The Bride Wore a Piece of “Wacko Fashion History” for Her Queer Hamptons Wedding

Alix was able to spring for the Dior suit thanks to her family friend, Debra McGuire, the costume designer behind Friends, Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl. “I knew I was not going to do a traditional wedding dress,” Alix says. “I really wanted to look like Madonna meets a suffragette.” As it turns out, McGuire had fashioned her dress for her own 1980s ceremony the exact same way, and offered to remake it for the bride as a wedding gift. For the ceremony look, the designer created a dress with a voluminous ankle-length skirt with a polka dot tulle overlay and a strapless bustier top reminiscent of Madonna’s 1984 VMAs “Like A Virgin” performance, as well as an Edwardian overcoat with a bustle. Alix, who describes herself as “a hat girl more than anything,” eschewed the traditional veil, instead attaching netting and rhinestones to her headwear. (She completed her look with a pair of vintage Chanel sunglasses and a Simone Rocha pearl bag.)

That McGuire costumed the first lesbian wedding on television—the marriage of Susan and Carol on Friends—is not lost on the pair. In fact, dressed in bustled jackets and early 20th-century hats, their wedding looks bear more than a little resemblance to Alix’s ceremony outfit. “Those characters were kind of the villains, which she didn’t love. She just really wanted to give them this special moment. I looked at the photos, and it’s actually very similar to [my] look,” she says. “In hindsight, I think it all just imprinted.”