- Frugal
Flower Girl Accessories
- by Rachel Paxton
When my husband and I got married
we didn't have much money to have any fancy decorations at our
wedding. I did, however, come up with some inexpensive, creative
ideas to make sure our flower girls were dressed in style.
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We had an outdoor wedding in
August, so it was easier to dress our young flower girls for
the nice weather. We had two flower girls in our wedding, ages
7 and 9. Because we have two mothers who love to sew, the flower
girls' dresses were very inexpensive. I picked out a simple,
yet elegant sundress pattern, and paid about $3 a yard for a
pretty summer print. The dresses were calf length and sleeveless,
with a big bow in the back.
My husband had a hand in decorating
the flower girls' baskets. He is always one to fix up something
instead of throwing it away, so he came up with the idea of spray
painting wicker Easter baskets. It was perfect--we already had
the baskets and the white spray paint.
Next I tied some pink and white
ribbons around the handles of the baskets, and then I glued on
some matching silk flowers (just a few, to accent). The baskets
were simple and elegant. |
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Finally we gathered together
the rose petals we'd gathered from our garden just for the occasion,
and filled the baskets with petals we'd laid out in the sun to
dry.
For a finishing touch, I took
some of the leftover silk flowers and ribbons and decorated hair
clips for the girls.
The grand total for the two matching
flower girl dresses, with matching baskets and hair clips, was
under $30. |
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