One of my desires for our wedding was to have a large number of flower girls. First, we have about a thousand little girls in our lives. Between church and school friends having babies, we had quite a few options! And since weddings are especially fun for small people and even more for flower girls, and since we want a fun wedding, we decided on six flower girls.
We're trying to decide what you call six flower girls. I think a troop is the best description. We are thankful for the participation of three of the Hanway-Higgs girls, the two Buchinsky women and Jacob's firey red headed second-cousin, Wren Florer.
The only bummer is that Truro, the church where I grew up and where we are having the wedding, is loathe to allow flowers thrown down the aisle. They have a million other picky rules along these lines but we're working with it. Right now we're trying to decide some alternatives. Maybe bubbles? Maybe just holding their own bouqets. Any suggestions, send them our way.
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celery stalks...
What about "troupe?" It's pronounced the exact same way, but without the military connotation...(and it looks cooler, too).
Clean-up folks might greatly appreciate one less item to pick up (flower petals, bubble-soap gunk, celery stalks). They could hold their own bouquet -- and even find a way to make them living (i.e., something to not have to toss out after the ceremony, but put in a pot, a planter, the ground...).
Mark
What! No little Ladwig? Is Geneva not cute enough!
A lot of flower girls I've seen have seemed pretty nervous so walking and blowing bubbles might be hard unless they're older girls. Then maybe older ones with bubbles and younger ones with a bouquet or even a single flower.
well, first of all, will baby ladwig being walking steady enough (and willing to be away from mama for the whole length of the aisle) by jan 14?
plus, let's not forget that mama ladwig will be prodcucing a second offspring within a week of the wedding -- in Wisconsin.
thoughts?
I know I know. The little ones can be unpredictable. She actually does run away from me now after church and at other places. I am still hoping that we can actually come. Oh I would be so bummed! I have to wait until my ultrasound to get an actual due date. Then I guess we'll have to see from there if traveling would be the wisest thing to do.
:) Ah yes. Truro and her rules. We just had one flower girl (Izabella Minns)- and, by age, i suppose she should have been a junior bridesmaid but she wanted to be a flower girl, so there you go. She carried a bouquet and it was fine, although her brothers suggested that they just follow after her and pick up the rose petals that she dropped! With 6 girls you could have 3 drop and 3 pick up.
Who's actually doing your wedding? And how are you doing your pre-marital counseling? Are you meeting with Martyn beforehand? Just wondering!
:) Catherine Brown (used to be Crocker)
I think Martyn is marrying us, if he's around. Otherwise it will be Marshall. We aren't doing any marriage counseling there (we live in Oregon) but will do some at our church. I think they're pretty flex about it under the circumstances.
Thanks for the word on flowergirls. We may go bubbles. We'll have to see....
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