A Look at the Process of Flower Preservation

Wedding bouquets are beautiful but perishable. Professional preservation keeps them for decades. Here’s the typical process:

1. Re‑hydration: Flowers soaked in special solution to open stems, retain water/sugars for freeze‑drying.
2. Pre‑treatment: Cocktail of solutions maintains color, opens cell structure, eliminates water while retaining pigment. Pre‑freezing up to 4 weeks.
3. Freeze‑Drying: Pharmaceutical‑grade equipment under vacuum for 2–3 weeks. Fragile—carefully controlled. Then curing in low‑humidity room.
4. Color Enhancement & Sealing: Each flower mounted on wire stem, color‑enhanced, sealed with polymer coating against sun/moisture, stored in hermetic boxes.
5. Custom Design & Shipping: Design specs due within 3 weeks post‑wedding. Skilled designers arrange per photos/directions. Quality inspected, packed for shipping/pickup.