who pays for Flower Girl dresses?

Re: who pays for Flower Girl dresses?

• Bonzo2011 member

  

  July 2012

  The parents of our flower girls paid for their attire.

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• midgetthemighty

  

  July 2012

  Generally, it's the flower girl's family that pays for the attire but their budgets need to be taken into consideration if this is the case. If you are able to pay, it's always a nice gesture.

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• LeiselEB member

  

  July 2012

  The flower girl's family would pay. We found a dress that fit our FG's mom's budget, and chose that one. We ended up paying the cost of alterations, though that's not necessary. Our mistake was picking a dress that required a lot of alterations - making that part just as expensive as the dress itself. So be sure to take that into consideration when dress shopping

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• ootmother2 member

  

  July 2012

  The parents pay for the FG gown.
  
  My SIL made her daughter's gown, cream silk with a sash in the same material of the BP skirts.

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• wrigleyville member

  

  July 2012

  Since your wedding is next June, you could wait until they start having Easter and First Communion sales. You can usually find some really cute FG dresses for half the cost of a bridal shop.
  
  My SIL found a gorgeous First Communion dress for $40. A similar style at the bridal shop was $130.

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• Lolagirl2012 member

  

  July 2012

  I bought by FG's dresses, but that's because they $25 Target dresses during easter season that were perfect for our wedding. Both sets of parents tried to pay me back.

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• midgetthemighty

  

  July 2012

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_who-pays-for-flower-girl-dresses?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:2f3b42ab-da78-450a-83a9-a63222b3d884Post:3957eba0-7ab0-47ed-8d96-bbe87ca1f5ca">Re: who pays for Flower Girl dresses?</a>:
  [QUOTE]<strong>Since your wedding is next June, you could wait until they start having Easter and First Communion sales.</strong> You can usually find some really cute FG dresses for half the cost of a bridal shop. My SIL found a gorgeous First Communion dress for $40. A similar style at the bridal shop was $130.
  Posted by wrigleyville[/QUOTE]
  
  Totally agree with this and I was married this June so I know it's very easy to go this route. I had two flower girls and one of them actually wore her first communion dress as it just so happened to work out to be the same year. I just added a yellow sash. Voila flower girl.

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• Meegles4 member

  

  July 2012

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_who-pays-for-flower-girl-dresses?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:2f3b42ab-da78-450a-83a9-a63222b3d884Post:0b07340c-5fce-4004-8bd4-7dbfe3353aab">Re: who pays for Flower Girl dresses?</a>:
  [QUOTE]In Response to who pays for Flower Girl dresses? : Ask the parents of the children in the WP what their budget is for attrie.  Find attire in that price range.  Or let the parents find something apropriate themselves.  Little girls - a dress in the color you'd like.  Little boys - suit/tux or pants and a top depending on how formal you want.
  Posted by crfb87[/QUOTE]
  
  Ditto this. We had 2 boys and a girl, all in the same family. The boys wore the tuxes the guys wore, so the family didn't really have any "say" in picking that out. But, I SIL picked out the FG dress so she could find something she liked that was in her price range. She ran some options by me so I guess I had "veto" power.
  
  Also, because the entire family was in the wedding (2 parents, 3 kids), we gave them the free tux from Men's Warehouse that typically goes to the groom. We figured they were spending enough, so that gave them a little relief.

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