Flower Girl

Gracie was the flower girl in my cousin's wedding on Saturday. She got to practice going down the aisle twice at the rehearsal, so we were hoping that she would know what to do for the wedding itself. The rehearsal was somewhat amusing. When she decided to try out the flower basket as a hat and to pick up the flowers at her feet and throw them into the air, we decided that it would be best for her to sit with us for the ceremony itself, rather than remaining at the front of the church. We thought that after we ironed out those few wrinkles, she would probably do fine.

During the actual wedding ceremony, we realized that we forgot to give her one very important instruction: that she should not talk while she was coming down the aisle! Gracie is a talker, so I don't know why we didn't think of that beforehand. We were treated to a running commentary as she came down the aisle: "Look how many flowers I dropped that time. Oh, I still have a lot of flowers left! Well, I can drop them when I go back to sit by mommy." Fortunately, the wedding was fairly informal and the bride and groom didn't mind.

I'm glad Gracie was in my cousin's wedding, because it gave her practice for our neighbor's (much more formal) wedding later this summer. Gracie and Drew are both going to be in that wedding, so it should be an adventure!