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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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Sometimes it doesn't even have to be worn at a wedding. It can show up in a bridal [[Fashion Show]], or be one of several dresses a character tries on for her wedding (often a dress that she turns down due to either cost or it genuinely not being the kind of dress she wants).
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
Name comes from the term "fairytale wedding", which is meant to evoke old-fashioned grandeur and elegance (look for the newlyweds to leave in a horse drawn carriage), which includes the dress, and is quite popular in [[Weddings in Japan]].
A [[Sub
Compare [["Happy Holidays" Dress]], [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]], [[Little Black Dress]], [[Pink Means Feminine]], [[Princess Phase]].
'''NOTE: Since this involves weddings, some of these entries will be spoilers. [[You Have Been Warned]].'''
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Princess Martina's dress at the end of ''[[Slayers]] Next''.
* The Love Angel dresses in ''[[
* An wedding themed episode of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' featured lots of these.
* A couple of dresses in ''[[Love Hina]]'', including Naru's when she marries Keitaro.
* A potential dress for the princess in ''[[Voltron]]''/''[[
* Clarice's wedding dress in ''Lupin III: [[The
* In the Toei anime of [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]: Honda fantasizes about marrying Miho, with her wearing one of these.
* In ''[[Kuragehime]]'', while watching jellyfish at the aquarium, Tsukimi's mother promised to make her a wedding dress just like that, fit for a princess. Though she then said, "Or is it weird that jellyfish remind me of princesses?"
* In Episode 3 of ''[[Cutie Honey Flash]]'' there are four such wedding dresses that the episode plot revolves around.
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== Comic Books ==
* Jean Grey's wedding dress in ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' has a gorgeous but unconventional mermaid style and a white scarf instead of a veil.
** In [[X-Men (
** Lorna's dress in the [[Relationship Sue|unfortunately]] [[Derailing Love Interests|derailed]] would-be wedding.
* One appears in ''[[Superman]]: The Wedding Album''. However while Ellen Lane thinks it looks wonderful, Lois herself absolutely loathes it. It isn't the dress she wears for the actual wedding.
* Brittany's wedding dress malfunction in ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]''. As a were-cheetah, she planned to marry in her lovely, spotted, eight-foot-tall furry form. The dressmaker, apparently never having seen Brittany, sized the dress for human proportions instead, somehow overlooking fitting sessions or phone verifications. Her barbarian grandmother literally forged her a proper Barbarian-tribe substitute dress: traditional Valkyrie-ish armor. Just when it looked as though Brittany would actually have to wear that, her arch-mage dad conjured a magical wedding dress out of a dream: perfect in every way. She was, of course, overjoyed.
* Being a book about modelling, ''[[
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* The classic dress Ellen wears at the end of ''[[It Happened One Night]]''.
** Given a [[Whole Costume Reference]] in ''[[Oscar]]''.
* Buttercup's dress in ''[[The Princess Bride (
* The would-be wedding dress at the beginning of ''[[Enchanted]]'', and another one that showed up at the end.
* Several of the dresses in ''[[Four Weddings and
* In ''[[
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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
* [[
* 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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* Alice Tinker's wedding dress in ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'' episode "Love & Marriage", although being [[Cloudcuckoolander|Alice]] it has a few unique additions of her own, such as a headpiece that looks like a glass sculpture with hearts hanging from it, fairy lights, and an illuminated bodice reading "I Love Hugo".<ref>Her original design was even weirder: "And for the train, I thought ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]''..."</ref>
* One of the minor characters on ''[[The John Larroquette Show]]'' got married, and his wife wanted a literal fairytale wedding, with her and the bridesmaids in [[Cinderella]]-esque gowns.
* Amy and Donna's dresses when they get married in ''[[
* Darlene's wedding dress in ''[[Roseanne]]''. Originally her grandmother Bev's, its old-fashioned look fit in nicely with Darlene's goth style.
* Phoebe's wedding dresses in ''[[
* Worn as part of a [[Fashion Show]] in ''[[Gia]]'', with a huge [[Pretty in Mink|white fox muff]] that had a bouquet attached. She even tossed the muff when she got to the end of the runway.
* In ''[[Daddy's Daughters]]'', Dasha wears [http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/ros/11878/foto/i2/154099/ one to her wedding], making it [[Goth|the first time she has worn white]].
* Many dresses featured on "Say Yes to the Dress".
* As mentioned below in the real life section, this is often (but not always) the case with weddings in the Traveller and Romany Gypsy Communities, to the extend there is a [[Reality Television]] show about it: ''My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding''.
* Guinevere's coronation gown in ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''. It's unclear whether her coronation doubles as her wedding, but it's still a pimped-out frock and it still involves a ceremony that signifies her marriage to a man.
== Music ==
* Although [[
== Theatre ==
* Christine wears a gorgeously ornate wedding dress, complete with a train, floor-length veil, and lace spiralling up the skirt, in the final scene of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]''. Unfortunately for her, though, she's only wearing it because her [[Stalker
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[
* Yuna's would-be wedding dress in ''[[
* Ashe's dress at the beginning of ''[[
* Medea's dress at the end of ''[[
* In ''[[Medieval]] II: Total War'', the cinematic for the marriage of one of your royal family's daughters shows her entering the cathedral in one of these. The train of the dress is at least ten feet.
* In ''[[King of Fighters]] '02'', Mai wears one in a finishing move ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEaUIjVjKXE see here]).
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== Webcomics ==
* In this [http://nonadventures.com/2009/08/29/tying-the-not/ strip of] ''[[The Non
== Web Original ==
* In proving the "fairy tale" part right, [[The Nostalgia Chick]] revealed her [[The Lord of the Rings (
== Western Animation ==
* Erin's dress in the ''[[Daria]]'' episode "I Don't," pictured above.
* Rapunzel's wedding dress in the upcoming sequel short ''[[Tangled
▲* The dress at the end of ''[[Cinderella (Disney)|Cinderella]]'', even though it's less fancy than her iconic dress (which is irrelevant to the trope, in case anyone wondered).
* The [[Disney Princess]] franchise actually gave [[Snow White and
▲* Ariel's dress at the end of ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
▲* 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 (Disney)|Tangled Ever After]]''.
▲* Jasmine's wedding dress in ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin and the King of Thieves]]''.
▲* [[Mulan (Disney)|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 and The Seven Dwarfs (Disney)|Snow White]], [[Sleeping Beauty (Disney)|Aurora]], and [[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|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 (Animation)|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 ''[[
▲* 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.]
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