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{{trope}}
[[File:erin_wedding_dress_5165erin wedding dress 5165.jpg|link=Daria|frame|A gown as lovely as one made by a [[Fairy Godmother]].]]
 
A fancy wedding dress with an old-fashioned style of skirt, usually full length and bell-shaped, and plenty of trimmings such as pearls, flowers, lace, [[Giant Poofy Sleeves]], a [[Giant Waist Ribbon]], a long train, a large veil, etc. After all, what's a [[Wedding Day]] without some [[Costume Porn]]?
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When it is a wedding, this tends to be worn by younger women. Older women are usually seen as [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids|not being so naive]] about how wedding should go (even if they aren't [[Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids|above romance]]).
 
Now as the name indicates, this dress is likely to show up at [[Happily Ever After|the end of]] some [[Fairy Tale|Fairy Tales]]s, or at least modern works of them. (Genuine folk fairy tales tend to skip over the satorial details to lavish attention on the villain's horrific death. Illustrated versions may show it, though.)
 
It isn't immune to being [[Impossibly Tacky Clothes]] if either the bride has little taste or she is forced to wear such a dress. It also isn't immune from being [[Doomed New Clothes]] or a [[Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress]], unless it's a live action work and the dress is too expensive to wreck.
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* Several of the dresses in ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]''.
* In ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding]]'', Toula finds her dress overdone, at least with the veil on.
{{quote| '''Toula:''' ''[upon seeing herself in the mirror]'' I'm a snow beast.}}
* The dress at the end of ''[[Coming to America]]''.
* Worn in a fantasy sequence in ''[[Bride Andand Prejudice]]''.
* [http://hollywoodmoviecostumesandprops.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/wedding-dress-from-father-of-bride.html Annie's wedding dress] in ''[[Father of the Bride]].
 
== Film, Animated ==
* The dress at the end of ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', even though it's less fancy than her iconic dress (which is irrelevant to the trope, in case anyone wondered).
* Ariel's dress at the end of ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''.
* The [[Gorgeous Garment Generation|magically created]] dress at the end of ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''.
* [[Mulan]]'s wedding dress at the end of ''Mulan II'' actually combines this with [[Lady in Red]], since in ancient China, the bride's dress is colored red.
* Jasmine's wedding dress in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin and the King of Thieves]]''.
* Elizabeth and a mouse wear a matching on at the end of ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]]''.
 
== Live Action TV ==
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== Music ==
* Although [[BeyonceBeyoncé]] kept her actual wedding dress a secret, she's worn a couple for performances. One for a video, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120116130556/http://justjared.buzznet.com/photo-gallery/2019131/beyonce-wedding-dress-07/ this one] with a [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers|feather-trimmed skirt]] for the 2009 [[BET]] awards.
 
 
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== Western Animation ==
* Erin's dress in the ''[[Daria]]'' episode "I Don't," pictured above.
* The dress at the end of ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', even though it's less fancy than her iconic dress (which is irrelevant to the trope, in case anyone wondered).
* Ariel's dress at the end of ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''.
* The [[Gorgeous Garment Generation|magically created]] dress at the end of ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''.
* Rapunzel's wedding dress in the upcoming sequel short ''[[Tangled|Tangled Ever After]]''.
* The [[Disney Princess]] franchise actually gave [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]], [[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Aurora]], and [[Beauty and the Beast|Belle]] their own wedding dresses, since we actually do not see them marry at the end of their films.
* Jasmine's wedding dress in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin and the King of Thieves]]''.
* [[Mulan]]'s wedding dress at the end of ''Mulan II'' actually combines this with [[Lady in Red]], since in ancient China, the bride's dress is colored red.
* The [[Disney Princess]] franchise actually gave [[Snow White (Disney film)|Snow White]], [[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Aurora]], and [[Beauty and the Beast|Belle]] their own wedding dresses, since we actually do not see them marry at the end of their films.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "The Ticketmaster," Rarity imagines herself marrying Princess Celestia's nephew while wearing one of these (with a rather long train), despite being a unicorn. [http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg78/evalana/blog/mlpfim_ep0319.png Pic here.]
* Lois's dress in ''[[Family Guy]]'', which can be seen on a picture on the house stairway.
* Hayley wore one in ''[[American Dad]]'', although she was [[Brainwashed]].
* Elizabeth and a mouse wear a matching on at the end of ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]]''.
 
 
== Real Life ==
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** The future Queen Elizabeth II's dress.
** Princess Diana's dress, although she [[WTH Costuming Department|hoped the moths had gotten to it]].
** Kate Middleton's dress [https://web.archive.org/web/20140706043049/http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/editor-s-picks/wedding-dress-fit-for-a-queen-1.1098745 here] and [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8483330/Royal-wedding-Kate-Middleton-wears-Queens-tiara.html here] is in the "fitted princess" style, which is [[Tropes Are Flexible|mild for this trope]], but has enough lace and fabric to count.
** Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, was married three times. Although his first wife, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, wore a relatively simple dress, his next two wore gowns that fit this. His second, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, wore the most extravagant (seen [http://www.flickr.com/photos/8637723@N05/3607520259/ here] and [http://www.flickr.com/photos/8637723@N05/3609540441/in/photostream/ here]), with a dress loaded with trimmings of gauze and [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers|soft feathers]].
** [[Grace Kelly]]'s wedding dress was designed by [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning costume designer Helen Rose, and 36 seamstresses worked on it for six weeks. Parts of the dress were made of nineteenth-century Brussels needle lace. Today, it's [http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/56621.html displayed] at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
* [[Celine Dion]]'s wedding dress. Even had a matching [[Pretty in Mink|white mink jacket]] to wear outside in the cold.
* There are [[Hello Kitty]] themed weddings that includes several dresses like these. Think this is a joke? See [https://web.archive.org/web/20121130014233/http://forladiesbyladies.com/index.php/2009/03/20/hello-kitty-weddings-goodbye-to-good-taste/ here] and [http://www.kittyhell.com/2009/11/23/hello-kitty-wedding-dress/ here].
* And, of course, there are wedding dresses based on [[Disney Princess]] dresses, which can be viewed [https://web.archive.org/web/20130826100156/http://www.disneybridal.com/ here]. The dresses aren't necessarily based on what the girls wear in their movies, but capture their look and feel. Yet some forgo the traditional bell shape (the one for [[The Little Mermaid|Ariel]] is obviously mermaid-style, for instance), but still fit this trope otherwise.
* Many wealthier Irish Travellers are notorious for having lavish weddings with large, poofy gowns. (See examples [https://web.archive.org/web/20141109103203/http://chateaudelu.blogspot.com/2009/05/irish-traveller-update_21.html here], [http://irishfireside.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/travellerphoto.jpg here], and [http://tackyweddings.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/youngestbrides_450x250.jpg here.]
 
{{reflist}}
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[[Category:Rule of Glamorous]]
[[Category:Dresses, Gowns, and Skirts]]
[[Category:AlwaysUsually Female]]
[[Category:Princess Tropes]]
[[Category:Wedding and Engagement Tropes]]