Tutorial: Flower Girl Wands

A super cute alternative to flower petals and baskets for your flower girl, or even your junior bridesmaids, are the ever adorable flower girl fairy wands. They can be made with real, dried, or fake flowers, but for our tutorial we simply used fake ones in our chosen color.

You’ll need
Flowers & ribbon in your chosen colors
Styrofoam ball
Dowel
Glue gun
Glue

1. Remove the stems from your flowers and push them one at a time into you Styrofoam ball, strategically placing them where you want and making sure to cover the ball; utilize a small dab of glue to hold your flowers in place.
   


2. Cover your dowel with the ribbon. Play around with multiple colors for a different look.
   


3. Carefully push the dowel into your Styrofoam ball making sure to only push it in a little bit and not all the way through. Pull the dowel back out and reinforce the hole with hot glue before placing it back in.

You’ve now completed a great DIY project AND you’ve got a beautiful wand for your flower girl and/or junior bridesmaids to carry.

In the event it didn’t turn out the way you would have liked it to, you’re just not as "craft savvy", or you really prefer to compensate others for their work (nothing wrong with that), here are a few fabulous Etsy boutique options we *heart* at Bum Bum & Button.

Clockwise from right hand corner: Blue & Silver Sparkly Wand – Blue Belle Boutique TN, Pink Flowers, Crystals, and Feathers Wand – Pretty Keepsakes, Vintage Plumes & Pearls Wand – Ardesign, Dried Flower Wand – NHWoodscreations

Q & A: Including Some Kids, While Excluding Others

I recently came across a bride wishing to have only a select number of close children at her wedding, but she wasn't sure how to tactfully exclude others.

I think a great way to handle this situation would be to give the children you hold close to you a role in your wedding (if possible) perhaps as junior bridesmaids, pages, etc ... With this you accomplish two things at once ... you've found a way to not only have them there, but also have a special job on your special day and you can follow up with other guest, via telephone after invitations have gone out, letting them know space/budget constraints only allow for children in the wedding party.

We've Got a New Look!

Welcome to the new Bum Bum & Button blog! We’re so excited about our beautiful, new look and want to give HUGE thanks to Fran at Small Bird Studios for all her hard work … thanks Fran!!

It is my desire to update regularly about various topics dealing with children in weddings from incorporating them, entertaining them, and cute wedding fashions for little ones. Children tend to be overlooked in this area and I really want to change that, so I hope you follow along, enjoy the blog, and maybe even consider it a bit of a resource.

"A person's a person, no matter how small." -Dr. Suess