History Main / HereditaryWeddingDress

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': {{Justified|Trope}} in "[[Recap/CastleS6E23ForBetterOrWorse For Better or Worse]]". Beckett's original wedding dress is ruined by a pipe bursting in her apartment, so they dig up her late mother's wedding dress as a short-notice replacement. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the wedding never happens, courtesy of Castle vanishing on the way to the ceremony with his car found wrecked.]]
* When ''Series/GeneralHospital''[='=]s Lois couldn't find a suitable wedding dress, her husband's (they had eloped a year prior but were now planning a formal ceremony to renew their vows and ensure that both of their families could attend) grandmother offered her hers as a "welcome to the family" gesture, resulting in Lois wearing a gorgeous 1940's style gown.

* On ''Series/MelrosePlace'', both Jane and Sydney wore their grandmother's wedding dress on their wedding day to Jane's husband Michael. When the former caught the latter in the dress, it resulted in a fight that culminated in both of them falling into the apartment complex's pool.

->'''Richter:''' Our mother's dress?
->'''Margarete:''' I kept it, hoping my lady would wear it to her own wedding. I beg you, heed my final request.

!! Examples:

* During the planning of Elizabeth's wedding to Anthony in ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'', Liz's sister-in-law Deanna just happened to find her late grandmother Marian’s wedding dress ''in a crawlspace'' in the house Mike inherited from his parents, and naturally the Pattersons insisted Liz wore it by having Deanna talk Elizabeth into it as her reaction to the engagement, not giving Liz any time to think about it or if she wanted her own dress. At least they had it cleaned first. Deanna altered it to the point where it looked like a different dress entirely, resulting in a fan theory that [[spoiler: the dress realistically fell apart after years of being shoved in a cardboard box in a moldy crawl space and Elizabeth and Deanna secretly bought a dress and passed it off as her grandmother’s.]]

--> '''Jerry/Daphne:''' I can't get married in your mother's dress, ha ha. That– she and I, we are not built the same way.
--> '''Osgood:''' We can have it altered.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows,'' when Fleur Delacour marries into the Weasley family, she wears an heirloom tiara, goblin-made, which complements her own stunning beauty. Nor did Molly Weasley, her mother-in-law, offer the tiara lightly; it comes up in an emotional moment during ''Half-Blood Prince.''

* When ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s Lois couldn't find a suitable wedding dress, her husband's (they had eloped a year prior but were now planning a formal ceremony to renew their vows and ensure that both of their families could attend) grandmother offered her hers as a "welcome to the family" gesture, resulting in Lois wearing a gorgeous 1940's style gown.

* Played for laughs in ''Series/OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding.'' After Charles accidentally proposes to Joy and then breaks up with her, Joy got her mother and grandmother's wedding dress sent to Charles's apartment in the interim. As a result, it's still there when Mabel, Charles, and Oliver use it to storm Loretta's indictment for Ben's murder. Mabel and Oliver express shock that Joy's parents are both still alive, as, apparently, is her childhood dog.

* PlayedForLaughs in Webcomic/SabrinaOnline. While preparing for her wedding with RC, Sabrina is gifted her mother’s wedding dress and she tries it on at Zig Zag’s studio. [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline795.GIF The dress ends up being so ugly that Zig Zag immediately offers to bring Sabrina dress shopping.]]