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For some cases where a wedding was rushed because the couple wanted to, see [[My Own Private I Do]]. Can lead to a [[Wartime Wedding]].

 

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== Film ==

* In ''[[Independence Day]]'', Captain Hiller and his fiancee have a ceremony that takes all of about five minutes. There's a battle that could save the human race the next day.

* The end to ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]'' features a sextuple shotgun wedding which {{spoiler|the brides trick the townspeople into agreeing to because both they and the brothers want to marry, but the townspeople are against it}}. Also applies to the stage musical adapted from it.

* In ''[[A Walk to Remember]]'', the young couple gets married after an extremely short courtship. Because he knows she's dying, and "getting married at the same church her mom did" was one of the things she wanted to do before she died. [[Tear Jerker|Sweet]] or [[Glurge|saccharine?]] You decide.

* Used in ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' when {{spoiler|Mercedes explains to Mondego that she only married him because she was pregnant with Dante's child}}.

* This is the main plot driver of ''The Proposal''.

* ''[[Deep Impact]]'', where Leo Biederman marries his girlfriend in order to get her and her family into the giant fallout shelter before the comet hits Earth.

 

== Literature ==

* In the ''Little House'' series, Laura and Almanzo have to get married quickly because his sister wants to come out and help plan a big wedding neither of them can afford. (Counts as a [[Real Life]] example too.)

* [[Teresa Edgerton]]'s second [[Celydonn]] series features this.

** ''The Castle of the Silver Wheel'': Tryffin hadn't planned on courting, let alone marrying, his cousin Gwenlliant for years, since she was only twelve years old. When her father planned an [[Arranged Marriage]] for her with a man known to have killed three wives and several mistresses with bad treatment, however, Tryffin stepped in at the last minute, claiming a [[Childhood Marriage Promise]] with Gwenlliant's help.

* [[George Macdonald Fraser]]'s first [[Flashman]] book - Flashman seduces the daughter of his Scottish host, who finds out and insists they get married. When Flashman initially refuses, the host's son threatens to duel him; Flashman and Elspeth are duly wed. It is a surprisingly successful marriage - those two deserve each other.

* In the first book of [[Robin Hobb]]'s ''Soldier Son'' trilogy, {{spoiler|Gord and his betrothed do this in face of the encroaching plague, as well as Epiny and Spink, after she ran away from home and spend the night with him, ruining her reputation}}.

* Used rather tragically in ''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'': {{spoiler|Charlotte Lucas marries Mr. Collins shortly after meeting him because she knows she is infected with the zombie plague and wants her last months of actual life to be happy.}}

* Bella and Edward have a very quick wedding in ''Breaking Dawn'' so that Bella can be turned into a vampire before she is too much older than Edward is.

** In case you wonder why they have to be married to turn her into vampire: Bella wants to have sex with Edward as an human once before doing it as vampire. And Edward is against sex before marriage.

* In [[Codex Alera|Academs Fury]] Bernard and Amara are trapped in a cave the Zer...er, the Vord, and don't expect to survive battle the next day, so they have a quiet conversation about Bernard's earlier offer of marriage.

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* In Orson Scott Card's Harmony books, the main character and his three brothers get quickie weddings with women they barely know so that they'll have someone to repopulate the Earth with. Somewhat justified in that, in their culture, marriages usually last for one year with the option to renew, meaning that most of the parties involved are accustomed to a pretty cavalier attitude toward the whole thing.

* In [[William Shakespeare]]'s [[Romeo and Juliet]], Lord Capulet- seeing Juliet's ''repentance''- moves the date of Juliet's wedding to Paris up a day, from Thursday to Wednesday.

* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''The Mad King'', the American hero is visiting his mother's native land, which

** This happens ''hilariously'' in "Anne of Windy Poplars." Anne facilitates a hasty elopment for two young people, Dovie and Jarvis, who had been engaged for over a year but were unable to get married because Dovie's father did not approve. So, they elope and Anne is left with the task of telling Dovie's father. She goes to break the news ...only to have her father say that he already knew and is ''relieved''. He'd picked out Jarvis for his daughter when they were children and had only ''pretended'' to not like the relationship so Jarvis would hang around more!

** This is inverted with Anne and Gilbert, however. They wait three years to get married, since Gilbert wanted to wait until he was finished medical school.

* In ''Harry Potter'', Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks are married after a relatively short courtship because of the war. The marriage nearly disintegrates when Tonks becomes pregnant, prompting Remus to panic and attempt to pull an [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] bailing on her (he's afraid their child will be, one way or another, a victim of his "affliction"). Harry, who has some experience with [[Parental Abandonment|losing parents and parent figures]], [[What the Hell, Hero?|rightly calls him on his B.S.]]

** Apparently a common occurance during the wars against Voldemort. Molly and Arthur rushed their marriage the first time, and Bill and Fleur the second.

* In ''[[X Wing Series|The Bacta War]]'', Corran Horn and Mirax Terrik become engaged partway through the novel. When Mirax's father Booster finds out about this later, he strongly objects (understandably, as Corran was the son of the policeman who caught him and sent him to Kessel for five years). He's called away on business, but fully intends to "discuss" things with them once he's finished. To avoid this, they have a brief marriage ceremony aboard ''Lusankya'' (with Commander Antilles, temporary captain of the ship, in the role of "priest", and a few droids as witnesses). Booster takes this surprisingly well, though he loses a bet with fellow smuggler Talon Karrde because of this - Karrde had bet that they would do exactly this.

 

* In an episode of ''[[Titus]]'', Titus and Erin decide to have a quickie wedding, without their [[Big Screwed-Up Family|families]]. Guess who shows up. Then they try to speed it up, before something bad happens, especially with Titus's [[Ax Crazy|insane]] mother, and her [[Why Did You Make Me Hit You?|abusive]] husband there. Guess what happens.

* In the [[My Hero (TV)]] Wedding [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjV5YwKAbsQ&feature=related seen here (5:00 -> 6:11)], the wedding is literally sped up without dropping anything.

* On ''[[The Parkers]]'' Kim and Jerel go to Las Vegas to elope. Nikki and The Professor try to stop them, but they are too late. The marriage is annulled when Jerel's mom reveals that he is only 17 and not 19 like he told Kim.

* On ''[[Downton Abbey]]'', deconstructed, somewhat; Daisy feels pressured into going through with {{spoiler|the wedding due to William's impending death}}, and subsequently feels that the whole thing was a lie.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* Liz and Anthony's wedding in ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' was put on the fast track in order to allow her ailing grandfather to witness the event before passing on. Gramps ended up getting rushed to the hospital the day of the wedding, and ''still'' managed to hang on until ''after'' Liz's first kid was born.

 

* Done in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''. Lindesfarne wanted to wait until she finished getting her bachelor's degree before getting married. She had expected to need another year to finish, but a new ruling decreed that the AP Foraging credits she had earned as a herbivore (before officially changing her diet to insectivore) ''do'' count on her transcript, meaning Lindesfarne could graduate in May. She kept her promise to Fenton to go ahead and marry.

** And her future mother-in-law had been trying to invoke this trope. Why she did so was only found out the day before the wedding: {{spoiler|Desdemona is really a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire bat]], and she was afraid once Lindesfarne found out, she would call off the wedding.}}

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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