Zoe's Blessing Day

Today Zoe was blessed at church. This is an ordinance performed for new babies in the Church of Latter-Day Saints; similar to a christening, except that the infant is not baptized. The ordinance is used to declare what the child's name will be on the records of the Church, and to ask our Heavenly Father for special, specific blessings for the child.

Traditionally, babies are dressed in white when they are blessed, though it is not required. It's just kind of a fun opportunity for parents to see their little ones adorned in symbolic purity.

When I was pregnant with Zoe, I decided that if I had a girl, I would make her blessing dress out of my wedding dress.

   

I am NOT a seamstress.

Really.

So it was a risky project.

I used a tutorial online to make the bodice, and I came up with the skirt on my own using some functional pieces of my wedding dress. Here is the final result:

I was very happy with it. The sewing job wasn't perfect, but it was good enough to serve its purpose. 

Zoe's blessing was beautiful, and she was so sweet for her special day.

Even though cutting into my dress was absolutely terrifying, I'm so glad I did it. I didn't make Daisy's blessing dress, so I plan to make her a baptism dress out of my wedding dress. (And by that I mean "find someone else to make Daisy's baptism dress" because I? Have no desire to sew another dress as long as I live). By the time Daisy is baptized at age eight, my wedding dress will have been part of three very special and sacred life events. I can't think of anything better I could have done with it!