Tips For Choosing Great Flower Girl Dresses
If you're planning a wedding, you may be tempted to just buy a
cute white dress for your flower girl, and have her carry a
bouquet that matches yours. After all, she's just a kid, right?
And if she looks adorable, the guests will be pleasantly pleased.
Well there's a bit more to it than that. Let's first take a
quick look at the flower girl tradition.
Starting with the middle ages, flower girls were assigned a
special job; to walk down the wedding aisle ahead of the bride
and groom and spread grain (not flowers) in order to pave the
way for a new beginnings, fertility and happiness in the
marriage.
Today's flowers girls usually carry rose petals, and while they
aren't believed to have special powers that will grant the new
couple a harmonious relationship, they do tend to set the tone
for a wedding.
Think about the last wedding you attended. If the flower girls
came out in formal dark colored dresses, you quickly understood
that the wedding would have a formal tone. On the other hand, if
they came out in wispy flower girl dresses with roses laced into
their hair, you knew that you would experience a more whimsical
wedding.
In other words, the flower girls are generally the first part of
the wedding party to walk down the isle, and because of that,
they will make a strong first impression on your guests.
How will you dress your flower girls?
Here are some flower girl dress ideas for the most popular
wedding themes around:
Cinderella Wedding Theme
If you are planning a Cinderella wedding theme, then
extravagance and beauty should be a part of everything. And
since your flower girls will be the first to appear, they need
to set the tone boldly. For this theme, you should have more
than one flower girl-three or four would be ideal-and then dress
them spectacularly. Choose frilly white dresses with huge skirts
and satin bows. You can tie in some of your wedding colors by
adding fresh pale pink, yellow or blue flowers to their hair. In
addition, they should wear satin ballerina slippers. Have them
carry baskets decorated to match their dresses and throw tons of
soft rose petals along the isle.
Beach Wedding Theme
Depending on the type of beach wedding that you want, you will
have various choices with your flower girl dresses. If you want
a romantic beach wedding, then put your flower girls in soft
pastel tones or white, and use lots of fresh flowers-both in
their hair and for them to throw. The flower girl wedding
dresses can be shorter than in a formal wedding, and appropriate
sandals would set the tone nicely. Instead of a basket, they
could carry a pastel painted beach bucket filled to the rim with
wildflowers to scatter along the isle.
If you have a stronger, more colorful beach wedding planned, why
not have some fun with the flower girl dresses? Putting them in
typical beach dresses to match your wedding d