Since I specialized in stressing over every little detail of my wedding, obviously I spent a fair amount of time FREAKING OUT about my wedding shoes. I wanted yellow wedding shoes—to match my gray-and-yellow wedding palette—at a time (six-plus years ago) when there weren’t a ton of wedding-worthy yellow shoes out there. The perfect solution for me (and now for you) would have been Project Shoe, a site that lets you design Every. Square. Inch. of your shoes, wedding or otherwise.
You can start from scratch and make a pair that’s truly your own. Like this. (There are other silhouettes, but that was all I could fit in my screen grab.)
Or customize one of the existing designs in the Shoe Gallery. So you could take this shoe and switch up the fabric, so the main part of the shoe is pink satin.
Moon Gleam, $236.
A lot of shoes in the Shoe Gallery were designed by shoe-obsessed people who are probably on your radar: Eva Chen of Lucky, YouTube star Marzia Bisognin, actress Jamie Chung, The Style Editrix, and, you know, me. (Obviously I wasn’t thinking “bridal” (or “practical”) with my design. But they’re totally fierce, and I love them.) My only advice would be to measure out the heel heights, since I didn’t realize quite how high a 13cm heel would be.
The shoes hover around the $200 mark, which is definitely way more than I spent on my wedding shoes. But I spent around $70 on shoes I didn’t really, 100 percent love, and I spent countless (countless!) hours looking for a better pair, so I think I would have splurged in order to have total control.
Would you want one-of-a-kind wedding shoes?
I’d like to design some non-wedding booties for fall.
P.S. 5 more ways to customize your kicks!