FG help, please.

pantherRN · February 2012

So we have two flower girls, one is my baby sister (she's 5, my dad remarried) and the other is my cousin (she's 7). I was going to have my cousin act as ring bearer and carry our rings in a ring dish from Paloma's Nest. My sister was going to carry a "here comes the bride" banner. My dilemma is this, I don't want to make the banner. I'm way DIYed out and just don't want another project. So I can either buy one or scrap the idea all together. I don't want to spend a lot of money if I buy it. But if I don't buy it, I don't know what else to have her carry. If I can't come up with anything, I guess I'll just have our florist make a mini bouquet. Ideas?

ETA: my cousin is 7, not 9. Sorry!

SunshineShades · February 2012

my FG is carrying a pomander. You could do that instead of a bouquet. You could also have it made in fake flowers. For my FG it is I think like $10-$15.

kimberlykh · February 2012

I made a "HCTB" banner for my three nephews to carry on Vistaprint for super cheap.
It is also the type of thing that people probably sell after they are married, so maybe look around for a cheap one.
A pomander is cute too.

mandi921vh · February 2012

I would check out Vista Print or Etsy, but if you find they are to $$ just have her carry a bouquet.

DianaL616 · February 2012

my flower girls are carrying pomander balls. I ordered them from afloral.com for a great price. They call them "kissing balls"

http://www.afloral.com/Silk-Wedding-Flowers/Kissing-Balls_2

pantherRN · February 2012

I totally didn't even think of VP. I found some on Etsy that are reasonable (IMO).

COSmitty · February 2012

I'm having a pomodour... My niece is less than 2 (yes, I know it will be chaos but her brother's are rignbearers at 3.5 and she'll probably just be carried by daddy anyways).

So what I did was go into Michaels when they had a sale on fake flowers. Got 2 hydrangea flowers (for about $7) cut the heads off the stems, am tying the stems together and attaching a ribbon for her to carry it.

It's a low stress half-a$$ed DIY for something that can be tossed around and be fine :-)

mandydc0509 · February 2012

Etsy has some fairly cheap ones. I was/am still considering using the banner.

It not, I've seen some flower girls carry one single flower or a mini bouquet. And there's always the pomander option.

AurorasEnvy · February 2012

I've seen a lot of those "here comes the bride" signs on sale here on TK, so maybe keep watch. Another idea is to have one of them toss out petals from a basket, like flower girls traditionally do (or used to, anyways!)