As it happened, I covered various parts around Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham’s 2022 Florida wedding. Nicola and Brooklyn got a Vogue cover for their actual wedding, and Nicola got several other magazine cover stories following the wedding, where she shared additional details and stories. Well, those interviews are coming back to haunt her, in a way. In Brooklyn’s IG Stories statement on Monday, he claimed that his mother Victoria Beckham was supposed to make Nicola’s wedding gown but Victoria pulled out at the eleventh hour. This contradicts Nicola’s own account of selecting her Valentino gown months in advance, with HER mother by her side.
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham claims his mom, Victoria Beckham, broke her promise to make a wedding dress for his wife, Nicola Peltz Beckham, “at the eleventh hour,” but a previous report suggests otherwise.
Nicola, 31, wore custom Valentino Haute Couture to walk down the aisle in April 2022. According to Vogue, the look was a long time in the making, and that her bridal look was the product of conversations with former Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli’s team that spanned at least a year.
Leslie Fremar, Nicola’s stylist at the time, described the process of choosing from sketches, fabrics and other elements as “the ultimate couture experience.”
The year’s worth of conversation, the magazine noted, also included two trips to Rome and two fittings in the United States. “Seeing all the runway dresses in real life was so magic,” Nicola told Vogue ahead of the ceremony about visiting the atelier. “It looked like someone’s dream closet.”
Preparations also included a fitting with Nicola trying on a mock-up of the garment before additional changes were made to the final design. “The simplicity of it was magnificent,” Fremar said at the time. “We didn’t have to overly detail the dress to accomplish the magnitude of it, so we ended up eliminating the embroidery.”
The head seamstresses also traveled to Florida — Nicola and Brooklyn, 26, tied the knot at the bride’s Palm Beach estate — to ensure every detail of the look, which included a sleeveless square neckline and cathedral-length train, went off without a hitch, per Vogue.
The magazine’s reporting, which was first published on April 10, 2022, seemingly contradicts Brooklyn’s new claim that his fashion designer mom, 51, was set to design his bride’s gown, but pulled out at the last minute.
While it’s more than possible that Nicola and Brooklyn are lying or misrepresenting this one particular story, I’d like to add my two cents – I think it’s possible that both stories are true, because I think it’s likely that Nicola wanted multiple gowns and multiple looks for her wedding. While it’s clear that her Valentino gown was a year-long process, what’s less clear is what Nicola’s original plans were for all of her reception and party looks. She might have intended to wear a VB design after the ceremony, you know? It would make sense, especially if you believe that Victoria skipped out on making the dress at the last minute. Victoria might have learned that Nicola intended for her Valentino gown to be the big look featured in all of the photos, and Victoria was like “why bother making the reception look?”
Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Nicola’s IG. Cover courtesy of British Vogue.
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- Celebrities attend a dinner in celebration of Slow Food at King Charles III’s Gloucestershire estate, Highgrove Gardens Featuring: David Beckham, Victoria Beckham Where: Tetbury, United Kingdom When: 07 Feb 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Celebrities attend a dinner in celebration of Slow Food at King Charles III’s Gloucestershire estate, Highgrove Gardens Featuring: David Beckham, Victoria Beckham Where: Tetbury, United Kingdom When: 07 Feb 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
As someone who designs things for a living, I would’ve said that the original description of the events and the amended description sound like Victoria and Nicola started working together to design a dress, and then it sounds like they weren’t getting along/Victoria got frustrated or fed up with the input from Nicola’s mother and the stylist and pulled the plug on it by blaming the atelier. The part of it that’s a dramatic exaggeration is saying it was the 11th hour, or that this created some huge emergency and she had to buy another sixth wedding dress. I’m sorry, but it’s not sympathetic that this daughter of a billionaire who was having something custom designed at Valentino and other dresses as well! Might’ve had to find a different sixth or seventh dress for her wedding. She already had a bunch of stuff that was getting designed, so this did not create an emergency. Brooklyn Beckham has a lot of reasons to be angry at his parents and every right to stop being in contact with him, and I know this website is sympathetic to them, but I’m sorry the wedding stuff is dumb. They were not paying for it and it comes across as very privileged, ridiculous and out of touch.
Thank you. Yes – all of the above. Brand Beckham may very well be toxic parents. But these two kids – can I ask what they *do*? I mean, Brooklyn has cosplayed photographer, author, chef, fashion plate … but seriously, what does he do for a living? Other than shift from Beckham purse to Petlz purse? And her – influencer? Honestly they don’t even pretend to have any purpose. Blame the parents if you like but at some point they need to own their nonsense. And stop crying because you didn’t get your seventh wedding gown.
How dare we all forget: he is the progenitor of a line of hot sauces…
I agree with all of these comments. I think both sides are at fault here, but the kids act like entitled twats (I mean this in the British sense).
Some of the news coming out about her family’s pre-wedding demands- not to mention the lawsuits- are every bit as unflattering and underscore a longstanding pattern of bad and abusive behavior.
Brooklyn is still in his 20s. No matter what background you’re born into, that’s young. At least he’s not a junkie, a club rat, or a gamer incel. He gets credit for caring about his wife and telling the truth about his incestuous/narcissist family to guard his mental health. He’s not the Über Douche he could be, and we don’t know what he will become.
Agree! I also wonder if the 11th hour stuff isn’t “it was so difficult to find an atelier to achieve her custom reception gown with only 4 months to spare.” Poor pumpkin, i’m surprised she found the will to go on after she found out money might *not* save her (but spoiler, of course it did). And maybe VB had her reasons for pulling out… like she found it insulting to be the 8th dress Nicola wore at the reception, with no Vogue coverage? It is a business, after all. (Does she even do evening/wedding?)
And Brooklyn and his “i will always choose you” hype is a little bit giving coerced testimony. That’s not on Nicola at all, but it does make me side-eye them.
And now Alana Hadid (Gigi sis) is calling Nicola out for similar behavior when she dated brother anwar hadid for 2 years. Started great, fam loved her and vice versa. Then she started kicking up and the couple started unfollowing hadid family and anwar stopped talking to his family. Alana said “she’s been trying to be famous for a decade.”
She likes them young. That bothers me a little.
Anwar Adid is 26 now, as Brooklin. Nicola is 31.
They met years ago, the guys were both really young beside her.
I liked a lot of Laney’s take on her being a January birthday girl and I’m sure she ate Brooklin up. Victoria is maybe not a saint, but I’m sure Nicola is a very dominante and entitled little one and I understand Victoria having concerns.
This^^^. Exactly this. I thought immediately that both stories could be true. I wasn’t as detailed in my thought process but maybe it’s just my sense there’s a whiff of something “off” in the Beckham Brand.
It’s amazing how often “both these stories could simultaneously be true” is disregarded as an answer. Or that they hinge on the definition of something like “last minute.”
I will swear forever that both Meghan and Kate cried after that cursed flower girl fitting, but not in front of each other.
You mean Kate cried after telling Meghan all the flower girl dresses needed to be remade less than a week before the wedding and not showing up to the arranged fitting until she had no other choice? Lol.
My thought is that they’re all assholes.
In response to Delta Juliet and so many of the above commenters.I think it’s stupid that this is such a big deal when at least they got to have another wedding because the first just didn’t work out.Cry me a rich entitled river.Please.Most people if their wedding was destroyed would have to live with it and move on.Nicola got another.And I’m not on any side here because Victoria sounds like an ass, but whatever.
According to a lot of fashionistas eleventh hour in this context could be months even a year. They are usually very detailed and take time,so Victoria and her people could have pulled out a year before and that would still seem like the eleventh hour and no doubt a Billionaires daughter probably had also other couture designers she was seeing through out.
Yes I agree with you Kaiser that Nicola wanted multiple dresses for after the wedding ceremony and she wanted Victoria to design one of those dresses. Why Victoria pulled out last minute one can speculate that she did it to hurt Nicola or didn’t want to bother if the ceremonial gown would be the featured dress but either way not a good way to start with a new daughter-in-law.
Even if Nicola had 20 dresses on stand-by, wouldn’t it still have been hurtful for Victoria to withdraw from making the dress? Of course we can say oh Nicola had so many other options who cares, but it was Brooklyn’s mum, this is her big talent and business and passion, her pulling out sends a huge statement of her acceptance/rejection of Nicola into the family. I know they are all privilege beyond reason but that doesn’t mean it’s cool when your mum turns her nose up at your fiance?
If Victoria is as image obsessed as they claim ( and I believe she is), to back out on a future daughter in law’s dress is a major thing to do. The story would not have stayed private. I imagine there was something very emotional that happened… Maybe Victoria wasn’t aware that Nicola was already scouting and commissioning other dresses, who knows …but it takes two sides to create a conflict and I don’t think either side is 100% innocent of bad, self absorbed behavior.
The best thing thr Beckhams can do is to let Brooklyn alone. Sooner or later, if marrying Nicola was a mistake, or the best thing ever for him, it will all come to light.
Sure. Her feelings can be hurt, by the way it’s possible Victoria’s feelings were hurt as well? And that it was actually better for them not to try to continue working together, and that it created a lot of stress for everybody! But it wasn’t an emergency. And writing about it as if Nicola had nothing to wear to her wedding because of this is childish. It’s not a valid grievance. If the grievance is during the wedding planning process, my mother was very difficult and she didn’t get along with my wife and hurt her feelings that’s a more valid way of presenting it than whining about how she didn’t have a dress when she had a whole bunch of dresses. Again, they were not paying for any of this. We live in a world where people can’t afford medical care and they are still pissed off that she didn’t get an extra wedding dress. Complain about the feelings, not about the dress or the supposed inconvenience.
She didn’t refuse, just said it wouldn’t be able to be done on time. Not a big deal when you have a primary wedding dress and others. I don’t have an ounce of pity for the billionaire MAGA princess.
Exactly Sasha!! She probably had arrange to have a dress designed by Valentino a year in advance. She likely had multiple dresses such as a reception dress that Victoria Beckham was meant to design. Who would pass having Valentino designer wedding dress over Victoria Beckham? Victoria Beckham isn’t a bridal designer. It’s a huge snub for her to pull out and not design a dress and not the best start to a relationship with your daughter-in-law. At best it’s awkward.
I’m with @Sasha on this one. Yes, it’s a snub. And a very obvious one. If you said yes, to a client — much less a prospective family member — you would deliver. Now, if Nicola had expected Victoria to do the dress for free, and Victoria’s atelier was under pressure to turn a profit, and not, as we know from Victoria’s Netflix show, bailed out with millions in cash from her munificent ex-footballer husband, that would be different. But I’m sure Nicola’s parents were happy to pay for her dress, and would have expected to pay for it. Unless Victoria offered to make it a gift, in which case, reneging on the offer to deliver it seems even more crass and pointed.
I doubt he would’ve said that if there wasn’t some truth there. I remember at the time thinking it was odd that she didn’t wear a VB dress as not necessarily the main one but one of the after party dresses or something. It just seemed like it would’ve been cute. How exagerrated the 11th hr part is idk.
All the high-horse moralising about people starving in Eritrea so why are they whinging about a dress is so much whataboutism. It’s not about a dress. It’s about being rejected, snubbed, undermined, and gaslit by a family of self-serving social climbers. Who keep score. Who punch down. The Peltzes might have lamentable politics, but they haven’t attacked David & Victoria. They’ve just defended their daughter. Who appears to be collateral damage to Victoria’s ego. Since she sacrificed her self-respect long ago to say with a cheater. I mean. England is the last European country that Freud has yet to visit. SMDH.
I would have to disagree that the Peltzes didn’t attack the Beckhams in the press. Where did all those negative Victoria stories come from? I’m sure their well paid PR people had something to do with it to protect their precious daughter who’s been dying to be famous in her own right.
The Peltzes are apparently family friends with Rupert Murdoch. If people think they’ve been quiet for years while this is going on, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. A lot of the negative wedding stories came out a few years ago (maybe last year?) and those didn’t come from V&D.
I’d imagine both sides are briefing. The young ones seem to use page 6 and People. The parents used the British tabs more bc they know those journos more, like Katie Hinds and others.
I dunno, y’all. Victoria & David === awful, but that article in the DM today about how the same thing happened with her and the Hadids when she was dating Anwar is pretty compelling. Would it be so surprising if the child of narcissists married a narcissist?
I’ve said this a few times now, but overall I just think they are all narcissists, Brooklyn and Nicola are incredibly privileged and entitled and yes, spoiled – and Victoria and David ARE probably awful ILs. I just think these are just spoiled awful people and I dont have a ton of sympathy all around.
No it wouldn’t. No idea whether the Anwar story is true or not (Alana’s comments are compelling tho) but it’s a reminder that Nicola is no stranger to negative press stories. I doubt every single one of them is untrue.
I also side-eye the fact that she dated Anwar when he was only 17 and she was 22. Ick.
Maybe she didn’t like the dress Victoria was presenting? Maybe Victoria hates her guts and pulled the rug out — my guess is the truth is somewhere in the middle. There is only one side that benefits from the continued discussion and it isn’t Brand Beckham.
I think everything each says about the other is true, nothing like a bunch of rich ass holes fighting like dogs over a bone. I feel sorry for Brooklyn Beckham, he’s in for it no matter what.
Did Brooklyn lie or did Nichola?
Or maybe neither one lied, strictly speaking, but they’re holding onto a grievance about something that happened and upset them and this is how they see it. But that doesn’t mean it’s how it objectively happened. A lot of times in families when in-laws especially don’t like each other it’s not always just one sided. As a lot of people said above, I don’t know why this website and some of the commentators keep saying that Nicola and her parents haven’t briefed the press about this situation. They have been briefing the press the entire time this has been going on since the engagement. The Beckhams have done it as well! But it’s absolutely not the case that Nicola and Brooklyn have remained silent and have not put their side out there. The cancellation of the dress was probably a very fraught and stressful situation, it’s not that he’s lying about it, but it might be that he is exaggerating or that his perspective about it is not unbiased.
I 100% agree with you. All of this isn’t news. The Peltz’s have been pushing this narrative for 3 years but I do believe the Beckham’s have been on the defense. I think they know thry have to be careful with that family.
It’s water under the bridge. The adults aren’t adulting. I would not allow my future mother in law to choose my dress period. The groom’s parents rarely have any say on anything about the wedding. I think the problem may be a cultural issue.
Last minute to the poors using Simplicity patterns versus the horrid spoiled spawn of a magat billionaire having multiple designer creations crafted by hundreds of artisans are two entirely different wedding dress creation scenarios. I am sooo sick of this story. The world is literally on fire. I know people need a distraction, but f#ck me. The interesting nugget in this mess is the press involvement in creating this toxic narrative because similar clusterf#cks are how we ultimately ended up with Brexit and the tangerine terror being elected president twice. Not to thread jack, but Kate Beckinsale on her Instagram had an excellent take on this mess. People don’t chose their parents. Everyone has to find their own way regardless of their parents fame and should do so without experiencing constant press/online toxicity. The only person who seems sympathetic in this entire mess is Brooklyn. And. Boycott f#cking Wendy’s already. No one should have that kind of wealth and privilege when their employees are not earning a living wage.
Weren’t there several caterers that quit? And the Peltz’s sued one of them. I didn’t see anyone going after the caterers. Apparently, or according to, the caterers, the Peltzs were just impossible to deal with. What if the same were true with Nicola and Victoria, and she felt the best thing was just to pull out. What Brooklyn said is just not true: that Victoria pulled out at the last minute, and poor Nicola was forced to scramble to come up with a wedding dress. Except she had been involved in planning and fitting for it for a year. So Victoria did not pull out and leave Nicola hanging for a wedding dress, that she already had. It just seems to be a pattern here that neither Nicola or her family will be criticized or accept an opposing view. And can it be that Nicola ingratiates herself and people love her at first, but then begin to see the flaws, and she pulls away from criticism or any negative response, and influences her partner do so as well. Up until this, there has never been a hint of discord between the Becks and children. Brooklyn has missed opportunities with his family and extended family/friends that will never come by again.
Is the Vogue dress the Valentino?
I think so.
If either Brooklyn or Nicola lied, it was no doubt to cover for or appease his mother. I am certain that he was taught and required to lie often as he grew up in order to maintain his parents’ “brand.”