Weddingbee Blog

Since I finally have a dress I can love, it’s finally time to start thinking about my favorite accessory: shoes! (Who am I kidding: I’ve cared more about the shoes than the dress all along. )

I have a couple of color options, but it’s pretty of dependent on the color scheme I choose. I don’t have tons of stuff to color coordinate for my low key wedding, but I do have two pretty noticeable things: shoes and flowers.

My initial thought for my September wedding was to go for an orange bouquet. With my ensemble, I could wear white, but I’d rather wear a colored shoe. I’ve been less than successful at finding a lot of decent orange shoes at budget prices, but there are a few options out there. Remembering that my dress is bright white, the orange color scheme would give me something like this:

(sources: left, top center, top right, bottom center, bottom right)
Note: Since I know you’re going to want to know, these shoes are Cole Haan Air Ibeza Strap (top left) and A. Marinelli Tune (bottom right).

The other color palette I’ve been considering revolves around blue shoes.

I’m loving some of the blue shoes that are out there and I think they’d make a great “something blue”. The issue is that blue shoes don’t exactly mesh well with orange flowers when you’ve got no other colored elements to tie them together! So with this option, I’d have to switch up my flowers and go with something else (perhaps white). The result is something like this:

(sources: Left, top center, top right, bottom center, bottom right)
Note: The white and blue shoe is the Naughty Monkey Dream Weaver. The sandals are RSVP Nikki.

A bonus (an insignificant one, but a bonus just the same) to this blue color scheme is that my ring box, which I hope to use for the transport of our rings, has the bluish/teal detailing as well:

One annoying little thing I have to keep in mind when I’m choosing a color palette is the availability of flowers in the color I want. If I get my flowers at a florist, color won’t be an issue. I’m not picky about the type of flowers, so I know I could at least get a bouquet of white roses pretty easily at any florist. But if I get them at a grocery store, I may not be able to find an all-white bouquet. (I’ve been keeping an eye out, and I have consistently seen orange bouquets throughout the seasons.)

Maybe it’s time to buy some shoes and see how they look (and how they feel - I cannot stand an uncomfortable shoe!) with my dress.

Hive, help me out here.