On 2 October 2021, in the church of San Miguel in Jerez de la Frontera, Claudia Osborne and José Entrecanales said "I do". The youngest daughter of singer Bertín Osborne and Sandra Domecq married the businessman, son of the chairman of infrastructure and energy group Acciona, in a romantic ceremony surrounded by family and close friends. Five years on, the detail people remember most from that whole day had nothing to do with protocol - it was the shoes.

Jerez was no random choice. It's where the Osborne family has its roots, and where her parents got married too. The bride walked into the church on the arm of her father, who also served as her wedding sponsor, to meet José, with whom she had started dating a little under a year before the altar. After the church service, the celebration moved on to the Santiago estate, a place tied to her family.

When she walked into the salon of T.ba, the label that made her dress, Claudia had a completely different idea in mind. All it took was trying on that one design, and everything changed. "Claudia had a very specific idea, but she fell in love with the dress the moment she tried it on and completely abandoned what she had imagined," said designer Sol Prado, who created the look together with her mother, Mercedes López de Carrizosa. The base was fitted, in a linen and silk blend, and over it - hand-embroidered chiffon with crystal beads, pearls and crystals set in metal resembling antique silver. A strapless neckline and around 300 hours of embroidery: every stone sewn on by hand and tightened to sit perfectly in the dress.

Instead of a traditional veil, Claudia chose a five-metre organza cape. "She wanted a kind of cape, and then we showed her this one and she was thrilled. She was a very original bride overall - nobody before her had come up with an idea like that," Prado says. Around her neck she wore a family diamond necklace - a piece with history that lit up the neckline and blended with the embroidery. The result looked almost as if it came from another era, and yet completely contemporary.

And then - the shoes. Instead of heels, Claudia wore embroidered silk-velvet slippers with antique-gold ribbons tied around the ankle. A decision with one clear purpose: to be able to enjoy her own day. The slippers, T.ba explained, came from Dreaming Habits, their homewear line, and were reworked into a bridal accessory. The bride walked down the aisle in slippers from a loungewear line - and that is exactly what made her unforgettable.

Macedonian weddings can be a marathon: church, lunch or dinner, and the traditional oro circle dance until the early hours of the morning. How many brides, after three hours of dancing in heels, have quietly wished at least once that they'd made the same call? One of the loveliest pictures from that day in Jerez, though, isn't of her feet: her sister, Ana Cristina Portillo, arranging the enormous cape for her at the church door. Five years later, that dress is the most visible memory of a bride who chose to be herself, rather than somebody else's idea of a bride.