History Main / BloodSplatteredWeddingDress

* Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (better known as Ena) was the youngest granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She married King Alfonso (the last King of Spain before Juan Carlos) in Madrid in 1906. During their carriage procession, a anarchist's bomb was exploded which killed many of their entourage including decapitating a guardsman riding alongside the bride. Both Ena and her dress were drenched in his blood. None of the usual post-wedding photos were made - the news magazines carried sketches instead. It was a chilling foreshawdowing: Ena passed on haemophilia into the Spanish Royal Family - as with the Romanovs the heir to the throne was afflicted, the monarchy was eventually deposed (in Spain's case, in 1931) and a bloody civil war ensued.

* In ''Manga/{{Gunnm}}'', Alita kicks some mecha ass wile wearing a wedding dress at one point. She wasn't going to marry anyone though.

What a bride might wear when her WeddingDay goes ''really'' bad. May overlap with 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.

* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' plays this trope to a T, complete with minigun for [[WidowedAtTheWedding Calhoun]] to extract revenge. (And a preemptively armed audience to prevent a repeat, at her second wedding.)

There's something about seeing a woman in a white [[VirginInAWhiteDress bridal gown]] which is [[BloodIsTheNewBlack covered in blood]]. The juxtaposition of the joyous event the wedding dress is supposed to signify with the brutality or tragedy that the blood indicates makes for a striking image. The fact that the red of the blood stands out well against the white of the dress adds to this.

* Inverted in ''Discworld/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.

* ''Series/{{Mash}}'' - In the episode "Margaret's Marriage," Head Nurse Margaret Houlihan is being married in the MASH's mess tent, when the ceremony is interrupted by incoming wounded, and after the ceremony is sped up, Houlihan, still in her wedding dress, and the rest of the doctors and nurses, still in their dress uniforms, have to rush to operate on the wounded. They all end up with blood on their clothes. Appeared on Houlihan, during a DreamSequence as well.

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What a bride might wear when her WeddingDay goes ''really'' bad. May overlap with 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.

There's something about seeing a [[WomanInWhite woman in a white]] [[VirginInAWhiteDress bridal gown]] which is [[BloodIsTheNewBlack covered in blood]]. The juxtaposition of the joyous event the wedding dress is supposed to signify with the brutality or tragedy that the blood indicates makes for a striking image. The fact that the red of the blood stands out well against the white of the dress adds to this.

What a bride might wear when her WeddingDay goes ''really'' bad. Compare with WhiteShirtOfDeath, BloodstainedGlassWindows and SnowMeansDeath. See also WeddingSmashers, which more often than not causes this. May overlap with WidowedAtTheWedding.

* Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (better known as Ena) was the youngest granddaughter of Queen Victoria). She married King Alfonso (the last King of Spain before Juan Carlos) in Madrid in 1906. During their carriage procession, a anarchist's bomb was exploded which killed many of their entourage including decapitating a guardsman riding alongside the bride. Both Ena and her dress were drenched in his blood. None of the usual post-wedding photos were made - the news magazines carried sketches instead. It was a chilling foreshawdowing: Ena passed on haemophilia into the Spanish Royal Family - as with the Romanovs the heir to the throne was afflicted, the monarchy was eventually deposed (in Spain's case, in 1931) and a bloody civil war ensued.

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* ''Film/KillBill'': Unsurprising, given that the main character is a badass [[KatanasAreJustBetter Samurai-swordswoman]] called "The Bride." (A chapter of the film is even called "The Blood-Spattered Bride", a typical Tarantino filmgeek ref to the Spanish vampire film ''La Novia Ensangrentada''.) The final battle was ''supposed to'' involve her fighting in a wedding dress, but due to time constraints, we get the AnticlimaxBoss of [[spoiler:her using a heart-exploding technique on Bill, without him even getting up]].

* The UK ''Crime And Investigation Network'' has a {{Trailer}} for the show ''Snapped: Women Who Kill'' which shows us a bride. The narration asks us what we would do if we were getting our wedding dress fitted when our groom-to-be phoned up telling us the wedding was off. The camera pans back to show that the bride is holding a gun and that her gown is covered in blood.

* ''Film/KillBill'': Unsurprising, given that the main character is a badass [[KatanasAreJustBetter Samurai-swordswoman]] called "The Bride". (A chapter of the film is even called "The Blood-Spattered Bride", a typical Tarantino filmgeek ref to the Spanish vampire film 'La Novia Ensangrentada'). The final battle was ''supposed to'' involve her fighting in a wedding dress, but due to time constraints, we get the AnticlimaxBoss of [[spoiler:her using a heart-exploding technique on Bill, without him even getting up]].

* It wasn't a wedding dress, but the horrific humiliation of the titular character of ''{{Carrie}}'' with the pig's blood saturating her prom dress is real close.

* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' plays this trope to a T, complete with minigun for Calhoun to extract revenge. (And a preemptively armed audience to prevent a repeat, at her second wedding.)

* Played with in ''FanFiction/WhiteDevilOfTheMoon''. Miyuki's bridesmaid's gown gets blood on it after youma attack during her brother's wedding (she also uses it to wipe off her sword afterwards). The actual bride's dress did not end up like that (not as severely, anyway), as Shinobu was [[BadassFamily one of the very few people]] not participating in the fight.

* During the worst periods of the pogroms in [[TsaristRussia Imperial Russia]], it was not uncommon for anti-Semites to seek out new brides specifically as targets for their violence as a symbolic gesture (since the brides would eventually bear the next generation of Jewish children). Since custom in the brides' communities dictated that the dead be buried in whatever they were wearing when they died, several of these young women were laid to rest in their bloodied wedding gowns. (This, incidentally, was the origin behind the folk tale that inspired ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride''.)

* During the worst periods of the pogroms in Imperial Russia, it was not uncommon for anti-Semites to seek out new brides specifically as targets for their violence as a symbolic gesture (since the brides would eventually bear the next generation of Jewish children). Since custom in the brides' communities dictated that the dead be buried in whatever they were wearing when they died, several of these young women were laid to rest in their bloodied wedding gowns. (This, incidentally, was the origin behind the folk tale that inspired ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride''.)