His and Hers Wedding Shoes
About a week before we were to get married my bride and I were sitting on the couch watching one of those funny video television shows and this one just happened to be about weddings. One of the segments was about the different kinds of wedding shoes that some people have used in their wedding and the last part of the segment was a close up of a groom's wedding shoes as he is kneeling at the altar during the ceremony.
Suddenly you could hear the church start to chuckle and then it started to erupt into a full laugh. The camera closed in on the groom's wedding shoes and he had HELP written on one shoe and then ME written on the other. The bride never saw what was going on at the ceremony and I was warned that my wedding shoes better not contain any messages of help or anything else on them. In the end I chickened out and she even went so far as to check my wedding shoes by making me show her the bottoms of them as we were walking up the aisle towards the reverend. But it just goes to show you that even wedding shoes can have personality.
The bride is the biggest offender of abusing wedding shoes. As a groom we are stuck wearing our tuxedo shoes all night long and if you have ever worn rented tuxedo shoes then you know that after a while they get very uncomfortable. But as at the reception, after the first dance between bride and groom, if you check the bride's wedding shoes you will see a pair of white sneakers! Cheaters! Now the sneaker companies are even helping by making special bride sneakers with glitter and designs on them! The unfair treatment starts early these days.
Good for the Goose
I always thought that if the bride was allowed to change out of her wedding shoes at the reception then the groom and his guys should be allowed to wear those shirts with the tuxedo printed on them because that is way more comfortable than the whole tuxedo. But alas life is not like that and when the groom turns into the husband after the "I do" right away the inequity begins and a husband's torment starts. It just isn't fair.
Sometimes I think every groom should be able to write HELP ME on the bottom of their tuxedo shoes because if you can't start asking for help at the wedding then no one is going to listen to you after the reception.
