H: Flower girls! Flower girls EVERYWHERE!!!

Okay, so how cute is this?:


At the risk of writing a post that is too straight forward, these are our flower girl dresses. BAM!
They're adorable, they're appropriate, our flower girls liked them, and they ended up being 20% off! All in all, a wonderful find.
The search for them began, of course, with the selection of our flower girls.

*cue squiggly-Vaseline-covered lens lines accompanied by harp riff*

When Josh and I first got engaged and started thinking about wedding planning, we considered the various aspects involved with the wedding party; bridesmaids, groomsmen, ring bearers, and FLOWER GIRLS. Plural. More on that later :-)
I'm not overly keen on the idea of a ring bearer. The prospect of a kid carrying a frilly pillow with fake rings tied to it rubs me the wrong way due to my love of things being used as what they are. Plus, the idea of Jeff reaching in his pocket for my ring....I just like it. Same with Tracy producing Josh's. Okay, so ring bearer position OUT.
But who to choose for the flower girl? I knew, for starters, that I wanted an older girl. This is not to say that younger (say...two to four year old) flower girls aren't ADORABLE. I think my favorite was the little girl who was around three whose dress was just a touch too big and hung slightly off her shoulder. She meandered down the aisle not dropping petals before getting really confused and going to her Mom.
(Incidentally, I'm not being sarcastic at all. This WAS my favorite I nearly died from the cuteness. DIED I say!)
Regardless of this, it wasn't for us. I wanted an older girl who would walk in a straight line and drop the petals (call me selfish, but if I could get little satyrs frolicking and playing reed pipes to my entrance I would as long as the petals dropped. I have no clue why that is so important to me, but it is.) Compounding this is the fact that older yet still young girls are in plentiful supply in our family while really wee ones we'd have to hunt for. Josh has one young niece aged 9 and I have two, aged 9 and 10. Perfect. Now who to choose?
I loved the idea of having two flower girls, one representing each family as a symbol of our two families merging. That's easy enough, the two youngest are in. But humans love things that come in three's and I'm no exception, so with our numbers it couldn't be more perfect and a triad of flower girls was born. I think I'll get them little t-shirts.
I found these dresses at girlsdressshop.com finally ordered them on Tuesday. On Friday, I got a promotional email from the company advertising all of their dresses at 20% off, so I emailed and asked for the discount. They are obliging. Score!
This is one of the parts of our wedding that I'm looking forward to the most.