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Meghan Markle’s Wedding Dress Designer Reveals Where Her “Something Blue” Was “Secretly Hidden” in Her Gown

Meghan Markle on her 2018 wedding day

You sure can’t say Meghan Markle isn’t thoughtful and romantic, and that was never more on display than in how she chose to carry out the “something blue” tradition on her wedding day. (You know the one—“something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.”) Meghan apparently wore a blue dress on her first date with Prince Harry, and her gown’s designer, Clare Waight Keller of Givenchy, stitched that blue fabric into her wedding gown, which she wore to marry the prince in May 2018.

Waight Keller was the first female artistic director of the iconic fashion house and told Vanity Fair “We basically sewed it into the hem of the wedding dress, so she was the only one that knew that it was there,” she said. “It was a little blue gingham check. It was the perfect personal memento that was secretly hidden inside the dress.” 

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