Oh, yellow shoes…

<p>So the story of the wedding shoes starts out as a very reasonable one…&#0160; I just wanted some simple, pretty shoes, in yellow, and for a reasonable price.&#0160; Finding <a href=”http://sj.blogs.com/princetonhouse/2011/07/no_wedding_blog.html.html” target=”_self”>my dress</a> was such an easy process, I figured this would be the same.</p>
<p>WRONG.</p>
<p>It started out easy…&#0160; I googled &quot;yellow shoes,&quot;&#0160;and quickly I learned that being&#0160;so vague was going to be a problem, unless I wanted to wear yellow rainboots under my dress.&#0160; I swiftly learned that the style of shoes I was gravitating toward was called a <a href=”http://shoes.about.com/od/choosingtherightstyle/g/dorsay.htm” target=”_self”>d&#39;Orsay</a>, and learning that helped my search significantly.&#0160;</p>
<p>From that point, there were three&#0160;categories of problems I faced.&#0160; I will summarize below:&#0160;</p>
<p><strong>Problem Category #1…&#0160;</strong> WHO ORDERS YELLOW SHOES??&#0160; I&#39;ll tell ya who.&#0160; <em>HOOCHIES</em>.&#0160; And&#0160;I say that with no disrespect what-so-ever.&#0160; In-fact the reason I say that is because&#0160;many of the&#0160;yellow shoes I found came with a 174&quot; heel, and matching platform, and if you are a girl that can walk in shoes like that, you deserve all the respect I have to give.&#0160; Looking at some of those shoes made me cringe with the impending doom of the ankle injuries I would surely endure should I choose to wear them.&#0160;</p>
<p><strong>Problem Category #2…</strong>&#0160; When the google stars finally aligned, and I not only found shoes I felt I could walk in without injuring myself, as well as in the correct color and style,&#0160;they were of the hopelessly discontinued variety.&#0160; For example:&#0160; The <a href=”http://img0.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.233224964.jpg” target=”_self”>J.Crew gold bow shoes</a>&#0160;that were the bane of my existence for several weeks…&#0160; <em>I mean, how cute, right?</em>&#0160; Sadly, they were only available in 2008, and I was driving myself batshit insane watching eBay to see if any popped up in my size&#0160;(which is GIANT MAN FEET size, incase you were wondering, and not likely to become available.)</p>
<p><strong>Problem Category #3…</strong>&#0160; This category came about when I reached&#0160;the&#0160;dangerous&#0160;far-away land of the female mind, which sometimes happens when you are shopping for something very specific,&#0160;and that place&#0160;is called:&#0160;&#0160;<em>DESPERATE</em>.&#0160;&#0160;And it was in this fragile state-of-mind where I ended up about three&#0160;clicks away from purchasing a very expensive pair of Kate Spade italian silk heels that I had convinced myself I could A) afford, and B) wear again (<em>both of which were horrible horrible lies</em>.)&#0160; And while I believe a girl should splurge every once-in-a-while for something fancy for herself…&#0160; Yellow heels were not the right splurge for me.&#0160;</p>
<p>Sad and defeated, I went to the only place one should go when in need of support.&#0160; <em>Facebook</em>.&#0160; Where my friend Carrie (MY GENIUS FRIEND CARRIE, by the way) suggested I look into Dyables.&#0160; Wanting desperately to check this item off my wedding &quot;to-do list&quot;, I took that idea and ran with it.&#0160; No, I freaken <em>LUGED</em> with that idea like I was in the Olympics…&#0160; And two weeks later, my shoes arrived.</p>
<p>And they&#39;re simple, and yellow, and inexpensive…&#0160; And, well, magic.&#0160;</p>
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<p><br /><span style=”font-size: 8pt;”>(Please excuse my chipping pedicure, which is in need of a re-paint.)</span></p>
<p>And even though they still look like man feet, they are MY man feet in cute yellow shoes, and that is what I wanted for my wedding.&#0160;</p>
<p><span style=”color: #ff0000;”><strong>DONE.</strong></span></p>