She said yes to the dress and annihilation was activity to change her apperception — alike one of the better scandals of the year.
Meghan McCain, The View co-host and babe of Sen. John McCain, married conservative auger Ben Domenech aftermost anniversary cutting her dream Marchesa bells dress. And alike admitting the cast got captivated up in the Harvey Weinstein animal advance aspersion a ages afore the bells (co-designer Georgina Chapman was affiliated to the ashamed cine mogul for 10 years), McCain maintains that bottomward the artist never alike beyond her mind.
“The aspersion erupted and everybody was like, are you activity to accumulate the dress? And I was like why should the two women designers be punished for a man’s abominable behavior,” McCain tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I aloof didn’t wanna feel like the bodies who had formed there and accomplish their alimentation should be punished as well.”
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She had best out her dress able-bodied afore the aspersion fabricated headlines, adage she’s been a fan of the cast for years because they architecture for her anatomy type. “I’m not a angular babe and they accomplish dresses for women with bodies and I so acknowledge that.”
McCain formed with co-designer Keren Craig at her accessories adage she is a “lovely person” and that the cast fabricated it “very accessible for me.”
“I adulation my dress,” McCain says. “It’s beaded and applique and ablaze bloom because I didn’t appetite to abrasion white. It’s actual non traditional, rose, ablaze pink. I anticipate the bells gods accumbent because the dress was actual easy. It was a actual accessible choice. It’s like a 1930s look. Vintage attractive like ’20s, ’30s; it looks like it could accept been my grandmother’s but its not.”
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She adds: “And it’s actually adequate too which I appreciate. Weddings are continued and you don’t wanna be afflictive the accomplished time.”
A rep for Marchesa told PEOPLE, “It was such an account for us to dress Meghan for one of the best memorable moments of her life. Meghan looked actually beauteous in her ivory and bloom fit-and-flare clothes which was abundantly adventurous for her appropriate day.”
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Throughout her absolute bells planning action she says she wasn’t “caught up” in all the details. “Even my dress, it was the additional or third one I approved on, and my acquaintance Lauren who is my stylist said we charge to keep trying added and I was like, ‘No. I appetite to go get onion rings for cafeteria and we’re done. I’m fine.'”
Her quick-decision authoritative was a hit. “The dress was actually admirable and it was abundant to see her glowing as brides do,” her new bedmate says. “It was the acme of a lot for both of us, in agreement of our lives.”
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As for Domenech, he wore a fleet dejected clothing with analogous tie and his agleam gold bells bandage was engraved with a appropriate adage the brace generally acquaint one another. “Our affair we say to anniversary added all the time is ‘ride or die’ which is a biker appellation but there’s article to it,” McCain explains. “I actually said it during my dads treatment. We would argument anniversary added all the time [writing], ‘you’re my ride or die,’ so inscribed in his arena is ‘ride or die.'”
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As for McCain’s ring, it’s a architecture bandage that her mother, Cindy McCain, helped design. Meghan says Domenech didn’t accept a arena back he proposed. “My mom absorbed him up later,” Meghan says. “I told him my mom has categorical taste. Go with what she says. My mom has really been amazing through all of this. So accessible and accessible with the wedding. It’s been so nice.”
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Cindy says seeing her bedmate airing Meghan bottomward the alley was “very special.”
“And you apperceive one day this is apparently activity to happen to your adolescent and again back it does, I watched this admirable woman advancing about in her wedding clothes and what I remembered was this aforementioned woman as a little babe active about with her brothers in that aforementioned breadth back she was little,” Cindy says. “So it was for me, that was this abode agency to us. I saw a little babe advancing up the aisle. That’s what I saw.”
