Wedding Shoes

Shoes, I love shoes.  I have at least 30 pairs of shoes at home (excluding climbing, hiking, snow sport shoes).  Due to the limited space in our apartment, I have to cut down my love for shoes.  I haven't shopped for shoes as much, plus I have become older and lazier, so I don't wear all the beautiful high heels anymore.

The wedding gave me an execuse to shop for shoes.  Choosing a pair of bridal shoes can't be as unconditional as my usual love for shoes.  I have reached out my best friend, Google, and found some tips on bridal shoes hunting.  However, I disagreed with most of the choosing criteria, such as material, matching with the dress, wedding style and wedding venue.  The only thing I really considered was comfort.   I didn't really consider the material or matching the wedding dress, because I figure my dress are long enough to cover them, so they are not likely to be seen, also I don't really like the traditional bridal shoes.  My original ideal was to go for something contemporary like this http://onefabday.com/add-a-splash-of-colour-fun-wedding-shoes/.   Ok, I know it sounds contradicting already, if I do not care weather the wedding dress match the shoes because the dress will cover the shoes, then why do I care how they look.  Let me try to explain this, I think wearing a pair of funky bright coloured shoes with a fancy princess ball gown dress walking down the aisle would really destroy the fairy tale scene.  And I believe that's why a lot of people want to make sure they wear proper white bridal shoes.  However, I am not planning to show my shoes except when we are doing informal photo shoot.   I would really like to add a bit of creativity and funkiness to our photo, therefore I wanted to go for a pair of nice bright colour shoes (they can be hidden under the skirt when we are pretending to be all formal and mature :P).  But I really dislike satin shoes and it was really hard to find bright coloured leather shoes.  Also I have convinced myself that I don't need another pair of shoes that I am likely to just store them but not wear them ever again.

So I took on my friend Cynthia's suggestions and looked for trendy nude colour high heels.  The advantage of wearing nude coloured high heels is if I am to wear anything shows my legs and feet, because of the continuity of the same colour tone of my skin and the shoes, it would create an illusion of longer legs :)  Although my dress is not going to show my legs, but I do think that's a nice advantage if I ever want to wear those shoes again with other clothes.  The other advantage I have recently discovered was that my dress was a little tiny bit too short, but with nude colour shoes, they still seem hidden under the dress, I can't hardly notice them. 

It doesn't sound right that I want comfort but I want to wear a pair of high heels.  The reason behind this is due the my unfortunate height.  My maid of honor Conny has strong suggested that my shape would be more flattering with high heels, plus she is not used to wearing flats, and she doesn't want to look too much taller than me when standing right beside me.  From my past experience, I have to say I don't believe any high heels are ever comfortable, all I can say is there are some, that are less uncomfortable.  Nine West high heels are the least uncomfortable ones in my opinion.  After all the thinking, last weekend I bought a pair of Nine West nude coloured high heels.  They are not exactly designed for long standing, so I will also shop for another pair of wedge flip flops (like this http://www.weddingfactorydirect.com/ivsehiweflfl.html), in case I can't stand for those high heels after a few hours of standing and walking around.

Here are some pictures of my new shoes.  I will have to spend the next few months walking around the house in them to stretch them out and practice to walk with good posture.