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

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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A panicked bride called me this morning at 7.30am as I happened to be in the office early – (first day of school for my kids …yeah) to pick up her call.

She was beside herself: not only had the bridal store left her high and dry without her flower girl dresses for the kids in the wedding but she was worried that the poly satin dresses she had ordered would have been too hot for the girls anyhow. HELLO. What August wedding doesn’t average a sweltering 1000 degrees, especially when its your wedding?

Pegeen's Keylime green and navy flower girl dresses by Pegeen.com

I will never forget being a Jr. bridesmaid at my Aunt’s August 23rd wedding about 100 years ago. I wore this horrible thing made of polyester which at the time was quite hip to wear and I know I complained constantly to my mother who was melting in her ensemble as well. Being a little “dressmaker” myself (I learned to sew making Barbie clothes and progressed to matching outfits for myself by 3rd grade), I knew (I am saying this in my best Scarlett O’Hara voice) that I would never wear polyester again. (more…)

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I started my company in March of 1982, appropriately given the Irish name of Pegeen, with the assistance of my mother,  Joan.  Sadly and with great heartache, my mother passed away this month.  Mom suffered from Alzheimer’s  and my company will not be the same without her encouragement and taste.  I love you Mom.

For all of you who remember the two of us working together at the trade shows in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas, I am sure you will miss her strong presence and charm like I do.  Mom helped me at so many of the shows, tirelessly.  Once, an editor wrote a story about us at Pegeen and included an appropriate description of her: Spry and energetic.  Donations in remembrance of Mrs. Hyland can be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation, 322 Eighth Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001

We are also so pleased to present our latest Wedding of the Month for March.  This is a special month for me, as it represents 27 years of business for us here at Pegeen.com®  when I started our company.  This months wedding highlight is a wedding in Ireland.  Our bride chose style 345 for her girls, in Grass Green and Grape and for the ring bearer, a white silk suit in style 215.  They purchased a matching silk ring bearer pillow. Venue: The Ardenode Country House Hotel www.ardenodehotel.com Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare 045 864198

Pegeen's Flower girl dresses & Ring Bearer Suit by Pegeen.com® PHOTOGRAPHY Nigel Gillis l www.gillisphoto.ie

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