Gucci’s rose mesh slingbacks dotted with crystal GG logos have also become a fashion-bride favourite, thanks, in no small part, to Vogue’s Chioma Nnadi, who sent her friend Sara El Dabi a pair to wear with her Disney-esque dress – inspired by her mother’s vintage Biba – for a quintessential London wedding. “Part of me will always be known as a late ’90s, early ’00s RnB fiend, and so the sparkly double-G logo felt like the essence of that,” says former DJ El Dabi. “I wanted the fun diamanté thrown in for good measure.” Florist Christie Leigh Corbally, who is not the sort of Pinterest bride who grew up fantasising about The One (dress, we mean), chose the twinkling Gucci slip-ons to complement her Cecilie Bahnsen look and didn’t regret a single gemstone as she bopped along to local Hampshire band The Old Gits at her bucolic knees-up.
Those studded Alaïa flats made an appearance at writer and curator Lou Stoppard’s wedding breakfast, alongside Issey Miyake pleats no less, before the bride changed into exquisite pearl-laden Simone Rocha, complete with beribonned pumps, to marry fine object designer Jamie Shaw at London’s Fitzrovia Chapel. For the creatives, whose wedding was as much about their baby daughter Clark as it was about their union as a couple, practical yet whimsical fashion fit their “beautiful and interesting” brief for a big day centred around London’s Café Cecilia (which is, incidentally, owned and run by Simone’s brother, Max).