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TAPE: EF03/0652 IN_TIME: 05:35:46 DURATION: 1:27 SOURCES: ABC RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: New York, 17 July 2003 SHOTLIST: 1 Various shots model wearing dress on walkway 2 Various of diamonds on top part of dress 3 Model removes outer skirt of dress 4 Medium shot model walks away from cameras showing back of dress and returns to show diamond ring 5 Wide of models on catwalk NEW YORKER PAYS $300K FOR DRESS Every bride wants to look like a million dollars on her wedding day, and one woman from New York was helped a long way down the aisle towards that when she bought a dress by designer Anthony La Bate It cost more than three-hundred-thousand US dollars La Bate says the dress, which is adorned with eleven-hundred diamond studs, is the most expensive wedding gown ever worn in the United States The bride is remaining anonymous, but La Bate says she is twenty three years old and lives in Brooklyn Her father paid for the dress which comes in two pieces It includes a detachable ball gown that can be taken off after the formal part of the wedding in order to make it easier for the bride to dance and enjoy the reception As for the ring that went with the dress: it was a thirteen carat square cut diamond And that piece of ice came with a very cool price tag of about three-hundred-and-forty thousand (US) dollars