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Jennifer Lopez wears 28 wedding dresses in ‘Shotgun Wedding’
Continuing the tradition of wedding-themed romantic comedies, Jennifer Lopez’s latest love story, “Shotgun Wedding,” could also have been called “28 Dresses.”
In the film – streaming on Prime Video Friday, January 27 – the actor-producer plays Darcy, who is set to marry baseball player Tom (Josh Duhamel). Tom is intensely committed to planning the perfect wedding, right down to the homemade pineapple centerpieces. The guest list for the island wedding in the Philippines includes future mother-in-law Carol (Jennifer Coolidge) and ex-boyfriend Sean (Lenny Kravitz), who neglected to respond. Then there are the Additional uninvited guests: armed pirates who interrupt the ceremony and take friends and family hostage. Along with Tom, Darcy must save their big day, while wearing her wedding dress, which itself suffers action-packed carnage.
Preparing for the onset of the pandemic, costume designer Mitchell Travers — who previously outfitted Lopez with a year-end gravity-defying sheen in “Hustlers” — faced a host of challenges.
“At the time, a lot of the world wasn’t really up and running. Getting Jen in a wedding dress takes a while – even if the world is operational,” he says of the supply chain and Covid-related production hurdles.
While diving deep into bridal trends (including Fashionista roundups!), Travers found himself taken by the image of a Galia Lahav gown. He contacted the Israeli luxury wedding brand and the series of daily international meetings began.
“It couldn’t be just a little wedding dress,” says Travers. “You really had to go through an entire action-adventure movie.”
Darcy (Jennifer Lopez), her wedding dress and Tom (Josh Duhamel) begin their island adventure.
Photo: Ana Carballosa/Courtesy of Lionsgate
Working from the script, Travers meticulously outlined and then cross-referenced a “chronological list” and the shooting schedule to break down how Darcy’s dress would… well, break down and how many iterations.
“When does she lose the train? Are the sleeves rolled up at this point? Has she cut the overskirt?” says Travers, who drew on her experience helping Deborah L. Scott on 2014’s “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.”
After determining that 28 slow-deconstructing (yet fashionable) dress styles were needed, Travers broke the news to Galia Lahav’s team, led by creative director Sharon Sever.
“I almost had to wait when I was going to tell Galia that the dress is ripping, because you want to respect the art that they produce,” he says. Sever and co. immediately jumped on the concept to custom create all versions of the dress, which were handcrafted in the Tel Aviv workshop.
“For a lot of people, when you say, ‘We’re going to do this and then destroy it,’ there would be tight beads. But they totally embraced it,” Travers says. “They totally have the power to tell stories in a movie.” Galia Lahav’s team also kept a sense of humor around the backstory of Darcy’s ultra-bulky wedding day dress: They borrowed it from Carol – Milford, Michigan’s top realtor .
“Something is wrong,” Darcy says, exasperatedly telling Tom that she never wanted a big wedding or “a princess dress.”
“This dress is just tremendous. I wore it for my wedding. [Sister-in-law] Jeannie wore it for her,” Carol purrs, Jennifer Coolidge-esque.
Darcy struggles with the intricate corset, puffy flared sleeves, layered silk tulle overskirt, cinched satin sash, and elaborate draping, accented with delicate little fabric-covered buttons.
Darcy, the dress and Tom broke down a bit.
Photo: Ana Carballosa/Courtesy of Lionsgate
“It’s one of those movie moments where you kind of have to hit all the right notes in one outfit,” Travers says of the balance of a resplendent wedding moment worthy of J. Lo and the humor of the film. “During a conversation with Jen, she said to me, ‘I really need to be overwhelmed by this’.” So Travers and the team at Galia Lahav “really, really padded the petticoats” and tripled the brand’s signature puff sleeves.
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Travers opted for a “champagne blush color,” as Lopez always looks radiant in this shade. But also, “it was a very beautiful painting [for] mud, dirt, blood and sweat.”
Always a team player, Lopez even tried to make her own contribution to the dress havoc. “We would smear her, and she would grab the dirt to try and get further,” Travers says with a laugh. “I’m like, ‘No! The continuity. You can’t put it there. But she’s like, ‘Give it to me.'”
As Darcy spends the majority of the film in various stages of her borrowed wedding dress, she offers a glimpse of her personal style during the rehearsal cocktail that opens the film. She greets her bickering family and soon-to-be in-laws in a consciously low-cut Carolina Herrera mini dress with a sculpturally draped train (above) – ‘so, we can say she loves a strapless silhouette’, Travers said. “You could tell she likes the legs, a bit of drama. We set her character there.”
Darcy and her sister Jamie (Callie Hernandez) get the upper hand at the rehearsal dinner.
Photo: Ana Carballosa/Courtesy of Lionsgate
He also created a direct line between Carol’s old wedding dress and her custom blue floral mother of the groom dress, with the latter’s comically-chic oversized ruffled flounce and extra-floppy wide-brimmed hat. (“We wanted to give the impression that Carol is a woman who loves scale,” says Travers. “She always chose these big pieces.”)
Adding to the wedding dress’s origin story, Travers reflected on the changes that might have been made when the dress changed hands: “When it was Carol’s dress, it would have been worn off the shoulders. and the sleeves would have started higher. But in an effort to do the right thing, she tried to make it Darcy by dropping him over the shoulder. You get more of a soft lantern sleeve, compared to those big 90s wedding sleeves.”
Carol (Jennifer Coolidge) wears a custom-designed dress made of water-resistant neoprene.
Photo: Ana Carballosa/Courtesy of Lionsgate
But in a climactic moment to confront the authors, Darcy quickly transforms the one-sleeved dress into a more functional halter look (below.)
“This dress, it grows on me,” Tom said at the time, taking a break from battling the pirates to admire Darcy’s handiwork.
“I wanted something less traditional,” she says.
Darcy shows her new look to Margy (Selena Tan) and Ace (Alberto Isaac).
Photo: Ana Carballosa/Courtesy of Lionsgate
The irregular, asymmetrical silhouette of the skirt – covered in rows of delicate ruffles – also allows for a more agile escape from armed pirates.
“I was in a little bridal shop and I saw a tiered tulle substructure. I was like, ‘Oh, this is the finale [look!]Travers said. “We put on combat boots like this, she comes to save the day.”
For added practicality (and a sporty, modern, romantic element that can kick off some non-traditional bridal trends), Travers worked with underwear and swimwear brand Marco Marco to custom-craft trimmed tap pants of lace that Lopez will wear under the dress.
“I slipped a three and a half inch heel into his combat boots,” he says. “You would never know. Like, come on, she does not run in flats. It’s J.Lo.”
“Shotgun Wedding” premieres on Prime Video on Friday, January 27.
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