Fit For A Queen.(Georgina Chapman's wedding dress)

Byline: --WILLIAM NORWICH EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR

MARCHESA'S GEORGINA CHAPMAN CREATES A DRESS FOR THE EVENT OF A LIFETIME--HER WEDDING TO HARVEY WEINSTEIN.

That the history of fashion is not exactly crowded with accounts of designers making their own bridal dresses meant that whatever Georgina Chapman engineered for her recent nuptials to entertainment potentate Harvey Weinstein would be significant. Vera Wang created her own frock, of course, but Chanel never married. . . . Pressure? Not too much, says Georgina, cofounder, with Keren Craig, of Marchesa.

"A while back I was asked to make a special-occasion, one-off dress for a private client, and I designed several options," she says. "I always try on a dress to get an indication of how it is working, and when I put on this particular silhouette I said to myself, 'One day when I get married, this is what I am going to wear.' "

Several months later, she was engaged. The wedding--with about 320 guests, including Renee Zellweger and a very pregnant Jennifer Lopez --took place at the couple's Connecticut home on Long Island Sound. The house and property were reimagined as a winter wonderland of green and white with three party tents decorated by Robert Isabell, tarot-card readers and pool tables before the ceremony, the most splendid fireworks over the Sound right after "I ...