You can toss the word "iconic" around all the you want but the fact is that Princess Diana's wedding dress was a fiasco. It was a true product of the 80s; too damn much of everything, very over the top. Not only was it an ugly dress it was terribly unflattering to Diana's figure. She was tall and would he looked wonderful in something much simpler and understated. That damn dress wore HER, not the other way around.
Meghan Markle's wedding dress was on the opposite extreme; blah, boring, nondescript. It looked like it was made out of bedsheets. I think she believed she would liven the ensemble up by wearing a flashy tiara with emeralds but the Queen nixed that. She ended up wearing the Queen Mary Bandeau tiara that went very well with the gown. I thought the tiara was the best thing about her wedding attire.
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's wedding dress looked like a slip or a nightgown. That was considered to be SO chic, but the only type of person who would be able to pull off a dress like that would he to be someone built like a model, and not many women are tall and skinny like a model. The dress was an oddity.
Grace Kelly's wedding dress was one of the most perfect wedding dresses ever created. It also helped that the bride was stunningly gorgeous with a great figure.
I thought Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress was beautiful but she disliked it. The snobbish Jackie wanted a Paris gown, something sleek and haute couture. But her husband's father wanted something more traditional. The woman who designed her gown was a black woman named Ann Lowe. Although making the wedding dress for Jackie Kennedy should he really set her career on fire the opposite happened; she lost money and received no real recognition for her considerable efforts. Ten days before Kennedy’s ceremony a pipe bust in Lowe’s studio and destroyed the original wedding dress plus a further nine out of 15 bridesmaids gowns. The main gown had taken two months and more than 50 yards of silk taffeta to create. The designer’s team worked tirelessly to catch up and remake the intricate pieces, at a loss of $2,200 — about $21,000 in today’s money. Anyway, when asked who designed her wedding dress Jackie dismissively said "a colored woman."