- In August 2022, the sheer height of Teresa Giudice's wedding hair set the internet on fire.
- Teresa Giudice's daughter Gabriella said her wedding hair looked like a "rat's nest."
Bravo fans finally got to see Teresa Giudice's August wedding to Luis Ruelas on Tuesday's episode of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" — which means we also got to see everyone's initial reaction to her polarizing wedding hair.
Giudice's daughter Gabriella didn't censor her thoughts, and her opinion wasn't positive. "You literally look like a rat's nest," the 19-year-old said when Giudice asked if her daughters liked her hairstyle, which she planned around a crown with her hairdresser Lucia Casazza.
"Obviously it's big," said her daughter Gia, 22. "Queen Elizabeth probably has a crown like that."
In a confessional interview, Giudice said she chose to wear the crown on her wedding day because she loves "statement pieces" that are "dramatic."
"I love the height of it," she added, though on her wedding day she admitted it did make her head feel heavy.
Giudice and Rulas got married on August 6, 2022 at the Park Chateau Estate & Gardens in East Brunswick, New Jersey in front of 220 guests.
Her friend and castmate Jennifer Aydin said in an interview that she was a "team player," but her thoughts on the hairstyle were that "hair is supposed to be an accent piece, not the main event." Aydin also commented on her friend's look at a BravoCon panel in October, saying that wedding guests "gasped" when Giudice walked out on her big day.
Castmate Dolores Catania told cameras that though her friend looked "beautiful" on her big day, she did wish the hair were a little bit "lower."
Giudice's half-up/half-down tower of curls required about 1,500 hairpins, Casazza told the family and friends that were in the 51-year-old's bridal suite getting ready with her.
On the SiriusXM radio show "Andy Cohen Live" in August, Casazza told Cohen that she used a custom-made mesh insert and $7,000 worth of hair extensions to create the look. Combined with Casazza's $2,500 styling fee, the hairstyle cost Giudice nearly $10,000 and took nearly two hours to disassemble.
Part one of the season 13 "Real Housewives of New Jersey" reunion airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.