Wedding shoes fit for a princess

With the whole country gone Royal Wedding mad, everywhere you look there seems to be a Royal Wedding promotion going on. So it takes something pretty special to stand out from the crowd, but this competition from the Royal Mint has done it!

Everyone knows the classic wedding rhyme “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” But not so many people know that it ends with the line – “and a silver sixpence in her shoe”.

In keeping with this age old tradition, the Royal Mint has commissioned British leading shoe designer Georgina Goodman to create a couture wedding shoe fit for a princess. Just eleven pairs of these to-die-for shoes have been produced, with the first pair having already been dispatched to princess-in-waiting Kate Middleton, and the rest given away in an exclusive competition.



To stand a chance of winning this ultimate wedding accessory, brides simply need to visit the Royal Mint website and register their details.

Georgina Goodman, who was tipped as ‘the future of footwear’ by Manolo Blahnik says: “I was honoured to be asked by the Royal Mint to design these couture shoes to celebrate such a momentous event. I wanted to create something very classic and traditional using the silver sixpence, but also produce a design that was unique. Rather than placing the coin inside the shoe, I’ve taken a modern twist by embedding the lucky silver sixpence right on the front.”