TV wedding dresses are usually as successful as TV weddings, that is to say, not very. Badly conceived, rushed, downright disastrous, there is a long tradition of the wedding dresses from your favourite TV shows being lacklustre at best, hideously ugly at worst. But the tide is turning: in America, shows like Gossip Girl and Sex and the City have introduced wedding gowns by designers like Vera Wang, Badgley Mischka and Elie Saab and on Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey, costume designers have created brilliant wedding gowns that fully befit the momentous must-watch TV events. 

Click the gallery to see 30 of the most recognisable, most important, most iconic TV dresses, ranked from absolutely awful to you-know-what-I-might-actually-wear-that-myself good.    

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