Last Minute Easter Flower Arrangements
5 Easy Easter Floral Arrangements Keep Scrolling
My love of Easter started when I was pretty young. My parents instilling in me the love of Jesus, and telling me the story of the sacrifice he made for all of us. Some people critically say that religious holidays have become commercialized and don’t hold the meaning they used to. That may be true for some, but I think it’s all in how you look at it. If we celebrate Jesus’ Birth & Resurrection every year, aren’t we keeping his story alive? Aren’t we passing the story down to the next generation, so they too can develop their own personal relationship with him. Aren’t we also reminding ourselves of how much we are loved through him? I personally am reminded every day of Jesus’ love, mercy, and grace.
Easter traditions are a special time to get together with family, enjoy the spring weather, flowers and our faith. My family still carries on these traditions, getting together as often as we can, but especially on religious holidays such as, Easter. I love to host Easter at my home, it gives me the opportunity to decorate, and prepare a nice meal for the people I love the most. I get so caught up in preparing and planning a nice meal, the flowers are sometimes an afterthought, so I usually find myself trying to throw something together last minute. Here are a few ideas I’ve used in the past to make beautiful and unique arrangements, with extra veggies, easter eggs, interesting vessels or whatever you can imagine.
Keep scrolling to see how I created these
Choose a variety of veggies, picks, eggs, jelly beans, peeps, ribbon, or whatever you have on hand or think will look festive between the glass. Or you can put a bouquet in an old tea kettle, pitcher, cookie jar or whatever you can reimagine as a vase.
I used a rectangle candy container and a parmesan cheese tall skinny glass for the vase. Simply cut the Asparagus all the same length and line the sides of container. If they are not staying up, you can toothpick or skewer the spears together. Then cut the flowers to desired length, add water to glass and insert. (careful not to get water on the asparagus) I liked the way the stems on the carrots create a soft and interesting flow, and the carrots helped fill the container and keep asparagus in place too. You could also use the excess pieces of asparagus you cut off to help fill the voids behind what you can see.
Pink & Purple are my favorite spring colors! I bought two packs of dyeable realistic eggs from a local dollar store, and simply made a bowl of water, vinegar & pink food coloring and dyed these eggs, they turned out beautiful and you can’t tell they aren’t real, except they don’t stink like hard boiled eggs. lol. I used a Trifle bowl and a Mason jar. Just place the mason jar in the middle and start filling up the sides with the eggs. Put your flower arrangement in the mason jar and that’s it! So simple! The Ranuculus I picked up at the Farmer’s Market, and the Lilacs & Lavender I had growing in my garden. I love utilizing the beautiful flowers & greenery of my own yard to add to an arrangement. My husband makes the most beautiful bouquets for me, like a little boy picking flowers for their mom. It is so sweet!
This one was a bit of a tight squeeze, but I made it work. I peeled the carrots down to size, and kept the tops on to drape over the lip of the vase, and cushion for the water container the Iris are in. This is a dollar store vase, with a tall emptied out glass candle container (Perfect for the long stems of the Iris’. The curve of the larger vase was perfect to fit the carrots in between the two. So simple and very festive!
For the Kid’s table Very fun and so easy to make. Again two vases, one for the flowers and the other to add a little interest! I took my heavy every day vase and a smaller vase I use for little bouquets. Put the two together and simply poured my jelly beans between the glass. Put a little water in the small vase, and added my Iris, and picks. couldn’t be easier! You gotta be extra careful not to get water on the Jelly Beans, or you will have a sticky mess. Lol. Colorful & Fun!
Easter to me is about re-birth, just as Jesus was resurrected, and we are born again through Christ. Spring is a beautiful promise of new life and new beginnings. People say , “What does a bunny or eggs have to do with Easter?” Bunnies and Eggs represent new life, so does the abundant new flower blooms we all enjoy every spring, and the blossoms that will soon be delicious summer fruit. I choose to not live so cynical and to find the positive meanings in long held traditions.
On a personal note, I know a thing or two about new beginnings and feeling reborn. I was born with a brittle bone disease called, Osteogenesis Imperfecta. People with this condition break their bones very easily, especially as children. I suffered over 50 broken bones as a child, mostly my legs, I underwent many surgeries and many recoveries. Every break was painful, but the long road back to my independence was the hardest part. When that cast came off I always felt reborn, and I felt like this was a big step in getting strong and walking on my own again. I think this is why Spring is my favorite time of year. I think about all the struggles people go through, sharing the hope and promise of new beginnings, and new life that Spring reminds me of. We all have struggles, we all have overcome something, just remember, there is always hope for a new beginning. (Anytime of year!)
HAPPY EASTER!
One Comment
Janie Reano
Absolutely Beautiful! You are so very talented and I’m so blessed to have you for my amazing daughter.
Love you so much and so proud of you. Your grandmother Virgie who you decated this blog to is watching
every story you write from the windows of heaven and she is also so very proud of you. Happy Easter sweet girl of mine.