These boots were made for walking

It's been a busy 2 weeks of planning flurry, lots of tears (mostly for Japan) and the changing of more plans (airfares mostly because of Japan). But I didn't forget you, I like you, we should be friends...too creepy?

But on to more cheery and less important but fun things-wedding shoes!
So, we are marrying in Central Park, which may be as cliche in New York as having photos with graffiti in Melbourne but this is what we want for our day, and probs would have done in Melbourne too. So knowing we'll be schlepping from the hotel to Central Park then through the park I didn't think twice about wearing nice flats and I had just the pair in mind-metallic sandals with silver bling which I saw in Myer a month or 2 back on sale but not my size. I have freakishly small feet and can often fit children sized shoes. FH found the last pair at the Diana Ferrari in our old stomping ground, and dream suburb to live, Fairfield. There was only 1 pair in silver and it was my size-freakish 5! Done and done! So cute and low key-if you don't like toes you should look away now,Ewwww, feet! I dropped something on my toe the day before when helping friends move house, nice!
FH has a good eye for what looks good, and suggested that I should have a pair of heels for the photos, as he said, heels can change the way an outfit looks. I don't wear heels much these days after chipping a bone in my foot about 2 years ago. He's right, I need to and would like to as I do love heels. I always had the silver Alan Pinkus heels in mind, however they are steep, very steep. The strange thing is that the silver ones, which appeal to me a lot, are more expensive but look very cheap-like they are made of pleather. Then I saw the same shoe in red, which had a completely different exterior, more looked lovely, made of silk and not as expensive-conflicted!!! The red is less traditional and that has appeal in itself, but the silver pulls me back, till I realise how cheap they look yet are not.




Silver

Red

Then I found these Fetish Louboutin's and felt the war was won :P
I took some pics of a pair of gorgeous cream Louboutin's but the photos looked terrible as obviously the shoes had been well worn and were filthy. I couldn't get the SAs to bring a pair in my size, as they may or may not have existed in kiddie sizes.



HELP? Red or silver, or fetish shoes? I know heels are the way for photos, then that raises the question of do I have my final dress fitting wearing the flats or the heels?

Then by chance I found my wedding night lingerie. Woo, I'm getting a bit hot under the collar thinking about wearing this pink baby!

I'm seriously tempted to get a onesie, just because it will make FH laugh

UPDATE: Overnight we had 2 guests RSVP, who were in our original wedding party-very very exciting! Now there will be 6 in attendance- D and I, best man, groomsman, maid of honour and the very lovely bridesmaid who saved the life of our kitty when we were first in New York.

It's a nice day to start again (don't look here FH-gown photo ahead)

So, I spent a lovely sunday afternoon watching bridal shows, specifically 'Say Yes to the Dress". SYTTD is a show originally based at a bridal store in New York called Kleinfeld, there's now a version based in Atlanta but we all try to pretend that doesn't exist like the 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'...Look, we have Foxtel and I need to watch my $70 a month worth of crap okay!

In November 2009 my fiance and I went to NYC, (before he became my fiance of course). I had a dream that I wanted to be married in a gorgeous Claire Pettibone gown.

My now fiance insisted I try the gown as it may be my only chance, and a quick search of stockists revealed that Kleinfeld was the only NYC stockist so it was a done deal. After making the appointment online I received a call advising me that they record a show called 'Say Yes To The Dress' and were filming the day we were booked so not to be too concerned to see the crew. A few days later I got a VM from all the way there to all the way here asking if I'd like to be featured in the show since we were travelling all the way there from all the way here. Knowing it was a faux dress rehearsal there was no way I could so it, and thankfully we didn't as the gown was FREAKING DISGUSTING! I looked like a whale beached in lace-this was where I learned that you can't judge a dress on a rack as it looks completely different on and this is a lesson that goes both ways. Nothing was as terrible as that thing, even 'dead fish attached to a sack'* was nicer and it looked on the rack exactly as I describe...it sounds like all my dress shopping experiences were a massacre at Seaworld. No point going too much into the Kleinfeld experience as I did not Say Yes To The Dress.

Long story short, I found the dress and I said yes in Melbourne over a year later. The gown didn't come without dramas (as with the entire freaking wedding) but as FH said, "we're eloping but you still needed to feel like a bride and a nice gown will do that". I'm having a few modifications made- no train and not that strap (which I think I'll use the flowers from for a headpiece). I'm hoping to feel slightly bridey on the day :)

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My dress-awwww.

*dead fish attached to a sack may not be as horrific as it sounds, it's just that it was a mermaid gown that looked like a sack with a fish tail attached when on rack