Weddingbee Blog

I’m going to be in a wedding in May, and this is the dress we maids will be wearing.

[I’m not either of the bodies in the picture above; no one gets to see my dress on me until I have it altered to fit my, um, extreme height difference and smaller bust.]

Anyway, that’s the dress. (The bride, by the way, is wearing a short dress, too. It’ll be a sassy soiree for sure!) The bride has requested that we choose our own shoes (thank you, bride!), but they should be pink ballet flats to match the dress. I figured that since we’re getting in to springtime, you Weddingbee girls might appreciate seeing some of the options for pink flats I have found.

My first find was these Anne Klein Iota flats at endless.com.

(Pic is from Endless, at the link above.)

They match the dress really well, and the bride liked them too. But $80 for a shoe I probably wouldn’t wear very often? Hmm. I thought I might be able to find something more reasonable.

Next, I found these Nine West Vipin flats at Zappos.

(Pic is from Zappos, at the link above.)

The price was a little better, at $68, and the muted color is something I’d be more likely to wear again. However, it also didn’t really match the dress. The bride was OK with them, but she echoed my concern about them not matching very well. So, I tabled them and kept on looking.

Through some google searching for an elusive J Crew option, I ended up at Amazon.com looking at these Merona Madalena flats.

(Pic is from Amazon, at the link above.)

You can hardly beat $20! They come in several colors, too - search them out! Despite their slightly purple tone, I was ready to order the Madalenas. I was a little worried about comfort, but they were cheap, and the dress has a little purple in it anyway so the shoe wouldn’t really clash.

And then I found these at DSW.com: the Leeza Flower Flat, which are b-o-c by Born.

(Pic is from DSW, at the link above.)

The price was alright at $40, the color was great, and how cute is the little flower embellishment? I emailed the link to the bride, and she was on board. Ordered! (I don’t have them yet, so no photo of them on me, sorry!)

The really cool thing about many of the shoe websites out there is that they will let you search by color and size. Color family narrows it down a lot, obviously. And I wear a pretty common size (9.5/10), so I almost always tell the website to only return options that are in stock in my size. To me, there is nothing more frustrating than finding The Most Perfect Shoe Evah only to learn that my big ol’ foot won’t fit in it. (Of course, if I find an option that’s out of stock in my size, I will always Google like crazy to find another store with it in stock.)

Obviously, I am really happy that the bride let us pick our own shoes. I am a shoe-loving girl, but I have sensitive feet. I was a little wary about the Merona flats because Target’s shoes are often foot-cutters/blister givers. One of the other ’maids found a shoe for $8 a while back, and there was just no way my poor feet were going to be able to deal with that. I have several ’no fail’ brands I like (Anne Klein, Nine West, and Born being among them) and really appreciate the freedom to be able to choose my own shoe from those brands (based on color/style guidelines from the bride, of course). I also have the freedom to spend as much or as little as I want. On the PiperLime site, I came across a $240 shoe that would have been just great with this BM dress. Not for me, but if one of the other maids wants to drop that much dough on their shoe, they could. Or they could spend $8. Or $80. Or in my case, $40. We all spent the same amount on our dresses, but it’s nice — as a ‘maid — to be partially in control of our own budgets for wedding attire.

Are you letting your ‘maids pick out their own shoe? Anyone rocking a pink flat?