Top Tips for Brides: Choosing Your Wedding Shoes

Karen has a guest blog post on choos­ing your wed­ding shoes this morn­ing. So with­out fur­ther ado here are some expert tips on when to buy your wed­ding shoes, which heel heights to select, choos­ing the per­fect colour, shoe dye­ing, cost, sea­sonal footwear and more. Hope you like it!

Top tips for choos­ing your wed­ding shoes — a guest blog

Nina’s wed­ding shoes per­fectly fit­ted the roman­tic and clas­sic style of her wed­ding to Lee. Click to see their Lum­ley Cas­tle wed­ding — photo credit Simon Hud­speth Photography

When to buy your wed­ding shoes

It is essen­tial to have your shoes ready for your final dress fit­ting to ensure the height of the dress can be altered to suit the heel height of your shoes.

Wed­ding shoes heel height

Remem­ber you will be wear­ing your shoes for a long time all day and for danc­ing the night away so it is impor­tant to wear a heel that is comfortable.

You most def­i­nitely don’t want to be tot­ter­ing down the aisle on heels you can’t walk in, so if you are used to wear­ing a flat style then it is not a good idea to think you will be able to wear a 3 inch heel all day.

Mea­sure a heel height on one of your favorite shoes you know are com­fort­able, this way you will have a height you know you can wear.

Inso­lia are also a great lit­tle insole which are usu­ally found in some Marks and Spencer shoes. They make you feel like you are wear­ing a lower heel.

The cost of your wed­ding shoes

There are so many styles avail­able to meet all wed­ding bud­gets. If you are wear­ing a longer dress then the shoes will not be on show all day but you can still have some sparkle by hav­ing just the toes decorated.

A more afford­able shoe might be good if you are on a tight bud­get and there are some super styles around that won’t break the bank.

If you are wear­ing a shorter dress then push the boat out and go for a show stop­ping style!

Wed­ding shoes — choos­ing the right colour

If you are going to visit the shops for your shoes make sure you take a color swatch of your dress with you; your bridal shop should be able to give you a sample.

Ask what the shop’s return pol­icy is so you have enough time to try the shoes on with your dress.

Con­sider dif­fer­ent lights: nat­ural and arti­fi­cial light can make shoes appear lighter or darker.

Wed­ding shoes you can dye are a great option espe­cially if you dress is more creamy or cham­pagne. It’s pos­si­ble to send them into a color stu­dio to have them dyed to match your actual swatch.

Dye­able wed­ding shoes

Invest in a pair of dye­able wed­ding shoes as these can also be dyed after your wed­ding to a more ser­vice­able color so you can wear them for many years to come.

Treat your feet for peep toe shoes.

A won­der­ful pedi­cure will give your feet a real treat. Soft smooth skin and pas­tel painted nails look gor­geous in peep toe shoes espe­cially for a sum­mer wed­ding. When pro­fes­sion­ally done they can even last through your whole honeymoon.

Con­sider the weather!

Con­sider the time of year or wed­ding loca­tion as this will affect the style of shoes you can buy. In the win­ter a wed­ding boot or even white Welling­tons will come in handy when trav­el­ling to and from the church and for photos.

Some fun fur lined boots are great for the air­port as they can be detailed with Just Mar­ried on the back! A wedge shoe is great for out­door wed­dings to stop heels sink­ing into the ground or sand.

For for­eign cli­mates white or ivory san­dals or even flip flops with crys­tals are very pop­u­lar and allow your feet to breathe when hot.

There are a won­der­ful range of fun his and hers “Just mar­ried” flip flops avail­able. These leave a just mar­ried imprint in the sand. Cute!

Karen Berring­ton writes for www.perditasweddingshoes.co.uk