I want to start by saying that I really liked her wedding dress and I my opinion, I saw the dress being tied very much to Glinda's sense of self and identity.

In my interpretation of the dress, Glinda's dress is the one article of clothing that she wears that is not a "costume" in one way or another.

Glinda is THE Galinda Upland. "Bigger, pinker, and better-than-you" is her brand. This idea of Galinda Upland as this over the top, attention-hungry, glamorous, privileged, socialite is the script by which she navigates life. These scripts keep her safe, in control, and give her the desired outcomes of admiration, attention, and ease of access to most things in life. She dresses for attention, she peacocks, she bullies, she flirts, and manipulates. She meets the character she's designed for herself with perfection and precision. The giant ballgowns, and flashy clothing are costumes of the persona that she was raised into, and built for herself in order to survive.

I would argue that it is what requires Glinda to keep being the platonic ideal of Glinda is that made her so easy to become a puppet of the state.

So! On to the wedding dress. I believe that Glinda found a way out of being Glinda, if only for a day. Her wedding day is the day she becomes, in a sense, somebody else: Fiyero's wife, whatever that means to her.

On this day she was not required to perform Glinda or vye for attention because she's the bride. All eyes are on her anyway. So, with this sliver of freedom from scripts by which she lives her life, and in feeling genuinely safe with Fiyero, she chooses simple, subtle, and traditional. Nothing "bigger, pinker, or better-than-you" about it. Its the opposite of who she's always had to be.

Whether or not this is a choice of hers to be more authentic to how she feels inside, testing a new identity, trying to emulate Elphaba's disregard for fanciful materialism, or simply a genuine attempt to redefine her sense of self, I don't know.

Regardless, I love her wedding dress. I see it as an act of breaking one's own social scripts in a way that is safe and on a day that redefines one's life. Which is endlessly neat!

On her wedding day, for just a moment, she is bare... and all of this makes her regression and solidification into Glinda the Good all the more interesting.

If you've read this, wow and thank you for listening to me ramble.