Breaking In and Caring For Wedding Shoes
Wedding shoes don’t get dirty until you try and break them in. Of course you want to break them in before the wedding so you don’t end up limping down the aisle. This takes some brides a night and others need to walk around in the shoes for two weeks. Of course the more you walk around in them the more you risk actually stressing out and damaging the shoes in some way. White shoes start getting these grayish looking creases that can make the shoe look much less attractive. This is true of both fabric and leather shoes. The best way to avoid damaging our shoes while trying to get used to them is to wear a thick pair of nylons over the shoes. If you want to be extra careful slip a pair of socks over the wedding shoes.
This protects the soles of the shoes too which might be an issue – especially if they are an expensive pair of Christian Loubatains with bright blue or red soles. Only wear the shoes as much as you have to in order to finally break them in and they should not look too battered for the special day.
It is also good to store your wedding shoes properly. If you do not have those commercial wood shoe shapers then you can stuff them with socks, which also helps them keep their shape and body.
Sometimes no matter what you do you can end up with are gray or black marks on the toe of your dyed silk or satin wedding shoes. Is there any way to clean them?
Just take the shoes and soak them in a large bucket filled with warm soapy water. Stuff them with a pair of sports socks first so they don’t get lose their shape. This can be a bit of a weird experience because once you are done washing them they can look weirder than ever. Until the shoe dries it will seem patchy or discolored. However don’t be dismayed as this effect will go away. If you want you can dry them out beneath a radiator or next to a space heater. If you are in a real hurry you can dry them out with a blow dryer.
A word to the wise – if your feet start bleeding or blistering while you have the shoes on takes them off immediately. Blood is very hard to get out of shoe fabric – especially white shoe fabric.