About a year ago, Erajh’s cousin was kind enough to ask Greenleigh to be a flower girl in her wedding. I’m not going to lie – I was more than a little nervous. I mean, as a former bride myself, I totally understand the desire to have your “perfect day”…and a 4 year old’s whims tend not to lead to perfection. I was also a little concerned about if she’d actually want to walk down the aisle with everyone watching her. So for months we talked to her about being a flower girl, we showed her the dress she would wear, and practiced. Hell, we even turned on our own wedding video (for what had to be maybe the 3rd time ever) to show her the flower girls in our wedding. As we ventured to Chicago earlier this week, I knew we had done all we could, but still worried if she’d make it down the aisle.
On the big day Greenleigh got her “pretty princess” hair done early in the morning…and then I spent the rest of the day praying that it wouldn’t fall and spraying it with hairspray. She looked beautiful!
Waiting to go down the aisle… 
Apparently, I totally under estimated her tendency to be a ham – she was actually excited to go down the aisle and wanted to walk by herself instead of with the ring bearer (I wish I had a better picture of it, but it all happened so fast. I’m just going to cross my fingers that the photographer got a great picture that I can buy.)
She was even good during the ceremony. Squirmy, but good.
So as it often turns out, I worried for nothing. Her flower girl debut was a huge success and we actually had inquiries about her being a flower girl in other weddings before the night was over.
I’m still recovering from our journey home – 4 1/2 hours in delays, 6 gate changes (not a typo), and 2 little kids made for a very eventful return flight – but I’ll have more about our trip later this week, along with some great giveaways!
She did great! (But holy cow, SIX gate changes? Even flying from Florida to a little tiny town in BC, I only had four flights at worst!)
It was awful! I really wish that the 6 had been a typo in this post, but it wasn’t. The problem was that our flight was late coming from Kansas City…then they kept issuing ground stops which didn’t allow anything to land in Chicago…so essentially, they didn’t know how long it would take for our flight to get to Chicago and kept bumping it for flights that were more reliable when it came to time. So we spent 4 1/2 hours chasing our flight up and down the “K” concourse at O’Hare. With 2 kids. Ugh.
Glad she did great! It seems like flower girls and ring bearers can be quite unreliable at times! She’s super cute by the way 🙂
Oh my gosh! your little girl looks so beautiful as a flower girl! As if she is just born to do this! Way to go! Glad to know that everything turned out well on the wedding day 🙂
What a cutie! It looks like she loved it… and what a beautiful dress!