Billie Lourd's wedding gown was a subtle tribute to her late mom Carrie Fisher
Billie Lourd's wedding gown, which she wore to marry Austen Rydell, was a subtle tribute to her late mother Carrie Fisher. During a ceremony in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Lourd, 29, and Rydell, 29, exchanged vows over the weekend.
The Scream Queens and American Horror Story actress wore a custom off-the-shoulder Rodarte gown for the occasion, which she told Vogue she chose because of the designers' ties to her mother. "I fell in love with Kate and Laura [Mulleavy, Rodarte's designers] after they interviewed my mother for an article in 2014," Lourd said. "They were the first persons who came to mind when I was thinking about who I wanted to design my wedding gown."
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Lourd said that she has always been a "massive fan" of the couple's work and "thought their elegant, ethereal, unique style was a perfect fit for [her] - kind of - elegant, ethereal, unique personality," as well as "felt a strong connection to them because of their connection to [her] mom."
"And because they are California gals just like me!" she concluded.
According to Lourd, the design process was simple, as the first outfit the design pair brought out for her to try "turned out to be exactly what I wanted." While she said that finding her wedding gown was "every gal's dream," she told Vogue that the only modification she needed to make was to change the gown's color from green to white.
Lourd said they "decided to make the underlayer of the dress out of sequins" to fit the "vibe" of the couple's beach wedding, which took place at sunset, joking: "The underlayer of my personality is also made of sequins, so it just felt right." The end result was a full-skirted tulle off-the-shoulder gown.
Lourd's shoes and jewellery, in addition to her bridal gown, paid tribute to her late mother. Her René Mancini shoes, according to Lourd, were chosen by her father while he was "walking around town shopping and came upon the store and found the perfect shoe."
"They reminded him of the shoes my mom used to wear in the '90s," she told Vogue, adding that the store manager told her father that her mother "used to shop at their store in New York City in the '90s" when he came to pick up the shoes. "The perfect shoe turned out to literally be the perfect shoe. It was serendipity!" Lourd remarked.
billie lourd having glitter thrown at her in her wedding to honor carrie fisher is making me so emotional 🥺 pic.twitter.com/s9QwwCBnzl
— bea is trying to help meg (@worshipfuIness) March 15, 2022
Lourd wore her engagement ring, which incorporates a diamond reset from the band with which her father proposed to her mother, as well as her mother's favorite ring, a blue fire opal that the actor said Fisher used to wear all the time, to complete her wedding appearance. Lourd donned a set of vintage Neil Lane diamond studs given to her by her father as her something old. According to Vogue, she took a ring given by her mother to a close friend for her something borrowed.
According to Vogue, Lourd and Rydell met in January 2011 while both attending New York University. In June 2020, the pair announced their engagement, and in September of that year, they welcomed their first child together, son Kingston Fisher.