Why Waste a Wedding?/Playing With


 * Basic Trope: A wedding doesn't go as planned, but a party still happens.
 * Played Straight: Alice and Bob are supposed to get married to each other, but end up breaking up on the wedding day because Alice cheated with Charles the best man. Alice ends up marrying Charles.
 * Exaggerated: And since Bob ended up cheating with Dani, the maid of honor, he ends up marrying her too.
 * Inverted: Alice and Bob have got the divorce lawyer round, he's brought all the papers they need to sign and everything... and at the last minute, they decide they love each other after all. His assistant turns to him as they're leaving and says "well, since it'd be a shame to waste all this preparation... I've been cheating on you and I want a divorce."
 * Justified: The couple (and/or their families) spent a lot of money on the wedding; it would be a real shame to just let all that go to waste just because things didn't quite go as planned.
 * Subverted: Bob asks Dani to marry him... and she turns him down in front of everyone. "Whoa, you just publicly jilted that poor woman and you're already hitting on me? What's wrong with you??"
 * Double Subverted: ...Everyone involved in the Love Dodecahedron storms off in tears, leaving just Yorick & Zoe and the stunned priest left in the church. Yorick taps Zoe on the shoulder...
 * Deconstructed: The hastily-arranged marriage doesn't work out.
 * Reconstructed:
 * Parodied: The wedding planner keeps couples with a limited budget on speed-dial so he can notify them of last-minute cancellations in their area.
 * Lampshaded: "Oh, well. We can still enjoy ourselves..."
 * Averted: Alice and Bob's wedding proceeds normally.
 * The wedding is called off.
 * Enforced: "Why not give it a happy ending?"
 * Invoked: Beta Couple Charlie and Dani push Alice and Bob into a wedding they both have doubts about, hoping they'll cancel at the last minute and C&D can snap up a free wedding.
 * Defied: Alice and Bob wish to avoid a scandal, and just get married to each other anyway.
 * Discussed: "Just to let you know, we charge full price for last minute cancellations, even if you persuade your best friends to get married in your place. No, you're not the first people to think of that."
 * Conversed:
 * Played For Laughs: Alice's mother (who did not approve of this marriage) does a happy dance in the aisle.
 * Alice throws the bouquet anyway, to determine which of the several Beta Couples get to have the free wedding.
 * Played For Drama: Alice and Bob have a My God, What Have I Done? moment and start to regret marrying Charles and Dani.

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