Mariah Carey Rewore Her Wedding Dress in 2005 Music Video; Here’s Why
Mariah Carey has revealed the inspiration behind the wedding gown worn in her 2005 We Belong Together music video. It turns out the dress was the same one she wore when she married ex-Sony Music executive Tommy Mottola back in 1993. In a new episode of Vevo Footnotes, Carey spoke about the artistic vision behind the video, in which she plays a bride running away from her wedding. Rather than buying a new dress for the shoot, she chose to recycle her original Vera Wang wedding gown from her first marriage—making both a practical and symbolic choice. “Since I was going to do a scene with a wedding dress, rather than spend tons of money on a new one, we just used the one I had lying around!” Carey revealed. By the time the video was filmed, Carey had long since divorced Mottola. The couple were married for about five years, with their split taking place in the late 1990s. We Belong Together was released in 2005 under Island Records and marked a major comeback …
