Rachel McAdams's wedding dress in 'The Notebook' was inspired by Grace Kelly's 1956 wedding dress, costume designer Karyn Wagner revealed.
and while Allie Hamilton and the dress it didn't end up making it down the aisle, the gown took direct inspiration from Grace Kelly, former Princess of Monaco, a nod to her character's fiancé Lon Hammond Jr.'s old money., and revealed that she took notes from Kelly's wedding gown and applied it to Allie's, though the film takes place in the 1940s and Kelly's wedding happened the following decade in 1956.
“Even if you don’t really know who she is, you’ve seen the photographs of her wedding,” Wagner explained. “They’re some of the most iconic photographs of weddings ever, and she has this gorgeous, gorgeous dress. I wanted to reference that with Allie’s dress.”Allie's white dress—designed by MGM Studios's costume designer, Helen Rose—featured multiple adornments, including lace, sheer panels, a subtle sweetheart neckline and buttons.
“I wanted to reference, again, the family’s wealth by the amount of lace on the dress, and also by how huge the veil was,” Wagner said. “Going back to the sumptuary laws during World War II, you couldn’t have a veil that big unless you were either wearing your great-grandmother’s from Victorian times or you were just wealthy enough to fly it in from France and say, ‘I don’t care what this costs, my daughter’s getting married, and she’s going to have an eight-foot veil.
While Allie's marriage to Lon ultimately didn't come to fruition—she chose to be with Noah instead after a dramatic and steamy reconciliation—Kelly had a simpler happily ever after. Kelly and Prince Rainier III tied the knot on April 18, 1956, and remained married until her death in 1982. The pair had three children: Princess Stephanie, Princess Caroline, and Prince Albert.
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