Allison Williams Instagrammed a photo from her wedding to Ricky Van Veen, who isn’t famous on his own, but he has plenty of hipster cred. Ricky is otherwise known as the gloriously photoshopped BFF of John Mayer and the madcap mind behind the College Humor website. He and Allison dated for three years before getting engaged in February 2014. Their engagement dragged on a bit longer than anticipated after Allison’s dad, Brian Williams, was exposed as a newscasting fraud. Such a story was bound to put a damper upon festivities, so it’s good that Allison postponed.
Anyway, let’s talk about the wedding dress, which is couture Oscar de la Renta. Allison and Ricky took a stroll across a dusty prairie road, complete with some picturesque mountains in the distance. I always shudder a little to see white gowns and veils wafting upon a dirt road, but that’s why someone wise invented dry cleaning (even though those chemicals are so toxic). The dress was handmade with an impossible number of beads on an overlay. It’s pretty, right? A little dull, but conservative is the way to go at weddings.
Attendees at the shindig included Katy Perry, John Mayer, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, Bee Shaffer, and Lena Dunham. Hopefully, Lena didn’t wear an atrocious dress and make it all about herself. I guess Katy and John probably went together because they can’t stop being an on-off couple. Oh well. Congrats to Allison and Ricky! They both looked happy and beautiful.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
I think she is very classic looking and it was the right choice for her…She was never going to go wild and probably wanted a dress that would still look good in 50 years showing her grandkids.
Agree! I watch all those “Say Yes to the Dress” shows and I’m always amazed at the crap women are picking. The question in your mind should be, when I look back in 10, 20, 50 years, will this dress still be beautiful? I think of my grandmother’s beautiful satin wedding dress from the 40’s that is still gorgeous today. And I also think of my friend’s wedding dress from the early 90’s. Puffy sleeve, cheap lace nightmare. Ugh.
Absolutely….A classic design for a wedding dress should always be the way to go. Look at Sarah Jessica Parker, she wore black for her wedding as she wanted to be different and now says it was a horrible mistake.
@MG,
“I’m always amazed at the crap women are picking. The question in your mind should be, when I look back in 10, 20, 50 years, will this dress still be beautiful?”
I say the same thing every time I watch that show. Every time I see women buying those big ruffly dresses all I can think is that they’re going to look back on it the way women from the 80s and 90s look back on puffy sleeves and poofy turtleneck dresses.
Like Lady D’s! HORRIBLE DRESS.
I think the dress is beautiful (I’m so over strapless gowns.)
oh me too !! i never understood putting the girls on display on your wedding day for your family to see the cleavage – guess i’m too modest
This is just a version of all the other recent bride dresses in the past four or five years… It looks like all these brides are all wearing the same dress.
Nicki Hilton , Kate Middleton, Etc….
Although I did like Nicki’s dress and Allisons dress is beautiful, are all the designers just now redoing a version on the same dress?
But…Princess Grace did it best, and nothing wrong with a take on Grace’s lovely dress. So, Whatever works for the bride.I
Me too! Maybe I’m just too old-fashioned but I love the more modest wedding dresses. I never understood why women want to look “sexy” on their wedding day and have all their cleavage out front.
Agreed, love the classy dress. But lose the pink lippy!
I’m just bored of almost all the brides in the public eye lately wearing the exact same dresses.
No individuality, they all are just versions of the same lace top dress.
That’s why I adored Carolyn Bessette Kenndey when she stepped out of that church in her dress, NO ONE else was wearing that style at the time, she had her own look, she had her own individual style.
I’m a big fan of that style of wedding dress.
+1 So classy and timeless looking.
same +100
Nothing wrong with wanting to do a “classic” look. It IS important to think about timeless-ness, no matter how quirky!
I love the dress and she looked so beautiful. But as gorgeous as that picture is with the mountains, I also was horrified at dragging that couture dress through the dirt. No telling what it cost and it will never be the same again. Oh well, she looked very happy.
her instagram ID is ‘aw’? that’s cool.. lol
Bruce Springsteen? That’s all I got.
^^ agreed! But will add that Oscar de la Renta was my favorite designer and I’m holding my breath waiting to see if the brand can maintain its look. I didnt think 2015’s collection stayed with the look of the brand. Personally I don’t feel this dress hits the mark.
Love the dress, but you would never catch me walking down a dirt road while wearing it.
That filtered John Mayer picture is honestly one of the best things, it makes me guffaw every time I look at it.
which is often
Beautiful, classic, and elegant.
I would wear that!
Why is it boring? It’s a classy and classic 1950s style dress that will be beautiful and elegant forever. I hate to whine along with all the haters that scream ”I’m so tired of seeing the same white strapless cupcake dress with pushup boobs” but, yeah.
It is a beautiful dress and a good dress to wearer match.
I hate those type of photos, too. Wedding dresses dragged in the dirt, wedding dresses sloshing around in full tide on the beach, wedding dresses in pastures soaked to the knees in dew. As if brides would do such a thing normally, it’s all part of a stupid trend that will have them staring at their photos years from now, going, “hm. I have no idea why we did that.”
But other than that, carry on, Allison. You looked beautiful.
Beautiful dress, but I am surprised she got married on Emmy weekend.
The dress is gorgeous and Allison is too! She is one of the most beautiful girls in hollywood – pity she doesn’t have the talent to match.
Pretty but sort of overrated and kind of an annoying personality, also that sex scene she did in Girls turned my stomach. Looked gross, but that was the directors, decision I suppose?
yeah, every time i see her now i can’t unsee that scene with her leaning on the kitchen sink and that guy just going to downtown on her…ugh…i mean that was straight up porn, i don’t see how that guy was just “acting” his entire head was in her butt!
They even made a joke about it at the Emmys last night.
That scene was pornographic, it really was unnecessary. They could have accomplished the gist of the scene without being so graphic. I get that Girls likes to go for shock value, but that was PORN. I’m surprised Allison went for it. It was gross viewing.
Loved the dress- but totally agree with why drag it through the dirt??? While dry cleaning bills of course aren’t a worry here, it is amazing to me how much it costs to preserve these gowns. Recently saw a Oscar de La Renta show that inc wedding gowns from different decades- none looked dated or vintage-y. And the detail was stunning.
Im kinda lost who is she? Should i know her, or something?
Cause i only came for the dress but no idea who she is.
Just a OK actress, wearing a similar lace expensive dress as all the other recent brides.
Boring Like Her, pretty and Boring… and the tut tutting ladies about cleavage etc etc etc LOL Is Not like everyone is getting married in those horrible Pnina Tornai hose titty hoisters things, ya know? is that wedding season is summer and people would like not to sweat buckets and what not
I think this dress is beautiful. I love that it’s a departure from the strapless dress that became the standard for most women and is now the most tired look going. This dress also perfectly suits Allison’s style and look.
Wedding dresses are meant to be worn. They’re clothes. They’re going to get dirty. If it’s after the ceremony and they are walking to the reception (if memory serves they got married on a ranch)-what do people want her to do? Ride in a cart and then keep the dress pristine the entire time?
I tried to keep my dress clean until after the ceremony and pictures, but at the reception I gave zero cares. I was there to dance and party, even if the hem had 2 inches of dirt on it. That’s what cleaners are for. If you’re SO worried about your dress being perfect the entire day-they you’re doing something wrong IMO.
Right on.
Right on…
my dress had a wine spill on the side when I finally took it off that night, I had no idea when or how I spilled the wine, that’s how much fun I was having. LOL
I don’t know about the dress in the dirt, but two thumbs up on the choice of groom – that is one amazing starter marriage. Congratulations!
(Dude is worth $25 million.)
I haven’t seen Girls, so, admittedly, I don’t know much about Allison Williams.
I’ll just say that it’s somewhat amusing when your one impression of someone is from the hullabaloo surrounding an explicit sex scene and then you see them dressed as the princess bride. . .
Putting that aside, I hope she had a lovely wedding.
That’s what made me laugh a bit, she’s looking all innocent or clean cut in her white wedding dress, but that Nasty sex scene was straight up PORN. I was surprised she agreed to do it.
Sweet photo but I can’t take her unfortunately. She is the definition of the phrase “born on third base but thinks she hit a triple.”
OMG, so true. She has this annoying smugness and even talked about having “vague Oscar plans.” She reminds me of graduates who have just joined the workplace and end up rubbing the older people the wrong way with their moxie. I hope she grows out of it or at least learns to tone it down. Aside, she’s always immaculately presented but unfortunately I disagree with a lot of posters here: she’s not that beautiful. Too thin equals too much jaw/chin/teeth. Her arms are also quite distracting in many photos. Pre-weight loss, much better. She actually looks a lot of like her hubby, who’s a start-up millionaire. Her wedding dress IS really lovely and will look amazing to her distant descendants looking through her pics in a couple of hundred years.
Yawn. Everyone is wearing the same lace top wedding dress now….so years from now THAT will look dated so really, it doesn’t matter if it isn’t another strapless dress because a trend is still a trend and trends always look dated.
(I personally never saw the big deal about looking “dated”).
I’m with you.