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Interview with the Flower Girl

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Tuan and I have been searching long and hard for a flower girl and a ring boy for the wedding. We both love kids and incorporating them into our wedding was something we really wanted (plus dressed up kids make for some adorable photos!).

But our search has been rather ... difficult. I mean we didn't just want to pull some random kids off the street and have them in our wedding (for one thing it would be weird having strange kids in your wedding party, and secondly it would freak both those kids and their parents out!).

Many of our friends don't have kids yet, our parent's friends' kids are all about our age, our niece won't even be 1 year old by our wedding, and other relatives with little kids (such as cousins) live on the other side of the world and are not likely to make it to the wedding.

But this past weekend I had a chance to meet my mother's friend's granddaughter. And the moment I laid eyes on her, it's like a neon sign started flashing in my mind with the words "Potential Flower Girl!!!". The thing is, cute little potential flower girl (PTG) is barely 3 years old. So I still had my doubts. So in the midst of play time with her (we banged out some tunes on the piano, I introduced her to the house pets, played cars and I spy with my little eye), I snuck in the following questions:

  • Do you like flowers? Answer: "yes" (Monica thinks to herself "awesome!")
  • Do you like throwing flowers? Answer: PTG gives Monica a strange look and says "NO!" (Monica thinks "not so awesome")
  • Do you like dressing up and wearing pretty dresses? Answer: "yes. my favourite dress is pink!" (Monica thinks "Yay! One of my colours is pink!")
  • Do you like walking in front of lots of people, say like 80 of them? Answer: "yes. my mommy taught me how to walk" (Monica thinks "I don't think she quite understood the question")
  • Do you like people taking photos of you? Answer: PTG shakes her head vehemently. (Monica thinks "Too bad, my photographer takes awesome kid photos!")
Turns out, PTG isn't so camera shy after all. And she also knows how to use my Canon digital camera. So I think that if a 3 year old can operate a digital camera, she can be a flower girl. Unfortunately it looks like my PTG might not be in town for the wedding. Her family is planning a summer getaway right around flower girl duty time. And so the hunt continues ...

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