Aimee and her best friend Caroline (The Bride)
Two of my daughters, Madison and Aimee'
Madison was a flower girl in a wedding last weekend and had the time of her life! The bride is my daughter Aimee's best friend Caroline. We seached for several months for the "perfect" flower girl dress. Having a limited budget I could not afford to purchase an expensive dress from a Bridal boutique but I wanted it to be perfect for Caroline's wedding. While shopping one day at a local consignment shop, we found a $230 dress with the tags still on for $39.99. It was too big and not exactly what we wanted but I could see the diamond in the rough! Luckily I can sew and I have a wonderful friend who can alter just about anything! We waited until about a week before the wedding to do the alterations because we didn't know how much she would grow in the few months before the wedding. The bridesmaids were all wearing chocolate brown with cream accents. The dress I purchased was a solid cream color so all I had to do was add a few touches of chocolate brown and viola! Perfect!!Front of Dress: BEFORE
Back of Dress:BEFORE
Front of Dress:AFTER
Back of dress: AFTER
I had issues finding shoes that would work and tried about 7 different stores. Again, I could not afford to spend a ton on a pair of shoe the child would wear one time! I finally paid $7.99 for a can of metallic outdoor spray paint in a "Hammered Look" brown and sprayed her white ballet flats she wore for Easter. Perfect! She looked Amazing! (All for less than $50.00 !!)
At the end of the evening (about 11:45 pm) and keeping in mind that for two days we had been running non stop (bridesmaid luncheon, rehersal, rehersal dinner and then all day "wedding day") Madison comes off the dance floor (where she has been virtually non stop since 8:00 pm) and says to me "Mommy, I am so tired I am about to pass out, I have to get out of this dress!" I took her up to our hotel room, got her pj's on her, she brushed her teeth and climbed into the bed and said "wasn't that so much fun, I was dancing with Caroline and...." she fell asleep mid-sentence! A great time was had by all!
A great big Thank You to Susan over at Between Naps On the Porch for hosting another Met Monday and Rhoda for hosting Thrifty Treasures at her beautiful blog, Southern Hospitality.
20 comments:
bless her, she is gorgeous! sounds and looks like a lovely day even if did nearly cause a pass out at the end, too cute
happy met monday
Sarah
How cute is that little FG dress. You must have had a lovely wedding!
~Liz
Beautiful job on the dress. Beautiful child wearing dress.
How beautiful! What a pretty wedding party and the alterations to the dress is really awesome! I can't believe you spray painted shoes!! Awesome! Love the brown! She looks adorable! So she was cuttin' the rug all night hu? Funny!
You did a wonderful job! Her dress and shoes are precious.
What great ideas,
Laura
What a sweet story! You are so smart. I never would have thought of spray paint on the shoes. Her little dress looks like something you had custom made. Great Work! Have a super week.
Charla
Very cute and an amazing transformation. You must have some eye! Very creative!
Such a wonderful transformation!!! Great trick for the shoes too :). I love the last photo... what a cutie!
You guys did great! She looked beautiful!
What a beautiful dress and just the right amount of brown touches. She looked adoreable. All of the ladies are gorgeous. Looks like such a beautiful wedding. Hugs, Marty
Little Madison is a doll ... and I had to chuckle when I read about how her day ended! She is adorable! And the dress came out gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful wedding and very cute flower girl.
We did this two years ago, for my oldest daughter's wedding. Gabi was flower girl. We looked at all the dresses in the shops and online and decided we just didn't want to spend that kind of money. The wedding had two flower girls!! The other was the groom's (son in law) God Daughter. We found dresses drastically marked down, in a small shop in Illinois, just a short drive from home. The only thing needed was an eggplant sash. Fortunately, Gabi was in another wedding and was able to wear her dress more than once, with just a change of sash.
Oh, what a beautiful tired little flower girl! I love how you transformed her little dress! So simple but it sure did make a huge difference! Beautiful bridal gals!
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
That dress is sooooo adorable as is she! I love the bridemaid dresses and the brown and white, it looks so cool with her in the white and brown, love it!
Awww, cute story & cuter shoes! What a great idea, that was perfect.
So pretty. You guys did a great job.
Cheri
www.itssoverycheri.blogspot.com
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The dress turned out beautiful. And I love that you spray painted the shoes. Too cute!!! And your daughters are beautiful.
That was a perfect dress and so clever of you to spray paint shoes. Kudos
What a precious post! The dress was absolutely perfect and I can't believe you were able to spray paint those shoes... they look great! And that last photo... priceless!
You are a wonder Karyn that dress is perfect. And the shoes...what a great idea.
Loved all the photos especially the last one :)
Robin
All Things Heart and Home
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