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Dua Lipa's wedding photos are the only content anyone needs this week

  • Writer: Sugar Honey
    Sugar Honey
  • 23 hours ago
  • 2 min read

Dua Lipa has finally given us the wedding photos, and somehow they were worth the wait.


The singer posted the first official shots from her marriage to Callum Turner, captioned simply "Mr & Mrs", and the internet has not recovered since. After months of paparazzi snaps and vague hints, this is the polished, professional version, and it delivers.


A quick recap for anyone who missed the timeline. Dua and Callum had a low key legal ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall in London on 31 May, where she wore a custom Schiaparelli skirt suit designed by Daniel Roseberry. Chic, but clearly just the warm up act.


The real event was a three day celebration in Palermo, Sicily, held at Villa Valguarnera, an 18th century estate with the kind of crumbling grandeur money cannot fake. The new photos, shot in black and white, are from this part of the wedding.


And the dress. The custom Chanel haute couture gown was designed by Matthieu Blazy and reportedly took 1,155 hours of Lesage embroidery, with 480,000 beads and 25,000 feathers worked into the fabric. It has an open back, a feather trimmed train and a veil that does most of the dramatic heavy lifting. It is the first Chanel haute couture wedding gown Blazy has made for a friend of the house, which tells you exactly how much pull Dua has in fashion right now. Callum, for the record, wore custom Louis Vuitton.


The guest list reads like a festival lineup. Elton John flew in and performed an acoustic version of Your Song. Donatella Versace, Charli XCX, Mark Ronson, Olivia Dean, Troye Sivan, Joe Alwyn and Tame Impala's Kevin Parker were all there, among roughly 200 guests.


Look, celebrity weddings are not new, but this one lands differently. After weeks of heavy news, a pop star marrying an actor in a beaded Chanel gown designed by one of fashion's most talked about names is exactly the kind of soft, glossy nothing the internet has been craving.


Go look at the photos before your group chat sends them to you first. You already know someone is using that black and white shot as their phone background by tonight.


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