How Do You Choose And Use A Pinholder For Your Wedding Floral Arrangements?
If you have chosen the do-it-yourself wedding flowers route, you will need to know how to utilize the equipment that will keep your stems in the right place. Once mechanism to help you with this is the pinholder. Sometimes also called frogs, pinholders come in many shapes and sizes. If you are a beginner, you’ll only need to use one. More experienced and advanced arrangers sometimes need several. The most useful size is probably the 2.5 in (6.25 cm) in diameter., but a 2 in (5 cm) or 3 in (7.5 cm) work well too. A good pinholder should have • brass pins rather than steel (brass pins are yellow, steel, or grey – steel pins rust, brass pins do not) • a lead base (it should feel heavy in your hand) • pins that are close together and firmly embedded in the lead. Usually stems are inserted directly into or onto the pinholder. Sometimes, however, florists will use a combination of floral foam and a pinholder. They do this to secure the floral foam in an awkward space where tape can’t be used
