If you’re planning for your wedding, you may be tempted to just buy a cute white dress for your flower girl, and provide for her a bouquet of flowers that matches yours. She’s just a child, and if she looks cute and adorable, the guests will say there’s a good choice of a flower girl.

Please wait a while and take a quick look at the flower girl tradition.

In the Middle Ages, flower girls were given a special role in weddings: to walk down the aisle ahead of the bride and groom and spread grain, not flowers to pave the way for new beginnings, fertility and happiness in marriage.

In these modern times, flower girls usually carry rose petals and are not expected to contribute to the new couple’s harmonious relationship.

Can you remember the last wedding you attended? If the flower girls wore formal dark colored dresses, you understood that the wedding had a formal nature. If they wore wispy dresses with roses laced into their hair, you suppose that the wedding was a more whimsical one.

The flower girls generally make the first impression about the wedding as they consist of the first part of the entourage to walk down the isle. So, how will you dress your flower girls?

Here are some suggested ideas for flower girl dresses to match with the most popular wedding themes around:

Cinderella Wedding Theme

If the Cinderella wedding theme appeals to you, three or four flowers girls would be ideal to have. They should be dressed spectacularly since this wedding theme spells extravagance and beauty. You may choose frilly white or light colored dresses with huge skirts and satin bows, and place fresh pale pink, yellow or blue flowers on their hair. Let them wear satin ballerina slippers to have a pretty and cute effect. It is expected of course that they carry baskets decorated with small ribbons to match their dresses and throw a lot of soft rose petals along the isle.

Beach Wedding Theme

The choice of your flower girl dress depends on the type of beach wedding that you want. If you want a romantic beach wedding, your flower girl may wear a soft pastel tone or white dress and use lots of fresh flowers on her hair. The flower girl dress can be shorter than in a formal wedding, and suitable sandals would set the theme nicely. Be creative, your flower girl may carry a pastel painted beach bucket filled with wildflowers to scatter along the isle. On the other hand if you want a stronger, more colorful beach wedding, you may dress your flower girl in a typical beach dress to match your wedding décor and the guests will know that the occasion is going to be adventurous and fun.

Roaring 20's Wedding

A roaring 20 wedding theme presents black and white wedding colors, wing tips shoes and ostrich feathers. A frilly flower girl dress simply won’t fit the picture. With this theme, why not dress your flower girls in white satin flapper girl dresses with bands around their hair and beads around the hemline? It would certainly bring smiles from the crowd!

Garden Party Wedding

If you wish for an outdoor wedding surrounded by colorful blooming flowers and garden arches, your flower girl dress can have white, off-white or pale pastel hues. To create a more lovely appeal, your flower girl may wear a beautiful soft cotton dress with a muted flower pattern, tied with a large solid satin bow in the back. Your pretty flower girl will have to use satin sandals and carry an armful of colorful tulips. The guests surely won’t forget your flower girl for some time.