The heaviest wedding dress in the world is also one of the tackiest!
October 16, 2008This wedding dress is 425 pounds. The girl is 16. The dress is a nightmare.
The following article is from the UK’s Daily Mail:
At seven-and-a-half stone, Carly O’Brien is a mere slip of a girl.
But if her bridegroom had tried to carry her across the threshold, he would have done himself a permanent mischief.
Thanks to 30 layers of material and 30,000 Swarovski crystals, Carly’s wedding dress weighed an astonishing 25 stone and is believed to be the heaviest in the world.
Family and friends took more than eight hours to dress her in the voluminous gown, which was more than 8ft wide and would not fit through the church doors.
Its train was more than 60ft long and was so heavy that ten guests had to push 5ft 3in Carly up the aisle.
The dress, designed by a family friend, is believed to have cost the bride’s proud father Frank more than £15,000. It was accompanied by a white gold tiara, studded with hundreds more crystals.
Carly’s sister Linda, one of six bridesmaids, said it was designed to look like Jordan’s outfit when she married Peter Andre last year.
The bride arrived at St Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, in her home town of Gloucester, in the same horse-drawn carriage used for Jordan’s wedding. Three male friends were required just to lift her to the ground.
More than 500 guests were there to see her marry landscape gardener Michael Coffey. But they had to wait for the privilege. While the ceremony was due to start at 3pm on Wednesday, 16-year-old Carly took so long to get ready that it was 4.15 before she arrived.
Thelma Madine, owner of Liverpool-based Nico’s Dressmakers, said Carly’s dress was created with 120 metres of silk, 1,600 metres of tulle and thousands of metres of net.
Dozens of steel hoops were sewn into the skirt’s 30 layers to give support to the entire structure.
After stepping out of her carriage, Carly was forced to remove three under-layers – including one of the widest hoops – from her dress to fit through the church doors.
Despite its enormous weight, Carly insisted on wearing the dress throughout the wedding reception at Hatherley Manor hotel near Cheltenham.
She spent most of reception sitting down, but did manage to get to her feet for the first dance of the night with her father, to the Temptations classic My Girl.
The bride and her 17-year-old husband then gratefully jettisoned their wedding outfits before leaving for a honeymoon in the Canary Islands.
A spokesman for Guinness World Records said they did not have a current entry for heaviest wedding dress. But the record for the longest train is 2,545ft, set by a Dutch couple in 2002.
*TW reader/rockstar Julie submitted this post
I’m still trying to figure out where the hell a 16 year old got a rack like that.
If her Dad walked her down the aisle flashing a rack like that, I’m sure he would not be beyond paying for one. But hey, maybe they’re those inserts that look like chicken cutlets….
[...] This wedding dress is 425 pounds. The girl is 16. The dress is a nightmare. The following article is from the UK’s Daily Mail: At seven-and-a-half stone, Carly O’Brien is a mere slip of a girl. But if her bridegroom had tried to carry her across the threshold, he would have done himself a permanent mischief. Thanks to 30 layers of material and 30,000 Swarovski crystals, Carly’s wedding dress weighed an astonishing 25 stone and is believed to be the heaviest in the world. Family and fri Source: http://tackyweddings.com/2008/10/16/the-heaviest-wedding-dress-in-the-world-is-also-one-of-the-tacki... [...]
i thought she looked beautiful never seen a nicer bride
I THINK SHE LOOKS FINE BUT SHE IS TO LITTLE TO DO THIZ…..
She looks like an ’80s death metal video about a magical fairy princess or something.
Nice to know they spent so much money on such an ass-ugly dress.
well i think that dress was beautiful and shes my cuzin she is a nice girl carly its me annlee and angel hope to see you soon your my best cuzin carly bye
carly your dress is beautiful everyone is jelous beacasue they cant aford a dress like that so bye now cuz how is the faily doing hope to see you soon
from angel
carly its me annlee you do no your my best cuzin remeber the good old days wen we usto go every were together i loved the dress and you look loviely in it to well got to go now bye
OK, a little dress advice, never wear a dress that weighs mor than you do.
If that dress cost father Frank £15,000 he was ripped off and good! It’s badly cut, a weird shape and looks cheap. Sadly.
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LOVEYAA CARLY O’BRIEN ME SEXY COUSON XXXXXX
ur dress is wonderful were did u get it made becouse i would like to get something similer like it made 4 my weddng in derry but i wouldgo any were to get a dress like that.
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that dress is fu**ing horriable its one of the worst dresses i have ever seen, why in this world woud you want to look that tacky!! its chavy and distgusting!! sorry carly but thats my opinion!
One: How does she MOVE?
Two: is there room for anyone else in that carriage?
Not to rag on her or anything… it’s just that that dress seems so ridiculously impractical.
i think her wedding dress was lovely
I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHERE DID CARLY GET THE DRESS…. I AM GETTING MARRIED
me pal carly d weddin wos out of tis world jealos country peeps dnt no nutin lovesya me doll xxxxx
i love this dress only prety girls like you and me
can wear dreses like this , shame for me i dnt have so much money to get same one:((((
very nice but very puffy and big
o my god ,that dress is beaufiful, never in my life seen anything like it, im getting married in june, and i love to know where you got it made?, you have the looks pet , and made a beautiful bride ! if i look half as good i be very happy
all you country or setteld peapel a traverller girl likes that kined of dresse and feels comfortable.so please respecked there chiose of outfits.you like your stile and we like ours so leave us alone.please excuse me four my spelling i am a treverller after all?MANY THANKS FOUR READIND
Hi there
I make wedding dresses for the travellers and yes this is a kind of promotion. We have to understand the culture of the travellers and Carly’s dress was very big and heavy and the top was nice, but it was just very large and plain at the bottom, I make sure that the girls do not just get a big dress but they get a couture design that is never repeated. Carly’s was simply loads of fabric covered in stones that was complimented by a cut out design top, she did look beautiful and most of the travellers do look gorgeous irrespective of what settlers say, they are fairytale dresses that they dream off, with hoops and can can (netting) and loads of hand sewn swarovski crystals. You can contact me at majestybridal@googlemail.com
Emily Louise
Hi carly
sorry, but how the hell does that stay in one piece? Love it, could u publish some more pics of it? Please?
Love it
YOUR DRESS IS BEATIFUL YOUNG1`YOU MUST HAVE PAID A FORCANE 4 IT
Funny, this is the third Irish Traveller wedding that I’ve come across which uses Jordan’s (Katie Price’s) carriage. Seems really popular.
And the FIFTH Irish Traveller wedding on this blog that was not labelled as such… WTF- you’d think an entire blog dedicated to tacky weddings, would recognize it.