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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Crystal and Pearl Vine Drop Earrings

Crystal Vine and White Simulated Pearl Bracelet

Crystal Vine Y Necklace">Crystal Vine Y Necklace

I’m really glad I went to the store and looked at them in person instead of just buying them online. They’re still beautiful in person, but they look…smaller…than I’d expected.

But since I was at the store with basically the entire bridal collection in front of me, I was able to try lots of different pieces in different combinations. I eventually came back to the ones I’d picked out from the web site and walked away, satisfied with my choice. I think that if I hadn’t done that and just ordered from the Carolee web site, I might have opened the package and been disappointed.

But I love the pieces. Now I just need to try them on with my dress!

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I didn’t try again for over a decade and a half, thanks mostly to a dreadful fear of needles.

But Groom gifted me with a pair of pierced earrings last spring, and what else could I do but get my ears pierced? And even then, I dawdled for six months before I finally worked up the courage.

I once again opted for mall gun-based piercing. I much preferred the idea of being quickly shot through to watching a piercing professional come at me with a needle. I figured earlobes aren’t that fragile compared to some other body parts people pierce.

The piercing itself was uneventful, despite my nervous babbling and the death grip I kept on the chair. The first six weeks of aftercare were also uneventful. I cleaned the piercings and rotated my new earrings faithfully.

I saw the first sign of trouble after I had changed my earrings a few times. I often have trouble working the earrings through the back of the hole, which I guess is pretty typical for newly-pierced ears. But the process of trying to push the earring through often draws blood, which is probably not typical. The holes are also oozing some white discharge, and I’m afraid this is a sign of bad things to come.

I did some more reading on piercing aftercare and have decided to ditch the rubbing alcohol for a salt-and-baking-soda solution. I hope my ears settle down soon, because I really, really want to wear earrings like this at my wedding:

They are the Crystal and Pearl Vine Drop Earrings by Carolee, and I think they would look smashing with my wedding dress.

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