Harley Weir Wore a Corseted Dilara Findikoglu Dress for Her Ireland Wedding to John Kelleher

Source: Vogue
Category: Fashion
Originally Published: 2025-11-01
Curated: 2025-11-02 10:13

Dilara Findikoglu made Harley Weir’s wedding dress the night before the bride flew to Ireland to marry John Kelleher in Lismore Castle. Crafted using look 26 from the Turkish designer’s fall 2023 collection as the template, Weir trawled Etsy for “bits and bobs” to soup up the already exquisite corsetry that Findikoglu had deemed not quite ornate enough for her photographer friend’s wedding. “Let’s take it to the next level,” said Findikoglu, who kept in cahoots with the vintage-loving bride as Weir truffled out 100-year-old fabrics, while the designer herself was in the throes of finishing her spring 2026 collection.

Vogue readers will know that Weir modeled in Findikoglu’s fall 2025 show, in which models were invited to play moody but ethereal medieval rockstars, and had the audience spellbound. It was heaven for Weir, who says she would live in period dress if she could. “I felt like a princess, I must say,” she reflects of wearing her wedding dress, a couture-adjacent gown festooned with bows and decorated with a pre-Raphaelite-meets-Princess Leia veil, again imagined by Findikoglu. “It was this beautiful, ephemeral thing,” shares Weir, who delighted in seeing mud creeping onto its delicate lengths as she took a post-ceremony turn around the gardens in a pair of Manolos she found on Vestiaire and bleached in her bathtub. “I like clothes that have a story.”

There were more tales to come. Weir’s bridesmaids, who all wore pretty pink Simone Rocha dresses, helped Weir to de-corset and slip into one of Jaimee Callon McKenna’s crochet confections for the wedding dinner of pea soup, roast beef, and crème brûlée. “I sent Jaimee some ancient stone circle patterns from Scotland,” notes the bride, who took the bewitching aesthetic to the next level with a chain crochet necklace by Arielle de Pinto, a pair of wooden shoes whittled by Callon McKenna’s boyfriend, Paspaley pearl earrings, and a vintage YSL bag scored, again, when the Vestiaire gods were smiling on her.

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