Is this going over the top?

So the other night I was hanging out with my friend Kasey. She was creeping on facebook per usual  and what not when all of a sudden she got wicked excited about something and turned to me and said, "They have Disney princess dresses now!". Naturally, I got excited as well and said, "GAH this is a perfect blog topic send me the link"! She made fun of me, but did send the link and now I'm writing my blog. (That was just a little fun fact conversation portion of the blog.) Alright so any-who, this new line of wedding gowns was designed by Alfred Angelo who is apparently a world wide distributor and retailer of wedding gowns headquartered in Philadelphia. Who knew? Well...Wikipedia did. However, this new line features themed gowns from each Disney Princess including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Jasmine, Tiana, Belle, and of course Snow White. Each gown then offers a complete set of accessories including earrings, bracelets, necklaces, shoes, bags, tiaras etc.  Now apparently, this is not the first line of Disney Princess gowns. Last year there was one designed by Kristie Kelly, yet she left out Tiana from Princess and the Frog. Although these gowns are very nice looking, I personally think that it is just stepping over the line of the whole "Fairy Tale Wedding" ordeal. I don't really understand the whole hype; I feel like if I had to get a dress I wouldn't want to share it with a princess as well as a million other people who want the exact same dress.This might possibly be because I am not a girl and honestly don't really care if a dress is similar to a Disney Princess's, but to me they all look like white wedding gowns and like any other dress you would find in any other wedding store. Some are poofy, some are not, and some have little sparkly silver gem things on them. That's the only difference to me and I don't see much resemblance to the gowns in the movies. That being said, I think this whole line of gowns is just another Disney money maker idea at its finest because in reality, what girl doesn't want to spend a shitload of their fathers money be a princess for a few hours? Not too many.
As I was looking though the article though, I was reading some of the comments of the readers and I thought it was kind of funny to see the reactions of some people. I"m going to post the link to the website at the end of this blog so you guys can read some more, but here is what some person said, "Yep, they look nice on someone weighing 85 pounds. How do they look on someone weighing 140+???" (cqdeed). This comment relates directly back to our class discussion and of Betsy Hearne's argument about how Disney is creating these barbie like images which no "normal" person and achieve. Therefore in reality, a perfect fairy tale wedding will always just be a dream because nothing in life is perfect. I think eventually there are going to be adds saying "Come get married in Cinderella's Castle, or on Jasmines flying carpet"!. Oh the wonderful just out of reach world of Disney...


Here is the article about the wedding gowns. Enjoy!
http://shopping.aol.com/articles/2011/03/28/disney-wedding-dresses-by-alfred-angelo/?ncid=AOLCOMMshopDYNLprim0001&icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl10|sec1_lnk2|53162#comments

Also, here is a youtube clip of the models in the gowns at the first photo shoot for the adds. Some of the gowns are even explained as to why they chose to design them they way they did.