ah shoes!!

i have a bone to pick with all stores who manufacture women's clothing.

this weekend, our task list included:

• find wedding shoes for me
• find wedding shoes for lincoln

we spent our president's day roaming the mall in search for such items.


and this is why i have a bone to pick...

the first store we went to (did i say first?) had lincoln's perfect shoes: right color, right size, right style and right everything i we envisioned them to be.

then we spent the rest of the afternoon in and out of stores looking for my shoes.



nothing.

absolutely nothing appealed to me.

women obviously have a significantly larger selection, but they are either too high, too shiny, too flat, too ugly, too gaudy, too plain, too painful, mostly all the wrong color, etc., etc., etc.,


now, lincoln says i'm too picky and should just buy any old shoe...
but let's face it, i'm not that kind of girl.


so i need your help.

do you know of any good resources i can purchase shoes?
what did you do on your wedding day?
reasonable pricing?

here's a link to a picture of some shoes i really like and wish i could find something like. relatively small heel, ivory white, some sort of bow/decoration... if any of you can make out what brand of shoe that is, let me know. thanks!


i won't even get started on trying to find something to wear for our engagement photos. i seriously can't find anything.

at this point, i wish i just had my own personal seamstress and shoemaker.



in other wedding attire news...

i will give you a preview of my wedding dress. my dad's cousin, barbara, has made custom wedding dresses for like 30 years. it's not completely ready, but will be done next week!!
it is soooooooo pretty. and i'm soooooooo excited about it.

here's a sneak peak of the gorgeous lace.



thanks for all your insights!