Flower Girls

You may remember that Dan's sister Patty is getting married this year.  As soon as Patty got engaged she asked Brynn to be one of her Flower Girls.  Brynn, who is a flower girl expert (having served the role once before), is super excited about this for two reasons:  Reason 1--She will get a new princess dress to wear and Reason 2-She will get to dance in her new princess dress (aka:  twirl).

As soon as Brynn was asked to be a flower girl she began thinking about "The dress".  In fact while I was on the phone with Patty we had the following conversation:
        Brynn:  Mama, can you ask Aunt Patty if I can wear a purple and red flower girl dress?
        Me:  (laughing) Aunt Patty, Brynn wants to know if she can wear a read and purple dress
        Patty:  Sure
        Me (to Brynn):  I'm sorry Brynnie...Aunt Patty says no.

Recently in preparation for the Flower Girl dress shopping trip we have done some on-line shopping to try to get an idea of what styles Patty likes.  Brynn found a particular dress that she loved because "it looks like a fairy dress" and "we could even wear fairy wings with it".  Lol...because of this it occurred to me that Brynn had very specific ideas as to what her flower girl dress should look like. So a week prior to our actual shopping trip we started preparing Brynn.  We told her over and over again that we were going to find a flower girl dress and what is really important is that we find a dress that Aunt Patty loves because it is Aunt Patty's very special day.  We warned her that we may not buy the dress that she loves and that we really just want Aunt Patty to be very happy.

So Saturday was the big shopping trip.  We met Patty and the other two Flower Girls (her best friend/cousin Abby and a soon-to-be cousin Lexi) and their Mamas at David's Bridal in MD.  I would be an understatement to say that all three girls were super excited.  They all greeted each other with hugs and squeals and off we went in search of the perfect dress.  The grown-ups spent some time pulling dresses off the rack to try on while the girls checked out the headpieces.

Lexi, Abby and Brynn modeling various flower girl headpieces.

 We quickly assembled a selection of dresses and herded the girls (much like herding cats) to the dressing room to start trying on...chaos ensued.  Let me set the scene.  Of course everyone wanted to be together so they assigned us to one dressing room.  So we had one bride, 3 flower girls, 3 mamas and about 15 little dresses crammed into our little room.  Everyone just grabbed a dress and threw it over the head of whichever flower girl happened to be nearby at the moment.  It was hysterical.  The most important part of the process was to go out of the dressing room and give it the twirl test.  In order to be a possibility (in the eyes of the girls) it had to twirl well.  There were a couple of dress that all of the girls loved so then they would each have to try it on and give it the twirl test.

Modeling 3 options.  The baseball hat says FG on the front and flower girl on the back. Brynn loved it so she modeled it with all of the dresses.

It took about an hour but in the end everyone agreed on one dress (well...it did take some minor convincing of Abby).  It is so sweet, all of the girls claimed it was comfy (which was second in importance only to the twirl factor) and it is fairy-esque.

The only hitch in the day was that Brynn and Lexi were both under the impression that Aunt Patty's wedding was going to be that day.  That took a bit of explaining and a promise that we could all go to lunch together when we left the store but it ended well.  Shew...