W Magazine recently shared a closer look at Ciara’s fairytale inspired wedding dress designed by Roberto Cavalli Creative Director Peter Dundas.

It turns out that the wedding’s castle location inspired Dundas to craft a classic, but fairytale-like dress. He also managed to create the garment in a remarkably short period of time. Ciara called him about making the dress back in March, and the wedding took place in early July.

Says Dundas,

Ciara didn’t want it to be too va va va voom. It was heavily, heavily embellished with embroidery, appliques, beads, layers of tulle… I mixed Italian baroque patterns with like flying birds, butterflies, French wheat patterns [a symbol of good luck], and their initials on the back. And it had sleeves. I like sleeves in general, and put them on a lot of my dresses. You don’t always want to have your arms on show, and when you cover them with sleeves, it’s a nice way to allow you to focus more on the neck, the bust, and things like that. But Ciara’s also somebody who absolutely has a very strong faith, so it was a religious wedding and she wanted something that was appropriate for that.

For more exclusive pics head over to W Magazine.