Mrs. Snow Pea, New York
Age and Occupation: 26, Architectural Engineer and student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Web Designer
Engagement Date: July 4, 2005
Wedding Date: August 18, 2007
About Me: I am a DIY gal. From cooking, home improvements to wedding. Mr. Snow Pea and I met in college, and since then we've been like peas and carrots! Love cooking, traveling, and fishing.
Flower Girl Dress
July 16th, 2007 @ 11:57 am by Mrs. Snow Pea
Mr. Snow Pea’s mama made his sister’s wedding gown, and I thought it would be a great way to include her by asking her to make our flower girl dress. I know it’s difficult for the Mother of the Groom to stand on the sidelines while all this wedding stuff goes on. She was really excited and I think this can be “her baby” for the wedding. She can exert all her wedding energy on her own granddaughter’s dress.
I went to her house last weekend and she showed me some patterns she has used in the past. I took them home, matched up the pieces I wanted and drew her a sketch. The back of the flower girl dress has a similar look to the bustle of my wedding gown with the 3 tiers.
The color of the dress is ivory or off white with a champagne sash, which will match the bridesmaids’ dresses. I think our flower girl is going to look adorable!
Is your future mother in law helping you with any part of the wedding planning?
15 Responses to “Flower Girl Dress”
Out of Towner Bags! I thought these would be a nice addition, but I didn’t have the space (in my apartment) or time/patience for them. My FMIL has gone to TOWN on these and they’re going to rock…definitely her “baby” for the wedding.
Wow.. that’s going to look beautiful Miss Snow Pea.
To answer your question, no, FMIL has shown no interest what-so-ever in our wedding 
my FMIL is a pattern maker, so she made the prototype for the bridesmaids dresses. i took the prototype to the actual seamstress and it made it much easier to show her an actual dress than just pictures.
My FMIL is the sweetest, but really has no idea about wedding planning - she’s focusing on her dress and that’s about it.
that middle butterick pattern… i wore that when i was a flowergirl 20 years ago! haha! I LOVED the dress - felt like a princess every time a special occasion warranted that I got to wear it 
My FMIL wants to be included in the wedding planning so badly that it’s driving her even more insane than she already certifiably is. First, she was going to do the centerpieces, but then my florist came through with a cheap alternative. Now she’s wanting to make the groom’s cake, so I need to go find a baker for that. I don’t think she realizes just how hectic things will be right before the wedding.
I just found out that she’s coming for a visit this week and wants my opinion on a dress for her. I don’t even want to mess with it because my mom hasn’t even given any thought to her dress and she’s supposed to pick first! I don’t think FMIL read that etiquette book.
She’s also bringing three different types of bubbles. Umm… I don’t think we were even doing bubbles! *sigh*
Mrs Corn is planning the entire rehearsal dinner and the party afterwards and I am so glad to not have to worry about any of it!
Same with me Miss Corn my FMIL is planning the Rehersal dinner. I have a different situation. My FMIL just finished with her last cancer treatment last month. So her main job for the wedding is to regain her strength! We are going tomorrow to have my seemstress and patern maker draw both of our mothers dresses and the flower girl’s dress..
Sept is less than 2months away I better get busy!
The sketch of the flower girl dress looks really cute.
That’s going to be an adorable dress! I love fancy little girls’ dresses. And, sadly, so many flowergirl dresses these days are, in my opinion, way too mature. Many manufacturers seem to think that if they put spaghetti straps on their bridesmaid’s dresses, it’s appropriate for a six-year-old. NOT true. And so pointless considering that traditional dresses are adorable. My flower girl and youngest bridesmaid’s dresses came from Pegeen–supposedly their pictures will be up on the website soon!
My future mother-in-law died on Thanksgiving last year, a few weeks after we got engaged. At least she knew I would be there to take care of her oldest son. I’m so, so sorry I didn’t have a chance to get to have her as my mother-in-law. She was only 62.
My FMIL is the best, besides giving us half the $ for the wedding, she’s also planning the whole rehearsal and helping me with favors and OOT bags. I think we’ll probably also go shoe shopping together since she said the groom’s family should buy the bride’s wedding shoes, since they represent the first steps she will be taking into his family. How sweet is that!
My FMIL is fully entrenched in the wedding planning process, even moreso than my own mom at this point. My fiance and I live 30 minutes away from my in-laws, while my own parents live 3000 miles away in Dallas and we’re getting married in the my in-laws town (my home town). Additionally, my in-laws are paying for the entire wedding…so that all adds up to very involved in-laws. I love it because my FMIL is very very excited as she only has sons (while my mom has three daughters) and sees this as her chance to really plan a wedding. I wouldn’t have it any other way
We knew anything we let the FMIL touch would be blown all out of [budgetary] proportion, so we were really hesitant to get her involved. She hosted parties the day before and the day after the wedding, and those projects kept her busy without breaking our bank.
Haha, I don’t want to turn this into a FMIL groan fest….but no, sadly FMIL is not helping with anything.
I really WANTED her to help, and she kept asking what she could do to help…and this is how the “helping” went:
I would give her a project. She would stress about the project for a few weeks, asking us EVERY time we talked to her what we thought about the project. Then she would ask us to make every SINGLE minute decision about the project, until we were basically dictating step by step how she should do it. Then she would say that she wanted to make sure things were exactly how we wanted them, so we should probably handle it all anyway.
Then (and no I’m not even exaggerating) the next sentence out of her mouth (after she had passed the latest project onto us again) would be “well, you guys seem like you’re doing so much, please let me know if I can help with anything”.
I’m embarassed to admit it took me at least 3 of these experiences before I learned my lesson and just started saying “nope, thanks anyway, we’ve got everything handled”. Sad, because I know she’s not trying to irritate us, she just really was afraid that she would do something that wasn’t exactly what we wanted…not realizing of course that we never would have assigned her a project that I was going to be a controlling perfectionist about.
So right now, she is focusing on her dress!
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