A Basket For My Flower Girl

August 24th, 2009

Its no secret in the world of weddings that little details cost big bucks. For example, flower girl’s baskets from my florist start at $50. Heck, just a bag of rose petals is $30. What’s a girl to do?

Make one of course!

I actually sort of made this up as I went along, based on a little moss basket I found at the Christmas Tree Shop after Easter for $.50. I don’t think Christmas Tree carries them anymore, but I found these from A Beautiful Life at 2 for $26, so I’m sure a savvy shopper could find them for less.

Anyhow, my less-pretty version of the basket came with funny looking garland around the top. Which was not going to work. So I ripped it off and hot glued some “artfully curled” [read: haphazardly applied] white ribbon to cover the rough edge. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Add some mushroom birds, white clay flowers (to make your own, check out The Martha’s How To) and a basic
bow, and you’ve got yourself a cute, Christmasy flower girl basket for less than $5!

What will your flower girl carry down the aisle?

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