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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
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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* The dress at the end of ''[[Coming to America]]''.
* Worn in a fantasy sequence in ''[[Bride
* [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'' 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 [[
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* In proving the "fairy tale" part right, [[The Nostalgia Chick]] revealed her [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Arwen]] costume in ''[[Suburban Knights]]'' was an adapted wedding dress (and that many times the cast would step on the thing's tail...).
▲== 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'' 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]]''.
== Western Animation ==
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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.]
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[[Category:Rule of Glamorous]]
[[Category:Dresses, Gowns, and Skirts]]
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[[Category:Princess Tropes]]
[[Category:Wedding and Engagement Tropes]]
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