As the woman directly responsible for the combats, crop tops and eyebrow gems that proliferated in teenage girls’ bedrooms in the ’90s, Gwen Stefani was never going to be a conventional bride. The No Doubt front-woman exchanged vows with musician Blake Shelton at the weekend, and though she chose a traditional white wedding dress—and entrusted long-time bridal designer to the stars Vera Wang with her gown—a handful of alternative touches made Stefani’s looks perfect for an original rock chick.
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For the ceremony in California, Stefani wore a custom lily white silk georgette and hand-tumbled tulle gown with a distinctive high-low hem, a plunging neckline and a cutaway back. Her chapel-length veil was hand embroidered with the couple’s names, and those of the bride’s three children: Kingston, Zuma, and Apollo. (Another high-profile bride, Hailey Bieber, had “‘Till death do us part” hand-embroidered on the cathedral veil she wore with her Off-White gown.)
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For the reception, the bride changed into a second Vera Wang dress: a silk crepe strapless mini dress that was hand-embroidered with a pair of love birds symbolising Blake and Gwen. Three baby love birds alongside represented Gwen’s boys. “You need a party dress when u get to marry Blake Shelton,” the bride wrote on Instagram, with a photograph revealing her fishnet tights, white stiletto cowboy boots and sweet hair bow.
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Stefani famously wore a dip dye wedding gown with a hot-pink hem by John Galliano when she married her first husband, Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, in London in 2002.
This article was originally published on British Vogue.