Sophia Bush attends Apple’s “Ted Lasso” season two premiere at Pacific Design Center on July 15, 2021 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/WireImage)

Wedding season’s in full swing and another A-list star just tied the knot in another must-see designer wedding dress. Actor, activist, producer, and director Sophia Bush said “I do” to entrepreneur and real estate investor Grant Hughes on June 11 at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa. For her big day, she chose a whimsical, floral-print, balloon-sleeve gown by Monique Lhuillier that perfectly matched the lavish ceremony.

“From the moment we got engaged, I knew what I wanted my dress to be,” Bush told Vogue. “I’d seen a photograph of a Monique Lhuillier dress taken on Lake Como, and I had a vision of creating a personalized version of it, in what I have always thought of as a heritage print: a print of flowers from California, Oklahoma, and Italy, to honor the heritage of our families—where we come from and how we are all coming together to map where we are going.”

Bush hopped on FaceTime calls with the designer to discuss the custom details. Lhuillier wrote on Instagram, “Sophia and I have a friendship that spans over several decades. I was honored to have been asked to design her wedding gown! When she asked me if it would be possible to create a custom print to tell their love story, I exclaimed, ‘Of course!'”

Lhuillier and her team got to work creating “a palette of peach Oklahoma tea roses, deep orange California poppies, warm green and deep inky Italian olives, and butterfly ranunculus.” As their very first couple project, Bush and Hughes created a beehive together, so the designer scanned imagery of the couple’s bees and incorporated them into the print as an added personal touch. Bush thanked the designer on Instagram and expressed her love of her “dream dress.” (See the pics here!)

“To create something so special and so personal with one of my dearest and oldest friends in fashion, @moniquelhuillier, was a true joy and an expression of love,” she wrote. “As a visual person and a storyteller, I love what imagery can represent. On this day, I wanted to represent us. Where we come from. Where we are going. Oklahoma tea roses for my husband and his family. Italian olives and branches for mine, and for what their offering signifies. California poppies for our home together. And our sweet, chunky bees, that we have cultivated together for years now. Colors pulled from sunsets and sunrises in his hometown and mine. An honoring of place, memory, and purpose. Printed in Italy. Sewn in California. Worn in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I will love this forever. What a day.”

Styled by Kevin Michael Ericson, Bush opted for diamond floral earrings from Briony Raymond New York, tying in the blossom theme. As for the accessories, Bush chose to wear only the earrings and her engagement ring. “The dress didn’t need anything else,” she said. “We finished the look with a pair of Monique Lhuillier heels in a perfect shade of pale, peachy pink.”

Her hair was done by Matthew Collins, with her brunette locks slicked back into a classic bun. Makeup artist Afton Williams took care of Bush’s natural, glowing glam. “A blooming rose became our phrase to describe the look we were going for—warm, romantic, and tender,” the Good Sam actress said.

The festivities began on Thursday, when friends and family gathered at Lowood restaurant for drinks and a bit of history. On Friday, the group took tours of historic Greenwood before attending a night-before soirée at Westhope, the historic property of Frank Lloyd Wright. Subscribing to a dress code of “elevated cowboy,” Bush wore an ivory Roksanda Ilincic gown, with a Heron & Pine Rae Rancher hat made all the more stylish topped off with a vintage sterling silver and turquoise hat band from Charlotte’s in California. The bride adorned vintage Cartier diamond and turquoise earrings with an antique silver and turquoise concho belt and turquoise cuff. The groom wore a tuxedo for the night-before bash by F.E. Castleberry in a rustic terra-cotta hue, paying homage to the Oklahoma red earth. He accessorized his look with a Saint Laurent western bow tie and sported a vintage silver eagle lapel pin (also from Charlotte’s) with antique silver thunderbird cufflinks. Hughes finished off his look with a Stetson Open Road Royal Deluxe hat.

The couple met on a New Year’s excursion to Nicaragua almost a decade ago. While remaining friends all this time, the two began seeing each other romantically during the pandemic. Bush and Hughes got engaged in August of 2021 while in Lake Como in Italy. 

They were very surprised to see the amount of media attention their engagement garnered. “When I thought about that spotlight, my activist brain turned on,” Sophia said. “Global attention is a hell of a platform, and as someone who doesn’t love attention but does love collective activism, I knew that this could be an incredible moment to spin the privilege of attention.”

They decided on Oklahoma, Hughes’ native state and the place they spent time during the pandemic, to shine a light on the deep history, and progressive justice work taking place there. “When thinking about the purpose of our wedding, we wanted our community that pours into us to pour into a community at large that we love and that deserves all our attention,” Bush told the publication.