Manolo the Columnist
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Dear Manolo,
I am getting married in Key West and I want to buy a pair of shoes for my wedding that are not typical wedding shoes. I am looking for a strappy, heeled sandal. And I want them to be blue. Can you suggest anything?Claire
Manolo says, the wedding in the Key of West? Of such things are the dreams of the lifetime made!
Well can the Manolo imagine the high-spirited sort of the ceremony that may take place in this eccentric and tropical location.
As the steel drum band strikes up the wedding march, we see the bride, well-attired in her head-to-the-toe ensemble of Caribbean Lagoon Blue, being escorted across the beach and down the makeshift aisle on the arm of the doughty neighbor, the genius Jimmy Buffet.
Awaiting her at the altar is her husband to be, himself the lovely shade of Sargasso Sea Green, the result of the previous evening’s extensive bachelor party barhop during which he attempted to “raise the ghost” of the Papa Hemingway.
The guests include the usual Key West assortment of smugglers, pirates, treasure hunters, and interior designers, and at the least two, rival Cher impersonators.
To the Manolo this it sound so lovely that he can only pray that he is invited.
As for blue shoes for the feets of the bride, the Manolo would recommend the Refine by the Charles David. The are strappy. They are blue. They are indeed not the typical shoes of the wedding.
May 12th, 2006 at 9:26 am
as much as i love the genius of the manolo, i must ask:
how can the bride walk in sand in the fabulous stiletto heel? it is the sandal of the dream wedding, but oh! the pain of the heel sinkage in the unforgiving key west sand!
the manolo must please solve this dilemna for me!
May 12th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Alternately, if we reference another Manolo suggestion from April, for the strappy WEDGE in blue (thus making the sand more achievable)… Nicole Miller, with the GORGEOUS crystal flower on the toe… If I hadn’t been married in the winter, in the Saskatchewan, where sadly, the drunks, there are not very Hemingway or bohemian at all… I would have chosen these.
http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/3512686/c/36159.html
May 12th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
The bride Claire will have the boardwalk down on the sand covered in the most sumputous of fabrics, I’m sure. That way she can wear the most gorgeous of sandals that the genius of the Manolo has selected.
Everyone else, of course, will have to go barefoot in the sands of Key West.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
The beaches of Key West, they do not have the sand. They have coral dust, a fine white powder, on top of the hard rock. The bride will not sink, unless she is at the fake beach of the Hilton by Mallory Square.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
*Beautiful* shoes, Manolo! I want them, even though I will not be in the West of Key, getting married.
May 12th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
These shoes will be so sexy dangling from the left hand of the lovely beach strolling bride.
May 13th, 2006 at 8:26 pm
Ooh, a Key West wedding! Conch is right about the sand in Key West, so Claire will be fine even if she doesn’t have the boardwalk. Beautiful shoes!
May 14th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Gorgeous sandals. Now I wish I wore those when I got married instead of the sexy laced up boots I found at Nordstrom!
=:8
May 15th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Someone is going to fall and or break their ankle. With any luck they’ll sue and there will be one less shoe company in the world.
May 17th, 2006 at 11:57 am
Jack you are so harsh! Especially towards the Charles David, he is one of my favorites!
I hope the bride walks down the aisle to one of Mr. Buffett’s classics - Great Heart? Love in the Library? Why Don’t We Get Drunk (and Screw)?