Weddingbee Blog

Last weekend, my mom and I took care of all kinds of wedding-related activities, including posting an engagement announcement in my hometown paper, ordering a veil, ordering a crinoline, and….buying shoes!

I’m 5’9″, and Mr. Magnolia is 5’10″. He absolutely does not care whether I wear flats or 4″ heels, but for our wedding day (and yes, the sake of the pictures) I want to be my actual height.

(image courtesy of people.com. Seriously, y’all? She’s totally squatting in this picture.)

So began the search for the perfect flat wedding shoe. I’ve been looking at pictures online for what feels like forever, and I had decided on a few criteria:

1. No white

2. No ballet flat with the little bow

3. Peep toe, if possible

My mom decided early on that if I wasn’t going to purchase white ballet slippers, like she wore for my parents’ wedding over 30 years ago, then my shoes needed to be silver. End of story. I was open to other colors, but every one I picked up garnered an odd, scrunched-nose look. So, no big deal. I like silver.

I did quickly realize that peep toe flats do absolutely nothing to flatter my Size 9 feet. Every pair I tried on made me look like this:

(Cute, for a clown….but not what I’m going for on the big day!)

We did find several options of the closed toe variety, and these were the favorites:

(Gianni Bini’s Dorothy)

My mom absolutely loved these, which I tried on at Dillard’s. They were very cute, but they reminded me of slippers, which wasn’t exactly the look I was going for.

And then, we found these at Belk:

(Calvin Klein’s Suri)

I love these shoes. And yes, they’re the ones we ended up purchasing. They’re a little bit glam, very comfortable, and I can definitely wear them with jeans after the wedding. Score!