Transform Your Wedding With Stunning Hydrangea Mounds

Hey, this is Amy with Flower Emoxy, and we're going to build a hydrangea runner. I'm really excited about this because I started my floral journey in 2007, and I never did a wedding without hydrangea. Then they went very out of vogue for a while, and now they're back, baby. But it's more of an elevated vibe, and I'm seeing a lot of runners down tables. But here's the thing with hydrangeas, is they are heavy drinkers. And doing a bunch of foam cages, I would not do as a florist. I would use these acrylic resin troughs. They're narrow. They're going to give the water supply that's needed for these hydrangeas. But I want to show you, before we get started on the design, what my mechanics are and a few options. So if you don't like the look of this clear acrylic runner, which I don't know why, it's just clean and classic. But if you're wanting something like super earthy, I want to show you how to hide it. So I've got this acrylic runner, and I've got some reindeer moss. And what I do, instead of gluing moss to it and kind of messing up my vessel, you just get gold bouillon wire, and you take some moss, and you lay it on the side of it, and you just wrap it around. So if you look at this really closely, you can kind of see that wire. And because it's bouillon wire and it's gold, it's okay to see. It's acceptable to see the mechanics on this. So I would cover this, of course, have water in it, and that way it would just look very vaseless and very earthy with the green hydrangeas, very mossy. It's a vibe. We all love it. It's been very popular this past year. But for the tutorial's sake, I want you to see kind of what's happening within the design, so we're not gonna do the moss for this. But you can use reindeer moss, sheet moss, clump moss. So you've got options. Spanish moss. Okay, so this is a two-fit acrylic vase, and we still have some on our side. I think we're selling out pretty quickly. You're gonna need some pin cushions. I think that you're gonna need more stability than just the top. The top is a grid, but these hydrangeas are real top-heavy, so I like to have some pin cushions. Now, as a florist, I would probably cut the suction cups off of these and just permanently glue them down into my acrylic runner, but I didn't do that. So the suction cups do work. It just, you have to have water in it for it to work. If you try to suction it dry, it just laughs at you. So I've got three rectangular ones, and not everyone needs to be stuck down, but you need a few anchored ones, and then you will thread it through. Okay, so now I've got some stability. We've got our grid, and let's get started with these hydrangeas. Okay, the mounds are mounding here. I pulled these from another tutorial, and let's get going. Okay, so we know that we can just make it like a hydrangea tube, but a more of an elevated, relevant design would be to create more mounds, like rolling Irish hills to create some negative space. So that's how we're going to do it. Let's start with our larger anchor pieces. So we wanna cut these at an angle. We come in, and let's just find the places where we can insert these and let this pinfrog hold onto it. Some people complain about the plastic pinfrogs. I didn't like them at first, but here's the thing, y'all. Regular, heavy-duty pinfrogs, like the steel ones, are extremely expensive. They're not easy to find. Plus, you'll see them visually in this. So the clear ones are really nice. Like, give them a shot. Glue them with E6000 or some kind of like waterproof epoxy. So look how I'm going through, and I'm just creating anchors, and I'm sinking it down low because I'm going to use these to thread in other hydrangeas. We're creating stability. Okay, and I've got blue, green, and kind of cream, so we're just gonna disperse these. Here's the deal. I don't think that I would save time by trying to make these in advance and transporting them. I think I could get them going, but to create the overall finish, I almost think that I would need to make them on-site. So now we're gonna come in, and we're gonna cover our mechanics. We're gonna create some elevation. So the great thing about hydrangeas is they take up a lot of space. They also drink a lot of water, so that's why we need to be mindful of that. Now I'm gonna come in with a little bit of elevation. So see how I'm mounding up this side? I think I'm gonna make the center a little bit more flat. And once you get it going, it moves really quickly, and you can add roses. You can add carns. A lot of flexibility here. I think that you will struggle more with tipping water in your car than just setting these on a table and just having a bucket of hydrangea and doing it once. Every time, I mean, I'm always trying to save time. Like as a florist, I was always looking to build something in advance. That way, I just could maximize my time. But on situations like this, I find that, you know, I'll just end up having to spend a lot of time fixing it. So you know I'll be the first to tell you if and when you can do something in advance. And the best thing is you're not gonna walk back in an hour with wilted hydrangeas, which you could in foam. Like sometimes they just don't like it. So that's why I'm really big on hydrangeas having a direct water source. I don't like this guy. I kind of messed up my... Yeah, see how we have a little bit more movement? There we go. So if you can imagine multiple of these connected, and then you can come in. Let's come in with some carnations and some roses just because I have them here and we can just see something different. So this isn't like a budget-friendly design because, I mean, it's taking a fair amount of flowers to get the coverage, but obviously DIYing it, this is an easy DIY. I will say that, especially if you have these acrylic runners. So, you know, as a florist, I would need to charge a lot for this just because I would need to have like the staff on site, on hand, and it does require a lot of blooms. What's great about hydrangeas is once they're placed, they are their own grid. So you can just snake like a rose stem down between them and it stabilizes and holds it in place. So I've got these really pretty proud roses and they're just being held very nicely. Well, this one wasn't. There we go. If you are DIYing this, I would say don't do a lot of these. Why? Because it takes time the day of the event. If you can get in the night before and set these up, oh my gosh, that would be fantastic. But that's the only negative thing. It's not hard, it just needs to be done then because to transfer this, it's gonna get wonky on you. Okay, this took me about 10 minutes to build. Of course, you don't have to build it with rolling hydrangea mounds, but it is a little bit more elevated. You can come in with some green anthurium. That's a really popular look, but it's very stable. You'll get the hydration and you won't have them wilt by the end of the night. So if you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. I always like suggestions because I like helping people on their floral journey. And just for reference, I used about 15 hydrangeas. You can always add more carns, add more roses, but it will take some volume. And this is about a two-foot resin cylinder. And of course, you can always wrap it with moss to give it more of like an earthy, grounded look. So feel free to like and subscribe if we've helped you on your floral journey. Find us on TikTok and Instagram because we're always giving really quick tips to help you. And thank you so much. We'll see you next time.