Bridesmaids shoes, who pays?

Sounds like you're a super flexible bride to be a bridesmaid for! Bridesmaids are responsible for covering their own outfits, including shoes. You're being so awesome and saying "hey! Pick your own dress, make sure it's black," and it sounds like, "hey! pick your own shoes, make sure they're red!"

The "they'll never use it again" excuse for you footing the bill is LAAAME. That's basically all bridesmaids outfits! Haah!

Side note to whoever referenced it, four stars doesn't equal "have all the answers," just that Wedding Wire forums is slowly taking up a lot of our free time hahaha! Valid topic thread @LauraM!

The one wedding I was in 20 something years ago, I paid for my own shoes. And in FHs family no one seems to blink at the thought of buying their own shoes (when I asked my FSIL to be in the wedding she declined because she said she couldn't afford the dress and shoes). That being said, I'm expecting my BMs to pay for their own shoes up to $40. If I find something I want them to wear over that, I'll make up the difference. My only requirement is that they're low...where I'm getting married there are flagstones and I don't want anyone getting a heel stuck and taking a header on the way to the alter.

Do what you want. You should not have to pay for the bridesmaids shoes. It's your wedding, they should support you.

Who says they wont wear red shoes again?

My favourite shoes are red

My bridesmaids have bought their own and i asked them to get gold. Thats not an every day colour either.

Dont stress, its perfectly fine for you to ask them to buy their own shoes.

Every wedding I've been in (a few) shoes or shoe color was a requirement and I always paid. Unless you're requiring them to wear $300 designer shoes, they can pay. Edited because mobile typing is hard

My girls are buying their dresses, but I also want them to wear matching cowboy boots. Since they are not cheap, nor necessary in life (for them, anyway), I bought them and shipped them to each of them. This seems only fair...

They can pay for their shoes and dress.

Thank you ladies! In case anybody wants to know, I talked to all of my BMs and NONE of them had a problem with red shoes. I am most definitely NOT a bridezilla, I'm told them they can wear any dress they want, as long as it's black, and any shoes, as long as they're red. Every single one of them loved the idea! Thanks to everyone that was helpful

I have been in 4 weddings and each time I was required to wear a specific dress and specific shoes (one was even a light yellow dyeable!) and I paid for both the dress and shoes. Those 4 brides are my bridal party and they paid for their black dresses and red shoes. The shoes were under $40, so they were all comfortable with that. I had never heard of the bride paying for BP dresses or shoes until I came here.

Bridesmaid unless you want a very specific shoe out of their budget.

IMO usually bridesmaids pay for their stuff, unless it's something out of their price range, I've seen brides step up and purchase it for them in that instance.

I'm letting my bridesmaids pick their shoes, as long as they're ivory in color...they're paying for their own shoes. When I was a bridesmaid a couple years ago, I paid for my own shoes, which had to be silver.