Brides and Weddings in My Little Pony

[StarryEmerald24]

I’m finally getting married in October! So out of curiosity I wanted to make a sort of list of any wedding/bride references in My Little Pony. (Maybe I’ll subject my wedding guests to it! :p) All of the info is from My Little Wiki, MLP Merch, or the G4 wiki.

Some of the things that surprised me while working on the list is
•   how several of the G1 ponies had wedding themes outside of North America who did not inside North America
•   how G2 seemingly had a wedding themed playset/pony for just about every year
•   how G3 had one at all

G4 I remember having many episodes featuring weddings, so I would say it has the most media references, but I could be missing a lot of wedding related media from previous generations. I am!

And now it’s G5’s turn to keep the tradition going!

If you know of any that I missed, let me know! Otherwise, I thought it was neat enough to share just for anyone's reference. Think I can work what ones I have into the wedding decor? 

Generation 1
Ponies released with a wedding theme/accessories:
•   Baby Bridesmaid - 1990 UK Activity Club theme
•   Bridal Beauty
•   Coat ‘n Tails/Tux ‘n Tails
•   Confetti - UK version was released as Wedding Bells (per backcard, it was her wedding; per comic #20, it was a fairy's wedding) [addition per Taffeta!]
•   Firefly - Greek version had a wedding dress
•   Lucky - Satin 'n Lace's cousin and ring bearer per a pamphlet [addition per Taffeta/Ponyfan!]
•   Pony Bride
•   Satin ‘n Lace - released as So Soft, lavender, and magenta
•   Truly - Argentinian Novia came with wedding accessory

Additional lore:
•   Satin 'n Lace's wedding guests include the Collector ponies and Birthflower ponies, per a pamphlet. [addition thanks to LadyMoondancer!]

Puzzles featuring wedding ponies:
•   35 piece puzzle showing Confetti in a wedding dress
•   100 piece puzzle showing Pony Bride in a wedding dress

Figures:
•   My Little Pony Porcelain Collection Wedding Prance

Media:
•   Escape from Catrina
In the sequence "Dressed like a Dream" showing off various pony outfits, Heart Throb is wearing the 'Something Old - Something New' outfit set. [addition thanks to Taffeta/Carrehz!]

•   Pony Tales – Season 1 Episode 18: Sister of the Bride
Clover’s sister Meadowlark is marrying a stallion named Cheval. However, misunderstandings cause most of the wedding preparations to be ruined.

•   My Little Pony UK Comics #9: The Enchanted Icecream
In the "Your Own Page" section where readers can submit art, stories, and other content, Amy Gregson submitted a poem on how Confetti is her favorite pony who comes over to play on wedding days.

•   My Little Pony UK Comics #20: The Fashion Show
In the top story, a fairy becomes a June Bride, but she is missing some flowers. With Confetti's help, she is able to replace them and go on with the wedding. The pixies in attendance change the wedding dress to fit Confetti, she names the outfit Wedding Bells, and she takes it to wear to the fashion show. [addition thanks to Taffeta!]

In "The Needle in the Haystack," a girl named Bella Barlycorn is distraught because she loves a shepherd named Seamus, but her father wants her to marry the old and fat but rich Farmer Dumpling because he owns the neighboring land. Bow Tie ties a red ribbon on the needle Seamus is supposed to find in the haystack so that he can find it and marry Bella instead.

On the "Club Page" next to a picture of Confetti in the outfit, it is revealed that Confetti's birthday is in June, and if you completed the puzzle to find the exact date and entered it, you could win the Wedding Bells outfit set.

Or, in the advertisement just after, under the suspenseful question "Will Confetti get to the church on time?," it mentions how you could purchase her with the outfit for 9.99 pounds or less.

•   My Little Pony UK Comics #34
"The Magic Ribbon"
The one and only quote by Masquerade "'and Prince Starlight's bringing his new bride to watch the play tonight.'"

•   My Little Pony UK Comics #38
"Medley and the Cloud Princess" final part
Medley helps Silvia the Cloud Princess get to a party to see King Azure, the Sky King, after Princess Crimsona and the queen try to prevent her. They have their wedding and Medley, the Royal Musician of Skyland, plays the music.

•   My Little Pony UK Comics #60: The Christmas Wedding
Drusilla and the Christmas Giant's daughter, Vervain, was supposed to get married, but they lost the key to the wedding chest so everyone was in a frenzy trying to open it with other keys and wishes. When going to show Princess Pearl that her wedding ring was made of pearls, they find the key and the wedding goes on. Princess Pearl's pearl tears are used to make a wedding necklace.

•   My Little Pony UK Comics #67
"Dancing Butterflies and the Clumsy Princess"
King Merrymarch, the Elfin King of Polka Land, is holding a ball to choose a bride. While he likes Princess Sonata, Witch Crotchetta cursed her to be unable to dance so her own daughter, Cymbella, can marry him instead. Dancing Butterflies helps her overcome this so she does get chosen at the ball.

•   My Little Pony UK Comics #69
On the Club Page, as a story to add to a "Bitsa Book," Princess Sapphire has a story about a king who comes to marry a princess but her mother forces her to switch clothes and places with her stepsister. Suspecting foul play, for his wedding gift, he gives the girl a string of star sapphires. When on the evil stepsister, they turn black, but on the true bride to be, they turn blue.

•   My Little Pony UK Comics #71
"Princess Sapphire and the Silver Sieve"
Prince Torquil of Topazia is going to marry Princess Silverella tomorrow, but the Silver Sorceror has locked her up in the silver mines. The prince has to fill a sieve with water in order to get her back. Princess Sapphire and Smokey help him out.

•   My Little Pony UK Comics #86
In the Princess Ponies' Jewel Casket, Princess Amber tells the story of a poor woodcutter's family. Through the kindness of a robin, Septimus Spider, and Jack Frost, they were given a Christmas tree with diamonds on it. The daughter, Kirsty, keeps a diamond necklace for her future wedding day.

•   My Little Pony UK Comics #99
"Silver Shoes and Shabby Slippers"
The Prince of Minuet Land, Prince Merrin, will be choosing a bride at the Summer Ball, but Princess Viola cannot dance. The Shoe Sorceress put a spell on her to be clumsy. The Shoe Sorceress tries to fool the girl again, by giving her silver shoes that make her clumsy and keeping shabby shoes that would make her a good dancer. Dancing Butterflies sees this and gives Princess Viola the shabby shoes so that the prince will choose her.

•   My Little Pony UK Comics #213: "Blue for Bridal Beauty"
Bridal Beauty is hurriedly doing some last minute wedding preparations, buying lace from Sweetheart's mom's shop for...next Saturday! And then asking Sweetheart and her mom for something blue the day of. [addition thanks to Taffeta!]

•   Annual 1988
"Fireball's Flapdoodle"
The mountain boy ponies deliver some of Silky the spider's silver thread to Dame Dorcas as she is weaving blankets as a wedding present for Prince High and Mighty.

Generation 2
Ponies released with a wedding theme/accessories:
•   Wedding Chapel with Dainty Dove (1998)
•   Royal Wedding Prince Clever Clover and Princess Morning Glory (1999)
•   Wedding Carriage with Princess Sky Skimmer and Baby Fleur (2000)
•   Princess Golden Dream and Prince Blue Dream (2001) - wedding ring symbols [addition thanks to Moonbreeze!]
•   Wedding Playset with Light Heart (2001)
•   Her Majesty Great Romance (2002)
•   Bride (2003)

Media:
•   My Little Pony Comic #3
Dainty Dove's Royal Wedding
Dainty Dove reads a book on royal weddings and daydreams that a stallion named Prince Proudfoot was in love with her and would marry her that very day. They have Sun Sparkle officiate, and Ivy and Light Heart in attendance. [addition thanks to Moonbreeze!]

•   Magazine #5 Princesse Flora se marier
Morning Glory and Prince Clever Clover are getting married but Baby Fleur is accidentally causing chaos, knocking over the bride, Ivy, and Wing Song as they are getting ready, trying to join the band and disrupting the whole performance, and then hiding in the wedding cake right before it gets cut open. [scan, translation, and addition thanks to Moonbreeze!]

Generation 3 and related
Ponies released with a wedding theme/accessories:
•   Wysteria as the Crystal Bride (2006)
Some accessories from this set were also released under Disney’s Build A Pony. Wysteria is pretending to be a bride in her free time.

Generation 4 and related
Media:
•   Season 2 Episode 17: Hearts and Hooves Day
The Cutie Mark Crusaders decide that Apple Bloom’s brother Big Mac and their teacher Cheerilee would be great for each other and give them a love potion. Shenanigans ensue, all the way to Cheerilee getting a wedding dress and Big Mac getting a ring. Thankfully, this was stopped before a wedding actually occurred.

•   Season 5 Episode 9: Slice of Life
For the 100th episode of “Friendship is Magic,” the show decided to completely cut out the Mane Six and focus on a lot of background characters and their characterizations by the fans, making the plot of the episode Cranky Doodle Donkey and Matilda’s wedding and how everyone is rushing around to fix problems that arise.

•   Season 7 Episode 13: The Perfect Pear
In a pony spin on Romeo and Juliet, Applejack’s parents, Bright Mac and Pear Butter, are from the feuding Apple and Pear families but end up falling in love after seeing each other their whole lives. Before the Pears moved away, Pear Butter and Bright Mac have a secret wedding with Mayor Mare officiating and two of their friends as witnesses.

•   Season 9 Episode 23: The Big Mac Question
Sugar Belle and Big Mac finally have a wedding after almost everything goes wrong. Similarly to the 100th episode, most of the focus is on secondary characters. Their relationship had been building up for a while, starting in Season 7 Episode 8: Hard to Say Anything.

•   Season 9 Episode 26: The Last Problem
Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon, two background ponies in a popular fan ship, are revealed to have gotten married at some point by a newspaper shown here.

The main wedding of G4:
•   Season 2 Episodes 25-26: A Canterlot Wedding
In one of the two parters that would bookend the front and back of the early seasons, Princess Cadance and Shining Armor are having a wedding, but Princess Cadance seems to be acting off. Eventually, it is revealed that she is really Queen Chrysalis, trying to feed off everypony’s love, with the real Cadance trapped in the caves below.

•   This spawned a whole line of the toys under “Pony Wedding.”
-The original single brushables had 20 specifically designated as Pony Wedding, with wedding invitations and gifts included with the ponies.
-There were four Bridle Friends that paired four of the Mane Six with wedding accessories and dresses.
-Wedding Flower Fillies for the Cutie Mark Crusaders as flower girls.
-A Wedding Castle Playset with the bride and groom and an entire castle.
-Two Glimmer Wing ponies with the designation.
-A Wedding RC car with Twilight Sparkle.
-A talking Princess Cadance.
-A Pony Wedding edition of Princesses Celestia and Luna.

•   Other materials and toys created based on the wedding:
-A promotional DVD of the episodes set in a fancy box with a wedding invitation-like pamphlet
-Shout! Factory DVDs of the episodes
-The minifigure Pony Wedding Set (2012) with Shining, Cadence, and Twilight Sparkle.
-Series 1 Enterplay Royal Wedding 9 foil card puzzle set and an episode card (56). Series 3 episode cards (E51, E52, F29). Series 2 #62 and Series 4 #38 refer to the This Day Aria song. Several other cards featuring Cadence and Chrysalis were from the episodes.
-IDW’s adaptations of episodes included A Canterlot Wedding in Issue #5.
-A Wedding in Canterlot board book
-Princess Pony Wedding Sticker Book
-The Cutie Mark Crew line included a Wedding Bash theme for their third series, based on Cadance and Shining Armor’s wedding.

[Taffeta]

Congratulations on your wedding!

I think in the US release Baby Lucky was meant to be a page boy for Satin and Lace/T&T's wedding, but I may be wrong.

The US actually had more wedding releases than anywhere - the others are dotted around different regions. I think maybe because the US release Satin and Lace wasn't available in those places.

We did have Lucky here but no wedding references for you, unfortunately. Baby Bridesmaid...maybe someone has some of the club material (or the Wiki may have it scanned? I wonder). I have all the paperwork for the unnamed white baby but I wasn't a member for the year Bridesmaid came out. I don't think I have anything for her at all that I can share :/

While Confetti was 'Wedding Bells' and had a whole wedding theme on her backcard story, in the comic she got the wedding dress I think as a special guest outfit at a fairy? wedding. I don't think the UK comic presented her as a bride, ever, even though she was drawn in the wedding outfit

Edit: It was a pixie wedding, apparently!
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Not sure which issue that is from.

Here's Confetti's backcard story, though, where she was depicted as a bride herself.

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Bridal Beauty and Pony Bride were sold universally but I do remember both ponies being in the UK comic. The Bridal Beauty one is very late on.

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My site notes don't include the issue # but it's one of the stories with the MLP Tales ponies, as she's buying wedding supplies apparently from Sweetheart's family shop.

[Ponyfan]

I think in the US release Baby Lucky was meant to be a page boy for Satin and Lace/T&T's wedding, but I may be wrong.

Here's the US pamphlet with Lucky.

http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/File:Lucky-mo4.jpg


This one says he's a member of the wedding party, but another pamphlet does not.


Ponyfan

[StarryEmerald24]

Thanks so much! I made a note of each of those to the list.

Congratulations on your wedding!

Not sure which issue that is from.

Here's Confetti's backcard story, though, where she was depicted as a bride herself.

Bridal Beauty and Pony Bride were sold universally but I do remember both ponies being in the UK comic. The Bridal Beauty one is very late on.

My site notes don't include the issue # but it's one of the stories with the MLP Tales ponies, as she's buying wedding supplies apparently from Sweetheart's family shop.

Thank you for the congratulations 

I found the two comic issues, #20 and #213. I actually had #20, I just didn't think to check it with that title! I'm so glad Heck Yeah, Pony Scans! exists, so I could find the #213 story.

Here's the US pamphlet with Lucky.

This one says he's a member of the wedding party, but another pamphlet does not.

I vaguely remembered Lucky had something to do with the wedding, but I forgot to add him to the list in the end. Added now! It's amazing how much additional info those pamphlets have.

[Carrehz]

Congratulations

I had no idea there were so many G2 brides! :O Wow, someone on the design team really liked that theme, haha.

[StarryEmerald24]

Congratulations

I had no idea there were so many G2 brides! :O Wow, someone on the design team really liked that theme, haha.

Thanks! 

I didn't either! I know the least about G2 so I had no idea what would be there at all when I started the list. My Little Wiki was so helpful with that!

[Moonbreeze]

Wow, that's a lot!

There's a bit of G2 media in this theme too:

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Don't have the comic scanned though. The ponies on the cover are Dainty Dove and Proudfoot(?), the latter is not released as a brushable.

There's some bits and pieces in the French comics too, but I'm not sure in which numbers, but I can take a look.

[Taffeta]

Ooh, I don't know if this counts, but in Escape from Catrina's dressed like a dream song montage, someone is dressed as a bride with the bushwoolies as bridesmaids? (Something Old Something New).

The whole montage is promoting ponywear, but I'm pretty sure that's part of it.

[Carrehz]

Heart Throb was the one dressed in Something Old, Something New

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Proudfoot is so pretty omg!! I wish they'd made a toy of him, ohhh... he's so dapper!

[Ponybookworm]

Heart Throb was the one dressed in Something Old, Something New

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Proudfoot is so pretty omg!! I wish they'd made a toy of him, ohhh... he's so dapper!

Same thought re Proudfoot: He's going to be Customised if I get hold of a G2 bait...

[Leave a Whisper]

Congratulations! Wishing you all the best.


I wish we'd gotten Proud foot, he had such pretty colors. His name could have been way better.

Taffeta, she looks very pretty in that comic.

At PBW, there is the upcoming G2 Redo project. It's like the equivalent of HQG1C blanks.

https://www.mlptp.net/index.php?threads/g2-custom-blanks.117534/page-6

[StarryEmerald24]

There's a bit of G2 media in this theme too:
There's some bits and pieces in the French comics too, but I'm not sure in which numbers, but I can take a look.

Thanks, added!
I have one G2 annual but I do hope to get my hands on some more of their books. They are just so cute!

Ooh, I don't know if this counts, but in Escape from Catrina's dressed like a dream song montage, someone is dressed as a bride with the bushwoolies as bridesmaids? (Something Old Something New).
The whole montage is promoting ponywear, but I'm pretty sure that's part of it.

Gotta have ads in our ads after all!  I'll count it!

Heart Throb was the one dressed in Something Old, Something New
Proudfoot is so pretty omg!! I wish they'd made a toy of him, ohhh... he's so dapper!

Nice! He is!

Congratulations! Wishing you all the best.

Thanks! 

[Ponybookworm]

Congratulations! Wishing you all the best.


I wish we'd gotten Proud foot, he had such pretty colors. His name could have been way better.

Taffeta, she looks very pretty in that comic.

At PBW, there is the upcoming G2 Redo project. It's like the equivalent of HQG1C blanks.

https://www.mlptp.net/index.php?threads/g2-custom-blanks.117534/page-6

Let me know when it starts!!!

[LadyMoondancer]

In the Satin 'n Lace pamphlet it's mentioned that the Collector ponies and Birthflower ponies are guests at her wedding.  (You know--so you have to buy them all, ha ha.)  Probably doesn't quite count as "wedding ponies" but still fun.  This was the early pamphlet so although she had plenty of guests, she had no groom.

It's always interesting to me the way the spouse-to-be is totally incidental in wedding toys aimed at really young girls. When you're young the appeal is more about having a cool party and cake and everyone congratulating you.

[Taffeta]

In the Satin 'n Lace pamphlet it's mentioned that the Collector ponies and Birthflower ponies are guests at her wedding.  (You know--so you have to buy them all, ha ha.)  Probably doesn't quite count as "wedding ponies" but still fun.  This was the early pamphlet so although she had plenty of guests, she had no groom.

It's always interesting to me the way the spouse-to-be is totally incidental in wedding toys aimed at really young girls. When you're young the appeal is more about having a cool party and cake and everyone congratulating you.

It's true. When Confetti came out here, that backcard story references her getting married and all her friends gathering round, but there were no adult boy ponies in 1986. Bearing in mind this was the 1980s, it is an interesting factor about being the bride without needing a groom.

Though I maintain that Lightning flirts with Confetti in one of the comic stories. I always thought so even when I was a kid xD. So maybe they were trying to say something later on. It's interesting the comic didn't push the pony-without-groom motif with Confetti despite the backcard, but when there were actually some boy ponies...I'm sure that vibe was there.

All that said, the large cadence figure sings about her marriage but there isn't a large Shining Armour to go with her I don't think? (Maybe she can marry Chrysalis? Hrmm)