How to cope with a mile walk in heels?

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I'm off to a wedding in a few weeks and my husband has just let it slip that we have to walk the best part of a mile to the ceremony from the hotel then another half a mile to the reception which is in the same grounds. You can get a taxi part of the way but cars aren't allowed in the grounds of the venue. He knows that while I'm ok in heels, I don't wear them often enough to attempt a mile walk in them and still be able to carry on all day in them.

I'm happy to do the fold up flat and carry heels at the end of the night but how do you do that at the beginning of the day and still look elegant? Should I attempt the walk and risk having to stay seated for the rest of the day? Take a massive ugly bag - I don't really use handbags so this would have to be purchased.

Just get a taxi for whatever part of the way is available then OP. Surely if it's such a concern then chopping off a bit of distance can only be a food thing. Bizarre of a venue to not allow taxis? What about any of it's elderly or disabled guests, how are the bridal party arriving?

I think the sentiments about letting your DH down re: your appearance is a shame, you do not exist to stack up to par with the bizarre expectations on women go be dressed up and looking feminine beside their husbands on public appearances. If he really would be disappointed at you wearing shoes designed to avoid pain and discomfort, because you looked less feminine than his mates wives, that would be a pretty ridiculous state of affairs. I probably would just have opted out, knowing that it presented a problem and I didn't like the people actually getting married. You can see mutual friends by other arrangements elsewhere! It seems a lot of stress all because you are worried about your DH being kept happy- what is he doing to reduce your stress over it?