…if your wedding theme was The Sorcerer’s Apprentice on Ice.

Also, is it just me or does that pose make it look like her hand is growing out of her shoulder?

And who thought “Stick and Stones” would be a good name for a line of bridesmaid dresses?

We recently added a flower girl and ring bearer to our bridal party after I belatedly realized that one of my friends has kids who are exactly the right age. I was super excited about this until my friend asked me, “What about the dress?”

Oh right! Flower girl dress…

Did you know that flower girl dresses often run upwards of $100? And even $150? I sure didn’t! It seemed sort of insane to buy a tiny little dress that cost as much as my Maid of Honor’s dress (and unlike the flower girl, my Maid of Honor will not be outgrowing her dress in a year).

Our flower girl had a dress from a previous flower girl experience, but the colors weren’t quite right. I was debating between trying to alter the dress or trying to squash my obsessive matchy-matchiness*, when I saw this dress.

It’s a lot less than $100 and it’s also perfect.

It’s ivory with an embroidered taffeta overlay, just like my dress, while the color and the ruched sash echo our wedding colors and my Maid of Honor’s dress nicely without being too clone-y or disturbingly child bride-y.

In fact, the sash on that dress is exactly the color of the ribbon I used on our invitations. What are the odds of that?

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Groom is from Japan and most of his family does not speak English. And apparently it’s weird to be decorating with cherry/plum blossoms in late spring. So as much as I love the cherry blossom invitations, I needed to cook up another batch for the groom’s family.

Ta-da!

Apparently traditional Japanese wedding invitations are written like a letter (not to mention the potential pitfalls in returning reply cards from overseas), so we nixed all the enclosures and made it into a folder.

This chiyogami paper is also from Paper Source, the Yuzen Oriental Fans Wine and Persimmon. The ribbon is the same 1/4″ satin ribbon, but in Moss. Paper and ribbon colors are closer to what’s pictured above than on the Paper Source web site. The backing materials and envelopes are the same as the other invitation.

Almost all of our invitations have gone out now and I’m actually kind of sad. I really like making pretty paper things!