How to Select Shoes to Wear With Your Wedding Dress

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Nequan Peartree from Shoe Diva, located in Wilmington , North Carolina, and we're going to talk about how to select shoes to wear with your wedding dress. When you're selecting shoes for your wedding dress, you want to first take into consideration the type of dress you're....the type of material your dress is made out of. If you have a silk or satin dress, you want to go with a shoe that is made out of satin. Those will better suit your shoes, because they won't be a mixed match in the material. But if your dress is made out of tulle or chiffon, then a raw silk or a crepe shoe would work best. You also have the option of metallic shoes, be it that if you are a silver or a gold girl. Those also work....those will also work well with a wedding dress. And then if you're going to go with a shoe that has any type of embellishment, you want to match the embellishment of the dress and.... to the embellishment of your shoe so that there won't be any clash of that. And then the next thing that you need to consider is height. If your fiance is shorter than you, if you're about the same height, you definitely want to make sure that you don't pick a shoe that will cause you to appear taller than him on your wedding day. And then you want to take into consideration comfortability, because you're also going to be standing on your feet that day, dancing the night away. And it'll be a very long day. So you definitely want to make sure that you pick a shoe that will be comfortable throughout the day, and that you know that you would be able to walk around in. And those are tips on how to select shoes to match your wedding dress."