Blast from the past: Flower girl career

We haven't had a blast from the past in a couple weeks. This week I had a plan but sidetracked again. My first ever important job was being a flower girl. I remember the first time I was given the oppurtunity. I was 4 years old and my mom told me I will be a flower girl and my cousin Bill would be a ring bearer. We kind of ignored our parents about it and kept on playing inspector gadget. That was our favorite game back then. In those days both bill and I were only children so we spent a lot of time together. Our parents would go out to weddings or go to party's and me and bill would get to hang out with whoever was babysitting us playing games. Bill and I went to a lot of weddings back in the day but this on was special because we had in important job.

Time passed and I was trying on flower girl dresses and buying new shoes. Eventually the day of the wedding came. My mom helped me get in my dress and put my hair in a poof pony tail. I also had this little flowery headpiece. My aunt Glory sewed some fake flowers into a basket, because I wasen't actually going to throw any flowers.Once I was dressed and ready my dad drove me to the home of the bride where they did my makeup. It was my first time having eye liner and lipstick on. I felt really cute. When we got to the door of the reception this african music was playing and Bill had just gotten over the chicken pox. He still had the red splotches on his face and was itchy but for the sake of the camaras he was told not to itch. We walked in with the bridal party and my dad being the m.c. teased us into the microphone. We stood up in front of everyone and took lots of pictures. All in all it was a fun day.

Around 2004 I got lucky again and was offered a flower girl position. This time the bride ordered dresses from California for me and my friend inti to wear. There was no ring berrar for this wedding so my and inti were each required to cary the rings in our baskets. We practiced for about an our walking in step together to the music. we all got our hair done with the bride and got to ride to the reception. That was the first time I ever got my hair straightened. It looked great. It was a fun, this time there was a mini dissaster. I dropped the ring. It was awful, but good thing I saw it before time to give the bride and groom the rings. No one knew that there was ever a problem, I saved the day!

Here are some pictures of the events. Were any of you ever flower girls?





I have a ton more pictures but I currently don't have a scanner :'(. You can immagine it.