Here comes the bride! On the July 30 episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty, “Last Stand,” Belly chose her wedding dress during a mall shopping trip to a prom dress store with Taylor and her mom, Lucinda. Notably absent was Belly’s mom, Laurel, who refused to accompany her daughter on the shopping trip — she still doesn’t approve of Belly’s marriage to Jeremiah, after all. Belly’s wedding dress is a simple white silk number, with thin spaghetti straps and a low back detail, that she and Taylor found on the sale rack. The show poses the dress as a plain, cheap dress, but in reality, it’s actually a Victoria Beckham number that costs over $1,000.
“It’s too plain though, right? I mean, it’s not fancy enough,” Belly asks Taylor when she tries on the dress. “No, no, no, it’s you. Yeah. This is the dress,” Taylor tells her. Between Belly’s engagement ring from Jeremiah (let’s just say it’s tiny) and her “discounted” wedding dress, some fans online are screaming from the rooftops that Belly deserves better. After all — as multiple viewers pointed out on social media — Belly’s wedding dress seems less formal than her dress for prom (which she attended with Conrad back in Season 2) and her Season 1 deb ball dress.
Fans took to Twitter/X to give their true thoughts on Belly’s wedding dress. One user wrote, “I think this dress is very beautiful and elegant but as a wedding dress big no. It’s RIDICULOUS that belly and jere are trying to get married even though they’re too broke to buy a wedding dress.” Another said, “Belly’s wedding dress 😭😭😭 atleast it’d match the small ring Jeremiah got for her lmfao #tsitp3 this is so unserious oh my lord .. ‘wedding dress’ from a prom dress store mind u.”
But this is TV magic at its greatest, because the dress Belly is wearing is actually kind of iconic; it’s the Victoria Beckham Cami Floor-Length Dress ($1,150), a ’90s-inspired dress that features crepe back satin and a scooped deep V-cut back. Beckham herself has worn a version of the dress — she tried on the pink shade in 2023 in a video she posted to social media. In the caption, she wrote, “I created this dress exclusively for Kim Kardashian to wear at my VB SS24 show in Paris. I immediately wanted it! The shape is simple, flattering and comes in a beautiful baby pink colour!! Kisses xx.” Kardashian then wore the dress at the Victoria Beckham Spring/Summer 2025 Paris Fashion Week show.
Plus, some fans have pointed out that the simplicity of the dress is actually Belly’s style (just as Taylor points out). “Hearing that wedding dress slander from their side because ‘its too simple’ y’all f*cking don’t know Belly at alll its getting annoying,” one user said.
On the flip side, others pointed out another moment from the scene entirely — the purple floral dress hanging behind Belly, which seems to be eerily reminiscent of Belly’s prom dress that she wore when she was dating Conrad.
Only time will tell if Belly actually wears the dress down the aisle.