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Bridesmaid Wedding Shoes, Matching or Distinct?

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 dilemma appears in selecting the bridesmaids’ wedding shoes, just as it does everywhere else.

Should all the bridesmaids’ shoes match one another? Should they be similar to the brides wedding shoes? How are you ever going to decide? Here’s a simple suggestion: 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.

Why all the concentration on the dresses when we’re trying to select shoes? Here’s the key. After all that creative work to define your gown selections, do not do double work and tear your hair out over the shoes. Let them be the same, or as different, as the gowns themselves.

Fabrics for shoes, for example, do not need to match the bridal or bridesmaids dresses exactly. But they should not stick out either. Subtle contrast is good. Looking like a sore thumb draws too much attention to what should only complement the dress: your shoes.

Satin shoes might be a good match with your dress. Many bridal shoe designs are available in satin. They’ll reflect more light than crepe shoes. Should you choose satin for the bridal wedding shoes, choose crepe for the bridesmaids’ to keep the focus on the center of attention – the Bride.

Now consider color.

Dyeable shoes are an choice not only for the bridal shoes, but also for the bridemaid’s shoes. Have you found a design you love, 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 look great under a cream wedding gown. Now use the same 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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