Blake Lively had an unforgettable wedding with Ryan Reynolds in 2012 – and of course she wore an exquisite dress.

However, her custom-made Marchesa wedding dress with gold embroidery looked very different at the end of the evening after it fell victim to a sparkler.

Blake recalled the “heartbreaking” moment when she saw her beautiful dress burned during the reception after her wedding in South Carolina.

“I get really frustrated when something goes wrong,” she previously told Vogue.

“Like my wedding dress. Florence Welch sang at the reception and they brought out these sparklers and I watched her sing.

“I look down and my wedding dress has a big burn mark from one of the sparklers. Right in the front! And it was just so heartbreaking for me.”

Despite her grief, Blake changed her mind about the disaster after receiving a reassuring message from her husband.

She added: “And later my dress was on the floor and Ryan said, ‘Isn’t that beautiful?’ I said, ‘What?’ And he pointed to the burn.”

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“My heart just stopped because it was such a sensitive little subject. And he said, ‘You’ll always remember that moment when Florence sang and the sparklers lit. You’ve captured that forever, right there.'”

She added: “This is now my favorite part of the dress.”

Blake and Ryan were married on September 9, 2012, at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

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The couple spent their wedding day exclusively with Martha Stewart Weddings, and photos of the intimate ceremony featured lavish details, including a dessert table filled with sweet treats, a glimpse of Blake’s stunning dress, and her Lorraine Schwartz wedding rings.

Ryan later admitted that the only thing he regrets about their wedding day is the venue.

Ryan called the plantation wedding a “huge mistake” after he and Blake came under scrutiny for glorifying a place that once witnessed violence against black slaves.

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“It’s something we will always be deeply and unreservedly sorry about,” Ryan said in the September 2020 issue of Fast Company.

“These are irreconcilable. What we saw then was a wedding venue on Pinterest. What we saw afterward was a place built on a devastating tragedy.”

Pinterest even responded to the controversy by banning all plantation wedding photos from its platform, including Ryan and Blake’s.

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“Weddings should be a symbol of love and unity. Plantations do not represent any of that,” a Pinterest spokesperson said at the time.

“We are working to limit the distribution of these content and accounts on our platform and continue to not accept advertising for them.”

In the same interview, Ryan said that he and Blake had a secret second wedding at their home years later, but he did not reveal any specific details about their special day.

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“We remarried years ago at home – but shame has strange effects. A huge (swear word) mistake like that can either make you shut yourself down, or it can reframe things and move you to action,” he explained.

“That doesn’t mean you won’t get back on your feet. But restructuring and challenging lifelong social conditioning is a work that never ends.”