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* In ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' Hermia and Lysander run off to do this, since Hermia is going to be forced into an [[Arranged Marriage]] to Demetrius (or put into a convent). However, events work out so that Demetrius cancels the wedding and the two are able to get married in Athens after all.

* One of the subplots of ''[[Paper Mario: theThe Thousand -Year Door]]'' involves the daughter of a Piyanta mafia don eloping with one of his underlings. The first time you meet, he agrees to secure you a ride to the place where the next [[Plot Coupon]] is if you bring them back. On finding them, they return of their own accord and he tells them to get lost but gives them his blessing in a roundabout way. They settle on a tropical island a few chapters later. {{spoiler|In the next chapter you need a ride once again, so you return and find him sick (literally) with worry about them. One subquest later and you have [[Not Rare Over There|your ticket]], the couple and the Don reconcile and everyone's happy.}}

* In ''[[ThaliasThalia's Musings]]'', Hades' "abduction" of Persephone is actually this. They staged it so they could run away together in spite of [[My Beloved Smother|Demeter's]] [[Parental Marriage Veto]].

* The Scottish village of [[wikipedia:Gretna Green|Gretna Green]] is the place where English teenagers used to traditionally run to to get hitched when they wished to defy their parents (because Scottish law was more easy going about such things, and it was the first Scottish village on the main London-Edinburgh road). It's still possible to go there for a traditional "wedding ofover the anvil", although thisthe isdifferences nobetween longerhistorical recognisedEnglish inand Scottish law which originally justified this journey largely no longer exist.