The Flower Girl Gets Married
Once upon a long time ago, I was the flower girl. It was the wedding of my aunt and uncle. I still remember feeling important in my floor-length, multi-colored floral dress, rising to the challenge of dropping the oh-so-important flower petals down the aisle that my aunt, the bride, would soon walk.
Several years later, I went from being the flower girl to the bride. And my aunt had a daughter who would perform the distinguished role of “flower girl” in my wedding.
And only days ago, my flower girl got married, because that’s what flower girls tend to do.
And this time, the bride may have set a record in having the most little attendants a wedding ever saw. (Two of the little ones and one of the big ones belong to me.)
It was a breathtakingly beautiful day on a mountaintop in North Carolina. And far too inspiring not to share with you all. So I picked out a few of my favorite shots of the day…
{I loved this picture of my grandmother with my grandad who was watching us from Heaven that day.}
June 8, 2012 @ 12:27 pm
What a beautiful wedding, Julie! The setting, the bride, and all the kiddos in the wedding – what a special and memorable day for your family.
June 8, 2012 @ 12:46 pm
What a beautiful wedding! I love the theme, the location, and the decor. Gorgeous!!!!!
June 8, 2012 @ 12:57 pm
Beautiful! Loved all the pics. The soft colors were so pretty. How sweet that their letters made up some of the decor.
PS your ring bearer is getting married Oct 6th 🙂
June 8, 2012 @ 1:14 pm
Oh my word! Congrats to Dillon 🙂
June 8, 2012 @ 1:05 pm
What a gorgeous setting! Haven't weddings come such a long way since we got married?
June 8, 2012 @ 1:15 pm
Yes! It's no more brass candelabra & tons of tulle. Everything is so creative now!
June 8, 2012 @ 1:43 pm
What a beautiful wedding and I love your blog entry! I love the little signs "here" "comes" "the" "bride". Beautiful!
June 8, 2012 @ 1:50 pm
Gorgeous wedding! I love the shot of the little girls playing in a circle on the deck – that is perfection 🙂
June 8, 2012 @ 2:36 pm
Enhorabuena, y ….. ¡ vivan los novios!!!!!
June 8, 2012 @ 2:59 pm
How beautiful! My daughter was married on May 26th, and we are only now coming down from Cloud Nine!
June 8, 2012 @ 4:43 pm
Gorgeous wedding! All those little girls dancing around and cheering…such cute photos. And her dress was just beautiful!
June 9, 2012 @ 12:14 am
Loved all the ideas. How great to include so many young ones.
June 9, 2012 @ 5:02 am
What a gorgeous- gorgeous wedding…a beautiful bride- a handsome groom- a place that one dreams about and lovely family and friends to complete the picture. It can't get any better than that- xo Diana
June 9, 2012 @ 11:40 am
Beautiful wedding. How sweet to think that one day she may be sharing a similar blog post. Thanks for sharing and congrats to your once upon a time little flower girl. 🙂
June 9, 2012 @ 2:23 pm
what a beautiful wedding!! I want to borrow some of her ideas for my bedroom…
June 9, 2012 @ 7:08 pm
She made a gorgeous bride!
June 10, 2012 @ 6:23 pm
The most breathtakingly beautiful REAL wedding (not one staged for a TV show or photo shoot)! I was taken aback by the picture of the sweeties carrying the "Here Comes The Bride" signs. The love and celebration of this day is evident. Congrats to "The Flower Girl"!
June 10, 2012 @ 11:52 pm
Absolutely gorgeous – everything from the bride to the dress to the flowers to the setting to those sweet attendants! Thanks for sharing this special event 🙂 Makes me smile all over to see these pictures and takes me back to my own wedding almost 25 years ago. I was a flower girl once upon a time too 🙂
June 11, 2012 @ 12:05 am
What beautiful little girls, what a sweet idea to use the signs in the procession too. I feel for the little ring bearer though!
I attended a wedding years ago where there were about 15 or so little girls in attendance. There were so many little girls between their families they let them all walk down the aisle. The church had a beautiful half-circle platform with stairs all around it. The girls sat sweetly all along the stairs through the ceremony. It was beautiful – the most beautiful wedding I've ever attended.
I love weddings, thanks for sharing.
June 12, 2012 @ 3:18 pm
Tears of happiness are flowing, thank you for sharing such lovely photo's. Everything was perfectly BEAUTIFUL! CONGRATULATIONS to the newlyweds.
June 14, 2012 @ 1:43 pm
Indcredible. Lovely. Sweet. Creative. And most of all personal. Thank you for sharing!