Once the couple settled on a wedding date in May 2024, Meckler and her mom began the journey of finding her wedding dress. After visiting every classic New York City bridal shop and emerging empty-handed, the mother-daughter duo was on the phone with Woodbury Commons. Twenty-four hours and one bus ride later, Meckler was trying on the very same Pucci dress her parents had spotted 18 months prior. “We put it on, and it didn’t even get over my arms—the skirt didn’t close at all—but we could all tell this was the one,” Meckler recalls. “It’s just a really joyous piece. So we said, ‘We’re taking it, and we’ll take the cape too!’”
The white ruffle dress hails from the spring 2021 Tomo Koizumi x Pucci capsule collection, and consists of three pieces: a top that zips in the back, a full-length skirt, and a cape. Once the outfit was secured, the next step was to turn it into a garment that was actually wearable for Meckler’s wedding day. After speaking with a few seamstresses who “didn’t want to touch it,” Meckler finally found Tatianna—a master seamstress to the stars who saw the Pucci wedding dress as a challenge. “It was like, should we reconstruct it? What if we made it into a jumpsuit? What if we made it like a bolero jacket because you know, it doesn’t fit all the way,” Meckler explains. “And there were all these ideas but then we kept looking at photos and we were just like we can’t touch it. It needs to be the way it is. But let’s add a train to it…so it feels even more grand. And that’s where the cape came in!”