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| - Basic Trope: The bride's father walks her down the aisle.
* Played Straight: Alice's father walks her down the aisle.
* Exaggerated:
* Alice is surrounded by all her male relatives.
* Alice walks up with both of her parents.
* 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 her father up to the altar when he marries another woman.
* Alice walks to the altar alone.
* Alice is led to the altar by her mother.
* Gender Inverted: Bob is walked down the aisle by his mother, or his father, 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.
* Deconstructed: May be considered anachronistic and sexist in some circles.
* Reconstructed: Alice's father respects her wishes regarding the act. If she considers it Values Dissonance, then he won't force the issue on the grounds that it's tradition.
* Parodied: Alice's father is a feeble old man, and though he tries to walk Alice down the aisle as per tradition, he ends up being walked by Alice halfway through.
* Lampshaded: "Daddy, will you walk me down the aisle?"
* 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
* Invoked: Alice and Bob announce their engagement, and Charles (her father) asks if she'd like him to walk her down the aisle.
* Defied: Alice says no, or Charles doesn't even bring it up.
* Discussed:
* Conversed: "In modern times, not everyone is willing to do this."
* Played For Laughs: Alice's father carries a shotgun.
* Played For Drama: Almost always is.
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