The Northern Bride: shoes

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Wedding Shoes - Rainbow Liliana

I've originally thought that finding shoes will be the most easy thing of all and that wedding dress will be the most hard thing to find. But actually everything went totally in a wrong way. (I will tell about me finding wedding dress later on with final pictures of it, but now the shoes time) Originally i thought that i would have some normal shoes that i can actually wear after the wedding. I even buy a pair of shoes before went dress shopping but i couldn't wear them as the heel was too high for my wedding dress. And then the closer and closer our wedding was the less and less i wanted normal shoes and more and more wanted something that would fit my wedding dress. After all the searches i found Rainbow Liliana shoes.

I fall in love with them immediately, but there were non for sale in our city and i was worried to order shoes online. I knew the store ( Morsiusateljee Katariina ) from where i got my dress and veil had other Rainbow shoes so i went there and asked for help. The amazing girls in that bridal store helped me out and ordered this shoes just for me and last Friday i finally got them home! Here are my beloved, the most amazing looking shoes in the whole world <3

I usually wear size 41 European shoes and this were just the right size in 41 European / 8UK. They are incredibly comfortable to walk in. Shoes came with 2 pairs of ties. The plush velvet and floaty organza ones. I personally like the velvet ones the most.

With velvet ties

The lower picture is with organza ties. The one negative part about organza ties is that the ends are not finished. So if the ends are not burned or closed in some other way they will start to open up and fast ( as my own started to open right away after i put them in the shoes). I was little surprised about this as this shoes are not cheap and i expected them to be in top condition at every part. But in the end fixing ends are not such a big deal.

This vintage and even Victorian looking shoes have hand beaded embroidered tulle and elegant round nose. I had difficulty in finding shoes that would not have a sharp nose. My foot is narrow and long, and sharp nose shoes make my foots look like I'm wearing a skis :) I don't know about you, but it somehow felt like most of the wedding shoes still have this sharp nose. Luckily for me not all of them! Aren't they amazing! <3

Oh and almost forgot. This shoes come with beautiful organza traveling bag as well <3

If you are curious about my bridal look, this shoes give some clues of what to expect :)

Katherine

PS. Sorry for bad photos. Our camera is old and starting to work badly... buying a new one after the wedding ^^

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Wedding Shoes - Part 1

I never thought that wedding shoes will actually be the most stressing thing in my bridal look! I expected to have huge difficulty in finding a dress, deciding on my hairstyle and flowers. But no, those all went so easily and smooth. And the shoe dilemma came. I actually had couple of shoes in my mind before i went to find a wedding dress and when i fall in love with the wedding dress, and then found out that all the shoes i wanted - had too high heel. I never consider myself very tall only 172 cm ( 5'8" ), so it came as a surprise for me that i can wear shoes not higher than 7 - 7,5 cm ( 3 3/4 inches) with my wedding dress. I don't know about bridal stores in your cities, but here it seems that all the wedding shoes are mostly 8 - 12 cm ( about 3-5 inches ).

So what a bride like me should do ? I do not want to cut my dress shorter and wear flats and i can't add extra inch to my wedding dress... This bride decided to try find something in the wild wild web :) And i found Minna Parikka white shoes and was so extremely happy as they were said to be about 7,5 cm heel. So i ordered them...

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But when they came here i found a huge disappointment.. I actually shouldn't be so surprised as the heel does look kinda high even tho online store said that heel is about 7,5 cm. But when they came i measured the heel and it was actually about 10 cm ( 4 inch ). I thought i would cry when i measured.. they were so adorable :( But anyway i need to start searching for some other shoes and hope that the heel height will be accurate this time. Honestly I'm little scared that i won't find what i like and in right height :(

This ones i consider now from Brandos

I like this style a lot. I think they would compliment my wedding dress really well. If something critical to say, is that I'm not sure that the fabric and the quality in this shoes will be good. But you won't know if you won't try. Was it so ?

One of the most cute looking shoes I've ever seen! Totally bridal looking, but they are showing toes, and I'm not too happy to show them. But yeah i love this ones !

No so sure about this shoes. There just something that doesn't let me right away to say " Yes those i want!". But as the wedding day coming closer and closer i decided to try be less critical and just try things. Who knows, maybe they will look stunning when i see them life, and they have the best heel height. If i can trust any website and their heel height measurements anymore :)

Not sure about wearing sandals and showing my toes. Then again i think this shoes could definitely wear after the wedding as well, which is an important part in my mind. The flower "diamond" decoration is really beautiful.