On this day 68 years ago, an Academy Award-winning American actress was preparing to marry a prince—yes, a literal prince—she had met just about one year prior. It all started as a publicity gimmick while she was in Europe attending the Cannes Film Festival that, somehow, turned into what would become a 26-year marriage—a meet cute if there ever was one. But before their three children, and before her work as Princess of Monaco, and before her tragic death at just 52 years old in a car accident in 1982, there was the dress—the dress Grace Kelly wore to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco, one of the most elegant, memorable, and famous wedding gowns of all time.
