It took a year, but we have finally gotten details into Rita Ora and Taika Waititi’s spur-of-the-moment, top-secret, VIPs-only wedding on August 4, 2022. On their first anniversary, Vogue published a short profile on their low-key nuptials, including (of course) several photos of Ora in her extremely on-brand Tom Ford wedding gown.
Ora’s white lace gown had a figure-skimming silhouette with a one-shoulder, one-sleeve design, and a sheer bow detail at the hip. It was also, as most of Ora’s dresses tend to be, almost totally sheer.
“Tom Ford is one of my favorite designers of all time and favorite humans in general,” Ora told Vogue. “He’s now one of my close friends, and I adore and admire him so much. To get married in his dress was a dream come true. And because it wasn’t planned, I didn’t know if the right dress was even going to be in town, and I just took the risk and went to the Tom Ford shop, and they had it perfectly waiting with the veil, in my size, no alterations needed to be done. I mean, it was like it was meant to be, to be honest.” You can see the photos here.
In personal captions from her wedding photo collection, Ora continued to gush about the sheer gown—and it turns out she’d seen it years before walking down the aisle. “For my dress, I was looking for something that was going to feel unique and a bit unexpected, which is why I went for the one-shoulder and the lace,” she wrote one year later. “I saw this Tom Ford dress years ago and found it just before the wedding in my exact size. It can’t get much more meant-to-be than that.”
Under another photo, she wrote, “And the veil? I mean, come on! I really wanted a full-length-veil moment to complete the look.”
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