Our flower girl has quite the important role in our ceremony. Not only is she the keeper of the flower petals, but she is bringing in some fun family history. You see, my dad comes from a family of ten kids. The youngest was only five years old when my mom and dad got married. Naturally, she was their flower girl.
Fast forward twenty seven years, she now has two daughters of her own and I am getting married. My aunt was my mom and dad’s flower girl, and now her daughter will be our flower girl.
Don’t you just love how stuff like that works out? She also has the cutest Southern accent EVER. (Okay, it’s an accent to this Californian. I so wish I had a cool accent like that.)
Such a beautiful princess needs a dress befitting as such. I know most bridal stores have flower girl dresses to choose from. I bought my dress at Alfred Angelo, and they do have many options. However, I am not sold on all of those dresses. I don’t feel like I need to get her dress at a bridal store. What about opening up my options to department stores that carry fancy little girl dresses? For example, I found some great options at Nordstrom.
{Image via Nordstrom}
{Image via Nordstrom}
{Image via Nordstrom}
Bridal stores have a scary return policy, whereas Nordstrom is known for their customer service. Being that I don’t live near my aunt and cousin, I feel like ordering a flower girl dress through Nordstrom would be a safer option. Plus, their prices seem to be slightly lower.
I need to start making decisions here so that we can find the perfect dress for our very important flower girl.
Are you shopping for your flower girl in a traditional bridal store/bridal source, or are you looking elsewhere for options? I’d love to hear where you’re finding great flower girl dresses!
My flower girl is going to be my cousin’s daughter. I was the flower girl in my cousin’s wedding, who is much older than me since my father is the youngest of seven kids, so I thought this was appropriate.
I applaud your non-bridal-store flower girl dress mission! There are SO many adorable little girls dresses out there that clearly need to be worn!
Both Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack have a great selection of party dresses for little girls – and they are so much more unique than your run of the mill bridal store dress. For the cost conscious bride, I’ve also seen dresses like that at Marshalls, TJ Max, and Kohls.
Luckily my almost-mother-in-law is a seamstress in her spare time, but if not for that I totally would have gone the non-traditional route!
I love the family history and connection you have with your flower girl!
Typically, the bride doesn’t pay for their attire, so that’s very generous of you. I will be providing fairy wings and flower head wreaths, and their parents will pay for the dresses and shoes.
Honestly, i wish I could have a dozen young girls dressed as flower fairies surrounding me, but it’s not feasible and I don’t know that many children! lol!
We found our two flower girls dresses at David’s Bridal. They’re basically a mini version of a popular wedding gown there. Their return policy is pretty good, and since they live up in Boston it was easy for me to pick a dress online and send the link over to their dads. They have a lot of cute styles. Might be worth a look, but I loveeee all these Nordstrom options.
We have three nieces in our wedding…will be ages 6,4 & 3 at the time of our wedding in June. To save them some $$, we decided to look at some local stores. I found ours on Kohls (JC Penny also carries them, but we got them on sale and less at Kohls)
Here’s the link
http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStore/crosssells/kids/christeningcommunion/girls/girls46x/PRD~795315/Cinderella+Rosette+Beaded+Dress.jsp
My fiance and I chose to pay for the dresses, and for all three we received free shipping and also used a coupon for a % off….it was just over $92 for all three!! We are pretty happy. My one niece tried it on the other day and loves it!
My SIL bought my niece’s dress on Janie & Jack’s website.
I bought my Jr. BM’s dress on Ebay.
Both were great experiences. My SIL had to exchange the flower girl dress for a bigger size, and she had no issue.
My Jr. BM dress came with a some dirt on it, which easily came out at the cleaners, and when I contacted the seller they refunded me 25% of the cost!
We did look at Bridal Salons, but for what I wanted I could not find either girl a dress that was not too fussy.
We probably would not have had either issue we had buying in an actual shop, but I think if we did have an issue in a shop we would not have had the quick and easy resolutions that we had with the online retailers.
We got our flower girl dresses on line through mygirldress.com
The dresses were fantastic, my nieces was a bit small, but we were able to return it for the next size up. Everything was so done so quickly!
We got them this dress:
http://www.mygirldress.com/elvfldrinpi.html
My Flower Girls’ dresses came from Nordstrom and they were great. Their mother also loved that she was able to ordered each girl two dress and keep the on that fit best and return the one that didn’t and not have to worry about alterations and pain in the but return policies.
What a cutie!! We purchased our flower girl dress through Crewcuts.
I love this! my husband is one of 13 kids and his youngest sister is 7 – she was our flower girl! i hope one of our (future) kids can be her flower girl. luckily, she was a flower girl in her sisters wedding 6 months before us so she had her dress already.
We got ours at nancyaugust.com and they are adorable! Nordstrom has AMAZING customer service though, so you can’t go wrong there.
What cute dresses! Unfortunately there are no little girls in our families right now, so no flower girl for us. 
I’m so sad about it!
We had 5 flower girls and they were so adorable! We found the dresses at pinkprincess.com and they were only $53 each!
My flower girl got her dress at just a regular little girl store and she looked stunning. I did not want to put any pressure on them for cost,etc., so just gave them the color scheme.
By the way, that third Nordstrom dress is adorable!
we ended up getting our flower girl’s dress from David’s Bridal… but we looked at sears, jcpenny and target – it was first communion season, best time ever to get a white flower girl dress!
Mrs. Doe, Northern California Age and Occupation: 24, Real Estate Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 23, Recycling Manager Engagement Date: December 25, 2010 Wedding Date: May 2012 Venue: Monte Verde Inn About Me: I’m a Rat Pack fan and a Christmas nut that loves to read, good wine, cheesy ’80s movies and ’90s sitcoms. My wiener dog with an attitude problem and lazy basset hound are my constant source of entertainment. He's a hunter and I like cooking so it's not rare to see wild game on our dinner menu. Both of us were born and raised in a small historic farming town where our feet are still firmly planted. We have been together for nearly a decade and have shared many life experiences together, including birthdays that are only one day apart. We are two old souls that are creating our long-awaited wedding with loads of tradition that blends our two styles into rustic elegance in the foothills of Northern California.
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