Every woman wants to look like a star on her wedding day, but let's face it: it isn't enough to look great, you also have to feel great. After all, how much fun will you really have if your feet are killing you from wearing a painful pair of shoes? These are some ideas for comfortable wedding shoes that will feel as good as they look.
This is a great season for comfortable stylish shoes. Pointy toes are less common, and rounded toes are back in style. Hooray for happy toes with room to move! Cute little flats are also very much in fashion, so if you choose a darling little pair of round toed flats for your wedding, you will be both incredibly comfortable and incredibly stylish. White flats are certainly available from bridal shoe designers, but there are so many fun designs available this season from non-bridal designers, that you might wish to consider branching out from white. A sparkly pair of silver flats would look fabulous on the bride who is wearing a silver embellished gown and crystal bridal jewelry.
1.
Try out several pairs of shoes. Don't just walk around the shoe store in a potential pair of bridal shoes for 30 seconds. Buy those likely candidates and plan to wear them shopping, or on some other occasion when you'll be on your feet most of the time. If they hurt, try another style. Don't worry about how they look--you can always change that, which means you're free to pay special attention to flats, ballet slippers and other classically comfortable styles.
2
Tweak the color. If the shoes you decide on are not the exact same color as your dress, you can, in a limited way, change that. Black leather shoes cannot be dyed white, but white leather shoes can be tinted ivory, and white satin or cotton shoes can be carefully dyed any color you want.
3
Add personal touches. If there is lace on your wedding dress, find some lace that matches or complements it and sew it around the opening of each shoe. If your dress is covered with seed pearls, glue some into the lace. A big satin bow on the back of your dress can be echoed by a big satin bow sewn or glued to the toe of your ever-so-comfortable bridal shoe. Recreate the "theme" of your dress on your shoes for a uniform yet pain-free ensemble.