Add A Wine Glass To Your Flower Arrangements To Create An Illuminating Display

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In songs and poetry, wine glasses and roses often go together. However, erudite floral artists go one step further by placing the two items inside the same flower arrangement. It's a lovely combination to look at. And when you add a pillar candle to the mix, this set-up becomes both practical and illuminating as well.

To ensure a neat and tidy flower arrangement, start with a cylindrical vase that's both deep and wide, like the Generic 6-Inch Wide, 8-Inch High Hand Blown Clear Glass Vase. It needs to have enough clearance in the bottom to hold the flowers' stems and the wine glass. The DIY also calls for a standard wine glass with a stem. PARACITY Wine Glasses Set would work, though you can use any wine glass you have as long as it has a stem.

Next, you'll need some flowers, greenery, and complements, like dried grasses. Florists honor the fibonacci sequence by following the three-five-eight rule when they're choosing what blooms to put into their arrangements. To that end, you'll need three kinds of star-of-the-show flowers for the arrangement. For this particular project, you'll need ones with long stems and large blooms. Hydrangeas come to mind. Next, gather up five pieces of greenery. Finally, you'll need eight filler pieces or flowers. (If you're embracing an no-rules flower arrangement vibe, you can ignore this.) If you're looking for something different, you could try something like HUASHIYE Mini Cattails and Birch Twigs. Have some scissors on hand in case you need to trim the stems. The final piece in this arrangement is a tall pillar candle in the color of your choice.

You'll start this by styling the vase, which, in this case, means placing a wine glass upside down inside the cylinder. This arrangement calls for the flowers to go into the vase sans water. Most flowers will last a couple of hours without hydration, so if you're using this for a party, wait until as close to party time as possible before putting the arrangement on the table. This will give you more time to enjoy the arrangement. You can put water in the bottom of the vase, though the position of the wine glass and the air inside the glass may cause the glass to float. If you've ever left a glass upside down in a sink full of water, you've witnessed this phenomenon.

Next, arrange the flowers in the vase. Ideally, you'll have three main types of flowers, possibly in the same color family. These could be calla lilies, hydrangeas, and daisies, or any combo you'd like. Choosing three main types of flowers follows the three-five-eight rule. Selecting flowers and other flora in the same color scheme works well for this, especially if you're decorating for a holiday, like Thanksgiving. 

Follow this step with five pieces of greenery and then eight fillers. This can be baby's breath, mini cattails, or something else. Trim the stems with gardening scissors. Once the arrangement is done, place the pillar candle on the base of the wine glass. Then, rearrange the flowers to fill in any holes and to secure the candle in place. If you'd like to add a finishing touch, tie a ribbon around the body of the cylindrical vase.