Video: Elizabeth Taylor's first wedding dress goes up for auction Elizabeth Taylor was given the gown, designed by Hollywood costumier Helen Rose, by MGM after she starred in "Father of the Bride" in 1950. "It was really the weddings of weddings at the time she was Hollywood royalty even at the age of 18 and it was the wedding that everyone wanted to go to, 700 guests - Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire - everyone that was anyone at the time was there and it was the dress that was the star of the show," said Nicolette Tomkinson, Director of Christie's Auction House in London. The dress took 15 people three months to make, it contains 15 yards (13.7 meters) of white satin and is covered with bugle beads, seed pearls and has a built in corset. Elizabeth Taylor's marriage to Hilton ended in divorce after just nine months, and she went on to marry a further seven times. She donated the dress to an auction in Beverly Hills in the 1960s. The woman who bought it gave it to her granddaughter, who wore it at her wedding in 1974 and remains happily married today. The gown is expected to fetch between £30,000 and £50,000 at auction on Wednesday.