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Wedding Shoes for your Bridesmaid Distinct or Matching

What people love about planning their wedding is how free you are to make choices, to have things the way you want. Yet, one of the most complex problem about planning a wedding is how overwhelming that huge range of choices can truly be. That headache shows up in selecting the bridesmaids’ wedding shoes, just as it does everywhere else.

Must all the bridesmaids’ shoes match one another? How similar to the bride’s wedding shoes should they be? How are you ever going to decide? Here’s an idea: let your gown theme be your guide.

The Bride’s wedding dress is unique. It won’t match what the bridesmaids are wearing. You are the center of attention on that special day and your gown reflects that. But bridesmaids dresses need not exactly match one another these days, either.

Your overall ‘look’ should be consistent. A pantsuit wedding at city hall is not the occasion for the bridesmaids to wear formal gowns. Even when you’ve decided to go formal, you still have to decide whether the bridesmaids gowns are cookie cutter or distinct.

One good choice is to have a design that is overall similar, but different in small touches. Going shoulderless for the bridesmaids gowns? A great look, especially if the wedding gown is similar. Have you selected floor length or long train for the wedding gown? The bridesmaids’ dresses will always lack that Cinderella train, but can be Civil War gown-length, or post modern short.

Now add individual touches, a blue ribbon accent for one, pink for another.

At this point you may we wondering why we are focusing on the dresses when we’re trying to chose shoes? Here’s the key. After all that hard work to choose your gown selections, don’t do double work and tear your hair out over the shoes. Let them be as similar, or as different, as the gowns themselves.

Fabrics for shoes, for example, no longer need to match the bridal or bridesmaids dresses exactly. But they should not stick out either. Subtle contrast is good. Appearing like a sore thumb draws too much attention to what should only complement the dress: your shoes.

Satin shoes may be a good match with your dress. Many bridal shoe designs are available in satin. They’ll reflect more light than crepe shoes. But if you select satin for the bridal wedding shoes, go crepe for the bridesmaids’ to keep the focus to where it should be.

Next lets consider the color.

Dyeable shoes are an option not only for the bridal shoes, but also for the bridemaid’s shoes. Seen the design thats perfect, but the color is wrong? Have them professionally dyed and you will have shoes that match the gown perfectly, or create just the subtle contrast you want.

For example, a bold burgundy for the bridal shoes. That will appear great under a cream wedding gown. Next use a similar color, but use a shade or two lighter for the bridesmaids’ shoes. The same, but different. The focus remains on you, but the bridesmaids are coordinated.

That’s the very definition of win-win in wedding shoes.

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