A major part of Love Actually was almost TOTALLY different

Who knew?

Love Actually Wedding Dress

by Isabella Silvers |
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Love Actually is probably our favourite Christmas film, well, ever.

It might have come out 13 whole years ago (lol feel old yet?), but there's something about Martine McCutcheon getting her guy and Thomas Brodie-Sangster's dash through Heathrow airport that has us tuning in every single year.

But there's one major part of the film that was nearly completely different.

Srsly, this could have changed everything.

Remember when Keira Knightley got hitched in the first scene? Her character Juliet marries Peter (aka Chiwetel Ejifor) and then gets followed down the road by a band.

Love Actually Dress

Keira wears a sheer wedding dress (!) which is so 2003. She also has a sort of wedding dress overcoat with feathers around the neck.

Keira even wore feathers in her hair because she was totally fashion forward.

But according to Love Actually's costume designer, Joanna Johnston, the dress could have been completely different.

Joanna spilled to Grazia that Richard Curtis wanted Keira's character to be a sexy bride, wearing a crop top to get married. Yes, with a bare stomach! In a church!

Can you image the outrage? Would Peter still have married her? We're not sure.

Joanna decided to basically ignore that, but kept the outfit quite tight and form-fitting: " I went for a sheer, layered style instead with petal details underneath; gauzy and multi-layered".

The bare stomach would probably have made us dislike Juliet even more than we already kinda do. Nobody is shouting her out as their favourite Love Actually character, especially when she's all like "I look quite pretty, don’t I?".

(This is where we admit that, yes, she does look absolutely gorgeous actually).

Did you see the totally emotional scene that was cut from the end of the film? We're still crying…

IS there going to be a Love Actually 2? We hope so…

Speaking of wedding dresses, is this what Rory Gilmore will be wearing down the aisle?

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