My Lust For: Shoes

I'm a girl.  This much we know.  And what do most girls love?  Shoes!  And Bags (but bags don't really feature in weddings so Shoes it is....)

I have a reasonably sized collection of shoes at home, whether or not they fit me and whether or not I can walk in them is another matter, but I love shoes.  Maybe it is a bit of a fetish, I just like looking at them, the heels, the straps, the sparkle.  My desk calendar at work is a pair of shoes a day.

So it was always a bit inevitable that my wedding shoes were going to be something of a priority.  However, there are some teeny stipulations attached to my wedding shoes.  They have to have a chunky-ish heel - I'm getting married in a barn, we're having drinks by the lake, stiletto's will just sink into the grass.  Plus, I'm crap in heels - I look like a baby elephant when I'm wearing heels, a bit too large and unsteady, so I tend not to wear them often.  When I do, I feel embarrassed because I feel like I'm lumbering (hhmmmm, need to work on these confidence issues!)

Secondly, and more importantly, they have to look FIERCE!  That's to say, I think they should probably be sparkly, and possibly be purple.  If I get my way, and do actually have the tea length dress I so desire, then the shoes are going to be on show, and that, my friends, is why they have to look amazeballs!

I spotted on the Bonfire Night Bride blog that she had vajazzled (yes, yes I know it's the wrong term, but quite frankly, it works in any context where fake sparkles are applied to something usually unsparkly....) a pair of Schuh heels with crystals (See Here).  So, with this in mind, I figured, I'll buy a plan pair of shoes and vajazzle them.

I saw these in a magazine and figured, hmm, they might work, plus, at only £22, it doesn't matter if a mess it up!  I figured I could buy purple crystals for the heel and toe and get a purple ribbon instead of white.  Perfect.

Olga heels - BHS - £22

The problem was, they only go up to a size 7, and I have such wide feet that I tend to take an 8 in most things (why I don't just declare I'm a size 8 I'll never know!)  So I went to try them on, and quite frankly, they were fugly.  They were a bit of a squeeze for a start and they just made my ankles look a bit massive.  No thank you.

Moving swiftly on.  I had a look at good old Schuh to see if they had anything.  I know they're a huge stockist of Irregular Choice and I love their shoes (even though their wedding ones are a bit plain by Irregular Choice standards)

I had been eyeing these for a while, I love the heel on them and being purple I figured they were perfect.  I really like these, although, they're not sparkly....

Oz Cant Touch This - Irregular Choice at Schuh - £80

Oz Cant Touch This - Irregular Choice at Schuh - £80

Then, when browsing the Schuh site I saw these:

Oz Smooch - Irregular Choice at Schuh - £80

Oz Smooch - Irregular Choice at Schuh - £80

Oz Smooch - Irregular Choice at Schuh - £80

I mean, HOW amazing are they?  They have the purple heel, the glitter, and the sundae on the front - C'est Maqnifique!  I'll have to try them on, but, hmm, we might have a winner!  Plus Irregular Choice are normally pretty wide and fit nicely.

For the evening I had started to think I was going to NEED some flat shoes.  I had considered just getting a pair of flip flops but where's the fun in that?  I'd stumbled across Star Sparkles last year and thought they pretty much rocked.  I'm a Converse lover, having broken them in properly they're just brilliant (although they do make a farty noise when your feet get sweaty, just me, oh, err, okay....)

So I'm thinking I might buy a pair of Converse Oxfords in purple and vajazzle those.

Converse Ox Lo - Schuh - £37

And I might also vajazzle a pair for both my bridesmaids to wear in the evening.

So, there you go, I'm sure I'll find more shoe-y loveliness to share with you before the wedding as, being a girl, I'm allowed to change my mind!