Should I let my son be the flower girl?

I'm sorry, is this a joke? I honestly can't tell. There is nothing, at all, inherently gendered about the act of dropping flower petals at a wedding. It's kind of a silly tradition that remains so rigid that only girls can do this and boys, instead, can only hold signs or a fake ring holder.

That said, I don't understand the bit about your son needing to wear a dress and the fact that he would make a pretty girl. Why on earth would a dress be required to drop flower petals??

Now, I also don't think it's a big deal for a boy to wear a dress, but only if he actually wants to (like, only if it were his idea; not if he were talked into it because someone thinks flowers cannot be dropped from the hand of a dress-less child). This is why I can't decide if this is a joke post or not.

It doesn't even need to be called flower girls either. petal patrol for instance is totally gender neutral or just even saying flower boy.

We had "flower children", my husband's niece & nephew. Our venue didn't allow them to throw petals so they carried a sign but if they could, I would have let them both do it. We also had a dog as my MOH haha no one seemed to mind either. Their mother picked their outfits, we paid for them. Also please excuse the only guest in shorts & flip flops at our formal wedding that decided to take an aisle seat hahahaha

Sorry, I'm late to this post. I just wanted to share an experience when I was younger. When 6 or 7 I was a Flower Boy (Girl) at my cousin's wedding. Unusual situation, but I was in the whole flower girl attire dress and all. My hair was in a pixie style not too many at the wedding knew who I was or that I was really a boy, I was young and the pictures I saw I could have easily passed as a girl. I was young, but don't remember it being a negative experience, seems like I may have been having fun that day.