The time has finally come for me to host my own bloom bar! I decided to use this as a party gift for my afternoon garden tea party. It was a big hit! Here is everything that I used to put my bloom bar together.

Large Containers – This will be used for the floral bunches. I recommend grouping these by type so it’s easy for your guests to select which stem they need. I used a combination of thrifted glass vases and vases I already owned.

Flowers – I ordered wholesale from Fifty Flowers (specifically the Lavender Hues DIY Kit). You can get flowers from anywhere that suits you, but I always recommend having a variety of focal, filler, line, and greenery to create a simple yet stunning arrangement.

Bud Vases – All of mine were thrifted from second hand stores. It took me a couple weeks to collect the total amount but it was worth it to have a sustainable option for my guests. Another sustainable option would be to reuse newspapers or paper bags from grocery stores. If you go the route of paper, you may also want to include twine or rubber bands to hold the wrapped bouquet together.

Signage for bouquet recipe – This will help you calculate the total flowers you need and will help your guests put together a fool-proof arrangement.

Floral Shears (+ trash or compost bin) – This can be used to trim any long stems and help make the bottom of the arrangement even.

Table – I mean, this is self explanatory 😉 

Optional Items

Lifts – You can use a stack of books, acrylic blocks, wooden craft crates, really anything that is stable enough to hold your large containers. Utilizing lifts can help create height and depth throughout your bloom bar for a more visually appealing look.

Flower Care Card – Mine were homemade using Canva and regular printing paper. I simply copy and pasted the care cards (the size of a business card) and cut them individually. 

Floral Food – I let my guests use the food packets that I’ve saved from bouquets I’ve purchased from the local floral shop.

Table Coverings – I used pop-up tables and covered them using a popup display cover. On top of that, I layered on cheesecloth and a lace curtain valance to tie it to the garden tea party theme.

Ribbon – To pull everything together, some of my guests decided to tie a bow around the bud vase – very on par with my par(tea) theme 🙂

Additional Tips

• Trim your floral stems to match the height of your tallest bud vase. This may help reduce the amount of time your guests will need to tend to the arrangement and may reduce the need to cut the end of the stems with shears (aka less clean up).
• Have your floral stems prepped roughly 2 days before your event. More often than not, flowers do not reach their peak until a few days after you purchase them . . . depending on where you buy them. Make sure to do some research on WHERE you buy your flowers from to time this justtt right. Thankfully Fifty Flowers takes the guesswork out of the equation and they tell you the exact time frame on when you should order your flowers.