| | 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.
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.
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.
Rachel
Paxton is a freelance writer and mom who publishes the Creative Homemaking Recipe
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