Part deux of my Bridal Shoes series, I want to talk to you brides to be about comfort on your big day. Please do Miss Meghan, and yourself, a giant favor and actually WEAR your bridal shoes around your house or apartment for a few days in a row before your wedding day.

Do not slip them on your feet for the first time the morning of your wedding – this is a recipe for dis-aster. And no one likes disaster on the day of wedding-ness. No one.

So once you’ve decided what shoes to wear, pick three days in a week where you will be at home doing some otherwise mundane task – vacuuming, reorganizing your closet, or kvetching at your fiancé, and don your wedding shoes. Not only will you put a little bounce in your step as you buzz around the house, and no doubt will also send you into a bridal reverie, you will simultaneously identify potential trouble spots, and break them in.

Comfort Tip 1
If you are wearing leather shoes, all leather, spritz your shoes down with a mist of water to get them a little damp before you put them on. Wear them until they are dry. This will activate leather’s natural organic give and let them form to your foot.

Comfort Tip 2
Tailor your shoes just like a suit. Identify any area that is the slightest bit painful or gives a rub – this will be a major source of pain after 6 hours of getting married, dining, dancing. So let’s prevent the pain shall we? For an area inside the shoes where it rubs, take a bit of Dr. Scholls For Her (DSFH) moleskein foam and stick it to the inside of the shoe. This will head off any potential blistering. You can use moleskin for back of the heel try and for the entire length of the shoe use DSFH open toe insoles—they have a soft velvety side and a massaging gel – you can use in them in other shoes and they will not ruin the insides of your special wedding shoes either like other insoles.

Comfort Tip 3
If you are wearing ballet flats – please put an insole in – I know it seems like they should be totally comfortable but do not succumb to the ballet flat myth. Instead pop in a DSFH 16-hour insole. These are lavender and fabric and very cushy. (All are available at your local drugstore)

So in answer to Ester’s question, yes you can be comfortable in your wedding shoes. Just take a little time for some preventative measures and I will see you on the dance floor whirling about with a smile on your face, as a bride should be!