Weddingbee Blog

I love the heels I bought for our wedding, but I am under no illusion that I will be able to wear those suckers all night. I plan to dance, dance, dance at our reception and in order to do so, I will need to have something comfortable to slip into. I assumed that I would steal a pair early from our flip flop basket for my personal use and be done with it:

Our flip flop basket! (that I haven’t talked about before, so here are some more pictures)

I bought ours at the annual $1 flip flop day from Old Navy in May and stuck them in a wire basket Papa Pony had laying around.

They’re bound together with green rubber bands and I tied the sizes on with some twine.

At BM What’s Her Face’s wedding in July, the bridesmaids were gifted with a similar pretty pair of purple flip flops that I opted to wear at the reception. I loved having them to change into at the reception since my heels were ridiculously uncomfortable, but I quickly realized how difficult they were to dance in. I couldn’t slide and glide like I am used to. My moves were seriously impaired, which cannot happen at our wedding.

So, I started shopping for some reception flats that I could really dance in all night long. Naturally, I wanted to turn to the internet, but it is really difficult to know whether shoes will be able to move on the dance floor over the internet. I found several pairs that I liked in looks, but couldn’t commit not knowing whether the soles were what I wanted. I also found several pairs that I knew would be perfect for the dance floor because of their leather soles, but were more money than I really wanted to spend on reception shoes.

When shopping in Chicago a few weeks back, I came across a brand of shoes that I never heard of before that had the perfect sole and were super cute. Since they didn’t have my size at the store, I came home and ordered them online (and on super sale, score!).

I love that the name is written in green!

I’ve been breaking them in (by wearing them constantly) for the last two weeks and I know I made the perfect decision for dancing the night away at our reception!

Are you wearing flats for your reception? Was it important to you to be able to move on the dance floor with ease?