Wedding Bouquet Paperweight / Real Flower Paperweight
We create stunning paperweights made with real flowers trapped in resin. These paperweights can be used to capture and preserve memories from special occasions; maybe your received flowers from a special person in your life? Or you may just fancy a beautiful item in your home; whatever the reason - we have you covered.
Our paperweights are made with real flowers and are handmade with love. We offer a range of colours, so please state your colour preference or flower preference when booking. Order yours today!
PLEASE NOTE:
- Flowers may change colour during the drying process - this can depend on many factors, such as how mature the flowers are, if they've been sprayed with any chemicals and the state in which we receive them.
- As these items are handmade they will not look like they have been manufactured by machine and occasionally small imperfections such as small bubbles in the resin may occur - but this usually adds to the handmade charm.
- Flowers must be thoroughly dried before preservation or the flowers could spoil, so completion time may vary between 8-12 weeks
- Whilst we can accept whole bouquets, unfortunately due to space we can’t dry, keep and send back any remaining flowers.
- Please keep your letter pieces away from sunlight and chemicals (perfume, polishes, cleaning sprays, soaps etc). The items can be wiped over with a slightly damp cloth if needed. The items can scratch so keep it away from rough/sharp surfaces.
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We advise that you send your items Royal Mail Special Delivery (24 hours preferably) via the post, you can either send:
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Whole Bouquet: Send the whole bouquet as soon as you've had your wedding. This option is only if you've selected the "Bouquet Drying Service" OR you do not want the remainder of your flowers back.
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Portion Bouquet: Sending a portion of the flowers, roughly 1 handful per item. This option is for any other option of letters, hearts, diamonds and cubes.
We don’t advise Myhermes as there have been numerous packages which have been delayed or arrived badly damaged.
You can also Hand Deliver any flowers to our address (this is emailed to you as soon as an order is placed).
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The following guidelines show how to easily post us your flowers:
Step 1: Cut the bottom of the bouquet to allow the flowers to collect some moisture during the travel. For any ribboning which may be wrapped around the base, if you could remove this and include (we could add this into the resin also if you'd like)
Step 2: Collect some kitchen tissue paper, at least a handful of sheets and dampen this to allow for the flowers to collect some water during travelling. Wrap this around the base of the flowers.
Step 3: Wrap kitchen foil tightly around the base of the flowers, to ensure no water escapes and travels through to the bud.
Step 4: Place the base of the flowers in a sandwich bag, close the bag as much as possible.
Step 5: Pop some Kitchen Tissue around the top of the flowers to protect them and ensure of any water escapes the tissue will collect it. Please don't make this too wet, just damp is totally okay for the journey.
Step 6: Add the flowers, ideally upright, but if you can’t do this, don’t panic - in a box with bubble wrap/ cushioning into a strong box. Enough padding so the flowers don’t move around during transit.
Step 7: Please place “Fragile” on the outer box and post! Add a note in the box including your Order Number & Name so we know the flowers are yours on arrival :)
It's incredibly important to ensure that before delivering the flowers whether it's via the postal route, or hand delivery that you try to preserve the bouquet as best as possible. This ensures that the flowers stay the freshest as possible. A few tips:
- If you can cut the bottoms of the stems 1/4 inch to help the flowers breath in the water a little.
- Keep the flowers hydrated after the wedding, pop them in water, away from direct sunlight and only keep the stems hydrated - don't water the flowers.
We'd suggest to wait a 8-10 weeks to have this delivered back to you. As it takes sometime to dry the flowers and we carefully take apart the bouquet to do this. We always keep all our flowers separate from each client. We will however keep you updated throughout the process and you are more than welcome to contact us on hello@magentaflowers.co.uk if you'd like an update.
