Wedding Roses

My son and his fiancee asked me to make two roses for their wedding ceremony. The rose flowers are made from an old 1 1/2" copper fire protection line.The stems are from discarded metal rods used to stretch painting canvas in a turn of the century home near Detroit.The leaves are a heavy gauge steel from a wood stove. The stand is from an old parlor chair. The branch stems are from a political poster and a spring from an old ottoman. The flower petals are held using a NEW stainless screw and nut. The roses are joined near the root. There are pickers and bumps and missing leaves, scars, rust and dis-colorization from deposits on the copper. The beauty is suppose to come from the union of all the components,like a good marriage.
Pappa Frank