Your Comfortable Wedding Shoes

If you ask a married woman if there is any one thing she would have done differently at her wedding, she is highly likely to say the following statement: "I wouldn't have done anything differently, expect maybe to have worn more comfortable shoes".

When planning a wedding outfit, style, beauty and originality tend to be the main concerns. However, by the end of a very long day, once the ceremony has taken place, once the speeches have been given and the dance is about to start, such high-minded concerns may seem of far lesser importance if your feet are eye-wateringly painful.

The good news is that you don't always have to sacrifice style for comfort, you just have to think things through carefully and put aside some time to break your shoes in.

Breaking shoes in can make the difference between complete enjoyment and happiness and contentment on your wedding day, and near complete happiness, marred only by a rather great discomfort.

Well made shoes don't have to feel like they're made of razor blades. If they do, it may well be because they don't fit properly. One of the first and most obvious points to make is that you should spend a good amount of time with a professional shoe fitter who will talk you through all the potential pitfalls in shoe buying.

One tip I can recommend, is to go to a very expensive shoe shop and ask to try on a few shoes. The people who work in these shops are hired to know what they are talking about. If they recommend a certain type of shoe that might be the best shape for your type of feet, take note of it. If you can't afford the shoes they are selling, you may well find a much cheaper version, that with a little bit of effort, will have come to you from an expensive expert.

Another thing to bear in mind is the possibility of choosing shoes that are specifically designed to look both comfortable and graceful: dance shoes. Have you ever wondered how some ballroom dancers seem able to practically run and do handstands in their high heels? Well, did you know that these high heels can feel as soft and bendable as toffee?

Dance shoes tend to have reasonably small heels, however. If you are thinking of wearing heels that are over two inches, you may have to opt for the "breaking in". The general consensus is that wearing the shoes indoors for an hour or two a day in the months running up to the wedding is the best way to wear them in without actually wearing them out.