Alternative weddings and personalised wedding accessories go hand in hand because I imagine it must be very hard to buy some of the big wedding things, like dresses and suits that reflect your alternative theme
It's quite rare for us to hand paint sling back shoes as you can probably tell from all of the photo's of shoes with back on them. When we do get a pair of sling backs through from a bride it throws up a bit of a creative conundrum.
Hand painting wedding shoes with pink butterflies is nothing out of the ordinary for us, in fact we've painted so many now and gets lots of enquiries about them we thought they deserved their own blog post.
Thank you so much to Claire who asked me to paint her shoes. She was a pleasure to speak with as we hashed out the plans and drafts for the shoes and thank you for asking me to paint such a colourful and interesting pair of hand painted wedding shoes.
The hand painted wedding shoes include all sorts of tributes to her special day. Most importantly the black and white stripes were a theme throughout the shoes. I particularly love the black and white bridesmaid dresses which are painted on the inside of one of the shoes. The brides dress is painted on the inside of the other shoe.
For the majority of customers who approach our stand the thought of personalising and hand painting their shoes for their wedding day had never occurred to them.
I could harp on about how hand painted flat shoes are the way forward to having a comfortable wedding day but you know what? It's so much more than a pair of shoes.
As we step into autumn the wedding fairs are in full swing so there are lots of brides and grooms out there furiously organizing themselves for next years weddings. Something Borrowed Magazine is a bible of unique and exciting ideas
I look wistfully back at all of the other big milestones my friends and I have all celebrated together and I can't help but smile because as we entered the 'Wedding Era' I quaked in my boots a little.
