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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 -Trope]] of [[Pimped-Out Dress]], [[Woman in White]] (most of the time).
 
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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* A couple of dresses in ''[[Love Hina]]'', including Naru's when she marries Keitaro.
* A potential dress for the princess in ''[[Voltron]]''/''[[Go Lion]]'' is made, and then modeled, although the series ends before she even gets engaged.
* Clarice's wedding dress in ''Lupin III: [[The CastleofCastle of Cagliostro (Anime)|The Castleof Cagliostro]]''. Former princess Sayako of Japan (who gave up her title to marry a commoner) liked it so much that [[The Red Stapler|she had a real-world one made for her wedding dress]].
* 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?"
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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 ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''.
* 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 ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' fits this, since her romance ideas came from ''Cinderella'', it fits.
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