Basic Trope: The bride's father walks her down the aisle at her wedding.
- Straight: Alice's father, Charles, walks her down the aisle.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice is surrounded by all her male relatives.
- Alice walks up with both her parents.
- Charles doesn't only walks Alice down the aisle, but when he gets to the front formally announces that he is giving his daughter in marriage to Bob, and that the marriage therefore has his approval.
- Downplayed: Charles walks Alice up to the start of the aisle, then takes his own seat.
- Justified:
- Alice and Bob are marrying in a time or place where women were considered property, and the marriage is not valid without her father's approval.
- Alice is injured or disabled, and needs help getting to the altar.
- It's tradition.
- Inverted:
- Alice walks Charles up to the altar at his second marriage to Carol.
- Alice walks to the altar alone.
- Alice's mother, Barbara, leads her to the altar.
- Gender Inverted: Bob is walked down the aisle by his mother Jane, or his father James, or both.
- Subverted:
- Alice is not walked down the aisle by her father...
- Alice and Bob walk down the aisle together.
- Double Subverted:
- But by another male relative, or by a friend, or even Bob.
- Guided by both sets of parents, as in a Jewish wedding.
- Parodied: Alice's father is a feeble old man, and though he tries to walk Alice down the aisle as per tradition, Alice ends up walking him halfway through.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Charles appears and reappears at Alice's side seemingly at random as she walks down the aisle.
- Alice has many sisters. Charles walks Alice, Catherine, Evelyn, and Greta down the aisle, but not Belinda, Denise, Frances, or Harriet.
- Averted:
- Alice is not walked down the aisle by anyone, if there even is an aisle where she and Bob are marrying.
- This is not the tradition in this particular setting.
- Enforced: Small Reference Pools, The Coconut Effect
- Lampshaded: "Daddy, will you walk me down the aisle?"
- Invoked: Alice and Bob announce their engagement, and Charles (her father) asks if she'd like him to walk her down the aisle.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice says no, or Charles doesn't even bring it up.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "In modern times, not everyone is willing to do this."
- Deconstructed: May be considered anachronistic and sexist in some circles.
- Reconstructed: Charles respects Alice's wishes regarding the act. If she considers it Values Dissonance, then he won't force the issue on the grounds that it's tradition.
- Played for Laughs: Alice's father carries a shotgun, and he's not afraid to use it if the groom gives him a reason to do so!
- Implied: A Time Skip between Alice's acceptance of Bob's marriage proposal and her arrival at the altar takes place, with Charles just a step away from her.
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