Can You Swordfight in a Wedding Dress?
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2021
- If you're anticipating sword-wielding baddies at your wedding, you may well need these handy tips on the best way to sword fight in your wedding dress, or other big-skirted ballgown.
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Contains very little actual fighting, because...who am I even going to fight?
Still, maybe people will be available for more fight shenanigans soon.
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To answer a couple of common questions:
No, my wedding dress didn’t look (particularly) like this, I got this dress on eBay in 2013 for a Christine Daae costume.
Yes, Nemo is an adorable cat.
No, that train isn’t really long enough for rapier and cloak style shenanigans.
I just assumed you were about to get married and this part of your training for your wedding tournament
Id' watch a video related to shoes and combat.
Your assessment is quite accurate, but limited to European / HEMA sword fighting. If you know any wushu / kung fu master ask them about the Chinese lady combat styles. These are both hand-to-hand and jian (straight sword) combat techniques specifically developed for people fighting in tight dress-like garments that limit leg movement and they're quite unique, interesting and fun.
Ahh! What Vladimir said! Also, shoes. Very interested in one about footwear.
@@jamieblair4141 Nah, she's been married for ages.
Okay, but instead of having a first dance as a married couple, imagine having a first swordfight. Just imagine.
Yes please!
YES
I'm pretty sure a pair of my friends are planning to do exactly that at their wedding.
Just gonna put that one in my pocket for the wedding I'm unlikely to have in the future...
I'm gonna take a screenshot and use this idea when I make a fantasy medieval movie. I'll give you credit as a comment from sword lady video.
I will show this video to my wife, and she will be ready to sword fight next time she needs to defend my honor at a Jane Austin themed ball.
Wouldn't just gender-fashion-reversal be easier?
@@matthewmorrisdon6906 Are you implying I can't fight in taffeta?
@@matthewmorrisdon6906 You have a different definition of "wedding party" than we do. Maybe more like "raiding party."
Ooh, women's Regency fashion would have been perfect for fighting in. It didn't tend to trail the ground as much, the ladies wore flats, and the skirts weren't all that clingy and allowed lots of movement in the legs.
Me too . . . .
I'm not getting married anytime soon but this is definitely going in the "wedding playlist" for future
Yes a nice destress and fun video in all of the chaos!
*might also suggest adding this to your playlist as well: **ruclips.net/video/CDpWKafJJ90/видео.html** think you'll find this channel and artist something of a rabbit hole experience as you can easily spend hours (seriously) here as everything he covers is brilliant*
"First dance is to duel of fates"
I got married recently, and now I'm disappointed in the lack of thematic swordfighting :3
Wedding swordfighting between bride and groom!
"If the point of high heels is to make your legs look good and you're wearing a full length gown, what's the point?" ... I don't know. Why have I never questioned this?!
Probably to make you taller- not a problem for me though, I'm 5'11"!
I D E O L O G Y
As someone who is 5'-2", wearing heels saves a bit on having to have the dress hemmed. I'm lucky to find a long dress, even in petite size, that doesn't trail on the ground when I wear it, and if the skirt is full enough, I really can't be arsed to do it myself (not that I'm great at it. Every hem I've sewn so far always gets caught on something and rips), and it's cheaper to pull on a pair of wedges than to hire someone to do it for me.
Well, if one counts chopines as high heels, there at least *used* to be reasons other than making your legs look good. You definitely wouldn't want to fight in those, though!
My wife and several of her girlfriends wore sneakers under their wedding dresses for precisely this reason.
I can already imagine the conversation about my wedding dress:
Mom: Oooooh these are nice
Me: They’re high heals, I can’t wear them
Mom: Why?
Me: What if I have to sword fight to the death at my wedding
Mom: That’s never going to happen!
Me: YOU DON’T KNOW THAT!!
just take those off..
oh, and those frills _should_ be able to hide a pair of slippers or something
@@archevenault The issue here is time.
Meh, I'd say go for low boots. Unconventional but still can be very pretty in the traditional feminine way. Added bonus: extra protection against twisting your ankles
@@archevenault The frills could also hold a knife strapped to my ankle. 🤔
@@TF_NowWithExtraCharacters I think boots look way better anyway. If you can go for boots, always go for boots. That is my philosophy.
I just realized how hilarious it would be to have a dramatic duel at a wedding but it takes the dress wearer awhile to get ready and the enemy is either waiting there or is actually helping the dress wearer get ready to fight. Just a little comic relief moment or something.
I declare now, one day I shall write-- and later animate-- precisely that!
Sort of like how Inigo gives the Man in Black time to recover from climbing the Cliffs of Insanity before starting their duel.
The fairness of the duel is important!
Consider this: the bridesmaids are prepared for possible battle and jump in to hike up the dress as soon as the villain appears
*why aren’t we funding this? gif*
The point about ball gowns blew my mind. The sheer writing potential of a hoop skirt being an ADVANTAGE instead of a disadvantage, especially if the baddies don't think women can't fight in the first place! I want to put this in a story now!!!
One dramatic phrase that comes to mind is for the skirt wearer to be facing two or three assailants but manage to lunge and fatally stab one (setup for lunge concealed by skirt) and still have a clearly dangerous fight from the remaining assailants. The idea being that the surprise opener took the fight from nearly unwinnable to merely difficult.
With those huge victorian crinoline dresses, you could conceal a Gatling gun and crew underneath.
Best Gatling gun surprise since Django.
Something to note: even with the hoop skirt, most fighting stances get significantly lower than most dances. If your heroine is expecting it (or just habitually evaluates clothing's combat readiness) a dress/skirt that doesn't go below mid shin would allow for substantially more freedom of movement for low stances (which are more stable) and lunges than a longer one.
Perhaps bonus style points for what you're going for; slightly shorter hoop skirts tend to be wider and more frilly.
Just in case any of that fuels more inspiration. If less appropriate (and you want to more play up the hiding the legs part), other fighting styles stand a bit taller and use less deep lunges, so as long as you're staying above ankle-length, you're still in the realm of plausible.
@@dynamicworlds1 These are excellent points, and will be worked in accordingly!
Oh, this is why i love this channel!!! Couldn't have these discussions anywhere else!
@@steveholmes11 i am pretty sure there is either a manga or an anime with that.....i cant recall tho
Anyone how may have objections to this marriage can expect to face the Bride in a duel.
Unless said objection stems from the bride and groom being closely related - that might be useful information...
@@felisd As if an invasion of a wedding weren't George R.R. Martin ("A Song of Ice and Fire", brought to premium cable as "Game of Thrones") enough .
. . . Fk no! Not HER. . .
My best friend is getting married in July, I sent this to her in preparation.
Side note: she was gifted a sword years back as a member of a wedding party, so this is particularly appropriate.
You have some awesome friends.
@@tyrant-den884 yes. Yes I do.
As much as we bash on the RUclips algorithm, I am forever grateful that it brought me this channel
YT doesn't really know what to offer me, so sometimes pseudo random items will show up. Pseudo random, because being a Google property, your Google searches will feed into it. Forex:
I was playing a Warlock in my last DnD game, and had done a bunch of Google searches for rules, options and strategies. Shortly after a video from "Dungeon Dudes" all about the Sorcerer subclasses popped up. After subscribing, watching and liking some videos, Jill here popped up.
I actually happened upon here through CinemaWins.
Some of the best algorithm finds have been through shorts, which is a whole nother crazy entity
@@hugozielinski4916
Same, and I'm glad for it.
I can't agree more!
If I ever get married I now want the “first dance” to be replaced by a choreographed sword fight.
So, a true prelude to the rest of the marriage then?
That would awesome.
But still with a first dance song so the fight is timed to the music!
I want to do this except it has to pe the sword fight between inigo and Wesley from princess bride
*better make your reservations now for that prime dueling location on the top of the Cliffs of Insanity (located in County Clare)...*
'RUclips is great for watching How-to videos which are useful and relevant'
Me: watches guide to sword fighting whilst wearing a wedding dress.
Which is very useful.
and relevant.
It's better to know and not need it, than need it and not know!
Best advice since “Maybe dresses should have pockets”
Or a sheath hid in the folds, apparently.
Years ago I was in a Renaissance music group in costume. One of the dancers with the group made costumes and I had her put in an inside pocket so I could carry my wallet and keys. I also used to fence, but only a couple of times theatrically in costume and being male a dress and heels were not issues.
“Pockets! Who makes a wedding dress and makes pockets? The one thing I missed out when I called the designer was to include POCKETS!!”
-Donna Noble, Some episode of Dr Who
All those weddings I photographed and never once did a swordfight break out.
But the comments section is a goldmine for your future lol
What kind of heathen, barbarian weddings were you going to?
:grins: There were none at mine either ... but that might be because I used an English Longsword to cut the cake and no one else was, apparently, armed :D
@@dallassukerkin6878 did you not specify in the invitation that it was BYOS?
@@adiposeNarnian :grins: I confess that in the complexity of organising the whole thing that detail slipped my mind! :O
She is a goddess. Truly. Also I am in no way going to get married soon but I might walk outside in a wedding dress just so I can catch the wedding murderers that totally exist and would want to fight a random lady in the middle of the street.
And now I suddenly want to buy a tux and also fight the wedding murderers. It won’t be as flashy, but it sounds like fun.
@@davidblum7125 And it's an EXCELLENT excuse for a sword cane, which could be quite fashionable with your tux.
@@MaverickWolf oh yes. I could definitely purchase one of those.
@@davidblum7125 You want flash in a tux? That's what tailcoats are for.
@@LeafTheWitch same ^^
If Game of Thrones taught us anything, it is that weddings are dangerous events and should always be attended fully armed.
Haven't watch the video yet. Had to first scroll through the comments to find the first "Red Wedding" reference. Was quite surprised that it was so far down.
@@thekinginyellow1744 Yeah that's what happens when the last season is dogshit.
“Everybody walks on the ground” *Chinese xianxia, wuxia and xuanhuan dramas/novels starts laughing in the back*
I guess that's why there was a cut from "Crouching Tiger" right there.
@@gordol66 Yep, ancient chinese people really said that fighting on the ground was too easy xD
Not super related to anything but I found I enjoyed Crouching Tiger and such much more after discovering Jin Yong and Gu Long novels
My thoughts went to "Pirate".
@@jamiemahoney2446 Pirates don't fight! They swashbuckle! It's like fighting, but with style.
Now I desperately want to see a fight scene where a bride uses her veil as a handwrap and punches the shit out of her foes interrupting their wedding.
I didn't know I needed this until just now.
or in the middle of the fight just throws it in their face to get off a perfect stab
Weave some chain into the hem of the veil and you have a cast net suitable for a retiarius. Trident sold separately.
"If your betrothed is a sword wielding baddie." It might get her to the alter but in my experience if you make your living as a henchman she begins to ask uncomfortable questions like, "why aren't you the mastermind? You used to be so ambitious!"
"Honey, I'm your henchmen."
@@WingedWyrm good one 😆
I can honestly say, in every wedding party I've been a part of in my adult life, at least all the Groom's Men were wearing swords. Actually, swords were the gift given to the Groom's Men at one of the weddings..
that sounds badass ngl
Gonna need to screenshot that and send it to my friends for future reference...
Then you're very much the exception to the rule that such things generally don't happen anymore. Still cool though.
What country do you live in?
Sheesh, did you go to Shadoversity's wedding or something?
Why does the combination of wedding dress + rapier look so good???
Because good looking dress + good looking sword. And it helps to have a good looking girl in the dress wielding the sword.
Because strength usually equals healthy, and healthy usually equals attractive
The two who answered didn't get my point, sadly. It's not about good looking sword and good looking dress. Otherwise any good dress would work with almost any good sword*. There's smth specific about the white wedding dress and the elegance of the rapier, which is just perfect in combination
* edited from "seird"
Bl4ckSp1...I got it! I just didn't reply soon enough!
@@bl4cksp1d3r I think you have it. It both goes together and, by traditional norms, clashes. We still have this in our society and I at least still have it in me to associate the long flowy dresses with... well, not exactly demureness but shrinking from physical violence. In a way, we expect a level of weakness. "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman..." and such.
This contradicts that by displaying strength that still matches the elegance of the occasion.
This is one of the most creative ways of getting value out of a dress that you might only wear once (if you’re lucky) in your life.
Engaged? Nah, ENGARDE!
Hi, Jill! Your shoes are piling up in the garden again.
Sincerely, Your Neighbor
'Ah, yes, if you could return them along with the lightsabre, that would be just great
Sincerely, Jill'
Sorry, I cannot return it yet. I am getting married this weekend.
Sincerely, Your Neighbor
"Honey, come quick, Jill's getting marr- nope, nevermind she's making another sword video."
I think she is married.
Why is this channel so underrated.
YT hates variety. They designed the algorithm to pigeonhole creators.
It seems to be properly rated by those who are aware of it. But you are absolutely right that this content creator deserves more adulation.
Because you don't like share subscribe support patronize and yell about it from the mountaintops it's all your fault Brandon!
hello
Yeah Brandon it’s your fault
Kevlar Corset is the name of my Jill Bearup cover band.
I like it.
Would listen
Would emphatically listen and maybe join.
Xyla Foxlin beat you to it!
ruclips.net/video/DuS6Q6Xb6KM/видео.html
All I keep thinking of is when Elizabeth Swann and William Turner were swordfighting while getting married in Pirates 3.
* debating on sending this to my cousin who is getting married soon *
(whispers) Do It 😁
Palpatine: do it!
Why would you not?!?
Little confused on why there is a debate.
@@JillBearup I did it a while ago although she hasn't responded yet
Big Gowns and Baddies is a really good name for a song
Or a band.
Or a TTRPG...
Not to worry. I have already decided that my wedding suit will be a 15th century gothic plate armour
This feels like a follow up to "Can You Fight in a Corset" and "How to Hide a Sword in Your Dress" and it's wonderful.
Also, I spy a cat.
Having my wedding dress fitted soon! I will take a sword with me to practise!
I have no plan of ever getting married, or wearing a dress, or swordfight but yet I listened to the whole thing. I guess I'll be prepared if the extremely improbable happen.
This is to aid your lady love so she can do it 😁
Well it doesn’t hurt to be prepared. Also what happens if you attend a wedding or other formal event and a sword fight breaks out?
The collar on your dress is absolutely smashing. The whole ensemble is both lovely and functional, but that part in particular stood out as especially cool.
And to remind any grooms here in the comments, our job is hold off the baddies until the dress is fully girded/kirtled/bustled as needed before fighting back to back with our recently wedded in the most dramatic fashion possible.
All my ankle length dresses are always ready to be hiked/gurgled up if needed, because if I ever get married, I will be convincing my s.o. to have a swords present because that’s honestly the goal for weddings in my opinion
Swords being present at weddings needs to become more of a thing. Let's all try to make it a thing.
@@BruceLortzHI absolutely brilliant.
A "fight off the attackers" portion of the ceremony, perhaps?
I actually used your sleeve wrapping tip the other day while doing dishes. It saved my sleeves from the treacherous deep-sink water, I cannot thank you enough!
I'm not getting married, I just want to swordfight in a wedding dress.
Big puffy wedding dresses only came around when pistols were already well-established as portable, concealable weapons.
I’m not saying there was a correlation but
Me, who's most likely going to wear a tuxedo at my wedding: "ah, yes, this is important information to acquire"
I would personnally love a video about what kind of shoes one can fight in.
This video is great, and you look really good in a ballgown
When masked ruffians crashed our wedding 3 years ago, we were not prepared. My wife's dress was too long, and my suspenders were too tight. Maneuverability was lost and the battle did not go well. But thanks to Jill's Steps To Fight In A Wedding Dress, we're more than ready for further shenanigans when we renew our vows. Thanks Jill!
When you picked and held your dress in one hand, I don't necessarily believe your "off hand is out of the picture." -> some of my wifes dresses have such ridiculously artificial fabric I swear not even a chainsaw would cut through them. Wrapping the fabring around your hand and just grabbing the sword hilt with your hand becomes an awesome (obviously unrealistic, but hey, it's movies) strategy.
Edit : My wife wore balerina shoes and a very agile dress for our wedding. After this video I suspect she wanted to sword fight me and I, the idiot, got drunk and passed out instead.
As a 6 foot male, I found this video to be very helpful.
You just Never Know when you might need it.
We've all had those weekends.
@@ptonpc I take double dare, very seriously!
Tall dudes can look freaking awesome in fancy dresses too! 😁 Just sayin'....
Info helps if you're wearing a kilt while doing highland Broadsword or if you're wearing a hakama and you do kenjutsu. Heck, might also help when wearing a long tabard which are kind of dress-like.
Timely! I just sent this to my friend who is getting married in October. The entire wedding party will have swords. We are cool people. 🤣
My sister is getting married this Saturday.
Edit: I sent her this video.
I love that you added in pointers about design elements to help come up with combat optimized dresses! As for the shoes-specific video, I'd be interested.
Lillie: “I got a wedding dress armor and learn a few move from Ezra Scarlet. It’s good to know some of the more advance stuff and watch out for.”
I was gonna suggest rescheduling if you found out your wedding might be crashed by thugs but then one of my married friends showed me some of the rental fees (non-refundable) that the various places he looked at for his wedding were charging and the fees he would pay to reschedule, although most of those places needed you to reschedule months in advance.
I now understand why holding your wedding while fighting off waves of sword-waving brigands seems like a better option. Although you would think this would fall under the duties of the Best Man and Maid of Honor instead of the Bride and the Groom.
I laughed so hard! 🤣
How much trouble are you expecting?
If they get past the best man (look up why they are called this), and the throw-away sacrifice that is the maid of honour.... :D
From now on I'm going to make sure every dress I ever wear fits this criteria.
I don't know how to sword fight and I've never held the sword in my life, but that's besides the point.
You never know when you might need to start, right?? 😜 And frankly, any outfit in which you can't either defend yourself or escape a disaster usually gets a "mehhhh" from me anyway? 😏 (Living in a city that's still rebuilding a decade later, after 2 massive earthquakes.... 🙄)
You were clearly having so much fun jumping around in pretty dresses.
The whole point of a Maid of Honor and Best Man are that they can engage the baddies, while the ceremony is completed. Their shared experience of battle then leading them into a marriage of their own.
Literally the plot of, well, something Shakespearean.
I just imagine Erza from Fairy Tail when I hear swordfighting in a weddingdress.
I'm remembering the bisexual couple posing w/swords for their engagement shoot.
I’m gonna send this to the player of a young noblewoman in our rpg. This was an awesome mix of information and entertainment!
I'm going to use this as an excuse for every failed attack, athletics and acrobatics check of my -1 strength cleric
"Sorry, my temple didn't design the robes for combat..."
YES, to a shoes video! I would particularly be interested to know whether you would endorse kicking the shoes off your feet as a first offensive move? That was my first thought, but I've never tried doing that in a poofy dress.
The premise initially appears to be a joke, but you've covered the topic in a practical and serious manner. All while holding our attention, entertaining us and clearly articulating every point. I'm honestly in awe at the quality of your videos.
Crack treated seriously.
The state opening of parliament made me laugh
These costuming videos continue to be both very interesting and good justification for the outfits I give characters in writing and gaming projects.
Ballgowns also have the added bonus of making it somewhat less obvious if the lady is a spider-monster from the waist down.
...pleease tell me you're not speaking from experience there...?? 🤪
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 No, I look terrible in a ballgown :)
Somehow managing to fight in a dress while looking awesome is my power fantasy...
Btw, those dresses that have got cuts to cheekily show off the leg, those should be insanely handy in this case, no?
Heck yes.
@Jill Bearup Can we get an opinion on this?
@@ShadeSlayer1911 _Brisingr_
@@lillywho yes
And the prom dress makes comeback.....
The cat cameo at 0:10 with the giant text that says "HERE TO HELP" is precious and wonderful and I love it.
I see the Jill Bearup notification, I hit the Play. Always an absolute Gem!
This is me being happy, that my D&D character concept for a ball gown wearing sword fighter is actually something that could/would work in real life.
4:25 I'm just imagining your neighbor getting hit in the head by a flying shoe. "What the h... is she doing now?!"
combine all that with the "hiding a sword in a dress" and you're prepared for your wedding on an authentic caravel in the south seas
"An additional point (heh)" That was SOOOOOO WELL DONE!! Bravo!
I must admit, it is the first time afer 28 years of marriage that I regret not wearing a wedding dress (which I still cannot stand)... With a sword in the hand I think I could have cope with the dress :D Thank you, Jill, for 5 min of joy!
Well, if you have that many years of marriage under your belt, looks like it was the right idea for you. Congrats. 😃
@@MyNameisMessenger Thank you, it was indeed! Sometime the crazyest ideas turn out to be the best ones :)))))
Groom: "Gah! I'm not supposed to see that yet"
Jill: "Relax, this is just my fighting wedding dress"
4:55 I couldn't imagine wearing shoes that don't match my outfit!
I'll feel insecure the whole night 🤣
Lillie: “Good to know-how fight in a wedding dress because I normally wear a dress and want to do some sword fighting.”
I would absolutely love a 6 minute rant about fighting in heels
You and 850,000 other people, apparently 😁
Justice of the Peace: "Does anyone here have any objections why these two should not be wed? "
Objector: "I have an objec-"
Bride: *skewer*
JotP: "If there are no other objections, we'll continue."
“Someone’s sword becoming entangled in your petticoats” sounds either incredibly dirty or the greatest way to describe falling in love.
So, hold on, let me just check I've got this right: Buttercup and Westley had a daughter and now she's getting ready to become the Dread Pirate Roberts, is that pretty much the state of things?
Imagine the music, the dance, and having sword fights and sneak-kisses in between and looking at your spouse with romantic oh-so-in-love eyes making the guest feel like they're third wheeling and that they can literally feel the sexual and battle-excitement tension you both give off.
'Cause dance and sword-fighting combined with eye contact making swift but graceful movements at each other is a mood
You are slowly giving me motivation to find a formation for stage combat and fight choreography. They seem pretty expensive but that might be something I want to make my lifelong work
Shoe video? YES PLEASE!
Okay so like hear me out: Hippodemeia getting mad at the centaurs AND the Lapiths for ruining her perfectly nice wedding and FINISHING THE FIGHT. (it's a great myth, they put it on the Parthanon and everything - It's literally all the energy of 'Glad I crashed the wedding' by Busted)
Is Jill fast becoming the world's foremost expert in how to fight in a dress?
Jill you never cease to amaze also can we please have the video on shoes
Always with the useful fashion advice! Definitely keeping in mind for the wedding I probably won't have!
(Also consider this my vote for a companion shoe video!!)
Thank you this helps a lot with two stories I am working on. One definitely has someone wearing a wedding dress. Another has a character potentially wearing the dress for two fight scenes.
Mind blowing realization; "Wear high-heels to make legs look better, but then put on long dress to hide legs." yeaaa, its what humans do.
In that case has mostly for Heights because people can't be bothered to hem too long of dresses
Heels also alter posture / the way you stand, which makes you look "sexier" even if guys can't see your legs.
I thought the same thing even tho I’m a dude but thanks for helping and letting me know
Finally someone mentions the rapier and cloak combo!
Remind me not to shout "I OBJECT" at your wedding!
"How about the lining?"
"Tactical."
Yes to a video about shoes. Legit question Do you think a scabbard and sword can be worn as an accent on the out side of a dress or would that be too much?
Yes. Make sure the sword & scabbard don't clash with the colour scheme of the rest of your outfit.
The scabbard hanging belt has lots of fashion potential!
If that is her actual wedding dress from unfathomable depths of internets pasts, this is a relevant opportunity to wear it and look bad ass while doing so.
I would like to think the theoretical tax write up for “Swords, Dresses, and Editing Software” would be hilarious to read.
THis is exactly what I was wondering--if it was her old dress.
If not, then I wonder what her husband would think if he saw her buying one if she didn't tell him. Hopefully he'd think "it's probably for a video."
I really really really want someone to make an action-comedy film, or just a funny action film, where a swordfight erupts during a wedding. Bonus points if the vows are said as the bride and groom fight back to back, bonus bonus points if the priest is fighting too.
I imagine the cleric's techniques would be all parrying, possibly using the relevant book, although in "The Lion King", the simian priest landed punches on Scar's minions (I joked, "maybe he's a Shaolin priest"). Once the fray is over, it might be the cleric who says, "That, my friends, shows these two have vowed to be together."
What I have learned from this video: my choice of wedding wedding wear - strapless, ballgown skirt with ample petticoat, built in mechanism for bustle which I did at the reception, light corset beneath, ditched the heels at the reception in favor of very secure slipper flats - was optimal for fighting in and now I'm sad that my reception wasn't overtaken by bandits or similar.
One of my friends had to sword fight a space pirate for the right to marry her husband. She had a loop on the train of her dress so she could hook it on her wrist and could then use the fabric of her train as a bit of an entanglement device for the enemy's sword.
To all the comments saying that they wish they could sword fight on their wedding day or could you imaging sword fighting in your wedding dress. You can! Follow your dreams!
In one of my abandoned stories, I had the seamstress, the main character's best friend, design her dress so she could fight in it if needed - the skirt separated from the bodice with a tug, and she had a sheath in one sleeve to hide a stiletto.
Man, I love those RUclips tutorials that cut the crap and actually prepare you for the real world.
Now I want a cool swordfighting sequence at my wedding.... This is why we can't have nice things
Yeah, in Filipino blade arts, we call that the live hand for a reason.
I WOULD LIKE A VIDEO ABOUT FIGHTY SHOES PLEASE
Can we all agree that a wedding dress/sword combo looks absolutely badass?
As someone who is getting married in 40 something days, this was extremely satisfying to watch... Is it too late to learn how to fence I wonder...