The Framers Forum

Hey all,

I was hoping that you'd be able to give me a bit of advice here!!

I've been asked to frame my friend's wedding flowers (which will be dried and pressed by the time I get hold of them) in the same frame as one of their wedding invitations. So, I'm going for flowers on top, invitation on the bottom - but she wants the portion that holds the flowers to be see through, so she can see right through to the back. I don't even know why - but there we go! She wants the effect of the flowers floating in the frame. How would I secure them without damaging them, and to make sure that they weren't going to slip further down the line?

Thank you!!

People do get funny notions and have no idea of the implications.

The two sided look creates a lot of problems and to be honest, what is there on the back side that you can't see from the front?

You could consider tacking the flowers to a sheet of glass (which would be the 'back' of the frame and then fit a window mount with invitation on top of spacers.

Depending on how well they have been pressed and what type of flowers they are, the flowers are likely to deteriorate to a greater or lesser extent over time. You should warn your customer about this. The only way to preserve such things in anything like a permanent way is resin encapsulation. There are firms who will do this and you end up with a nice plastic slab which would be easy to frame. I suspect the customer would be reluctant to pay for this....

http://www.curogallery.co.uk/page5.htm maybe ask these guy's.