The princess bride is largely a creation of the cinema, that filmic realm where OTT weddings are the norm (if sometimes the result of wacky plots, i.e. How to Marry a Millionaire), and fantasy dresses are designed to have maximum impact. And, just as it can be difficult to separate an actress from her role; we often come to think of her on-screen wedding style as her own, even though that’s often not the case.
Take Audrey Hepburn, that doe-like child-woman, for example: When, in Funny Face, Hepburn as Jo, marries Fred Astaire (Dick), it’s in an ethereal tulle dress topped with a veil that’s perfectly in character. But when Audrey married Andrea Dotti in 1969, her dress was anything but conventional. Not only did she select a long-sleeved, funnel-necked minidress, but she wrapped her head in a Space Age scarf. When Catherine Deneuve, who once said of Roger Vadim, “I loved him enough to have a child by him but not enough to marry him,” tied the knot with David Bailey (“He makes me laugh,” said the French beauty of the British photographer), she did so in a simple LBD. (The groom wore jeans.) Steamy sexpot Marilyn Monroe also dressed against type for her marriage to New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, exiting City Hall to a flurry of paparazzi in a simple dark suit enlivened with a light collar and orchids. Here, the wedding dresses—fact and fiction—of thirteen of our favorite actresses, from Dorothy Dandridge to Keira Knightley. [#image: /photos/5891799d58aa89a00d543bd1]|||Audrey Hepburn|||
