Every woman in her wedding day feels like princess from some herself beloved and well known childhood fairytale. But will the glass slippers be right choice; won’t they gnaw and make unwanted difficulties?
It is not important whether you will wear glass slippers or sneakers, bridegroom will adore you anyway, however, if you want just positive emotions in your wedding day and feel comfortable in your shoes, let’s find answers to our interested questions: what kind of shoes to choose and how to mach them with your gala dress?
Shoes choice often is left at the last moment, however, it is not required to derogate it’s importance – we do well know, how difficult is to smile, when your shoes are cruelly “worked” your feet. Besides, nowadays, shoes have become so magnificent that pretty often we can put them on the same level as bijouterie, which make chic to common image of bride.
One of the most important things is successfully choosing your shoes – if your feet will be happy, so will you.
First of all, searching shoes must start with definition, what kind of style the shoes will be appropriate to your dress and how high heels you want to wear. Secondly, you can’t forget about comfort. Finally, you need to have some idea, where to find these visionary shoes.
What kind of shoes to choose?
Criteria, which you need to bear in mind
Even if in wedding day you will have dress, which beautifully will drape down, your shoes will be visible every time you move, and that is why you better don’t choose shoes which you don’t think are very beautiful.
To find appropriate shoes to your wedding day, you need to think about following issues:
• where will the wedding ceremony take place?
• what is dictated style of your dress?
• how to mach dress color with shoes color?
• what kind of shoes you prefer everyday and what kind of shoes you hate?
Place of celebration.
If you are planning to celebrate your wedding on the beach or in the house garden, shoes with pointed heels will be wrong choice, because that kind of shoes can immerse in ground and you can fall. More suitable choice would be low pumps or sandals that will fit with the place atmosphere.
Quite the opposite, if you decide to celebrate your wedding on town rocks, high pointed heels will mark out your elegance.
Shoes and dress harmony.
You have already chosen your wedding dress of suitable style for you. You are looking at your dress and trying to define what kind of accessories will suit. Close your eyes; slowly dance along mirror and daydream.
If chosen dress, for example, is with century’s ancient undertone – corset, magnificent gathered lower part – then you also need shoes with ancient accent like shoes with ties and 3-4 cm high heel.
Dress color.
To find the same whiteness shoes as dress can be relatively complicated problem, besides you will have to choose among cloth – leather, satin or silk.
If you have chosen bridal dress from other color cloth, you have 3 possibilities:
• to find shoes that are in the same color
• to play game of contrasts
• to cover shoes with the same cloth what dress are made of or just paint them
Anyway, when you are shopping, if it is possible, take cloth pattern from your dress with you, it will help to find best coloring.
What kind of style shoes is suitable for wedding dress?
Styles of shoes.
What kind of shoes are you wearing everyday? Closed or open shoes? With pointed or round toe? It is important to trust your taste; it can help you to choose appropriate things.
Pumps without or with low heels.
It is right choice for short dress. That kind of shoes were popular in the 50s, that is why that kinds of shoes will mach with dress that is made affected from this time.
Pumps without heels will absolutely mach with bohemian style dress. Pumps will be right choice for light, feathery, a little gipsy style dress, they will make feet look natural, even make a little bit wild, bare feet impression.
Sandals.
Sandals with heels are most common choice for summer, they won’t be right choice only if person, who is wearing shoes don’t think that their feet are beautiful enough.
Sandals will be right choice for simple and natural dress.
Shoes with low heels will make you look natural; they will mach with simple wedding dress, which will be chosen for wedding day in open air and in countries.
Sandals will be great choice for half long dress.
Open sandals will look great with not so long dress, they can let interest to see bride’s legs and feet, at the same time you can express your confidence and natural qualities.
Shoes with double-sole.
This is the right choice for long dresses.
Double-sole shoes biggest lack is that visually they make dress wearer look heavier, not just because sole is doubled and heavy, but also because very often that kind of shoes are with round toe. If you want to look taller, feel comfortable and if your dress is long enough to cover up your shoes chose double-sole shoes.
This is right choice for brides that decide to wear 40s style costume.
That kind of shoes was popular in postwar period, especially with costume. It will be appropriate if you decide to register your wedding in registry office, wearing tight jacket and knee-length skirt.
Pumps.
Pumps are most popular shoes type – they will be suitable for everything and everyone!
Pumps don’t go out of fashion; it will fit to every kind of dresses – princess dress, fashionable dress, long and short attire.
It is chic and classical type of shoes.
Pumps with medium high heels and with round toe will make you look chic and discreet and will mark out dress lines.
Pumps are fashionable and sexy type of shoes.
If you want to make that kind of effect, you need to choose pumps with pointed heels and toe. If you choose that kind of shoes, you take a risk to be men’s mumbo-jumbo and you will have deuced womanly look.
T-strap sandals.
That kind of shoes will be great choice for autumn and winter seasons, they will be great compromises for always popular pumps with their closed toe.
It is elegant and original solution with costume.
Thanks to their middle sandal and high heels, that kind of shoes will make costume more womanly and not so classic like pumps do.
Shoes like T-strap sandal will fit with structured dress and also with dress made of heavy cloth. These are the shoes that leave impression that they can fit with light and feathery attire, they will accent it.
Boots.
In winter season, elegant, white or other color boot will do two functions at a time: they will keep you warm and make you look exclusive and womanly. You won’t have to worry about tights toes look neatly in boots and not about tights from sliding up, and then shoes won’t lift up when you will walk. It is very advisable to choose boots with laces that will make elegant look.
Boots will be right choice for winter bride and also for those who will choose ancient style dress. They will mach with magnificent corset and gathered skirt and will make impression that you are from Marie Antoinette’s or Queen Victoria’s court.
That kind of shoes often can find in package with fashionable bride dress. For example, boots wear with short, modern and tight dress. Laces can be observable, traditional white or lacy and give special accent for bride dress.
How high heels to choose?
High heels.
This is the sexiest and most risky choice for your wedding day.
Major part of bridal dresses is long and full, high heels will help you to hold back straight. It will make you look slim and refined. Unfortunately, spend all day on high heels can be difficult and painful challenge. If you still want to spend all day in footwear, take off them in any possibility. Shoes with high heels more then any other is important to ease before wedding day for feeling the best in your determinant day….and maybe even to escape from bride thief.
4-5 high heels.
If you don’t want to torture yourself that can be the best variant and sensible choice. That high heel will help you to stretch height, but at the same time you don’t have to worry about loosing balance. You will maybe “survive” in that kind of shoes until celebration end never pull off them.
Shoes without heels.
That kind of shoes is right choice for you if you are longer than your bridegroom or just don’t like shoes with heels. Simple shoes without heels can be graceful and stylish. Since this pattern is very popular among casual shoes, you will find yourself natural pair without difficulties.
Double sole.
Shoes with double sole return to fashion – bear it in mind!
You will have to practice how to successful and convincing take steps if you never before wear that kind of shoes.
If you will step into these shoes, you won’t want to put them off. It is very easy to walk ever run in these shoes…besides you will “grow” in these shoes for 10-12 cm.
Comfort – important thing!
Don’t forget that comfort exists and you will increase your pleasure with that.
To get comfort:
• you have to ease your new shoes on home condition
• if you choose shoes with high heals predict backup variant or another shoes pair that will make you eel comfortably or double shoes that will let you spend all day without suffering.
• prefer greater, more stable and more comfortable shoes heels
• if you have closed shoes you have to wear socks or tights or you risk to have bunions after dance night
Where to find your shoes?
Shoes shop / Market
Probably every one of us has favorite shoes shop where you can start search for your shoes. If you can’t find anything pleasing there, you go to big supermarket, where greet new open space and maybe you will find something suitable for wedding day there.
Frequently brides don’t want to spend a lot of money for shoes, they have expenses enough, and besides white dress shoes often see society just once in lifetime – in wedding day – after that we put them into box and place into wardrobe’s farer corner. If you see the same “scenario”, you can go to market direction and view new offer of this public place that offers more friendly prices.
Salons for weddings.
If you don’t want to spend time walking through shoes shops and search for something suitable from wide choice of shoes, you can go straight to special wedding salon that offers not just dresses and different accessory, but also shoes for your special day.
Primary advantage is that you can try on dress and shoes at the same time and see how they mach. You can try on different model until you find the best. In this variant sellers, salon consultants will give you expert opinion, they see bride not for the first time!
If you don’t find expected there, than you can find some idea from wedding salon catalogues for make searching easier and realize what you really looking for.
Catalogues / Internet shops
What to do if you don’t have time for shopping and it makes headache and torture? You can try different possibilities and look through some catalogue of goods. (Quelle, Anttila, Hobby Hall) that offers you to deliver goods by mail.
Another choice is to use internet shop service to order shoes. If you find some variant in one of foreign sheets, for example, www.victoriassecrets.com, you need to take account that in different countries shoes size is marked with different numerals.
Besides you need to pay attention to delivery date that is mention on sheet.
Shoes to order.
If you plan something exclusive that is very hard to find in store shelves or it is difficult to find shoes because of your specific feet (very broad feet, big size feet), than you need to turn to shoes workshop, where is possible to make shoes to order.
Shoes at fashion artist.
You can consult about attire’s appropriate shoes model and interesting performance to fashion artists, maybe your shoes lack some flower or decor that will make your shoes unique and special…..just like you are!
