help - weddin bouquet preserving- drying?

[sickandtired]

can anyone help - I arranged for afriend to dry my new sister in laws bouquet and now have been let down - does anyone know anyone that can do this? The bouquet is in my fridge (they got married on sunday) and I scared its goingto die and she will be so upset!!!

I'm in the surrey/hampshire/berkshire border area

I hung mine upsode down after the wedding to let it dry. Just left it like that in the spare room. Room smelled lovely and I still have the bouquet in a vase. It doesn't have any colour, just varying shades of brown but it's almost 10 years old now and has survived a house move and DS.

do you want to do the whole bouquet?
what kind of flowers are in it?

I had a couple of roses from mine put in paperweights by these people and they are pretty cool.

A quick Google shows these people collect, and these people might be worth a call as well.

damn, that final link should have been to here rather than their contacts page.

I think you can microwave them- try googling that.

thanks all - I will look at some of those sites - I did see one ofthem before but she doesn't want it framed - just dried?

sure they'll do that if you ask

f**k - 400 quid!

SORRY mrs b - i did ask - they said no

you could have a bash yourself - some info here

I think i will hang them in the airing cupboard

just read one of my mum's mags where some var fashionable duo say you should put in microwave so they keep their colour.

do you want me to dig out article for more info?

not sure if linked below. but we used precious petals 01256 882422 - they were pretty good but expensive (400 for my whole bridesmaid bouquet but was the size of a reg bride one, my sis had a huge bouquet and it cost nearly 1000!)

but they do do smaller keepsake arrangements alot cheaper - ended up with my wedding bouquet as 5 arrangements.

btw its on the berks/hants border