Celebrity Bridal Beauty Through The Years
The most iconic brides–and the hair and makeup that shaped their legendary looks.
Brides on the hunt for the ultimate in aisle-worthy beauty often find themselves scouring the internet (and Pinterest), eager to glean ideas from weddings past. Be it celebrity, royal or simply iconic, brides throughout history set the bar for the do's and don'ts in wedding hair and makeup. To streamline your bridal beauty planning, we've rounded up the best of the best throughout the ages–from the royals best tiaras and the bold lips we loved and the most groundbreaking celebrity wedding hair.
Queen Elizabeth II, 1947
Queen Elizabeth II has maintained a style sense of classic-with-a-twist for decades. Case in point: her undeniably classic bridal look for her wedding to Prince Phillip in the late '40s, in which she donned an undeniably 'bridal' look–paired with a tiara with some edge.
Audrey Hepburn, 1954
For her wedding to Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn completed her mock-neck look, designed by Pierre Balmain, with a flower crown of white roses. It appears that Hepburn ushered in this Coachella-credited trend that's become ubiquitous in modern-day boho bridal–despite hers being anything but hippie.
Grace Kelly, 1956
For her iconic wedding to Price Rainier of Monaco in 1956, Grace Kelly wore a red-hued lip, a floral-adorned crown and veil and natural, yet defined, eye-liner. Her look, while undeniably classic, was also incredibly fashion-forward and continues to be a source of bridal beauty inspiration.
Brigitte Bardot, 1957
In keeping with stars dressing for their weddings the way they would on-screen, Brigitte Bardot looked like the ultimate beach-blond bombshell for her 1959 wedding to Jacques Charrier. The starlet made her eyes (via a wide liner) the focal point, and kept hair breezy and her lip a natural shade of just-bitten pink.
Elizabeth Taylor, 1959
For her fourth marriage to Eddie Fisher in Las Vegas after the death of Michael Todd (Fisher was the best man in Todd and Taylor's wedding and the father of Carrie Fisher), Elizabeth Taylor opted for a bridal headscarf in the same unconventional hue as her dress, winged liner and a mauve-meets-pink lip.
Elizabeth Taylor, 1964
Elizabeth Taylor's first (of two) weddings to Richard Burton–which took place nine days after her divorce from Eddie Fisher–resulted in some of the most iconic bridal hair to date. Case in point: her unbelievable fresh-flower adorned, extra-long twisted ponytail for their vow exchange in 1964.
Liza Minelli, 1967
Liza Minelli's wedding, just one year after Farrow's, followed suit in regard to the short crop she donned, but Minnelli chose to go in a different direction with her makeup. Rather than barely-there, the singer and actress chose a cat wing liner that felt like a sultry contrast to her super-conservative wedding gown.
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