The main character at Dolly Lana Meckler’s wedding was probably her dress: a theatrical, reconstructed Pucci gown that was more than two years in the making.
Her parents, both “eccentric” artists, first spotted the dress at a Pucci store at Woodbury Common Premium Outlets in Woodbury, N.Y., in February 2022, Ms. Meckler said. They sent her a photo of the dress, but a wedding hadn’t yet been on her radar.
Over a year later, after getting engaged, she couldn’t stop thinking about that voluminous, ruffled dress that looked a bit like a giant snowball. After searching for it everywhere, and even sending a DM to the designer, Tomo Koizumi, she called the Woodbury Common’s Pucci store. By luck, the store had the dress in a box in a back room. She purchased the dress, and Tati Kova, a seamstress who made Kim Kardashian’s Marilyn Monroe replica dress, reconstructed the Pucci gown to fit Ms. Meckler.
On May 11, Ms. Meckler wore the gown and flashed its Pucci underlining to “oohs” and “aahs” from guests at Temple Emanu-El on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where she married Jordan Scott Cohen. Mr. Cohen’s outfit was not too shabby either. He wore a black velvet Tom Ford tuxedo jacket and tie, a Ralph Lauren shirt, Giorgio Armani pants and leather Louboutin loafers.
Before the wedding, the couple went to Central Park to take photos, where people stopped to take videos and cheer them on and tour buses honked at them.
“Central Park is somewhere we go every day,” Ms. Meckler said. “The dress is outrageous, and walking to Central Park in the gown felt so outrageous.”
