Wedding Chucks

With the wedding only three months away, my daughter and I are putting the details together.

She has hired a wedding planner to worry about most of the preparation,

but

we are a crafty family and want to add our own personal touches.

You can plan on seeing wedding projects here for the next few months.

First up:  Wedding Chucks

Trista, my daughter (the bride) will be wearing high heels for the wedding ceremony

(She is jazzing them up, too, but that is another post to come)

but when the reception dance starts

she wants to have comfortable shoes to run around in and greet her guests.

Her shoe of choice:   Converse Chuck Taylor tennis shoes

 She came over this weekend and we played around with wedding stuff.  

She decided to model my old headpiece from my wedding.

It is definitely not her style...wink.

She worked on the heels and I reworked her chucks to make them more bridal.

This is what they looked like before...

I used lace from her little dress as I did before in the quilted flag.

Sneak peek of fair results

The lace overlay was glued to the outside of the shoe with fabric glue.

I sewed pre gathered lace around the opening of the shoe and rows of the lace to the tongue.

She wanted to leave the label exposed.
I was going to cover the red stripe with pearls, but she likes it the way it is, so it stays.

I poked organza ribbon through the eyes of the shoe for laces.

The bride will dance the night away in comfort and her style.

We are having such a wonderful time getting ready for the big event.
There are lots of memories being made.
As it should be.

Have a great week,