History Main / WightInAWeddingDress

* ''Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogene'': Imogene promises faithfulness to Alonzo while he goes to fight in Palestine. Her promise specifically notes that would she break her vow, his ghost is welcome at the wedding to claim her and drag her into the grave. And so it occurs a year later when Imogene breaks her vow for the riches of a baron. From that day on, the sprite of Imogene in her wedding dress appears inside the baron's castle at midnight four times a year. During this time, she dances with Alonzo in the company of other specters who never let her forget that she broke her vow.

* ''VideoGame/ElPasoElsewhere'' feature an enemy type know as "the Brides", which are {{Stringy Haired Ghost Girl}}s [[EtherealWhiteDress clad in]] {{Blood Splattered Wedding Dress}}es and veils that move around by [[TeleportSpam constantly teleporting]] and attack [[PlayerCharacter James Savage]] [[HomingProjectile slowly homing balls of dark energy]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': In "Broodwich", after Shake manages to avoid being killed the Broowich's curse after eating it, the sandwich "congratulates" him by giving him a special reward; a skeleton wearing a wedding dress that wants to marry him, which Shake immediately refuses.

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* ''{{ComicBook/Hellboy}}'': Koshchei the Deathless was leader of a mercenary band in life, with an IgnoredEnamoredUnderling named Elena. Long after she'd died imprisoned, he dug her up (having brutally murdered the men who'd killed her), reanimated (not truly resurrected, that was beyond him) and married her... just as a much younger and beautiful woman [[spoiler:a {{glamour}}ed-up Myth/BabaYaga]] showed up to take the spot. The last that's seen of Elena is her corpse in a wedding dress endlessly repeating "Koshchei...".

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* ''Literature/HeavenOfficialsBlessingTianGuanCiFu'': In life, Xuan Ji was a general who fell in love with the enemy general Pei Ming and betrayed her nation to win his favor. He wasn't interested, for which Xuan Ji committed suicide. As a ghost, she wears a tattered blood-red bridal robe and haunts Yu Jun Mountain. While no one's safe from her, she particularly has it out for brides because in her obsessive mindset they're competition for Pei Ming's love. Xuan Ji is defeated by Xie Lian and thereafter comes to terms with Pei Ming's disinterest and moves on.
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* ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'': One of the most iconic characters is the Bride. Initially a nameless haunting figure (sometimes referred to as the Beating Heart Bride) who might have been a BlackWidow in the earliest days, she lost the story once her partner, the Hatbox Ghost was removed, and became a lonely, mournful figure. Later on, she was replaced with Constance Hatchaway, who brought back the black widow story in full force. Constance was a beautiful woman who sought to obtain wealth and luxury. She accomplished this by marrying several rich men, including bankers, businessmen, farmers, and barons. However, each was murdered after the wedding by the deadly bride, decapitated with a hatchet so that she could claim their inheritance. Despite her crimes, she was never punished (likely due to lack of evidence), though the public did dub her "The Black Widow Bride". The Paris version of the ride, Phantom Manor, instead features a more developed version of the "lonely bride" story, telling how Melanie Ravenswood lost her suitors and died unmarried. All three versions of the Bride wear their wedding garb when seen in the rides, emphasizing the ways marriage went wrong with each.

* ''Raid: Shadow Legends'': Rotos the Lost Groom and Siphi the Lost Bride are members of the Undead Hordes. They and their guests were murdered on the day of the couple's wedding on orders of a money-lender who sought revenge against Rotos for skipping on his debts for over a decade. Because Rotos had spent that time as a pirate, he wasn't missed and not much was done by law enforcement to catch the murderers. The locals, however, did bury them, only to find that two roses left on the couple's graves turned an eerie shade of blue. The couple's murderers are the first to find out that it's a blue that represents the couple's ghostly hide, but none of them lives to tell.

SubTrope of IncongruouslyDressedZombie, JacobMarleyApparel, and EtherealWhiteDress. May be the result of being WidowedAtTheWedding. If purposefully invoked for real weddings, see ThemedWedding. See also CuteGhostGirl, StringyHairedGhostGirl, DeathAndTheMaiden, and LivingStatue (''The Venus of Ille'' and the like).

* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'': Brides are a type of support infantry unit of the [[DeathMetal Drowning Doom]] faction. They are dressed in wedding gowns and carry around a parasol with a perpetual raincloud that debuffs enemies. While she prefers avoiding fights, she will attack with lightning bolts if provoked.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': After becoming a vampire, Rosalie kills her ex-fiance [[RapeAndRevenge and rapist]] while wearing a wedding dress. She deliberately invokes this trope to scare him.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/MeanGirls'' when Cady dresses as this for Halloween. (She says that her costume is an "ex-wife".) When she greets Janis and Damian while wearing it, they freak out. Having been [[RaisedByWolves raised in Africa by zoologist parents]], she grew up thinking that Halloween costumes were actually meant to be scary as opposed to {{sexy|WhateverOutfit}}.

* A [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifying]] urban legend known by many names, such as The Lost Bride, The Bride in the Box, and Bride-and-Go-Seek, tells of a bride who on her wedding day participates in a game of hide-and-go-seek. She finds a large trunk in the attic to hide in, but perishes inside from lack of oxygen or starvation as the lock falls shut. Nobody is able to find her, and everyone assumes she ran away; many years later, someone opens the trunk and discovers the bride's corpse, still dressed in her wedding gown. So far, this urban legend has been traced back in time to an 1809 issue of ''The Monthly and Boston Review'', which named Germany as the setting of the incident, but many other locations, particularly manors in England, have been associated with some version of the legend since. While the 1809 newspaper article is about the tragic discovery of a perfectly normal corpse, versions where the bride returns as a ghost are only a few decades younger.