Princess Not Married??

[Tiggr88]

After Prince Philip kisses Aurora and breaks the spell, I think you can assume that they do get married in the end. The movie just ends before the wedding, but it says, "They all lived happily ever after".

I'm confused - Did they live happily ever after or did they get married??

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

I'm confused - Did they live happily ever after or did they get married??

the advice is wonderful!
Keep it comming!
I can explain mulan, Sleeping beauty( I found a book about her wedding in DD room!)
that still leave snow white, and belle.

 

[MeanestMomEver]

http://www.bigdayplunge.com/images/bellebeastwedding1.jpg


Belle does have a wedding gown. Maybe she was married in a cheesey, straight to video tape movie in the years after the debut of the original movie. I recall there were several, including a Christmas themed one.

Uh, but back to the OP question, I'd let her ask! That's half the fun. When we were there one Thanksgiving my daughter asked Belle where the beast was and she said he was back at the palace helping the staff prepare the turkey as many people would be their guests that evening.

 

[MeanestMomEver]

Here is another link with a Belle Bride Doll. lol

http://www.sweetdreamscreations.1shoppal.com/i/dolls/BelleBride.JPG

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

http://www.bigdayplunge.com/images/bellebeastwedding1.jpg


Belle does have a wedding gown. Maybe she was married in a cheesey, straight to video tape movie in the years after the debut of the original movie. I recall there were several, including a Christmas themed one.

Uh, but back to the OP question, I'd let her ask! That's half the fun. When we were there one Thanksgiving my daughter asked Belle where the beast was and she said he was back at the palace helping the staff prepare the turkey as many people would be their guests that evening.

We have all 3 movies. They go back in time to when the prince was a beast. no mention of a wedding?

 

[wdwobsessed]

This has to be the cutest thread I have had the pleasure to read in a long time!

Giggles all the way.

WDWO

 

[michelle06]

I'm confused - Did they live happily ever after or did they get married??

 

[alongtimeblooming]

My cousin actually actually asked me a scarier question. (She was five at the time.)

She said to me, "Auntie, all the Disney girls always get married at the end of the movie. Does that mean I have to get married one day to be happy?"

~jaw drop~


I told her that she should do whatever makes her happy, and that the Princesses were happy because they were able to do what they want.

It was a rather creepy question, though. . .

 

[SmallWorld71]

I would let her ask away. The characters are wonderful at their jobs and know their "stories" inside and out.

A few years back, DS asked Aurora if they fairies still fought over the color of her dress and asked Cinderlla what Gus and Jaq were doing. Both gave great answers to him without a seconds hesitation.

 

[Kaewin]

I'm confused - Did they live happily ever after or did they get married??

That is so wrong........

 

[serinlea]

Not that this would be a question to ask the princesses, but why do so many of the Disney movie characters only have one parent, or a parent who dies? I know in reality land, this happens-but it seems like the ratio in Disney movies is about 90% one parent/parent deceased.

Sorry to hijack your thread-I just always wonder about this!

I think it would be perfectly fine to ask the princesses the marriage question! I have heard that if you ask Minnie why she and Mickey aren't married-you get a great response!

It is a fairly common plot device for children's stories (think Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, Secret Garden, Oliver)...mostly because it allows the characters to get up to adventures that no sane parents would allow!

 

[jelloarms]

Belle: Your daughter has me on this one. The movie just ends with them dancing and the spell being broken. I like to assume that they get married in the end. On another note, it has always bothered me a little bit that Belle appears in the parks with Beast as "the beast", and not as the transformed prince. You would think that the spell was broken, and he gets to be human again.

OMG THANKYOU for pointing this out! I thought I was the only one who thought it was odd for the beast to be out and about. I understand more people will recognize the Beast than his prince form but still! However, by this "why is the Beast still a Beast" logic, You could also ask why is *insert killed off Disney villain here* still alive? Why does Ariel have her fish tail again? How come Pinocchio is still a wooden boy?


I think if I played Belle and a kid asked me why the Beast was still a Beast, I would say that sometimes he thinks its fun to be a beast, he misses it. As a beast you can run faster, reach the high shelves, get away with smelling horrid...So once in a while he calls upon the enchantress from the beginning of the movie and she turns him into a beast for a little while.

 

[-Hope-]

Well, since I'm not really on board with the whole you need to be rescued and marry a prince to live happily ever after I'd probably use it an jumping off point for that convo. But that's just me.

 

[ktlm]

Let her ask! I bet those Princesses have heard just about everything. They come up with some pretty good answers too. At CRT my 3 year old asked Snow White if she still eats apples. Snow White advised that she still likes apples, but she only eats green apples now, since the Wicked Queen only uses shiny red ones. At Epcot, my DD asked Jasmine why Aladdin wasn't with her, and Jasmine weaved an elaborate tale involving Abu stealing gum and getting it stuck in his hair and Aladdin was busy chasing him all over the marketplace with scissors trying to cut it out. We ran into Jasmine again at MK again the next day and she remembered DD- even made sure her handler came over and sneakily got DD's name while we were standing in line so she could greet her by name. DD wanted her to tell the story again as Aladdin wasn't there that day either. Jasmine made up a whole new story of where Aladdin was that day. Let us know what the Princesses say about their marriages. I'd love to hear their answers!

 

[MurphyJoe]

I always assumed that at the end of Beauty and the Beast, when Belle and the Prince formerly known as Beast are dancing, that it was their wedding reception. Seemed to be an appropriate way of ending the film without being kitsch.

 

[BelleChick]

I always assumed that at the end of Beauty and the Beast, when Belle and the Prince formerly known as Beast are dancing, that it was their wedding reception. Seemed to be an appropriate way of ending the film without being kitsch.

That is what I always thought...maybe their wedding wasn't as traditional and they got married in those outfits for sentimental reasons...

 

[DisneyCrazy915]

I always assumed that they got married, because at the end they show the stained glass window with them both on it wearing crowns. I'm assuming that since Belle is wearing a crown, that makes her a princess, and to be a princess she would have to be married to the beast/prince.

 

[cheshiregirl]

Last year a group of girlfriends and I were dining at the Ariel's Grotto restaurant in Disney's California Adventure.

Ariel serves as the "door host" at the character meal and I think she was excited to have a group of 12 women who are all in the 30-40ish range and so she decided to have a little fun.

She proceeded to tell us all that she was the only real princess in the restaurant. "After all, Cinderella is just the hired help; Mulan never married into royalty, and Belle and the Beast are just shacking up." We all had a good laugh and enjoyed the fact that while she never broke from her character, her spiel was most definitely not something that would have ever been Disney approved!

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

She proceeded to tell us all that she was the only real princess in the restaurant. "After all, Cinderella is just the hired help; Mulan never married into royalty, and Belle and the Beast are just shacking up." We all had a good laugh and enjoyed the fact that while she never broke from her character, her spiel was most definitely not something that would have ever been Disney approved!

Ok... I really need to remember not to drink while reading this theard! I spilled coffee on my clothes i was laughing so hard. Thanks for the Laugh!

 

[Emm]

It is a fairly common plot device for children's stories (think Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, Secret Garden, Oliver)...mostly because it allows the characters to get up to adventures that no sane parents would allow!

Not only children's stories. A lot of the classic novels (think Dickens and Austen to name a couple) have orphaned heroes/heroines. As you say, a missing or inadequate parent leaves the child without guidance/supervision and lets him/her grow up with more adventures. Note also that in the olden days (before antibiotics) it was much more common for people to lose at least one parent before adolescence. So it's not that far-fetched in fairy tales.

Returning to the original point about the "princesses" not being married, I think it is implied that they all get married, if not in the movie then at a later date.

Of course most of them are princesses only by Disney fiat, because little girls like the idea that they are princesses. In the original stories (even when Disney started making the movies) they weren't necessarily princesses.

One last point: in the original fairy tales, the relationships were not as clean as in Disney. If anyone really wants to know, I recommend this site:
http://www.altereddimensions.net/strange/SleepingBeauty.aspx
(But don't read it if you don't want to be disillusioned, and don't blame me if it spoils the fairy tales for you.)