Corrie fans go wild for 'best wedding dress ever' as Gemma marries Chesney but others distracted by another major detail
29.05.2023 - 21:21
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
She was never going to anything but extra on her wedding day and Gemma Winter was a tangerine dream as she walked down the aisle in a giant light-up gown. Gemma met her groom Chesney Brown in a twinkling orange dress hailed as the 'best wedding dress ever.'
Co-designed and made by drag queen and fashion designer Liquorice Black, Gemma's dress, with a seven-metre long train, had 125 metres of tiny fairy lights activated by remote control and approximately 10,000 stones individually glued on by hand. Chesney beamed with pride as his bride walked towards him to the song The Promise by Girls Aloud in Monday's Coronation Street.
The couple, whose friendship blossomed into love after they worked together in Dev Alahan's kebab shop, have had plenty of ups and downs including Gemma going into labour with their quads in a cable car in Llandudno, struggling to make ends meet, and Gemma's twin brother Paul Foreman has been helping them out while hiding the secret that he has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease.
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But all eyes were on Gemma, played by Dolly-Rose Campbell, as she walked down the aisle in the most extravagant wedding dress Weatherfield has ever seen. She was on the arm of her brother, as he struggled to walk down the aisle, after the pair fell out just before the wedding.
On Twitter @teenamassam exclaimed: "Gemma dressed like a big tangerine…" And @elisjonesx enthused: "Kind of obsessed with Ar Gemma’s wedding dress."
@xViCkIx_said: "Gemma’s dress is just outrageous, yet incredible. I weirdly love it." @magso5 said: "Best wedding dress ever." @Momrocks50 gasped: "OMG I LOVE IT THE DRESS." And @ronan367 applauded: "Gemma walking down the isle