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Mrs. Flamingo, Montreal, Canada Age and Occupation: 25, Graphic Designer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Nursing Student Engagement Date: December 2004 Wedding Date: June 21, 2008 Venue: Imperia Hotel (modern chic hotel) About Me: I am a passionate designer who loves anything pretty. I heart all paper products (eco-friendly of course). My passion revolves around anything considered glamour; vintage and modern. In my free time, I love reading Martha mags, designing jewelry and making a pit-stop at Starbucks for a chai latte. I'm also a chocoholic at heart and my family drools over my homemade truffles.
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Pretty Dress For A Pretty Girl

April 5th, 2008 @ 12:47 pm by Mrs. Flamingo

Choosing our flowergirls’ dress was not very complicated. I happened to be shopping with mommy Flamingo and we found the most adorable dress. At first sight it wasn’t what I wanted. I didn’t like all the details on it, but for $45 including tax (we have 14% taxes here in Quebec) I thought I could, or should I say my mom could do some sewing here and there.

Here is the dress before the transformation:

Front

Back (with bow)

detailing in the front

Embroidery at the bottom of the dress

This is what I wanted to do to the dress:

  • Remove the beading on the front of the dress
  • Remove the flower and ribbon on the front of the dress
  • Remove the big bow on the back (don’t ask me why, but it’s white and the dress is ivory)

I wanted to add a sash the color of my dress so that she would look like almost a mini-me. Of course there is no pick up skirt, but it’s no biggie… she will look so cute!

Here is the dress after the fabulous work from my mom. Unfortunately we couldn’t remove the flower on the front of the dress, so we improvised a little.

Da dum
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I love that my mom has been so helpful in the planning process. It means a lot to me and it’s so nice to share all the little moments/details with her.

So what do you think. Do you like it?

7 Responses to “Pretty Dress For A Pretty Girl”

1.
missking says:

It’s great! Your little flower girl will look beautiful. :]

2.
MissPurple says:

Great job! You took something that was sort of ho-hum and made it look chic… now that’s talent.

3.
anne says:

much better…very simple but cute!

4.
Rachel says:

Wow, that’s impressive. I also discovered a site that rents flower girl dresses starting at $20 (gagas.com).

5.
Guilty Secret says:

What an improvement! Your mum is amazing :)

She is going to look so cute… I love the flower girl mini me look :)

6.
deanna says:

I still can’t get over 14% taxes! Wow!

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Miss Flamingo says:

Haha… deanna… yup 14% taxes. Well acutally its 13% now (2008) Isnt that ridiculous. Its was 15% before, it went down 2% in 2 years… not so bad. ;)


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Mrs. Flamingo Mrs. Flamingo, Montreal, Canada Age and Occupation: 25, Graphic Designer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Nursing Student Engagement Date: December 2004 Wedding Date: June 21, 2008 Venue: Imperia Hotel (modern chic hotel) About Me: I am a passionate designer who loves anything pretty. I heart all paper products (eco-friendly of course). My passion revolves around anything considered glamour; vintage and modern. In my free time, I love reading Martha mags, designing jewelry and making a pit-stop at Starbucks for a chai latte. I'm also a chocoholic at heart and my family drools over my homemade truffles.