Helen Rose designed Elizabeth Taylor’s wedding dress in the 1950 film Father of the Bride.
Rose was a costume designer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and created the bridal gown for Taylor’s character, Kay Banks. The film presented the wedding as a major social production, helping make the dress and its preparation central parts of the story rather than merely background costume.
The gown’s full-skirted silhouette reflected the formal bridal fashion of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Taylor’s screen wedding helped reinforce the popularity of elaborate, traditional gowns at a time when Hollywood costume design strongly influenced public expectations.
This is a film-costume question, not a reference to Taylor’s real wedding to Conrad Hilton in 1950. Taylor’s real bridal wardrobe and her on-screen gown were separate creations, even though both are frequently mentioned in discussions of her wedding style.