If you are using garland, you ay be able to order it straight from a place like here: https://www.everleafgreens.com/garland.html
D1 wants to have garland run along side of chairs at the ceremony.
Anyone have a good recommendation for ordering flower girl dresses online? DD will have 4 flower girls and sizes needed will be about girls 6-14 range. She hopes to keep the price point below $70 for ivory tea length dresses for a June wedding. Thanks.
@travelnut https://www.strasburgchildrens.com/ They are local to us, and have beautiful clothes. Both DDs had beautiful dresses for their uncle’s wedding (in that size range).
@travelnut, it may be a little risky to wait, but leading up to and after Easter you may find many on sale.
Thanks! Good site…I will look at it.
Thank you so much, @SOSConcern and @1214mom. The Strasburg site is full of charming dresses. I am finding that the older ages of the girls means a wider size range than usual for flower girls. Daughter wanted to be inclusive with the family members, so there are more than usual as well. Simultaneously, she doesn’t want to have anyone uncomfortable with the price point. A bit challenging.
I would not have thought about Easter sales and styles, so I appreciate that tip. I will also be keeping an eye out for department store girl’s dresses. The simpler styles may be found there and could work.
For the flower girl/junior bride dresses, IDK with Strasburg sales - they use to have a local store and I took advantage of their dress sales. My daughters were 5 and 7 when they were in their uncle’s wedding and the dresse looked fab.There was another nice catalog company I use to order from…Storybook. Don’t know how their line has changed as it has been many years - and besides after Easter, First Communion dresses if OK with white but may not have the size range. Right now they will be having sales on their C-mas and formal winter dresses and coats.
@travelnut Have you heard of this place? It’s a classic place to look for children’s wedding clothes. I see that they have “tween” dresses also.
Thanks, @Consolation and @SOSConcern. Wooden Soldier used to mail me their catalog and I appreciate you putting them back on my radar. Wondering if later January will yield even more spring/summer dress options from all of these good sources.
For more reasonably priced options that fit the budget range you mentioned, take a look at David’s Bridal as well as Dillards.
Thanks, @doschicos . Just discovered that Dillard has wide range of options this afternoon. I don’t have brick and mortar Dillard near here, so I never think of them.
Lord and Taylor also carries some, hoping for more as spring approaches. Will check David’s Bridal again. It is the price point, coupled with a more formal evening wedding that creates the need for a deeper search.
I’ll add any additional sources as I find them. Sophie’s Style has reasonable prices, but was impossible to shop and poorly reviewed for return policies, customer service, etc. They often omitted zooms and back views of dresses, with limited descriptions. Doesn’t work very well.
@travelnut - my friend who has Saks tastes found very nice dresses at Target of all places. It was for a June wedding and they found the dresses when Target had dresses in for Easter. They also considered a dress they saw at Costco.
The venue we are looking at later this month requires a day of coordinator. They gave her a list of people who have worked the venue before and are “approved”. After talking with a couple she decided to email all 6 listed as the prices she is being quoted are very high. She also is exploring other venues in the Northern Ca area. She wants rustic ranch barn style. I’m shocked at how many spots want upwards of $10,000 for basically just an old barn.
Thanks for helping me out in my separate thread about my daughter’s wedding. The date is set for 4 Aug. 2018, so we have to start planning day before yesterday! 
Any tips on how we should think about the guest list?
I did a cursory search through this thread, but still don’t have a good sense of how to do this without offending people. For example, are plus ones required for every single person? D does not want to have a bunch of strangers at her wedding (and I don’t really want to either, if that means leaving off people we actually know and want there.) Her single friends will all know at least a few other guests, so there shouldn’t be any awkwardness there. She plans to invite the partner of those in relationships, of course. Is it really offensive or hurtful not to invite a plus one?
Elderly relatives? I feel like it would be a kindness to invite them even if she doesn’t really know them, and there aren’t that many. How have others handled this?
Groom’s sisters as bridesmaids? D’s fiance mentioned that his two sisters were hurt when his brother’s wife didn’t ask them to be bridesmaids. D is worried about wedding party growing too large, but I think she’ll come around on this. She will want to start off on the right foot with her new family.
Yes to elderly relatives! Even if they don’t or can’t come, think how thrilled they would be to thought of and invited. My daughter solved the bridesmaid issue by only having her sisters and future sister in law in the wedding party. I agree the fiancé’s sisters should be included. The plus one issue is tricky. You don’t want random strangers, but if you have dancing at the reception, it would help if at least there aren’t 20 young ladies and 2 young men.
@Lassie3 good point about the dancing! I don’t know if they’ll have dancing (it’s a brunch reception) but she’s a Wellesley grad, so many of the young guests will be her friends from there. The groom is 10 years older, so a lot of his friends are already married. I’ll mention this to her, thanks!
D is not having the groom’s sister as a bridesmaid. Neither is the groom having my son as a groomsmen. They have met only a few times. Both D and her groom are having their friends as attendants. Even the groom isn’t having his brother as a groomsman. I don’t think anyone is offended by this. I know my son isn’t. Since he doesn’t know the groom well, he was not expecting to be included.
@Massmomm, I haven’t had to deal with weddings for my kids yet myself, but I’ve heard of people are engaged or living together, the plus one “should” be invited.
I certainly don’t feel that, in 2018, all the bride’s attendants need to be female and all the groom’s male. I think both should invite their siblings assuming they have a close sibling relationship.
D1 didn’t ask her future sister in law to be a bridesmaid, but she will do a reading at the wedding. We are only inviting plus one if they are married, engaged or living together. My brother just called to ask me if he could bring a woman he just started dating. Oh, but this doesn’t apply to their dad’s live-in girlfriend.
“their dad’s living girlfriend”
live-in? 