8 Celebrity Brides Who Wore Black Wedding Dresses
8 Celebrity Brides Who Wore Black Wedding Dresses
Ariana QuihuizSat, July 25, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick; Josh Beech and Shenae Grimes-BeechCredit: Sarah Jessica Parker/Instagram; Shenae Grimes-Beech/Instagram
A white wedding dress isn’t always the first choice for brides: Several stars have taken a less traditional route for their wedding look, opting instead for a black outfit.
Chloë Sevigny first wed her husband, Siniša Mačković, in a black midi dress for their civil ceremony in 2020, before hosting a larger celebration two years later. Meanwhile, Shenae Grimes-Beech intentionally chose a black ballgown for her 2013 wedding to Josh Beech to showcase an elevated version of her everyday style.
Sarah Jessica Parker picked a black wedding dress when she married Matthew Broderick in 1997. While the iconic gown sparked a bridal trend, the Sex and the City actress told Marie Claire in 2006 that she chose black to draw attention away from herself.
“I was too embarrassed to get married in white, and both Matthew and I were reluctant to have people pay so much attention to us,” she said. “Which is ridiculous, because that’s when you can relish the attention, when it’s natural.”
Here are eight celebrities who wore black wedding dresses.
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Chloë Sevigny
Siniša Mačković and Chloë Sevigny in March 2020 in New York CityCredit: Chloe Sevigny/Instagram
Sevigny first wed Mačković at City Hall in New York City in March 2020. The actress wore a black long-sleeve dress for the ceremony with matching boots and a white veil.
The pair later hosted a Connecticut wedding in May 2022, where Sevigny donned three white wedding dresses.
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Shenae Grimes-Beech
Shenae Grimes-Beech and Josh Beech on May 10, 2013Credit: Shenae Grimes/Instagram
Grimes-Beech walked down the aisle in a black Vera Wang gown when she tied the knot with Beech on May 10, 2013. The dress featured a halter neckline and a tulle skirt with a light-colored layer.
During an appearance on the Scheananigans with Scheana Shay podcast in August 2023, Grimes-Beech shared that she felt she “should look like myself” on her wedding day as someone who often wears “head-to-toe” black.
“I googled ‘black wedding dress’ just to see if that was even a thing,” she said. “Vera Wang had just done a collection of only black and red wedding dresses, and I was like, ‘That’s crazy.’ She’s like the wedding dress person. And I saw this one. And I was like, that’s it.”
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Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick on May 19, 1997Credit: Sarah Jessica Parker/Instagram
Parker married Broderick on May 19, 1997, in an off-the-rack black gown by Morgane le Fay. The dress featured a spaghetti strap top with a scoop neckline and a ruffled pouf skirt.
The actress later told Harper’s Bazaar in 2016 that she regretted wearing an unconventional wedding dress and would “white it up” if she ever renewed her vows.
She added, “I’d wear a beautiful, proper wedding dress like I should have worn that day.”
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Kourtney Kardashian
Kourtney Kardashian in her wedding reception outfitCredit: Kourtney Kardashian Barker/Instagram
Kourtney Kardashian wore two unconventional wedding dresses by Dolce & Gabbana for her May 2022 nuptials to Travis Barker.
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She donned a white corseted mini dress with a long veil for the ceremony, and later changed into a black version for the reception.
Kardashian accessorized the black dress with lace, fingerless gloves and a shoulder-length black veil.
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Tina Turner
Tina Turner and Erwin Bach on July 3, 2018 in Paris, FranceCredit: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty
Tina Turner tied the knot with husband Erwin Bach in Switzerland in 2013 after 27 years of dating.
The “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” opted for a green taffeta and black tulle dress by Giorgio Armani that was embellished with Swarovski crystals.
Turner told Hello! magazine that she first saw the dress at a runway show in Beijing. “I thought, ‘I gotta have that, even if I never wear it,’ ” she said. “Then I thought, ‘I know, that will be my wedding dress!’ “
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Liberty Ross
Liberty Ross and Jimmy Iovine on June 22, 2017 in Hollywood, CaliforniaCredit: David Livingston/Getty
Liberty Ross and music mogul Jimmy Iovine tied the knot on Valentine’s Day in 2016.
The model wore a black Givenchy Haute Couture gown, which she paired with a matching veil and a sculptural headpiece by milliner Stephen Jones.
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Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger on April 3, 2016 in Calgary, CanadaCredit: George Pimentel/Getty
Like a true pop-punk icon, Avril Lavigne wore a black Monique Lhuillier ballgown to marry Chad Kroeger on July 1, 2013.
The dress featured a lace bodice and tulle skirt, which the singer paired with a black lace veil and a silver headpiece.
Lavigne told Entertainment Tonight Canada at the time that, in addition to being “gothic,” she had one other requirement for her wedding dress. “I didn’t want it to be crazy and puffy,” she said. “I didn’t want it to wear me.”
The pair announced their separation two years later, before they divorced.
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Jillian Michaels
Jillian Michaels on November 30, 2018 in Inglewood, CaliforniaCredit: Presley Ann/FilmMagic
On June 24, 2023, Jillian Michaels married her wife DeShanna Marie Michaels for a third time at the Aman Hotel in Venice, Italy.
The fitness trainer wore a black embellished gown for the ceremony, which featured sheer long sleeves, a V-neckline and a mermaid silhouette.
Michaels told PEOPLE at the time that she knew she wanted to wear a dress that was a “spin on the traditional.”
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