I am not a bridezilla but I honestly can and have become a bit obsessed over some of the details of my impending nuptials. I have been stumped with whole the sixpence thing for a while now. For those of you who don’t know, there is one more line in the wedding poem after “something blue”. Here’s the full poem…
Something old, something new
Something borrowed, something blue
And a silver sixpence in her shoe.
All of these items that we traditionally try to include in our wedding attire have a symbolic meaning of which I will not bore you. If you want to know what they’re all about, click here.
Anyway, so my fiance gave me an amazing sixpence dated 1900 for my shoe but unfortunately I’m wearing strappy sandals that consist of 3 very thin straps holding them onto my feet. I had no idea how I was going to get the sixpence in my shoe. I thought I would tape it in but three thoughts came to mind in opposition…1. It would look awful in pictures, 2. It would be uncomfortable to tread on, and 3. I would lose an antique coin that has sentimental value when the tape peeled off as I walked. So I got creative. I have convinced myself that near my shoe (on an anklet) is close enough for me and bought a pendant bezel for the coin and pulled out my grandmother’s beads. Here is the final product and I couldn’t be happier with it…
