Late last year, TikTok creator Madeleine White told us she knew that not everyone would like her wedding dress. At that point, she was eight months out from her big day, and in her words, she’d already “pissed people off” with decisions surrounding her wedding. But when it came to her dress, though she’d shared dresses that hadn’t been The One, she remained tight lipped about what the final dress would like look.
“I now know there’s no way that everyone would’ve chosen my dress out of all the dresses they’ve seen me try on,” she told ELLE Australia. “Because when you show people so many, they have one in their head that they’ve already decided was their favourite and then they’re disappointed when they actually see the dress.”
In the end, White revealed that she actually found her dress long before she was even engaged, in 2022. She told Vogue that she spotted the dress on TikTok (where else) where a model wore a gown from Viktor & Rolf’s spring 2023 bridal show. Though she went on to try on more than 50 dresses, she couldn’t get it out of her mind. “I reached out to the Viktor & Rolf team to see if I could go to their offices and try on the dress, since it was no longer being stocked in store,” she told the publication. “I put it on my body and knew it was my dress.”
Now, she’s officially wed her fiancé, DJ Andrew Fedyk! On July 12, at golden hour in Santorini, Greece, the pair exchanged vows in an emotional ceremony. Speaking to Vogue after their wedding, White said she was trembling as she read her vows, while Fedyk teared up as he read a line that he wrote in a 2020 journal after meeting his would-be wife. “I think I just met a girl who will change my life,” he recited.
The ceremony was followed by cocktails and dinner overlooking the caldera at sunset, for which White of course changed into her second look of the day: a backless halter gown by Berta. After hours of dancing and plate smashing, they transferred their guests down to the beach to what they called ‘Club Fedyk’, for a night of partying.
For her final act, White changed into a pink chain-mail dress from Fendi and Versace’s Fendace collaboration; the perfect end to the night. “Anyone who’s been following me for a long time knows that one of my first viral videos ever was trying to DIY the Versace spring 1999 chain-mail dress,” she told Vogue. “It felt like fate when, around a year before the wedding, I got a text from a friend in Toronto that Dawn at Rewind Couture had gotten in this one-off Fendi x Versace collab.”
The pink dress was a subtle reference to the gown White wore to the welcome party the night before the wedding, which was an ombre Oscar de la Renta dress fit for a princess.
Anyone who follows White will know that every look is perfectly in line with her personality. Playful yet classic, and perfectly her.
