How to Have the Wedding You Want by Christine Egan

Author:Christine Egan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2014-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

Taming of the Shoe

Once you’ve purchased a shoe with the right style, feel and price, do a little customizing if necessary. If the bottom is slick, try roughing it up with sandpaper. If that doesn’t give you enough traction for all types of floors, go to a shoemaker and have some thin rubber treading put on the sole, just under the ball of your foot. “But my beautiful, delicate shoes!” you say. “They’ll be ruined!” Do you want to dance or do you want to pose? Do you want to move freely, swanlike through the crowd, or do you want to inch tentatively, always keeping an eye out for the next available arm in the event of a wipeout?

Now comes the real time investment. Put Band-Aids on the backs of your ankles, where the shoe would otherwise burrow in and draw blood, don your shoes and go about your business. Do some stairs; this will bend the shoes and force them to conform to your foot a bit (and tone the quadriceps!). Wear them as much as you can around the house, so that on your wedding day, they’re your shoes, not a new pair of shoes. And if in the course of the breaking-in process you discover that you have purchased two deceptively attractive instruments of torture, get rid of them.

Try to return them, if you haven’t done any kind of major renovations. You know I am not one to waste money, but if the store won’t take them back and they’re simply killing you, put them in a box in the back of your closet, and make a mental note that when your next same-size friend gets married, you have some shoes she might want. Just because you bought them doesn’t mean you have to wear them. Now go buy a nice, comfy pair, and chalk it up to experience. But if you were honest with yourself in the shoe store, if you really “listened to your feet” (and that’s not easy for the less flexible among us), you should be able to make the shoes you purchased wearable enough so you spend only, say, half your wedding thinking about your aching feet.

Don’t forget to share this advice with your darling husband-to-be. It’s a wedding-related topic you can discuss without risk of fighting. (You: “Hey, honey, how are those shoes breaking in?” Him: “Great! Thanks for that tip. You’re the best!”)

Stocking Feats

You already know that you should have at least one extra pair of tights or panty hose handy, right? It’s a hot bridal magazine and blog topic. Aside from that, apply the shoe policy to your tights or panty hose purchase. A short dress requires you to find something pretty, but with a long dress, go with what’s most comfortable. Lisa decided to forgo tights or panty hose in favor of the ever-practical knee-highs. “I had a full-length gown, and I wasn’t going to do the garter thing,” she says. “I wore knee-highs because it was a hundred degrees out, but they also definitely facilitated going to the bathroom.

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