Lace and Tulle Flower Girl Dresses

Floral Lace Flower Girl Dress with Lace Leotard and Tulle Ivory Champagne Skirt
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Lace Leotards & Tulle Skirts 

I met one of my clos­est and dear­est friends my fresh­man year at Notre Dame. And now over 7 years lat­er, we were reunit­ed on cam­pus (at the Sacred Heart Basil­i­ca) for her wedding.

It was an absolute­ly beau­ti­ful cer­e­mo­ny and I was thrilled to have been a part of her big day!

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Last spring, she asked me if I would make 3 flower girl dress­es for her wed­ding. Despite hav­ing lit­tle expe­ri­ence in chil­dren’s cloth­ing, I took the offer and fig­ured it had to be eas­i­er than wom­en’s cloth­ing. But lit­tle did I expect to learn so much dur­ing the process. This is not a bad thing, in fact I’m hap­py to have learned so much along the way!

My friend want­ed the flower girl dress­es to have full cham­pagne tulle skirts, cream lace (long sleeved) tops, and maroon/red sashes.

This past sum­mer, I kept my eyes open for lace, but I did­n’t start the project until I received mea­sure­ments in late September.

When I start­ed mak­ing mock-ups and shop­ping for fab­ric, I start­ed think: Can I make leo­tards with lace? The girls should be able to get in and out of the dress­es eas­i­ly.  Can I find a beau­ti­ful lace that has both ease and beau­ty (most stretchy laces are knit and can look pret­ty casual)?

Ulti­mate­ly, I decid­ed to have the girls wear lace leo­tards with tulle skirts. I fig­ured this would be the best option for mak­ing dress­es for girls long dis­tance (siz­ing would not have to be per­fect). Also,  the leo­tards would be more com­fort­able for the girls and the moth­ers would­n’t have to fuss with tuck­ing in tops all day.

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After search­ing all over the web and area stores, I found the per­fect lace!

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Tulle Skirts

After nail­ing down the leo­tard design, I began the tulle skirts.

I found a real­ly good deal on a bolt cham­pagne tulle. I was excit­ed because it looked like a great price and the exact col­or we were look­ing for!

UNFORTUNATELY, some things are too good to be true! The tulle fab­ric was real­ly thin and looked noth­ing like the cham­pagne col­or online (see the pho­to below)! Despite this, I test­ed the col­or and tulle by cut­ting a few lay­ers of tulle and gath­er­ing the ends (see below).

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Save I ordered this cham­pagne tulle online and it looked noth­ing like the col­or & qual­i­ty online.

It was not the col­or tulle my friend envi­sioned. Instead, I used tulle I found at my local fab­ric store.

THE SASHES

The bride want­ed the sash­es to match the brides­maid dresses.

The brides­maid dress­es were back ordered and did­n’t arrive until a cou­ple weeks before the wed­ding, so I did­n’t start the sash­es until a week before the wed­ding. Luck­i­ly, I had no prob­lem find­ing fab­ric that matched the col­or and fab­ric of the dresses!

One side of the sash was a bur­gundy mat­te chif­fon (same fab­ric of the brides­maid dress­es), while the oth­er side was a bur­gundy sateen fabric.

I could­n’t have been hap­pi­er with the final dress­es! They real­ly looked cute on the girls and went real­ly well with her wedding!

I shopped for the fab­ric & sewed the dress­es, but this was my friend’s design. And there­fore, I have to give her cred­it for design­ing these adorable dress­es! This is only a glimpse of how beau­ti­ful the cer­e­mo­ny was and I wish I had pro­fes­sion­al pho­tos to share with you!

Shop sim­i­lar lace leo­tards on my (shop here for the new onesAna­gras­sia web­site or  Etsy

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47 thoughts on “Lace and Tulle Flower Girl Dresses

  1. Mary Danner

    Gor­geous!

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  2. susan

    Extreme­ly adorable flower girl and dress! I also made 2 flower girls dress­es for my wed­ding and it was so hard. Kids grow so fast and the mea­sure­ments you tak­en may not be the same 1 month later.

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  3. Kelly Flanagan

    Wow! Gor­geous! I’m search­ing for a flower girl dress and not find­ing a lot that I like.
    Are you mak­ing these to sell by chance?

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    1. marusya

      Thanks Kel­ly! I will email you!

      Reply

  4. Jessica

    I’m inter­est­ed in one too!!

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  5. ashley montgomery

    I am inter­est­ed in pur­chas­ing the leo­tards, they are gorgeous!

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    1. marusya

      Hi Ash­ley! I will send you an email soon!

      Reply

  6. Tara Fox

    Love this leo­tard been search­ing online and there is not much to offer that is beau­ti­ful­ly chic like this one. Could I pos­si­ble get an email in regards to pur­chas­ing one also?

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    1. marusya

      I will send you an email Tara!

      Reply

  7. Megan perry

    I am need­ing 3 of these leo­tards! I tried to pur­chase on etsy but it would­n’t let me!

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  8. Katie

    I would absolute­ly love to know if you are sell­ing this flower girl dress and what you would be ask­ing for it. This would be per­fect for my daugh­ter to wear to my Sep­tem­ber wedding.

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    1. marusya

      Thanks Katie! I just sent you an email.

      Reply

  9. Janelle

    Hi, just won­der­ing if you had any pic­tures of this leo­tard as sleeveless?

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    1. marusya

      Hi Janelle! I’m in the process of cre­at­ing more designs! I’ll let you know as soon as the first sleeve­less is up for sale!

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  10. Maggy

    Hel­lo… Do you sell this dress? It would be per­fect for an Octo­ber wed­ding that my daugh­ter is walk­ing. Please let me know.

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    1. marusya

      Yes I do! You can shop on http://www.anagrassia.com or etsy shop. I con­tin­ue to offer new laces and styles.
      Also, I sug­gest send­ing me mea­sure­ments ahead of time to make sure the leo­tards fit right!
      Thanks Maggy!

      Reply

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