Which designer created Anne Hathaway’s wedding dress for her 2012 marriage to Adam Shulman?

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Valentino created Anne Hathaway’s wedding dress for her 2012 marriage to Adam Shulman.

Hathaway wore a custom Valentino gown for the private ceremony in Big Sur, California. Reports described the dress as a strapless ivory gown with a dramatic full skirt and a long veil. The romantic styling suited the outdoor setting and became one of the actor’s best-known red-carpet-adjacent fashion moments.

Valentino Garavani had retired from designing several years earlier, but the Valentino fashion house continued producing couture and custom work under its creative leadership. That distinction matters: the answer refers to the fashion house, not necessarily to Valentino personally sewing the gown.

Hathaway and Shulman married on 29 September 2012. The dress is often grouped with modern celebrity bridal looks that combine a simple bodice with an oversized, highly theatrical skirt.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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