World’s largest beaded wedding gown contains one million embellishments

World’s largest beaded wedding gown contains one million embellishments

At almost 400lbs with a 20ft train, the world’s largest beaded wedding dress is unlikely to ever be worn by an actual bride. Dressmaker Gail Be, of Minnesota, has been working on the gown for the past three years and says she is finally ready to display the lavish creation, which she describes as a work of art. The 57-year-old, who with the assistance of 22 other seamstresses completed the epic challenge, told the Star Tribune, “Nobody knows about us. We’ve been hibernating until I felt like we had something spectacular.” The creation, which she says will be completed next month, boasts 995,000 glass and crystal beads that she has collected from around the world. Ms Be, who has constructed 30 elaborately beaded frocks over the past 25 years, kept the project under wraps until recently. “I thought, I’m going to build the biggest wedding dress in the world. Didn’t know what the stats were, didn’t know how to do it, but knew that I was going to be doing the big one,” she said of the dress, which takes up an entire room. According to the Guinness World Records site, the record for most crystals on a wedding dress is 45,024 and was achieved by Özden Gelinlik Moda Tasarim of Istanbul, Turkey, in 2011. However, Ms Be doesn’t expect a bride to walk down the aisle.