Ugh, Blake Lively Stole My Dream Wedding Dress

I began imagining all of the different wedding venues it would look perfect in—cliffside at sunset, just the two of us; on a beach, under a floral arch of baby’s breath; at the Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas with Elvis as our officiant. In my dream world, the dress was as good as mine.

“The hunger games that are about to ensue once you list,” one person commented on the Instagram post. Yes—this was my Hunger Games, my Super Bowl, my Olympics, all in one. I had been training for this day through eBay bidding wars and at the local thrift store, it was time to channel my inner Simone Biles. I immediately reached out to Tab to enquire with my measurements in hand, but here’s the thing about hot vintage—it was already gone. Immediately. Britney Spears’s Versace dress would always be the one that got away, though I hoped she went to a good home.

Four months later, I’m on Zoom with our September cover star Blake Lively discussing her new haircare brand Blake Brown. She shares that she’s mid-fitting, trying on clothing for her upcoming press tour for It Ends With Us, giving me a sneak peek of all the floral ensembles she’ll be wearing with the tease “blooms everywhere.” I know that Lively is a vintage girl like me. She’s recently worn dresses from Happy Isles, a 1997 Galliano-designed Dior suit, and we chat about my favorite stores in New York before signing off the call.

But imagine my surprise when I opened Instagram last night to see Lively at the premiere of her film wearing my wedding dress. Sorry, I mean the Britney Spears vintage Versace dress. She sourced it from the Tab Vintage Instagram after seeing the exact post I saw (celebrities are just like us, sometimes) and had been holding onto it since. Obviously, in an Olympics competition of me versus Lively, we all know who is getting gold.

But, now that she’s worn the dress, I have a proposal: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was the film that propelled Lively to fame (we even discussed it in our interview), but how about we turn it into sisterhood of the Versace dress? “It should be in the Smithsonian or the Met. But it’s on me,” Lively said to People last night. Maybe it could make a pit stop for my wedding on the way?