Give Away the Bride/Playing With

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.