Blooming the trend of making giant flowers
In the world of decoration and events, in particular, the use of giant flower plants has not been strange in the past few years. From weddings, and birthday parties to fashion shops, photography studios, or simply home decoration, the maximum flowers are maximized to attract attention. With outstanding colors and sizes, they quickly make everyone excited, even if they don’t take pictures to check in, they will be more or less admired.
However, it was not until recently that giant flowers became known to many people and appeared popular on social networks. The reason for this widespread development is thanks to the restoration of entertainment – entertainment activities and events after a long time of the epidemic, promoting an increased demand for decoration. Therefore, at the end of the year – wedding season, and festive season like the present, giant flower shops often fall into a state of out-of-stock.
Giant flowers are popular in decoration (Photo: Bich Van)
Besides, more and more shop owners and craft lovers also make video tutorials, sharing how to make giant flowers. It is known that giant flowers are made from many different materials, but the common ones are chiffon, silk, colored paper, corrugated paper, etc. Depending on the material, the maker can design and produce flower designs. different accordingly. In addition, the flowers are also fitted with decorative LED lights to add more shimmer and brilliance.
In terms of price, depending on the material, size and requirements of the customer, each flower has different prices, ranging from about 300 – 600 thousand VND. If buying branches or flowers separately, the price will be cheaper, about 150-400 thousand VND. On e-commerce platforms, some shops also provide separate parts of giant flowers such as flower bases, stamens and sets of materials for buyers to assemble themselves.
Sometimes I stay up all night to make flowers for customers
After graduating from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City, Bich Van (SN 1992, Ninh Thuan) had been working for a while, but her family had an accident, so she went back to her hometown. During this time, Van was given a small paper flower by a friend, found it beautiful, so she learned to follow it. Initially, Bich Van only made flowers of small size, but when she discovered the need to decorate with giant flowers, she researched and studied how to make them and sold them. Since then, Van has quit her job in medicine and chosen to work as a giant flower.
Bich Van and a newly completed product (Photo: NVCC)
Bich Van said giant flowers are the hottest in Vietnam in the past 2 years, especially litchi flowers. To make a giant flower tree, Van takes a lot of time: “With the new flower pattern, it takes me about 2-3 days to research how to complete it. After that, once you have the recipe, it will be faster and easier to make flowers . ”
The cost of flowers will depend on the material, but in general, each flower plant in Van shop costs an average of about 500,000 VND. Usually, customers place orders about 7-10 days in advance and she only receives 3-4 orders/day to ensure product quality. During the festive season, the market’s demand is so high that every customer wants to get the goods urgently, so one day she has to receive 6-7 orders.
Some other flowers of Bich Van (Photo: NVCC)
Currently, in addition to her brother’s support for attaching lights and screws, she also has to hire more employees to work with her in shifts. However, the workload is still quite large: “In the evening, I often shoot and make TikTok clips to share how to make flowers with people or advise customers. So there are days when I only sleep 2-3 hours, sometimes I have to stay up for several nights in a row to work overtime to keep up with the order” .
Peak month up to 50 – 60 orders
In addition to her main job as a primary school teacher, Dam Thi Yen (born in 1990, Vinh Phuc) also has a passion for crafts. She has known and started making giant flowers since 2019. At this time, giant flowers are not popular in Vietnam, so orders come to a halt, and only Yen and her husband do.
Dam Thi Yen (Photo: NVCC)
In 2020, due to the impact of the epidemic, the Yen couple’s flower-making work was more or less interrupted. By this year, when life was back to normal, giant flowers flourished, the shop received many orders from event and decoration parties, so Yen had to recruit part-time staff to support.
“In the peak month, my shop receives about 5-7 large event orders and about 50 small decoration orders. Because it takes a lot of time, effort and meticulousness, giant flowers are more expensive than silk flowers on the market,” she said.
Giant flower products of Yen Dam (Photo: NVCC)
Yen said that to make a giant flower requires a lot of time and meticulousness, so the work is divided quite clearly: “The raw part will be done by the staff and I directly do the pistil, dye the wings, … – stages that require care. In the end, my husband is the one who handles the base and wires . ” Time is also the biggest difficulty for Yen. Currently, her main job is still a teacher, so the time left for giant flowers is quite little. When there are many orders, Yen and his wife have to stay up at night to make it up.
Ending
With these shares, it is not difficult to see that giant flowers are very popular, bringing a significant source of income for handmade flower shops. However, this is also a job that requires a lot of meticulousness, ingenuity, creativity and makes the profession spend so much effort and time that it is difficult to pursue without passion. So no matter what job, the most important thing to be successful is passion and value for customers.