No Place for a Princess

I love poofy dresses.
My problem stems from the fact that I watched so many Disney Princess movies growing up, I became obsessed (there's that trouble again!) with the idea of dancing in a big flowing dress!
Prom was the greatest excuse in the world to buy a dress with a big poofy skirt. You couldn't get away with it for homecoming, but for prom it was a golden opportunity.
Unfortunately when I got to high school age, I wasn't able to afford any of those kind of dresses. I was so desperate to get to wear a poofy dress, I went back to my Polish ex-boyfriend's high school prom (he was a year younger than me) with him and my best friend JUST so I could wear a big blue poofy dress I had finally been able to afford.
I made sure when I got married to have a dress made with a big skirt, and wore my first crinoline ever. I felt like such a princess that day with my fancy white dress and my huge dance floor at the reception.
So my question is now that why as adults are there not more events we can wear these kind of dresses to???
The only chance we usually get is if we get picked to be bridesmaids for our friends. I got to wear the most gorgeous red dress I've ever seen to my friend Kim's wedding as her matron of honor, but opportunities like that don't come along everyday. Half the time you don't even get to pick the dress out, and girls nowadays usually tend to favor the slim evening gown style for their attendants. And eventually all my friends will be married and then what chance do I have? There just aren't any occasions for wearing the kind of dresses I adore. Do the rich class have charity balls and the like where they can wear these kind of dresses? Not that it matters, I'll probably never be rich.
So I guess I'm stuck hoping the fashions will change and I'll be able to wear big poofy dresses to events that it previously made no sense to wear such attire to. It's sad, but I really love to wear dresses that much.
But in reality, probably the only thing left for me is when I have children, and can dress my little girls up in poofy dresses to try and live vicariously through them.
They'll probably hate it.