Matching bag and shoes for a wedding guest is a calmer outfit when the shoe is chosen first and the bag follows the colour. An identical pair is less important than a shared black, taupe, cream, blue or metallic.
Comfortable matching bag and shoes for a wedding still start with the fit. Matching bag and shoes for a wedding in a low heel are what we suggest when the day runs long. Gabor, our own Golden Boot label, Wonders and Hispanitas are the names you will see most, and the colours in front of us are mostly black, with taupe, blue, burgundy, pink and cream.
Shoes and a bag do not have to be the same object in two sizes. The same colour family is enough: black with black, taupe with taupe, or a gold shoe with a gold clasp on a quieter bag. One step of metal or colour in common is what reads as a set. Three different brights, or gold shoes with a silver bag, split the outfit.
Gabor is the largest shoe brand in this shortlist. Our Golden Boot label, Hispanitas, Waldlaufer and Josef Seibel are here too, and Gianni Conti appears in small numbers. The Gabor size and fit guide helps with the shoe. We will put the bag next to it once the fit is right.
They do not have to match stitch for stitch. Guests look pulled together when the shoe and the bag share a colour or a metal. Identical is optional.
Should you match your shoes to your bag? Keep them in the same colour family, and let the dress carry anything brighter.
Choose the shoe for the heel and the fit, then a bag in that colour or in a metal the shoe already uses. Do it in that order so comfort is not bargained away for a set.
Lay them together in daylight. Shop lighting makes taupe, grey and cream look more alike than they will outdoors.
Not exactly. One shared colour between the hat and either the shoe or the bag is plenty. Echoing all three in the same bright shade can look costume-like.
A neutral shoe and bag, with the fascinator picking up a colour from the dress, is the combination that usually works.
A smart flat, a low wedge or a low heel sandal, fitted properly, in a colour that agrees with the bag. You can look classy without heels. Height is not what makes a guest outfit formal. A clean toe, tidy leather and a bag in the same colour do that work.
If heels are painful, tell us. We will stick to fit, and suggest a podiatrist where there is a medical question.
That is the request behind most of this page. We will fit the low heel first, in black, taupe, cream, pink or burgundy as the outfit needs, then look for a bag that sits with it.
Bring a swatch to Gabriel’s Hill in Maidstone and we will set the shoe and the bag side by side. Mother of the bride outfits have their own page, matching shoes and bags for mother of the bride, and guests who want pink can see pink matching shoes and bags.
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