A Girl's Dream: Usagi Becomes a Bride

When Usagi learns that a homemade wedding dress contest offers a fully paid reception as its prize, she throws herself into the fantasy of marrying, despite having no idea how to sew. At the same time, Nephrite selects her home economics instructor, Higure Akiyama, as his next victim, exploiting the woman's devotion to her craft.

Distracted in class and soon to be married, Akiyama catches Nephrite's eye as he reads the stars for a target. He corners her at a fabric shop, takes a length of cloth she admires, and marks it with his crest. As the curse takes hold, she sews at a frantic pace and even turns on her fiance, throwing his bouquet to the ground. Usagi, meanwhile, chases the contest dream through a string of failures, leaning on Rei, her mother, and Ami for help she cannot quite manage, until her mother suspends her allowance over a ruined set of curtains.

At the contest hall, Usagi resorts to her Disguise Pen to appear as a bride. Akiyama arrives in her finished gown, hypnotizes the host, and declares herself the winner just as the drained energy fells her and the monster Widow bursts from the crest. Usagi, Ami, and Rei transform to meet it. Widow snares Sailor Moon in webbing, but Mercury's Bubble Spray clouds the room, Mars burns away the web with Fire Soul, and Moon Tiara Action finishes the creature. Everyone wakes with no memory of the ordeal.

Akiyama's real wedding goes ahead peacefully. Following the custom that whoever catches the bride's bouquet marries next, Haruna, Usagi, and Rei scramble for it, only for Ami to come away with the flowers.

Nephrite chooses his victim under the star Vega, the Weaving Girl of the Tanabata legend about a seamstress kept apart from her love, a fitting nod to the sewing theme. The story shares elements with the manga's fifth act, and Usagi's daydream imagines her wed to both Tuxedo Mask and Motoki. A sign on the dress shop misspells its own name, and the plush rabbit Usagi carries recalls a character from Maple Town, another series under the same director. The DiC dub, titled Wedding Day Blues, swapped the reception prize for a Hawaiian trip.