As mentioned in other comments, the features on the princesses’ dresses aren’t unique to those princesses; each dress has bits (peplums, portrait necklines, gathered and tiered skirts, etc.) found on many wedding gowns in current wedding magazines.

I think it is smart of Disney — and to be expected, considering their marketing skill — to begin putting their brand on wedding gowns.

After all, don’t a lot of brides already want to be as “pretty as Cinderella” on their wedding day?

Normally, yes. For weddings? No. Bustles are big for wedding dresses, especially the underbustles.

The bustle is pretty common in wedding dresses–how else do you get a train out of your damn way for the reception (barring a removable train)? There are a whole lot of wedding dresses out there already, non-Disney, that feature bustles as major design features.

1. Ok so the dresses for the original princesses that the Disney characters were patterned after contain style elements that frankly won’t go over very well today.

The bustle for one thing.

I realise, as a guy, that women are willing to suffer a very great deal for following fashion. But is there any modern woman willing to wear 18lbs of dangerously spring-loaded undergarments designed to make her butt look really really huge? I mean really really really huge?

2. I’d like the picture of any woman willing to wear Snow White’s dress. Those arm-things would make anyone look faintly ridiculous.

3. If I were planning on getting married and my bride to be insisted on something atrocious like this then I’d insist on dressing like Bluto from Animal House.

Toga! Toga! Toga! Toga!

That said, I think that my wedding would be a very inappropriate day to let my inner little girl out to play. My dress will be far from princess-y, and there will be no tiara in sight. (Whee, first dress fitting is in less than two weeks!)