There they are...my wedding shoes! I'm so excited about them. I got Anthony to go to the mall with me yesterday on a shoe hunt. I know he's not supposed to see the dress before the wedding, but shoes are okay, right?! I had to get the shoes pretty quickly after finding the dress because they have to measure approximately how tall I will be in the dress before ordering. (It'll be cheaper to have the factory cut the fabric to fit me instead of having to alter it a lot later.)
The first place we went to at the mall was Macy's. Yesterday was their "One Day Sale," so naturally it was a zoo. I didn't see any shoes that I liked, so we decided to venture upstairs for a minute (AKA, the wedding registry section)! The picture above is some flatware that I saw in our wedding color! I don't think we'll actually wind up registering with Macy's because it's expensive & not very for everyone easy to get to, but it sure was fun to poke around. There are so many neat kitchen toys that I want! I can't wait until we have a house & can decorate it & stock it with tons of little gadgets. Looking around, I realized just how fortunate Anthony & I have been in our engagement. There were so many things that we saw that we just didn't need because of my parents' generosity. When my dad moved to a smaller house in Savannah from Atlanta, there were a lot of things he couldn't take with him, so he gave them to me (including a lot of things for the kitchen & home). My mom has also bought a lot of things for my apartment at school that I will be able to take with me when I move into our house, & every once in a while I browse through antique stores trying to find cheap decorations...for both our wedding and our house. As the time gets closer, I plan on garage sale-hunting pretty much every weekend during the spring & summer to find even more treasures.
After some lunch, we tried our luck at Nordstrom. Holy snootiness! Man, I felt seriously uncomfortable in there. A prim & proper man took my shoe measurements before he decided to bring me the pair of shoes that I wanted. They were pricey, but sooooo beautiful. Unfortunately, they were also like 5 inch heels, which I just can't handle. Especially not all day. Especially not on grass. & especially not walking around as much as I will be. I can just see it now: putting bruises all over my dad & Anthony's arms because I'm having to hold on so tightly to not fall. We took a small detour around the dress area in search of dresses for our moms...no luck! I found a couple online, but they weren't in the store. If my mom decides not to go with the dress I already have, I like the one on the left for her & the one on the right for Mrs. Camp.
Anyway, after a failed trip to the mall, Anthony suggested that we hit up DSW across the street really fast. I had to be back home within like an hour & a half, but I agreed in the hopes that we'd find just the right thing. Well, we did! A few seconds after we walked in, Anthony walked right up to this pair & insisted that I try them on. I did & they fit & I could walk perfectly in them. Not to mention they weren't cutting off my circulation & I didn't feel like I was going to fall in them. For about half the price I would have had to pay at Nordstrom, I got these amazing shoes & we can now go order my dress! That's on the To-Do for next weekend :)
Sidenote: when Kera & I went to YourPie on Tuesday, this is what the deck was decorated like. I want some of these lights hanging on the fence at our venue so bad. Christmas lights are banned in the contract, but I'm hoping to get by with the "but these aren't Christmas lights...exactly" argument. I think it could work, right??
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