Weddingbee

When my future niece first realized there will be a wedding for the mister and I, her eyes lit up and she immediately asked me, “Aunt GT, do I get to be the… the… the…” as she motions the taking out of imaginary flower petals and dropping them onto the ground.

“The Flower Girl?” I helped.

“YEAH!” she exclaimed.

“Of course, honey.” I kissed her on the forehead.

She let out a grateful little sigh and said to herself as she leaned back in her chair, “It’s like… my dream come true…”

Here she is in her FG dress!

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I was lucky enough to have the chance to go shopping with my nieces for their flower girl dresses! Since they live in Minnesota and I live in New York, I wasn’t sure if I would get the chance to go with them or not. But we were able to squeeze in a quick trip to David’s Bridal when I was home for our wedding shower.

My two nieces, Madeline (age 7) and Elizabeth (age 5 1/2), will be our flower girls. Neither of the girls have been in a wedding before so they are pretty excited! They had lots of questions like, “What color will the dresses be?” and, “Do we have to match?” Other questions included, “Will we have real flowers? What color are they baskets?” And my personal favorite, “Is there a ring boy?”

The girls tried on many dresses, and each dress was tested for: twirl capability, sparkles, and scratchiness. These two dress passed the test. Each girl liked a different dress and I couldn’t choose one over the other, but I didn’t mind because they are similar enough.

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My lovely Niece-in-Law Pom will be the Flower Girl in our wedding. Not only do I love this girl to pieces, but she is gorgeous and smart to boot! How lucky of a future Aunt am I? I knew that I needed to find an amazing dress for little NIL Pom to wear while she’s walking down the aisle.

After many, many online searches, I stumbled upon a few black and white polka dot dresses that I fell in love with. Namely, one dress by Rare Editions and another one by Bonnie Jean. Both were affordable, adorable and comfy looking. I wanted to go with a sundress sort of look - while October is technically a Fall month, in California, early October is pretty much always an Indian Summer.

Rare Editions Gradient Dot Dress
Originally $40, on sale for $12 at Dillards.com

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Like so many of the elements of our wedding, we wanted to make sure that the flower girl dresses and shoes could easily be worn again. My mom and Mr. Peacock’s mom are making the dresses in a pale pink silk shantung rather than white, so that they might reappear at a birthday party or on class picture day. Trying to find a pattern was much more difficult than expected, but we came up with this Simplicity pattern. A few modifications, and it should be just right.

We are going with version F, the raspberry colored one, without the little flowers. How adorable is that outfit on the model. She looks like a little cupcake! Our flower girls and our junior bridesmaid will not be sporting the detached sleeves and hip wing things.
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After some minor sizing snafus, I am happy to say that the flower girl dresses are here and I’ve seen pictures of both the little muffins in them…they’re going to be so cute! I was really hoping to find something that wasn’t white or ivory, and after a kind soul sent me the link to this dress, I ordered it immediately.

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I thought I’d interrupt my posts on our ceremony to show the hive my bridesmaids and flowergirl outfits and their associated bling. My Mom and I went to Mumbai in December for one insane week of shopping and picked this all up in addition to 4 entire suitcases of saris, gifts, jewelry, etc.

I wanted to find four matching saris for my bridesmaids in a deep purple/plum color. Turns out it is insanely hard to find four matching saris and even harder to find them in a deep plum color. We were nearing the end of our trip so I decided to buy enough plum colored silk for four saris and four flower girl outfits. I also purchased some matching beaded borders. My Mom and I then took the fabric and borders to Sri Lanka to be custom made. I’m glad we did this in retrospect because I didn’t have to settle for a random color or pattern I didn’t like.

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For the two cutie pies who will precede me down the aisle, I put together a few little girly tokens of my appreciation.

Personally, I think the best part is the pink suitcase housing the gifts. If we were talking about Miss Tiramisu circa 1990, this would be continuously filled and refilled with toys, dolls, and all sorts of unnecessary crap and constantly carried around the house proudly. I hope A. and C. do the same.
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This is what I picture when I think of our beautiful flower girl and handsome ring bearer. I want our flower girl to feel like she’s playing dress up! I put these outfits together using Polyvore- it makes my life so much easier.

Flower Girl Outfit and Ring Bearer’s vest from Monsoon, Jacket, Pants and Socks from J. Crew and converse from Nordstrom

How fancy are your little ones dressing up?

I’d like to introduce you to two of the most excited flower girls ever:

I’ll call the older one “A” and the little toothless one there is “C”.

These two cuties are Mr. Tiramisu’s cousins (A. is his Goddaughter as well), and I have no doubt that they will play their roles as flower girls flawlessly! They take their jobs very seriously, and ever since we asked them to be in our wedding, they have reminded me about it on every occasion where we’ve seen them. Their Mom and I have been emailing back and forth about flower girl dresses for awhile now, and I think we’ve finally settled on this one from Flower Girl Dress For Less:

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