Great television can make us laugh, and it can make us cry. It makes us feel like we’re friends with fictional characters, encouraging us to celebrate the milestones in their lives.
Wedding episodes are always special as we see our favourite on-screen couples take the next step in their relationship. Over the years, there have been some truly iconic fashion moments on the silver screen.
Here are a few of the most memorable wedding dresses in television history.
Christina Yang – Greys Anatomy
Never one to follow the rules, Dr. Christina Yang ignored tradition and went for a deep-red dress to marry Dr. Owen Hunt. She even hosted the ceremony right in her living room.
Blair Waldorf – Gossip Girl
Ever the fashionista, Blair Waldorf stunned in a light blue embellished Elie Saab gown to tie the knot with on-again off-again love Chuck Bass. The dress screamed old world glamour mixed with contemporary high fashion.
Olivia Pope – Scandal
The long-awaited wedding of Olivia Pope and former President Fitzgerald Grant III finally arrived in the show’s Season 6 finale. Pope stunned in an off-the-shoulder Anne Barge wedding gown that featured a fitted bodice and full skirt. She accessorised with pearl pins in her bridal updo and a long veil.
Serena van der Woodsen – Gossip Girl
It-girl Serena van der Woodsen married Lonely Boy Dan Humphreys in the show’s final episode. For their nuptials, she went bold in a Georges Chakra couture strapless metallic gold gown.
Margaery Tyrel – Game of Thrones
While this wedding day was slightly eclipsed by the long awaited murder of King Jeoffrey, we have to shine a light on Queen Margaery’s gown. For her second (and not final) wedding, Margery wore a gown made of linen silk featuring woven leaves and hand rolled and stitched roses cascading down the back of the skirt. The roses honoured the Tryel family sigil.
Liz Lemon – 30 Rock
Liz Lemon’s wedding was just as quirky as her personality. After deciding to get married on a whim to be more attractive to adoption agencies, Liz took the concept of a princess gown quite literally. She wore a replica of Princess Leia’s wedding dress from Star Wars to marry Jack.
Cece – New Girl
After a few to many glasses of bubbly, Cece and pal Winston bought a dress their crew deemed the ugliest wedding gown in existence. Best friend Jess turned the dress inside out and transformed it into a stunning gown draped in gold lace. Her shawl had a red lace trim in honour of her Indian culture.
Leslie Knope – Parks and Recreation
As one of the most sentimental characters to ever grace the small screen, Leslie Knope’s wedding dress was never going to be dull. Her homemade knee-length dress was decorated with newspaper clippings from all the times Leslie had been written about for her accomplishments. The skirt also featured campaign flyers and portraits of her role models like Michelle Obama and Madeleine Albright.
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Your wedding vows is a time to express how much you love your partner. Now is the time to be as honest and heartfelt as possible.
However, being so emotional is not easy for everyone. So why not refer to the experts? If you’re in need of inspiration, simply turn to your favourite musician. There is a wealth of love songs that perfectly explain your deepest feelings.
Here are a few special songs that give us all the feels:
Your Song – Elton John
Best line: ‘I hope you don’t mind / That I put down in words / How wonderful life is while you’re in the world’
Best Part – Daniel Caesar
Best line: ‘You’re the coffee that I need in the morning / You’re my sunshine in the rain when it’s pouring’
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Roberta Flack
Best line: ‘The first time ever I saw your face / I thought the sun rose in your eyes’
Stuck on You – Lionel Richie
Best line: ‘Stuck on you / I’ve got this feeling down deep in my soul that I just can’t lose’
Dangerously in Love – Destiny’s Child
Best line: ‘Baby, I love you, you are my life / My happiest moments weren’t complete if you weren’t by my side / You’re my relation in connection to the sun / With you next to me there’s no darkness I can’t overcome’
At Last – Etta James
Best line: ‘At last my love has come along / My lonely days are over and life is like a song, oh yeah’
I Won’t Give Up – Jason Mraz
Best line: ‘I won’t give up on us / Even if the skies get rough / I’m giving you all my love / I’m still looking up’
Waiting For A Girl Like You – Foreigner
Best line: ‘I’ve been waiting for a girl like you to come into my life / I’ve been waiting for a girl like you, your loving will survive / I’ve been waiting for someone new to make me feel alive’
(They Long To Be) Close To You – The Carpenters
Best line: ‘On the day that you were born the angels got together / And decided to create a dream come true / So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue’
Back At One – Brian McKnight
Best line: ‘One / You’re like a dream come true / Two / Just want to be with you / Three / Girl, it’s plain to see / That you’re the only one for me’
Make You Feel My Love – Adele
Best line: ‘I’d go hungry; I’d go black and blue / And I’d go crawling down the avenue / No, there’s nothing that I wouldn’t do / To make you feel my love’
All of Me – John Legend
Best line: ‘‘Cause all of me / Loves all of you / Love your curves and all your edges / All your perfect imperfections’
Songbird – Fleetwood Mac
Best line: ‘To you I would give the world / To you I’d never be cold / ‘Cause I feel that when I’m with you / It’s all right I know it’s right’
Come What May – Moulin Rouge soundtrack
Best line: ‘Seasons may change, winter to spring / But I love you until the end of time’
Such Great Heights – The Postal Service
Best line: ‘I am thinking it’s a sign / That the freckles in our eyes / Are mirror images / And when we kiss they’re perfectly aligned’
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The quintessential reality TV show is The Bachelor/Bachelorette. A group of guys or girls live together in one villa and compete to win the same person’s heart, what could be better?
While it is highly entertaining, the show is essentially all about love and making lasting connections. The finale typically ends with an engagement but as we’ve seen, those engagements never really last that long.
The Bachelor is on its 23rd season, and The Bachelorette is currently filming its 16th season. Spin-off show Bachelor in Paradise has aired six seasons. While most of the romances have wilted much like the roses that always feature on the show, there are a handful of Bachelor Nation couples who have beaten the odds and ended up walking down the aisle.
Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter
This couple is the show’s first ever real success story. Trista Rehn, the very first Bachelorette to head a season got engaged to firefighter Ryan Sutter in the finale. Their wedding was televised in 2003 and 17 years later, they are still together. They live in Colorado and share two children.
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Ashley Hebert and J.P Rosenbaum
Season 7’s Bachelorette Ashley Hebert chose J.P to be her final love. The pair married in 2012, and their televised wedding was officiated by Bachelor host Chris Harrison. They have been married for eight years and have two children.
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Hannah Godwin and Dyan Barbour
The Bachelor Nation rejects met on spin-off show Bachelor in Paradise, where former contestants spend a summer of love together in a romantic destination with the goal of getting engaged at the end. They immediately hit it off and became engaged in the show’s 2019 finale. A year later they are still together and seem to be going strong throughout the lockdown.
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Rachel Lindsey and Bryan Abasalo
The first black Bachelorette Rachel Lindsey stunned in her season, and ended up with contestant Bryan Abasalo. After a two year engagement, the pair tied the knot in August 2019 and recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary.
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Jojo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers
Season 11’s Bachelorette Jojo knew from a very early stage that Jordan was the one. He won the first impression rose in the first week of the show, and made it all the way to the finale where he went down on one knee. The pair have been engaged since 2016 and were meant to marry in 2020 but the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to cancel their wedding day.
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Chris Siegfried and Desiree Hartsock
Hartsock and Siegfried fell in love in The Bachelorette‘s ninth season. Their engagement came with some questioning as the original frontrunner Brooks Forester famously quit the show after telling Harsock he wasn’t invested in the relationship. Luckily for Siegfried, the Bachelorette accepted his proposal and the married in January 2015. Since then, they have had two children.
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Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon
Ashley and Jared had not one, but two shots at love. They starred in two seasons of Bachelor in Paradise together, and finally managed to make things work. They got engaged in June 2018 and married in July 2019.
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Sean Lowe and Catherine Guidici
Born-again virgin Sean Lowe shocked fans when he chose Catherine Giudici in The Bachelor‘s 17th season. Since then, the pair have tied the knot in 2014 and welcomed three children.
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Jade roper and Tanner Tolbert
Another Bachelor in Paradise couple made it to the finish line. Jade and Tanner met on the spin-off show’s second season, and got engaged in the finale. Their televised wedding aired in 2016. They have two kids and are expecting their third very soon.
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Carly Waddell and Evan Bass
Carly and Evan didn’t immediately hit it off on the third season of Bachelor in Paradise, but eventually they fell in love. They married in 2017 and have two children together, while Evan has three other children from a previous relationship.
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Raven Gates and Adam Gottschalk
This couple met on season 4 of Bachelor in Paradise back in 2017, and the connection was instant. While they didn’t get engaged in the finale, Adam did eventually go down on one knee in 2019.
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Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney
The controversial 13th season of The Bachelor saw Mesnick choose finalist Melissa Rycroft as his partner, only to end up breaking up with her and picking things back up with runner-up Molly Malaney. Luckily for them, their relationship has lasted. They tied the knot in a televised ceremony back in 2010 and have a daughter together.
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Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham
In another controversial moment, Season 22’s Arie Luyendyk Jr. asked not one, but two women to marry him. In the two part finale, he first popped the question to finalist Becca Kufrin before ending things and choosing runner-up Lauren Burnham the very next night. He proposed to Burnham in the ‘After the Final Rose’ reunion episode. Luckily, things worked out and the couple tied the knot in 2019 before welcoming their first child later that year.
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