Alternative wedding shoes...

Here is a short list of shoes that are more affordable that I scoured the web for... I looked on a few discount sites, so stocks are limited and they may not be available anymore.... I know at least one isn't as I bought the last pair... Wait til the wedding pictures to find out which ones!

The first two are from site http://www.shoeaholics.com which is great for discounted Kurt Geiger, Nine West and other high street branded shoes.

This one is from http://www.theoutnet.com 

This is a crazy one I thought would be fun and different... From http://www.schuh.co.uk 

Finally a few from regular high street stores... This one from Reiss http://www.reiss.com 

This last one from Ted Baker http://www.tedbaker.com 

Wedding shoes....

I was in a bit of a quandary before leaving London for Kuala Lumpur... I wasn't sure of what their wedding shops would be like and whether I would find anything I liked. Seeing as my dress is going to be made for me by my cousin and I have an idea of what I would like in my head; trying on dresses was always going to be a bit of fun for me.

I did go to the national wedding fair http://www.nationalweddingshow.co.uk/ in February with my future mother and sister-in-law, which was very interesting, there were all kinds of vendors there, ranging from singing waiters to dresses worth thousands of pounds. Definitely a one stop shop for all things bridal. However, when it comes to weddings, a lot of costs seem to spiral because everyone touts it as being the 'best day of your life' and no expenses should be spared but that shouldn't be the case. You shouldn't have to spend crazy amounts of money for one day...

My perfect wedding shoes would have been these beautiful £550 Jimmy Choos....

Big big changes....

So, since I last posted, there have been some big changes in my life.... My boyfriend moved to Kuala Lumpur, He proposed to me (on the day the world was supposed to end last year) on the 21st December in Langkawi... The image below is the next day when the rain stopped! I posted it on Facebook to keep everyone guessing!

After a lot of thought, we decided that I would move to Kuala Lumpur to be with him. So, I quit my job, waited out my notice and here I am now, blogging from the 28th floor of our flat that has views of the tallest twin towers in the world...

Image taken on New Years 2013...fireworks lighting up the sky...

As I'm here on a tourist visa until I marry my fiancé, I'll be focussing all my attention on my upcoming wedding... Which will be this year, so watch this space for wedding blurb....

Headgear

I had the pleasure of being invited to a traditional Nigerian tribal union one Sunday. We had to wear the traditional dress of our country. Being British, I don't know what traditional dress is, so if I go back a generation to my parents- they are both Mauritian, so the traditional dress of Mauritius is this:

'Sega' dancers wearing Mauritian traditional dress

Somehow I don't think that they are appropriate for a wedding ceremony- especially as as I don't own a costume and my belly is not as flat as I would have liked! So, if I go back another generation (aka my grandparents), I come to the traditional Chinese dress... the qi pao or cheong sam depending on which dialect you use!
Unfortunately I don't own such a lovely dress. Mine actually looks like a Chinese waitress' uniform- long and red with a side split, which is one of the reasons why I don't wear it at all! So, I looked through my wardrobe and luckily enough I have two other traditional outfits that I could wear- my Yukata (which is Japanese traditional dress) and my 'Ao Dai' (which is Vietnamese traditional dress)

I decided to go with the 'Ao Dai' as I thought that it looked a more more formal and appropriate for a wedding! Although, I do own the hat (as seen below) I didn't wear it!!When we were there, I was actually amazed by the intricacies of the hat/ turbans that constituted the Nigerian women's traditional dress. Here are some images:

Some were very elaborate with lots of pleats and bows and fabric sticking out at all kinds of angles, whereas some were just simple turban types- just covering the head! It reminded me of Prada's take on the turban:
However, I'm more in awe of the ones that I saw- almost made of paper and very colourful, they were much more interesting!