Emma Roberts married Cody John back in July at his family’s home in Sun Valley, Idaho, and she is still fully committed to the dress. On the“Sibling Revelry”podcast, she explained that her custom Monique Lhuillier gown, vintage-inspired, lace, and form-fitting, was tea-dipped to give the fabric that faded, aged look. Her goal? In her own words, she“wanted to look like a haunted doll.”
Mission accomplished, and she doesn’t care who found it odd.“Which people also thought was weird, but I loved it. And I have no regrets,”she said. The wedding itself was held in a backyard tent with 200 guests, and her five-year-old son Rhodes walked her down the aisle. For the after-party, she changed into a black Chantilly lace corset. Her father, Eric Roberts, was not in attendance.
Roberts’story is landing because she did the thing most people are too nervous to do: pick what she actually loved instead of what a wedding mood board told her to wear. Tea-dipping is a classic vintage technique, and paired with the black second look, it made for a wedding that felt like her. So the question is, would you take the risk?
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