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[Blind Gossip] One of the biggest items on any bride’s To Do list is the dress.

This celebrity has decided on her top designer choice, but it’s not just based on her fashion aesthetic. Her criteria list also involves politics… celebrity… and friendship. That’s a lot to ask of one designer!

The Designer is the same nationality as the bride’s future husband.

This will help ingratiate her with her future family. She also likes the show business connection and the potential friend connection. She knows that [Designer] has a lot of posh friends, and would love introductions. She sees this as an opportunity to create a new circle of friends.

Sounds like she has really thought this through. Let’s hope the dress design works, too!

Bride:

Designer:

[Optional] Typical bride or overly calculating?

SOLVED!

Bride: Meghan Markle

Designer: Stella McCartney

We knew that Stella McCartney was designing a long white gown for Markle – and that Markle was going for fittings – but we did not know that Markle was going to wear TWO white gowns on her wedding day.

Surprise!

The first was a white gown with a veil by Givenchy’s Clare Waight Keller.

The second was a white gown by Stella McCartney.

Here are the conceptual sketches and the actual dresses.

First, the Givency conceptual sketch.

Next, Kate Middleton in her wedding dress (by Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen) and Meghan Markle in her Givency dress and veil.

Here is Stella McCartney’s conceptual sketch for the second gown.

And here are Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the wedding party, with Markle wearing the Stella McCartney dress.

Stella McCartney is the designer referenced in our original blind item. McCartney is the daughter of Beatle legend Paul MCartney, she is British, and she is socially very well connected.

By the way, did you know that Amal Clooney and Oprah Winfrey also wore Stella McCartney to the wedding?

Markle did not meet McCartney, Clooney, or Winfrey until very recently… and now all three women are in Meghan Markle’s posh new circle of friends.

We will leave it up to you to decide how calculating all of that is.

Congratulations to Sue de nim for being first with the correct response!

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  8. Meghan Markle
    Vivienne Westwood/Stella McCartney/Victoria Beckham/Alexander McQueen…take your pick

  11. Not sure if I’m on the right track, but I think the bride is Meghan Markle and the designer is Victoria Beckham just because of the “posh” mention. Does she do wedding dresses though?
    It’s a pretty calculated move to choose a designer for any reason other than liking their designs. I really hope this marriage works out, it would be a shame for Harry if it didn’t

  16. Megan Markle

    I’m actually more curious to see if she will have her shoulders covered-the dress code of the Church of England (and Catholic Church). Kate & Pippa & Nicki (Hilton) & Diana didn’t wear sleeves to start a new fashion trend. Strapless styles would be considered highly inappropriate.

    Megan doesn’t seem to care much about decorum. She’s a true American movie star-she can do whatever she wants!!!! Will the Archbishop put his foot down? Or cave to a more American style? We…

    • The Royal religion, and official religion of England since 15 70ish, is The Church of England, which is protestant & which the Queen is the head of. It’s the American equivalent of Episcopalian, or what I like to call “Catholic Lite”. Never accuse the royal family of being papist or off with your head!!! So the straplessness is a non issue other than one of lady-like propriety.

    • Nicky Hilton as in sister of Paris? She married into British royalty? I had no idea.

      I don’t know what Pippa wore but Diana, Kate and even Sarah Ferguson DID wear sleeved wedding dresses. Diana’s monstrous puffed wrinkled silk taffeta balloon sleeves are sadly tattooed in my brain.

  20. Meghan markle chose Victoria Beckham to design her wedding dress.

    Clues: posh, same nationality as Prince Harry

    Very calculating, but I personally like VB’s designs (just wish she didn’t use ultra skinny models for them!)

    • That hasn’t actually been confirmed… in fact, I couldn’t find a confirmation on any specific designer. There is an article outlining why MM *should* choose VB, but honestly, her thirst will just be so flippin’ obvious if she does.

  23. Stella McCartney & Megan Markle. I don’t understand how Harry can’t see through this blatant conniving social climber?!

    • Agree. Everything I’ve read about her leads me to believe she is extremely calculating.

    • Don’t you think she was most likely guided towards acceptable designers? I am sure she didn’t have free reign. The House of Windsor isn’t going to leave Meghan up to her own devices when it comes to a royal wedding.

    • Name one person who married into that family in the two centuries who wasn’t seeking upward mobility (in a country where class is everything). Who would want to be part of that family except someone who wants it’s trappings?

  26. Meghan Markle

    Stuart Parvin is suposedly the frontrunner, but I don’t know how much celebrity clout he has.

    Maybe John Galliano?

  28. Meghan Markle.

    I think because she is marrying to the prince that this is typical bride stuff

  30. Meghan Markle, for sure. I’d love to see a Vivienne Westwood or McQueen design on her…but the celebrity friends aspect screams Stella McCartney.

  31. Megan Markle, Stella McCartney. I think it’s a great plan if one doesn’t behave like a bridezilla

  33. Meghan Markle and Stella McCartney. And I feel like everything the British royals do is calculated. “Hold your knickers, the Queen has a sprig of spartan plaid in her hat!”
    Plus, new country, new in-laws, make all the friends you can!

  37. Bride is Meghan Markle. Designer – Victoria Beckham? She’s a Brit, like Harry, and “posh friends” makes me think of Posh Spice.
    *Sigh*. I hope this will work out, for Harry’s sake; it sounds like Meghan is focusing too much on the scheming and not enough on reality!

  39. Meghan Markle and Victoria Beckham for the designer.

    Overly calculating. Just pick a dress that looks great on you and will stand the test of time.

  44. Bride: Meghan (Prince Harry’s future wife)

    Designer: Stella McCarthy

    [Optional] Typical bride or overly calculating? Typical bride with a future Royal Family. I say , good for her!! Congrats!!

    • She has to be overcalculating – things are different now.

      I suspect she needs Oprah as a journalist/tv personality to put Meghan’s own spin on things (Diana did this for years).

      She needs Amal because she is venturing into world issues related to women/women’s rights.

      The Stella Connection makes sense because she is British and know how people think in that society – she needs as many British confidants as possible for that reason.