on a river bank!I love the hole punch idea

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LadyCodofCOdford · 03/06/2006 19:44
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Twiglett · 03/06/2006 19:48

We got married in florence and DBILs went to local florists and got £100 worth of roses and threw the petals at us

funnily enough they didn't know it would cost £100 .. they were stitched up .. they asked for a few rose petals and the bloke proceeded to rip up loads

really made me LOL when I heard ..but it was lovely .. fresh rose petals on the steps underneath the statue of David .. with japanese holidaymakers taking pics of us .. [girn]

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lacrimosa · 03/06/2006 20:00

wow sounds really romantic! I think I will get the best of both by having bunches of flowers in the house for a few days and making my own confetti!

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bettythebuilder · 03/06/2006 20:17

I've dried lavender and roses before by tying them together and hanging upside down in an airing cupboard. I don't know if that would make the rose petals a bit "crunchy" (!) though.

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bettythebuilder · 03/06/2006 20:18

and is it tying or tieing? (or something else...)

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WideWebWitch · 03/06/2006 20:20

I got rose petals from \link{http://www.trulymadlydeeply.biz/\here} there might be something on their site about how they treat them?

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LadyCodofCOdford · 03/06/2006 20:21

omg look at the personalised roses
lacrimosa
don thave conetti
no one will notice

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WideWebWitch · 03/06/2006 20:22

I know cod, I am a ponce! Didn't have those, had dried rose petals on tables and as confetti.

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Californifrau · 04/06/2006 04:26

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ghosty · 04/06/2006 07:44

When we got married a friend of DH's started chucking dry pasta at us ... someone had told him that rice was a good alternative to confetti but he didn't have any so he brought a packet of spiral pasta instead Grin
Got a picture somewhere of me with pasta stuck in my veil Grin

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Carolinett · 04/06/2006 13:13

This is a bit harsh but

Think how much money you could save between now and your wedding if you didn't buy any more flower.

Put the vase away replace it with another ornement and buy a can of flower smelling fresh air for 79p from Asda.

You can then proberbly be able to buy the confetti you want
Those petals are always in the sales in different shops, try the Au Natural shop there cheap in there.

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Katymac · 04/06/2006 13:18

I love the idea of saving your flowers for confetti - it's very "bottem draw"ish and really lovely.....but I don't know how

Why not google Making conbfetti or making potporri (as that uses dried flowers too)

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Carolinett · 04/06/2006 13:18

and another thing get someone to pick up the petals when they've been thrown at the wedding and put them in a nice dish after you've soaked them in a flower scented oil.

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Freckle · 04/06/2006 13:37

A nice idea is to make confetti out of different coloured rice papers. Totally biodegradable and in fact turn into food for birds, etc.

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Gillian76 · 04/06/2006 13:50

One of my dad's employees had the hole punch debris thrown at her. They stored it up in a big Roses jar before the big day!

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clairemow · 04/06/2006 14:10

I haven't read the whole thread, so someone might have said this already. For my wedding, I collected rose petals from the garden (ours and anyone else's I could...) for maybe a month, put them in an old Quality Street tin and stuck it in the airing cupboard. It worked a treat, and is really quick. Then I made cones with card - a triangle shape bit of card, with one rounded edge (a quarter of a circle might be a better way to describe it...), roll it over and staple, then put the dried petals in it. The ushers handed one to every guest when they left the church and it was lovely. And all free and biodegradable.

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