Basic Trope: An Uke wears a white tux when he marries his Seme.
- Straight: Alex and Bob are getting married. Bob wears a white tux with tails, and Alex wears a regular black tuxedo.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob actually wears a dress and veil.
- Bob wears a full, all-white silken kimono.
- Bob wears a white speedo.
- Every gay marriages in the Cast Full of Gay has one groom wears a white tux.
- Alex and Bob only wears black tux and white tux, respectively, even in their daily life.
- Downplayed: Bob wears a gray tux.
- Justified:
- Alex and Bob follow a traditional dynamic in their relationship, with Alex taking a dominant role and Bob taking a submissive one. note
- Alex and Bob don't follow a traditional seme-uke dynamic, but are joking around.
- It's an outdoor wedding, and it's rather hot outside so white is a good choice.
- Alex and Bob are Color-Coded Characters, so Alex wears black and Bob wears white just like their everyday outfits.
- Alex and Bob are Lookalike Lovers, so they wear tuxes with different colors to avoid confusion from the guests.
- Inverted:
- Alex wears a regular white tuxedo, while Bob wears a black dress.
- Alice and Bob, a straight couple, wear matching tuxedos to their wedding.
- Gender-Inverted: Alice and Betty get married; Alice wears a black dress with a bow tie and Betty in a white gown.
- Subverted:
- Alex and Bob's ceremony has them both wearing matching black tuxes.
- Alex and Bob both wear white tuxes.
- Alex and Bob wear suits, not tuxes.
- Double Subverted:
- But Bob carries and tosses a bouquet.
- But Bob's tux has tails (a logical Spear Counterpart to the train on a bride's dress), and Alex's tux does not.
- Bob's suit is white, and Alex's suit is gray or black.
- Parodied:
- Bob tosses a bouquet to his single friends.
- Bob dons an incredibly elaborate wedding dress, and suddenly he starts acting like a Bridezilla, much to Alex's and everyone else's annoyance.
- Zig Zagged:
- Averted:
- Alex and Bob wear the same tuxedo or suit.
- Alex and Bob don't marry in-series.
- Enforced:
- A Yaoi Fangirl writes a Fanfiction about her OTP, and follows a traditional Seme and Uke dynamic.
- Alternately , the writer wants to show a sign of Opposites Attract in the wedding scene.
- Lampshaded:
- "I now pronounce you Seme and Uke. You may kiss the...uh...gride."
- "I lived with those two for a couple of years, and I saw and heard a lot of things. Let's just say that Bob shouldn't be wearing white!"
- Invoked:Bob: "I must wear white at my wedding, because I'm more submissive and feminine than Alex".
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alex and Bob don't do the Seme-Uke thing, and don't want people to think they do, so they wear matching tuxes or suits.
- Discussed: "I wonder...if two men got married, would one of them wear a white tux with tails?"
- Someone whispers that Bob shouldn't be wearing white because they know he isn't a virgin.
- Conversed: "I dunno...I suppose it depends on the couple."
- Played For Laughs: Alex and Bob wears a regular white tuxedo, but Alex's tuxedo gets dirty, and turns his tuxedo to jet black color.
- Played For Drama: Bob is being forced to wear an outfit that reflects a submissive role by a controlling Seme.
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