Archive for the ‘Communion Dresses’ Category

Monogrammed Flower Girl Dresses now available from Pegeen

April 20th, 2010 by Pegeen.com | 1 Comment | Filed in Communion Dresses, White Weddings

Pegeen.com now announces that we are able to monogram your flower girl dresses (more pix to follow).

Just wanted to post

Monogrammed Silk Marie Antoinette Flower Girl Dresses by Pegeen.com

Monogrammed Silk Marie Antoinette Flower Girl Dresses by Pegeen.com

our newest Marie Antoinette style flower girl dress as it’s hot off the cutting table!

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Communion Dresses for Plus Size Girls

January 21st, 2010 by Pegeen.com | No Comments | Filed in Communion Dresses

Although we do many dress styles for all shapes, I am frequently asked about flower girl dresses for Plus Size Children, and especially Plus Size First Communion Dresses.

Each dress we make for a plus size child is individually hand cut according to their specific measurements so any style will look good on the child because it is made for them.  I frequently get a call from a parent who said they tried on (for example) a size 18 1/2.  What is a half – a half child?  At Pegeen.com we like to treat our plus size girls with respect.

Plus size First Holy Communion Dresses by Pegeen.com

Plus size First Holy Communion Dresses by Pegeen.com

For PLUS SIZES we will send a Bodice in the mail which is made out of a muslin material. You will try on this pattern/muslin and get back to us with any further fit issues. Be sure to have a digital camera ready when it arrives. After the fit is finalized, we use our copy of the same muslin here and proceed to make your dress. “My staff and I are really good at spotting the problems. Once the digital pictures are sent back to us experience and a little programming magic, produces the changes that need to be made to the pattern. I really scare my kids sometimes when talking on the phone to customers. After they give me the measurements and height, I usually guess their weight within a pound or two. It amazes my kids but reassures the customer that we know what we are doing! I was especially happy when a recent customer said to me ‘ITS LIKE MAGIC IN A BOX’ and that pretty much says it right there.”

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Can a dress be used for a wedding AND a communion?

January 19th, 2010 by Jimf | No Comments | Filed in Communion Dresses, White Weddings
White & Ivory First Communion Dress
Thought this was a good place to answer the many questions we get from Brides and Moms, so here is the question for today:
“Hi Pegeen,
I found your website, Pegeen.com, today and am very interested in some of your styles.
I did have one question.  Both of my flower girls are going to be celebrating their communion in May and want to use the dress as both a communion dress and as a flower girl dress.  We will most likely do something to spice up the communion dress for the wedding such as tie a sash the color of the bridesmaid dresses around their waists.
That being said, both moms of the flower girls are actually leaning toward white dresses for the communion and my wedding dress is ivory.  Do you think the dresses will clash?  Do you think this will look funny or is this something that is done?  I want to be accommodating but I also want to make sure the bridal party looks cohesive and stylish.
Can you advise at your convenience?”
Dear Christina,
A good question today indeed!  At Pegeen, we like very much to answer your questions by putting ourselves in your mom’s shoes.  As a mother of two children myself, I find that my thoughts are constantly thinking about lessons, private school tuition and college funds.  So I can relate to your mom’s who are having a First Communion requiring a pretty dress.  Traditionally, most communion dresses are white.  I say that because we all get the same speech from our churches who espouse that any color is fine but no one listens….we want to wear white.  Traditions are changing in the church so a pale color is okay but it’s obvious your moms are pretty firm in what they want.  So here are a few suggestions to help your mothers decide on a style.
Let’s say they want to break from tradition first and wear a soft ivory color.  Pegeen has a pale color of ivory called NEW IVORY that may be okay for them to wear on their communion day.  All of our styles come in New Ivory and there are plenty of styles to choose from.  Each dress comes with or without a sleeve so they can choose any that fit their liking.  We have a special page that highlights some of the choices other moms have done including dresses for plus size.
But chances are they are insisting on white so here are some of my solutions for white AND ivory dresses to help you both:

Choose a white dress like Dress Style 300 that you can change the sash out. It’s pretty basic but a good style and an inexpensive approach for both events.

Choose a style with a large sash, something like dress #395, again in white but do a large ivory sash so that there is a balance for the two colors.  (Southern Dresses often are ivory and white and I actually like the look very much).  Again, a second sash can be made to switch the sash to white.
Choose a style with white aloncon lace and make the dress in white silk or, do the dress the other way around.
Choose a white dress but add an ivory bolero jacket.  This again may help balance the two needs together.
My last suggestion is to go the southern, traditional route:  White silk with Ivory Val Lace. This look is extremely beautiful and will look as if the intention is perfect for both.
Please feel free to have the moms call me and we will be happy to discuss any other dual uses for their dress choices.  877-4-PEGEEN

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Is Green really the new Black? Popular colors for flower girl dresses

January 19th, 2010 by Pegeen.com | No Comments | Filed in Communion Dresses, Destination Weddings, Flower Girl Dresses, Green Weddings

Get your Green On… I hear this more and more everyday.  If  Green is the new Black then bring on those

Green and purple flower girl dresses by Pegeen

Pegeen's Green and purple flower girl dresses by Pegeen

wedding colors.  If you subscribe to the misdirected GLOBAL WARMING craziness or not (NOT!) it sure has made the color Green more popular with wedding colors.  A recent survey of 450 brides who have visited our Pegeen.com site and requested free swatches have shown that of those, GREEN WEDDINGS almost out-requests BLACK.  Now, this is by no means a scientific study but a year from now, I promise you, I will definitely publish those color request statistics.

Erin Go Bragh – Ireland Forever!

10 Most Popular Color Searches (in order) for Pegeen®

  • Champagne flower girl dresses
  • Brown flower girl dresses
  • Black flower girl dresses
  • Tiffany flower girl dresses
  • Green flower girl dresses
  • Fuchsia flower girl dresses (surprise to me)
  • Orange flower girl dresses
  • Blue flower girl dresses
  • Pink flower girl dresses
  • Yellow flower girl dresses

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Flower girl’s flower ball

January 4th, 2010 by Pegeen.com | No Comments | Filed in Communion Dresses, Dry Cleaning your Garments, Flower Girl Dresses, Green Weddings, Wedding TIPS

I am totally enamored with these wonderful “Flower Kissing Balls”,  because they are so easy for a flower girl to carry.  Pegeen's Green and Hot Pink Flower Girls Kissing Ball

Another name, a Pomander, is a round ball of fresh flowers and has the easy handle made from a soft ribbon. These pomanders, which are fashioned after mistletoe hanging during the Christmas festivities, they have been named Flower Kissing Balls which is a throwback to the mistletoe kiss given.

The flower girl dress by Pegeen®  was in apple green and shock pink and is style 383.

Although I am seeing more and more of these Kissing Balls in multi colors I also have been loving the monochromatic tones of same color and hue roses.

Your florist is a great resource for the flowers that are typically used although I see them mostly made of roses.

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Announcing our July Flower Girl Dresses of the Month!

July 12th, 2009 by Pegeen.com | No Comments | Filed in Black Weddings, Communion Dresses, Destination Weddings, Flower Girl Dresses, Infant dresses, Tulle dresses, Wedding Planning

Every month Pegeen.com highlights a new Wedding of the Month and Pegeen announces our pick for July, a beautiful black and white wedding, held at the Phoenix in Cincinnati with Photography by Neusa Ruhl.

Black & White tulle flower girl dresses by Pegeen.com

Pegeen's Black & White tulle flower girl dresses by Pegeen.com

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Announcing the June Wedding of the Month

May 31st, 2009 by Pegeen.com | No Comments | Filed in Communion Dresses, Flower Girl Dresses, Infant dresses, Jr. Bridesmaids Dresses

The June Bride.  I suppose this month is traditional for brides but we also included with this traditional wedding, a tribute to the bride’s father’s reaction to her!  Check the June wedding of the month for more pictures.  The wedding this month was beautiful and the reception site too good to believe.  Reception: St. Albans Country Club in St. Albans, Missouri WEBSITE Photographer: Jen Henneberry of Catch Light Park Photography of St. Louis, MO WEBSITE Florist: Wildflowers, owner Jane Winter, also of St. Louis, Missouri WEBSITE The dress style chosen was 398 in New Ivory silk with chocolate brown sashes.  For her flower girl dresses, she chose matching Pegeen.com Style 398 in New Ivory and Sprite green.

Chocolate brown and ivory silk Jr. Bridesmaids Dresses by Pegeen.com

Pegeen's Chocolate brown and ivory silk Jr. Bridesmaids Dresses by Pegeen.com

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Pegeen.com Announces their Wedding of the Year

January 10th, 2009 by Pegeen.com | No Comments | Filed in Aqua/Tiffany Weddings, Communion Dresses, Flower Girl Dresses, Pink Weddings, Tulle dresses, Wedding TIPS
Tiffany Blue Flower Girl Dresses of the Year

As you know, every month. at Pegeen.com we highlight a new Wedding of the Month and highlight one of our favorite weddings as the Flower Girl Dress of the year and it was difficult to find anything as lovely as last year’s Wedding of the Year. The flower girl dress of the year was a beautiful silk in New Ivory with a Cinderella Bow in the back of Tiffany Blue and covered with two layers of tulle. While we were making the dress at our factory, all of the girls would oh and ah at its beauty.  Melissa, our bride, had 4 flower girls, one ring bearer in a matching outfit of knickers, silk shirt and silk vest in Tiffany Blue and her junior bridesmaid had a lovely Tiffany Blue Silk dress with a matching Ivory Bustle.  When her pictures came on her CD ( we ask our brides to send in photos of the children in our creations after their event is over) we couldn’t get over how beautiful the wedding looked, so we named her our first Flower Girl Dress Wedding of the Year.

Pegeen 2009 Flower Girl Dress of the Year

Pegeen 2009 Flower Girl Dress of the Year

This year our decision was really difficult to make because we had an array of over 1300 weddings to choose from and narrowing it down was impossible. (more…)

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