Who loves accessories?!!
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Me!! I do I do!!
Who doesn’t love a good accessory? A great shoe, some
sparkly earrings, accessories will bring an outfit together with one quick
swoop of a necklace. So naturally, these
were the items that I was most excited to get (besides my dress).
Like most brides, I love the colored shoe trend. I think it
is beautiful and brings such a great pop of color to your well,
white/ivory/alabaster etc. dress. When it comes to wedding accessories, what’s
the item you hear about most? SHOES!! Of course they are so important. You want
to be comfortable right? And you want to be stylish, of course! As many other
women before me, I have lusted after Carrie Bradshaw’s Manolo Blahnik’s as the
perfect wedding shoe. They are gorgeous and the quintessential wedding
shoe. Of course at $965, they are just
out of my budget. Oh who am I kidding, that’s not anywhere near the budget!!
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So now I’m on the hunt for the perfect blue wedding shoe,
and dare I say it, before I buy my wedding dress, gasp!! So the number one
concern is comfort, as anyone who has ever been in a wedding knows, you’re on
your feet all night, and you want to be comfortable. So I started googling to
see who has the most comfortable shoes. While I wanted a highly sought after
designer like Jimmy Choo or Christian Louboutin I knew it just wasn’t possible.
Plus, after reading reviews, they didn’t sound comfortable! One name stood out
though as being comfortable, Kate Spade. I never thought of her shoes, so I
started looking and my goodness, gorgeous, and much more affordable! So many
choices, but I narrowed it down to one and thought, “I have to buy them now,
what if they’re gone soon?!” So I started hunting for a coupon, and found if
you sign up on www.KateSpade.com, you
get 15% off your first order! Fantastic, plus free shipping yay! So I thought
for $278.80, I needed these shoes.
Image via Kate Spade
Kate Spade obviously understands women because she ships
fast. I had those pretty blue shoes in my hands in time to wear them for dress
shopping and what a treat that was!
So after the shoes, what’s really left? Well, you’d be
surprised. My next mission… headpiece! I’m not a veil person, I already knew
that. But my dress really was not a veil kind of dress and my veil feelings
were confirmed at the bridal shop. I tried on a lovely hair clip with my dress
and I was sold, except on the price. $100 for a hair clip? No thank you!
When I had my “Meet the Maids” Dinner, my sister and
Bridesmaid let’s call her Bridesmaid Stylist told me about this wonderful place
in the South Side, Clarissa Boutique (www.ClarissaBoutique.com)
and I just had to go. My sister and I went one day after work and oh my, I
can’t begin to tell you the eye candy of jewels there!! We spent a while with a
lovely salesgirl who picked out hair clips for me to try on. We couldn’t decide
between 2 of them, and that’s when she told us, we could combine them! What?!
Custom hair clip, SOLD! So she wrote down what I wanted and told me it would be
$7 to add tulle and rhinestones, that’s it?! I couldn’t believe it. So I paid
her the $80 for my hair clip and waited about 3 weeks for it to come in. And
the result is this magical hair comb!
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While I was at Clarissa’s I started trying on some earrings…
Thinking I needed something simple, but found I didn’t like anything simple. I
was then lead to a pair of beautiful Justine M Couture earrings (www.JustineMCouture.com ), I had to
have them, so I vowed to pick them up when I came back for my hair comb. In the
meantime, I waited for my hair comb to be finished and received a lovely card
from Clarissa’s thanking me for my purchase and offering me 15% off my next
purchase! So sure enough, when I went back to pick up my hair comb, I ordered
the earrings (they didn’t have any left) and used my 15% off. What a great boutique
that is!
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You have any idea how hard it is to decide on a wedding purse?! I really had no clue, until I read an article about winter wedding ideas…. There was a picture of rhinestone shoes and a rhinestone clutch, perfection!! I then knew what to look for, but my goodness, do you know how many choices there are?! I narrowed it down between a few selections…
And sought the help of my friends to pick the winner! And
the winner is…
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Here’s the great news, I got it on Amazon (www.amazon.com) which has never (okay maybe a
few times) let me down. And the purse was $30 cheaper than Nordstroms. Let me
tell you, this clutch is beautifully made, but it weighs a ton! I have had
several occasions where I wanted to use it, but then where is the special
moment where you bring it out for your wedding day?!
Next up… finding a perfect fur stole and muffs for my
girls!! What kind of accessories are you guys wearing?! Do you have colored
shoes? Are they your something blue? What was your accessory splurge?!
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