The essence
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Many celebrities had wedding dresses so beautiful that they had to wear them twice.
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Kelly Ripa often uses her lace dress, which she secretly wore to her wedding to Mark Consuelos in 1996, as a beach cover-up.
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Queen Camilla and Keira Knightley wore their wedding dresses at least three times.
A wedding dress is often the most expensive item in your life, so why not recoup the cost by wearing it again after the wedding? Even celebrities, who have endless choices of designer gowns, sometimes wear their beautiful wedding gowns. The result: a romantic moment on the red carpet that will forever remind them of their special day.
Red carpets aren't the only place to re-wear a wedding dress. Some stars, like Rebel Wilson and her wife, Ramona Agruma, pulled their dresses out of storage for their first public appearance after their December 2024 wedding. According to People magazine , brides wore their fabulous pink floral dresses to the 2025 Australian Open.
In other cases, a celebrity doesn't re-wear their original dress, but opts for a recreation. That's what '90s "alternative princess" Gwen Stefani did in 2017, twirling in a white strapless dress with a gradient from white to hot pink, which was remarkably reminiscent of her gradient dress from her 2002 wedding to ex-husband Gavin Rossdale. The original was designed by John Galliano for Christian Dior, and the recreation by Christian Siriano, reports Observer .
Below, you can recall some more unforgettable moments when celebrities wore their wedding dresses years after the ceremony.
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Keira Knightley
Keira Knightley and her husband, James Righton, at the 2013 SeriousFun Gala in London. Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage
Star «Pride and Prejudice» Keira Knightley wore this dress five years before her marriage to musician James Righton. She first wore this elegant tulle minidress at a pre-BAFTA Awards party in 2008. Photos from her 2013 wedding show Knightley in the same Chanel dress, this time paired with a white tweed jacket. Proving that good things come in threes, the actress wore her wedding dress again a few months after her wedding, attending a London gala in December 2013.
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Queen Camilla
King Charles and Queen Camilla in Rome, Italy, April 9, 2025. Photo: Jan Vogler — Pool/Getty Images
Another person who has worn a wedding dress multiple times is Queen Camilla (which is unsurprising, as the royal family is known for constantly changing outfits). Her Majesty married King Charles, then Prince Charles, in a civil ceremony in 2005. Her minimalist silk chiffon gown by Robinson Valentine resurfaced in 2007, when Camilla wore it to the National Assembly of Wales. She also pulled it out of the closet to mark her 20th wedding anniversary with Charles in 2025, which the couple celebrated in the romantic city of Rome.
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Kelly Ripa
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos in July 2006. Photo: Matthew Peyton/Getty Images
TV host Kelly Ripa never intended for her dream dress, which she wore when she secretly married Mark Consuelos in 1996, to be one-of-a-kind. "I didn't buy it as a wedding dress. I just bought it because it was so beautiful," she said in an episode. show "Live! with Kelly »" in 2016. "I said to myself, 'Maybe if I buy this, it might be an investment. I might wear it more than once.'" The lace, spaghetti strap dress from Barneys New York has now become her favorite "beach dress," she said. People magazine in 2025. She also wore it again during a trip to celebrate her 20th wedding anniversary with Consuelos.
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Victoria Beckham
Victoria and David Beckham at the TIME100 Gala in April 2026. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TIME.
Few weddings have had the same cultural impact as Victoria and David Beckham's unique wedding on July 4, 1999. The intimate ceremony featured guests from the Spice Girls, a young Brooklyn Beckham, and those iconic purple reception gowns. However, at the altar, the future fashion designer chose a classic champagne-colored ballgown by Vera Wang. Nineteen years later, in 2018, Victoria wore the princess gown again in a sketch for the British YouTube channel Vogue .
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Emma Stone
Emma Stone at the 2022 Met Gala. Photo: John Shearer/Getty Images
Oscar winner Emma Stone married screenwriter and director Dave McCary in 2020 in a highly private ceremony. The world finally got a glimpse of her Louis Vuitton wedding dress in 2022, when she effortlessly wore the fringed gown to the Met Gala that year. "Emma Stone gave a new life to a white dress specially designed for the after-wedding party," the fashion house announced on Instagram.
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Busy Philippi
Former member of the group Girls5eva, Busy Philipps decided to experiment a little - including wearing her 2007 wedding dress again on an episode of her former talk show. Busy Tonight In 2019, the host confirmed that viewers had seen her actual wedding dress in an Instagram post after the episode, accompanied by a collage showing the two dresses side by side. "It actually fit me, except for my stupid upper rib cage, which has expanded since having my two kids. No one talks about that. But your rib cage does expand after you have kids, so keep that in mind. Just a heads up," she joked in the caption.
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Britney Spears
Britney Spears performs on "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" in 2004. Photo: Gregg DeGear/WireImage
Four years after her wedding to Kevin Federline, pop star Britney Spears has returned to one of her two wedding looks. As the publication reported at the time, People , In 2008, the singer, known for her hit "Toxic," wore the backless minidress she wore to her 2004 wedding while visiting a car dealership. The published photos show the book's author «The Woman in Me» She completed her look with oversized sunglasses, white strappy sandals, and a trench coat, which she wore inside the showroom.
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