“The reason Princess Grace’s wedding gown still resonates today with so many brides has at least as much to do with who wore it, as the dress itself. With sublimely intricate details, like seed pearls accenting needle lace motifs and a pleated silk faille cummerbund atop the skirting, Grace Kelly’s wedding-dress style continues to be interpreted-even by royals and celebrities-over six decades later. Around 600 guests, including Hollywood A-listers, like Cary Grant, Gloria Swanson, Ava Gardner and tycoons, including Aristotle Onassis and Conrad Hilton, watched as the silver screen and fashion icon took her vows in an ivory silk faille and 19th-century Brussels rose-point lace gown by MGM costume designer Helen Rose.
(In pre-satellite TV/internet days, American fans anxiously waited for the physical film to be flown back to the States.) An unprecedented 1,800 journalists descended upon the European principality for what could also be considered, by modern-day standards, the first broadcast celebrity wedding. Grace Kelly’s wedding dress made history as the grand ceremony was the first royal nuptials to be televised live to 30 million people across Europe, courtesy of MGM. On April 19, 1956-three months before High Society, Grace Kelly’s final film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Hollywood’s princess became a real one, as she wed Prince Rainier III of Monaco in Saint Nicholas Cathedral.
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