The Best Celebrity Wedding Dresses Of All Time

The moment when a bride reveals herself to the guests in her church, temple, hip museum venue, or backyard, there is always a beautiful and inimitable gasp. While the bride and the marriage itself are why everyone finds themselves tearing up, there is always a specific element that leads to a great deal of excitement, too: the wedding dress. And who does wedding dresses online quite as well as the rich, famous and heavily-styled? Naturally, we’re talking about celebrities and their elegant, custom and often over-the-top wedding dresses.

Celebrity wedding dress shops have a long tradition of being unique, in part because celebrities are often a little zany themselves and also because they’re so often starting from scratch to have designers create dresses for them specifically. The results are occasionally silly, but typically wind up being absolutely stunning and so very perfect for their bodies. While they may not be the type of gowns you can wear again after your wedding (unless you’re a celeb getting married like four times a decade), these are all beautiful in a way that only designer and couture gowns can be. So, which celebs have chosen the best ones?

Portia De Rossi

While Ellen Degeneres‘ white suit was excellently tailored, Portia’s dress was just impossible to stop staring at. She looks like a fairy princess.

Elizabeth Taylor

This beautiful silk down that Liz Taylor wore to her wedding to hotel heir Conrad “Nicky” Hilton proved once again that a perfectly-fitted dress with a wide neck and lace overlay is timeless.

 Kaley Cuoco

Remember this gem from the very beginning of the year? Despite Kaley’s occasionally rough red carpet style and Ryan Sweeting‘s bad couple tattoo, it is undeniable that she had one of the loveliest and cheap wedding dresses we’ve ever seen. And in such a beautifully unconventional color!

Audrey Hepburn

This Pierre Balmain dress was a wonderful choice for the actress to wear at her wedding to Mel Ferrer. A high collar, nipped in waist, tea-length hemline and garland atop her head make this one of the best (and most charming) wedding looks of all time.

Gwen Stefani

This dress that the No Doubt singer wore in her wedding to Gavin Rossdale is probably my favorite on this entire list. Gwen did ombre before ombre was remotely cool, let alone before it went pink, neon and all over the place. Her wedding dress…