Wedding Shoes ... the search ends

 

Tonight, I met up with a former colleague for dinner at the Yellow Porch in the 100 Oaks area. I had a wonderful time! Its always good catching up with friends.

Afterwords, I dropped into TJ Maxx and found my wedding shoes! The VERY thing that I have been searching for! Closed, round toe, shiny but not satin, a color matching my "pearl" colored wedding dress, small heel height and budget friendly. I love me some Liz Claiborne!

I walked around the store in two sizes before I took one of them home with me. For $29.99, even if they didn't "match", it would be okay, right? They just happen to be a perfect match. I have several ideas for "customizing" them other than my "shoe bling" (see picture on right), so look for updates.

Happy Thursday!

Wedding Shoes ... the search continues

I've had many ideas about shoes and I've decided that it ultimately does not matter. Really. I've never had $200 shoes and I don't plan on starting now.*

Several months ago, I jumped the gun and ordered some adorable RSVP brand shoes from Zappos.com. I love their website and the ease of returning an order at no charge to me, which I had to do because those lovelies didn't fit. Sniffle.

Somewhere along the way, possibly after actually purchasing a wedding dress, it occured to me that "tea dying" shoes to closely match my dress color and adding my fabulous vintage clip earrings would do quite nicely. The earrings are my "something(s) blue" and my first wedding-related purchase (from Etsy, of course!)

Tonight, I ordered these Touch Ups dyeable shoes in Flash. Fingers crossed!

*trivia for you: $1.00 donated to Second Harvest Food Bank will purchase 5 lbs of food that is distributed to needy families. A pair of $100 shoes would provide 500 lbs of food. That's pretty incredible. Not saying you should give your money away and go bare footed down the aisle. We are having a food drive at work and I've been giving it a lot of thought.


**EDIT: The shoes came on Monday 14. They didn't work. I'll try again! :)

Wedding Shoes Update

Alas, it is not meant to be. My shoes arrived today and my excitement was quickly snuffed out by the fact that my foot is too wide for the shape of the shoes. This happens sometimes. I'm disappointed, but at least I know now that they are not for me and that I should only consider a medium height heel ... after I find my dress.

Too Cute Wedding Shoes

I ordered these lovely shoes this morning from Zappos.com. I love their free shipping! I’ve had my eye on these for quite some time now, and while they are on sale, I couldn’t resist. I have nothing to loose with a 365-day return policy. I hope the combination of the frill and my shoe clips aren’t too much.

Something Blue

My something blue arrived yesterday! I purchased these beautiful pearl and blue rhinestone vintage earrings for $15 from {Pattycake's Plunder} on {Etsy}

I intend to clip these little guys onto a plain pair of shoes to match my wedding dress. Plus, I'm positive that less elaborate shoes will be less expensive and mine will be one of a kind with my little blue earrings.