History Main / BloodSplatteredWeddingDress

** In "Ring Out Your Dead", a bride taking pictures on her wedding day is shot from inside the church. Though not a lot of blood is shown in order to keep the age rating, there ''is'' a red stain around the entry wound.

* In ''Series/Legacies'', during the episode "Mombie Dearest", [[spoiler:Josette Laughlin is resurrected, wearing the bloodied wedding dress she was wearing when she was killed in Legacies' parent show, ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''.]]

** In "Till Death Do Us Part", the second VictimOfTheWeek is shot with ball bearings while modelling a wedding dress at a bridal show, leading to this trope.

* In ''Theatre/LuciaDiLammermoor'', after Lucia goes mad and stabs her unwanted husband Arturo on their wedding night, she traditionally appears for her famous Mad Scene with her white gown covered in Arturo's blood.

* In the 2019 revival of ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'', the ending was changed to have Curly shoot Jud at point-blank range, leading to his groom outfit and Laurey's wedding dress being covered in blood.
* ''Theatre/MeanGirls'' just like in the original film, Cady wears one of these to the Halloween party and stands out for actually being scary instead of in a SexyWhateverOutfit / PlayboyBunny style outfit. The theatre version ups the amount of blood on the dress and adds a prop knife sticking into her back so that it's more obvious for anyone in the cheap seats.

* The covers of Music/MyChemicalRomance's sophomore studio album "Music/ThreeCheersForSweetRevenge" and live album "Life On The Murder Scene" (itself a photo recreation of the former album's drawn cover) feature a woman in a blood-splattered wedding dress (though it's much easier to tell she's in a wedding dress on the cover of the latter).

-->-- '''Music/AliceCooper'''

* The covers of Music/MyChemicalRomance's "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" and "Life On The Murder Scene" feature a woman in a blood-spattered wedding dress (though it's much easier to tell she's in a wedding dress on the cover of the latter).

May overlap with WhiteIsPure. EtherealWhiteDress if its implied that the bride died in the dress. Compare with WeddingDeathJuxtaposition, WhiteShirtOfDeath, BloodstainedGlassWindows and SnowMeansDeath. See also WeddingSmashers, which more often than not causes this. May overlap with WidowedAtTheWedding. See also WightInAWeddingDress.

* The opening to season 2 of ''Series/WolfLikeMe'' features Mary having a CatapultNightmare with one of these, after [[spoiler: her unborn baby turns into a Werewolf, [[ChestBurster tears its way out of her womb]] (and through her maternity wedding dress), and]] attacks everyone at her wedding to Gary. The dream ends with dozens dead, Mary in a bloody and torn-up wedding dress, and Emma (her flower-girl dress as blood-soaked as Mary's wedding gown) exasperatedly asking why Mary [[spoiler: got pregnant]].

* Male example: as a consequence of the events of the "Wedding" story mission in ''Videogame/SleepingDogs'', Wei Shen gets a blood-covered white tuxedo.

* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' has some pretty strange endings, but Harley Quinn's [[JustForPun takes the cake.]]

* This is Magrat Garlick in ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' when the Elves invade Lancre on the eve of her wedding. Except that the bloodstains are [[AlienBlood mainly green]].

* Inverted in ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'', in which Magrat's mail-order Queen dress gets reduced to bloodied shreds ''before'' the wedding, due to her kicking arse during the elves' invasion of Lancre Castle. She could've changed clothes afterwards, but she and Verence decided not to wait a moment longer and got hitched in what they were wearing at the time. Bonus points for wearing the wedding dress over a suit of armor.

* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'':
** In ''Breaking Dawn: Part 1'', Bella has a nightmare in which Edward eats all the wedding guests. Not only is her wedding dress bloodied, but ''everyone'' is wearing white dress clothing (suits, tuxes, dresses, etc.) and covered in blood.
** Rosalie Hale's {{Backstory}} reveals that after being turned into a vampire, she took revenge on her {{Jerkass}} ex-fiancee and his friends after they gangraped and left her for dead in an alleyway. She wore a wedding dress to do so. In a notable aversion, Rosalie specifically made sure to NOT spill blood because she was a newborn vampire and would not be able to avoid drinking their blood if she did. She didn't want ANY part of them inside her.

* On ''Series/{{Revenge}}'', the third season InMediasRes opening has Emily in her wedding dress aboard a yacht being shot twice by an unseen assailant and falling overboard. When events catch up to the opening, the bloody dress washes ashore without Emily in it and is discovered by Jack and Aiden, alerting them that something has gone horribly wrong.

May overlap with WhiteIsPure. EtherealWhiteDress if its implied that the bride died in the dress. Compare with WhiteShirtOfDeath, BloodstainedGlassWindows and SnowMeansDeath. See also WeddingSmashers, which more often than not causes this. May overlap with WidowedAtTheWedding. See also WightInAWeddingDress.