Who pays for the flower girl dress?

I bought my FG dress.

My brothers daughter is my flower girl. He and his wife are paying for the dress, it never occured to me to offer to pay for it. I picked it out from the site angelickids.com. They had really good prices and I found one that was a similar style to my gown and that the mother of the FG also liked, so I guess it was a combined decision.

For my wedding I picked the dresses and the parents paid for the dresses,you have enough on your plate. Its your wedding and people should repect your choices and do as you ask.

Hmm, so i guess now a lot more people are for the parents buying. In the other post it seemed like mostly the brides were buying.

More answers/idea/people opinions please?

My FGs will be my daughter and my neice. I'll be paying for my daughter's dress, and my sister will be paying for hers.

Although.... If I insisted on having a girl as my FG and the mother was unable to pay, I would pay for it myself as long as she made it known to me beforehand and I still decided to have her daughter in the wedding.

In the etiquette book that I have in the chapter "who pays for what" it says the parents of the flower girl are supposed to pay for the dress. So don't feel bad! lol

The parents were supposed to buy the FG dress, but my parents ended up paying for it *rolls eyes*. It was a pretty pricey dress, but we had agree to split the cost; but they went all flaky towards the end.

Where I am from the bride typically pays for the flower girl's dress/ shoes etc.

2 flower girls for us- one 2, one 7. I didnt like anything I was seeing in stores. They were too plain jane for me. So I decided the DIY route.

luckily we have 2 great sewers in our family- my mother and his aunt (mother of the 7yr old). My mother made the 2yr olds, and his aunt made her daughters.

I picked out the pattern, and fabric and bought it for them. They are in charge of buying their shoes.

cost- i forget at the moment and without looking at my budget sheet all I can say is they were between 30-60 each. I know kind of a big gap!

My FG is my daughter so I will be paying lol...

On the other hand, my friend asked me to be a Bridesmaid in her wedding and about a month after she asked me, we were hanging out and if she asked me if my daughter could be her flower girl in and she offered to pay for the dress.

I think it's up to you. If you want someone else's child to be part of the wedding and have the money, then offer. If you don't really have the money and they don't want to pay then you may need to find someone else's child to use.

Flower Girl dresses range in price greatly. The dress I want for my daughter is styled to look similar to the dress I have in mind for me. I've seen it for around $200 at some bridal shops and I've seen it online for little under $70. I think it just depends on the type of dress, where you buy it, etc.

Our FG is my FH's niece. We asked her parents to pick out a dress for her and they are paying for it.

My daughters will be my flower girls. However, when one of my daughters was asked to be a flower girl in a family friends wedding, they bought her dress. I think it's your decision. if you don't think the flower girls parents can afford it or would flake out on paying like FMW's did, then just budget to pay for it. Most FG dresses cost under $100.

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Either way, I'd say pick out the dress you want her in.

My moms bff's daughter is my FG and her mom is pretty much my second mom and she has the money to buy the dress so she is paying for it. if you feel akward saying "buy this dress at this place" maybe you can take FG and her mom (or whoever would be buying the dress) out to lunch and shopping for the dress all together? im taking FG shopping with her mom bc i want her to pick the dress she wants (with my approval lol), and that way its a lot more fun and you can offer to pay for their lunch.

My flower girl is the daughter of a friend of mine. I didn't expect her mother to buy her dress. I purchased her dress, basket and plan to purchase her shoes. I just expect her mother to get her cute on the day of my wedding :-) I don't know what the proper arrangement is, but I didn't want to burden her mother when her daughter being in the wedding is a favor to me.

Since our 4 flower girls will be in 2 weddings right before mine (the dresses are completely different and wont fit with my style) we are paying for them. we found some really cute ones on Ebay for about 15 each

Sadly, the fg and her parents live in ohio, so we can't go shopping together. i was thinking about buying a sash from DB to match my BM and having her mom pick out a white dress that would look good with the sash.

My cousin said they have soe cute dresses ar burlington coat factory, and usually its the parents of the fg who pays for the dress.

I got my flower girl dress at ross 19.99

Around here its just expected that the parents pay for the fg dress.... When I asked my girls and flower girls (daughters of 2 of my bm's) to stand up for me, I promised them that I would find dress in their budget (because they were all struggling a little).. under $100 for the bm and under $50 for the flower girls, which they totally appreciated. I picked out the flower girl dresses on ebay and ordered them, then the girls payed me back. Didn't have any issues at all and all they said was that they were glad I had found such affordable dresses for them!

I think that its totally acceptable to ask them to pay for the dress, but I do think you should keep in mind that they may have a budget. I would probably ask them what their max budget for a dress would be, and stay within that number.