Weddingbee Blog

Back in December, right before New Year’s, I got a very exciting, totally unexpected call that my dress had arrived! (I had been told to expect it in February!) Originally, when I had imagined receiving this phone call, I pictured myself hurrying to the dress shop to be reunited with my dress! Instead, I spent almost two weeks walking right past the store with Mr. Turtle on our way for some morning coffee, often saying things like, “How weird is it that my wedding dress is sitting right through those doors?” Or, “Hi wedding dress, I’ll see you soon!” Sigh…

The reunion had to wait, because there was just one important detail holding me back. To go try on my dress for the first time, I had to bring my shoes! And sadly, I had none. (Well, technically I have tons of shoes, but not the shoes!) I hadn’t bought any yet because I was supposed to have a couple more months, right?

So the shoe search began!

As much as they tempt me in every bridal store with cute little sparkly white heels, I’ve known from the beginning that I want to wear pink shoes! Like, amazing, cutest-shoes-I’ve-ever-seen-in-my-life pink shoes. I’m normally not the kind of girl who splurges on crazy designer shoes, but my original thought process was, ’If I’m going to wear a pair of Christian Louboutins, Jimmy Choos, or Manolo Blahniks in my life, wouldn’t my wedding day be the day?’

These were my first love:

Designer: Christian Louboutin, Style: Mount Street

I’d been checking in on them on various department store websites for months, even going so far to stalk them in other peoples’ weddings.

Photo source: Style Me Pretty

But one day, I went to admire them, just like any other day, and they were gone! Disappeared! Nowhere to be found except eBay, and as much as I love eBay, these shoes were a lot of money to spend with a chance that they might be fake, dirty, or who knows? Plus, if I’m going to splurge, I definitely want the whole fancy shoe buying experience! Guess they weren’t meant to be…

Aside from my beloved pink, petal-y Louboutins, I could not find another shoe by a premium designer that I even liked in pink. Seriously, try to find light pink shoes right now. Is pink out of style this season or what? I decided that I would have to save this purchase for another life milestone…

I casually began browsing the shoe section of all of my usual favorite stores. These are some of the contenders I found:

“Crystal Kaleidoscope Slingbacks” at J.Crew

“Starla Pumps” at J.Crew

“Randee” by Badgley Mischka

“Micha” by Bourne

And then, Christian Louboutin came out with these two beauties in pink, but honestly, I wasn’t sold on either of them for the wedding. As much as I’m dying to wear those fuchsia glitter pumps, they just do not go with my wedding day look:

Oh decisions, decisions… but at least shoes are fun! Soon, (I promise!), I’ll tell you about the next step in my search for my wedding day shoes!

Did you decide to splurge on a designer pair of shoes for your wedding? Did you end up finding something you loved? How was the buying experience?