A collaboration between and I again. This is how we think Emily would look if she were still alive...a concept of her in a real chapel, and full of colour and life.

The way we see it, the dress she wears when she's dead is actually the under-skirt of her gown, and the upper layer was covered with beads made from semi-precious jewels - which Barkis stole after he killed her. Also she would have worn jewelry, such as a necklace - which he would have also stolen. I feel that the only way her hair were to turn blue from suffocation/decay/rotting over time would be if it were a pale colour, either blonde or dirty-blond, otherwise the blue colour wouldn't be possible with darker coloured hair.

Emily/The Corpse Bride (C) Tim Burton