Category — shoes

Good morning!  Well, this weekend was another one of those where I got a lot of wedding stuff done without meaning to! Some things I/we accomplished:

-Tasted pastries from the bakery we are going to order our cakes and other desserts from. Current leaders are a raspberry shortbread, peach custard, apple pie and german cheesecake. mmmm
-Started designing the programs (Super simple but fun!)
-Started designing the kids booklet (to be waiting for each kid at the kids table at the reception)
-preliminary napkin designs
-found out that the florist by night girl I had met with is about half the price of a professional florist. Score! 

Today I will be in and out… I have to go to the labor board (or something like that) to file my wage claim since I still haven’t gotten a paycheck and then my friend Lauren is coming over to check out her wedding invites! I am excited about them, they turned out great if I do say so myself!!  But I do have a real wedding for you a little later from an awesome photographer, Missy!  Here is just a taste, check back later for the whole thing!

I got a few questions about this brides shoes.

Are you ready?  Old Navy. Seriously.  

Image by Hugh Forte.

christmas time favorites

My new 2009 calendar from Linda & Harriet (it is gorgeous and I looove it!)

And my new Kate Spade shoes! Ok, these were more of a gift to myself They were on sale for $164 PLUS another 30% (down from $370!) so I had to buy them I made it ok cause the money I will get from a job I  just finished covers them (Yes I spent the money before I got it… I don’t see the problem… )  I do realize they are marigold… but they are too cute to save for the wedding!

No traveling for me this year, instead a much needed staycation! I’ll be back at work, and blogging, on Monday. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!

(from here)

well, at least for now. I needed to buy my wedding shoes by December 15th, in time for my second fitting. Who knew finding the perfect shoes would be this difficult. I found these at Bandolino, and am 75% sure about them. I know that I love them for every day life, and that I want my wedding shoes to be something I will wear again…  I am not sure how the color will work with my dress. They are a greyish gold, gold being the color I decided went best with my dress (did you know that 90% of gold shoes are hideous?!) and grey being one of our colors… We will see. They are safely in their box with the receipt incase they don’t work out. 

I have told my maids that they can wear whatever shoes they would like on the big day. But I am thinking maybe I should narrow it down to a few color choices? Just to be kind of consistent?  My maids will be wearing this dress:

I like the silver look… The guys will all be in black tuxes, but would black heels look too dark? Am I just way over-thinking this? (Bryan, don’t answer that!)  What do you think would look best? 

Speaking of shoes and colors, I love this look, found on Ritzy Bee.

Oh aaand, I received my refund from Zappos today (mean emails really do work! ) which means I am stopping by the mall to look at a few pairs of shoes! Hopefully I can find some so that I will have them for my fitting on friday! I am heading straight to BCBG to try these beauties on:

So I had bought 3 pairs of shoes from Zappos.

None of them worked, so I returned them.

Zappos decided to give me my money back in the form of store credit.

I asked them to credit my card and they said “No Problem”. 

They told me to wait 2-10 days for the credit to show up.

Today is day 10. No credit.

I send an email… they send me a $30 coupon to say they are sorry.

I tell them thanks, but I would really just like my money back, like, today.

They say “oops! Your account wasn’t credited until a few days ago, so please wait another 2-10 days for it to show up.”

Ugh.

from J. Crew of course. Wouldn’t this make the loveliest wedding outfit?

So the first pair of shoes I ordered from endless came, and they are definitely a front runner.

They are comfortable, and fit. Well, my mom says the gap in the back bothers her, but my heels don’t slide out and I think a half size smaller would be to tight… They aren’t the strappy feminine ones I was wanting (those come next week), but they are really cute.  Thanks to endless.com I have about another 360 days to return them, so we will see

Pretty awesome. Shot by Matthew. Check out the rest of the wedding here.