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The dress

I unearthed these photos last night.  I was trolling for photos for the 2013 BB Calendar, and chanced upon this small series I had taken in Janurary and MEANT to blog.

They are of my daughter and a special dress.

A dress worn on our wedding day (11 years ago) by my husband’s brother’s daughter – the eldest of three flowergirls at our wedding (it wasn’t actually THAT full-on, we only had a Best Man and Best Woman besides the flowergirls).  I fell in love with the material in the somewhat stressful lead-up to our wedding.  It is a sheer deep, soft green with an olive underlay.  My sister Jeanie wore a dress (design of her own choosing) from the same material.

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(Obviously this doesn’t show the colour or the gauzy overlay material on Jeanie’s dress, but it DOES show how beautiful she is!)

Anyway, I had been waiting and waiting for there to be an ‘occasion’ for Violet to wear the flowergirls’ dress …

Finally she snapped and wore it for dinner (gala events including kids are few and far between out here!).

And it was a tight fit.

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These photos do NOT do the dress or the material justice – I had the white balance on the camera set on SOMETHING very incorrect.

But still, you get the idea…

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All our wedding party dresses (save mine) were all sewn by a lovely lady who lives about 100km from here – who had done a friend’s wedding dress.

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Utterly awesome.

And what does a little girl do in an exciting, much-anticipated dress?

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She swirls…

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And twirls…

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Barefoot…
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WHEEEEE!!!!

You see why I had to share – NOW she’s worn it in public!

🙂

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