Weddingbee Blog

Today we’re going to chat a bit about flower girls.

First, a few tidbits:

Flower girls usually proceed down the aisle before the maid of honor, following the ring bearer, if you have one. Sending two flower girls down the aisle at the same time helps to add confidence to the girls and gives them a buddy to walk down the aisle with. We plan do send two at a time, for sure. Make sure to explain their duties well in advance, and allow their parents to pump the kids up with pep talks.

Flower girls can choose to either sit with their parents after walking down the aisle or stand up with the rest of the bridal party. Our two eldest girls will probably remain standing.

One weekend my FMIL and I wound up at the mall to start getting some ideas about flower girl dresses. We’re having a total of four girls in the wedding party, who will be ages four, five, ten, and twelve for the wedding. The four- and five-year-old both have the most beautiful fiery red hair, and it goes perfectly with these dresses we found. They look like sisters but are actually first cousins.

Hair in discussion at Easter:

Photo by High Wire Uncle Chris

The dresses we found were on sale for $30 each! We figured we might as well go ahead and pick them up, and if they didn’t work we could return them.

We went to have the little girls try on the dresses to see if they would work. And they did! Then they refused to take them off. :) That’s a good sign!

The coolest part of it all is that the dresses come with an identical miniature version of the dress that fits on these adorable dolls. The line is called Dollie & Me. We plan on surprising the little girls with the dressed up dollies the night of the rehearsal dinner! Then they can take them down the aisle if they want to.

Do you plan to have kids in your bridal party? Are they cousins? Children of friends of yours?