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{{quote|'''Robert:''' How long have you known your Prince Charming?
'''Giselle:''' Oh, about a day.
'''Robert:''' You mean it feels like a day 'cause you're so in love?
'''Giselle:''' No, it's been a day. And tomorrow will be two days...
'''Robert:''' You're kidding. You're going to marry someone after a ''day'' because you fell in love with him?
'''Giselle:''' Yes. ''Yes!''
|''[[Enchanted]]''}}
Once Upon A Time [[Love At First Sight]] was all the romantic setup the audience needed, especially in [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney Movies]] and early romantic movies. But times have changed and we now demand a more realistic build up for our on screen couples... three days or so should do it.
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It seems in your general 90 minute movie, audiences are pretty willing to accept that a couple will progress to the point of getting engaged, or at least to a fairly intense point, in a matter of days or weeks, rarely more than a month. This isn't all that realistic: not that relationships with short courtships prior to the engagement haven't worked in real life, but successful ones are fairly rare.
Compare [["Falling in Love" Montage]] for other ways to get a couple together without spending a lot of screen time on the process. Also compare [[Engaging Conversation]].
In the gay community there is a stereotype of "Lesbian U-Haul Syndrome," in which a lesbian couple will move in together very early in a relationship, leading to many of the same problems.
Sometimes [[Truth in Television]], especially for shows set in a time period where long relationships before marriage were considered [[Values Dissonance|"absolutely lunatic and idiotic," such as the 1950s]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Claire Stanfield and {{spoiler|Chane Laforet}} from ''[[Baccano
* ''[[Kyou Kara Maou]]'' has
* According to Saya Takagi from [[Highschool of the Dead]], her parents Soichiro and Yuriko got married ''the day after they met''. Though they're pretty [[Happily Married]], at least...
== Comic Books ==
* In the [[Marvel Universe]], Hawkeye and Mockingbird got married a couple of days after they met. Admittedly it was a very ''intense'' couple of days.
* [[Incredible Hulk|Hulk]] and [[Hot Amazon|Caiera]] hit it off pretty fast in Planet Hulk. The exact amount of time is hard to pin down but it doesn't seem more than a few weeks, though they are engaged in some fairly intense flirting during their second meeting. [[Dropped a Bridge
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* Noticibly averted in 'Nexus' when June tells Jack that his father didn't even like her when they met and only seemed to start warming up to her after a month as she states thats how long it took him to stop calling her 'girl.' Seeing as who the father is though, this implies that Jack's parents knew each other ''way'' before he was born.
* ''[[
== Disney Animated Canon ==
* ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' - Actually it was [[Love At First Sight]] on her part. He took about two days to come around but was then brainwashed.
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' - He fell head over heels for her after an afternoon. She was ready to smooch him at that point, but it took about three days to decide she wanted to marry him. That being said, their engagement did last the entirety of the [[Animated Series]] and two Direct-to-Video movies.
* ''[[Pocahontas]]'' - A few days, again, but here it's subverted because {{spoiler|they end up not getting together forever at the end. In ''Pocahontas II: Journey to the New World'' she gets together with John Rolfe, the man the historical Pocahontas actually married}}, but her getting to the point where she's willing to sacrifice her life for him counts.
* ''[[Brother Bear]] II'' - Okay, they were childhood friends, but she hadn't seen him in years and few days with him was enough to make her {{spoiler|give up her humanity and get herself turned into a bear to be with him!}}
* ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' - Aurora and Prince Phillip meet in the woods, he chats her up with some cheesy pick-up lines ("You have met me before - in your dreams"), and they immediately go home to tell their parents/guardians that they are in love and are going to get married. Without even knowing the first names of their chosen one!
** The fact that Aurora and Phillip managed to have a ''conversation'' before "happily ever after" (and Phillip actually ''having'' a name) was the equivalent of a six-month courtship compared to previous Disney Princesses.
* ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'' is literally a ''one'' date marriage. Ditto for ''[[Snow White and
** In the second Cinderella sequel, this is justified by the fact that holding a woman's hand should tell the prince if she's the one. He doesn't feel it when he's made to think Anastasia was the girl he danced with, or when Anastasia is magically made to look like Cindy.
*** To be very fair to ''A Twist in Time'', Cinderella and the Prince had been [[Happily Married]] for a year before Lady Tremaine magically turned back the clock and they had to fall in love all over again. The movie seemed to imply that ''something'' of their memories of that year remained.
* As far as we know, both of the main couples in ''[[
* ''[[Lady and
* [[Subverted]] in ''[[Beauty and
** It couldn't have been very long, because of Maurice- are we to believe he spent months wandering around in the woods looking for her? One of the creators said they wanted the courtship to last longer, but couldn't figure out what to do with Maurice.
*** Why not? Belle is all Maurice has, and he is incredibly devoted to her. But even that aside, it's possible there was a significant engagement period between Beast's transformation and their wedding.
*** We never actually see them get married. However we know that they do eventually because the stained glass window at the end shows Belle wearing a tiara. They could have gotten married years after movie ends.
* ''[[The Princess and
* {{spoiler|Subverted}} in ''[[
* Played straight at the end of ''[
* Definitely played with in ''[[Frozen (Disney film)|Frozen]]''. Anna decides she wants to marry [[Prince Charming|Prince Hans]] the day she met him -- but everyone from her sister Elsa on down tell her just how bad an idea it is. Still she persists with this through most of the action of the film, until Hans reveals his true colors.
== Film ==
* ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' - though somewhat justified in that Joan Wilder is herself a romance novelist and a self-confessed hopeless romantic.
** Further justified in that she doesn't marry him, she just runs off on a cruise around the world with him. The sequel shows them having the relationship problems that come up when strangers run off with each other.
* She knows ''[[How to Lose
* ''Failure to Launch''
* Averted in ''[[Two Weeks Notice (film)|Two Weeks Notice]]'': the central couple, George and Lucy, knew each other for a year before romance developed.
* ''[[The Princess Diaries|The Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement]]''
** Played straight via plot device with Mia and Andrew, but obviously thanks to [[No Sparks]] that didn't actually [[Why Waste a Wedding?|happen]]. Notably ''averted'' with Mia and Nicholas: he confesses his love for her right before her coronation but it's implied that they merely continued dating and got married somewhere down the line as opposed to getting married right away, which fits in with Mia's [[Character Development]] as an independent woman. No, he was ''not'' proposing when he knelt down.
* ''[[The Mummy
* ''[[
* ''Practical Magic'' is another subversion.{{spoiler|The first time one of the sisters falls, we don't know how long it took. The second time the same woman falls, it's her own doing because she sent for him herself.}}
* ''[[The Saint]] [[The Movie]]'' also had this happen. He counted her as a mark, romanced her to get to his target, and found himself falling in love with her. She took longer because she was pissed off at him stealing from her. But by the end of the week, they were in love.
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** Well, he did [[Rescue Romance|make a heck of a first impression]].
*** Plus, the entirety of their acquaintance takes place over those same two days, which also involve running for their lives. That sort of thing tends to make for intense emotions and not having time to notice how annoying it is that he never hangs up his towels. It's less than clear that the relationship would have lasted {{spoiler|if he'd lived}}.
* ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]] II'', Scott has all of one month to marry somebody.
* ''Goldfish Memory'' features one couple meeting, getting together and planning a family in less time then it takes one partner to realise she's already pregnant from a one-night stand just before they met. Multiple other couples manage to meet, break up, get engaged, and all manner of other things in the same period.
* ''[[
* In ''Made Of Honor'' (the gender-swapped ''My Best Friend's Wedding''), Hannah hooks up with Colin, a guy she meets in Scotland on a business trip. They get engaged at ''most'' five weeks later, to be wed a fortnight onward. {{spoiler|She realizes on the eve of the wedding that she has no idea who he is and breaks off the engagement by making out with the titular flirty-best-friend of ten years and Man of Honor in the middle of the ceremony}}
* Inverted in the original ''Stargate'' movie. Daniel Jackson is given Sha'uri as a gift, but it isn't until a day or so later that he even ''realizes'' that they're already married. By the end of the movie, he's fallen in love and decided to stay on Abydos with her.
** Further justified in that staying on Abydos would have been his dream come true even ''without'' a beautiful woman involved, since he's an archaeologist with a ruined career and no family to go back to.
* ''[[Hitch]]'' All it takes is three dates to sweep a woman off her feet. Hitch says he can get you past the first three dates, but you're on your own after that. Of the relationships in the movie, only two end up in marriage, and only one of them is a
* Played with in ''[[While You Were Sleeping]]'', in which Peter dramatically proposes to Lucy despite having properly met her twice, and plans to get married to her what would appear to be a few days later, because he thinks they're ''already'' engaged and he merely has [[Laser
* ''[[Shrek]],'' while [[Subverted Trope|subverting]] so much else, plays this trope straight: he and Fiona have only two days together before their "true love's first kiss" at the end, which is more apparent since the passage of time is a plot point {{spoiler|due to Fiona's curse}}. There's a scene skip before they leave for their honeymoon that ''could'' have been a long engagement, but from the context it was probably [[Why Waste a Wedding?]] if anything.
* In ''One Night Wth The King'', Esther meets the king face to face only once to [[Love At First Sight|fall in love with him.]] It takes a second meeting for the king to propose to her and marry her.
* In ''Monster-in-Law'', Kevin and Charlie had dated for about a month before he proposed to her. Kevin's mother was not pleased.
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* ''When In Rome'' starts out at the wedding of the protagonist's sister. Whilst she and the best man are dancing, they both admit they don't think it'll last 'cause the couple have known each other for ''two weeks''.
* In ''[[Love Actually]]'', Jamie proposes to Aurelia despite knowing her for roughly a month and not even speaking the same language.
== Literature ==
* In ''[[
* In ''Mastiff'', by Tamora Pierce, Beka falls wildly in love with Farmer after knowing him for ''two freaking weeks.'' And she meets him ''the night she buried her fiance.'' And she decides she trusts him more than her ''partner of many years.'' After a week!
* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Shards of Honor]]'', Aral and Cordelia have known each other for only a few days when he proposes (he says it was [[Love At First Sight]], despite the unromantic circumstances).
** Towards the end of [[Vorkosigan Saga|his series,]] Miles' marriage proposals were heading for this territory as he became increasingly desperate. Elena, [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|he waited seventeen years to propose.]] Elli, although they'd known each other for several years, he proposed on their first date (and kept on proposing even after being shot down repeatedly.) And with Ekaterin, he proposed ''before she even knew she was being courted.'' (He panicked.)
* ''[[Twilight (
* Faulkner's ''[[As I Lay Dying]]'' - Anse is married again by the end of the novel. This is played as an extreme [[Jerkass]] move, however, as he'd only just buried his previous wife.
* In the ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch|relaunch series]], Jake Sisko marries a Bajoran artist that he's known for about three weeks.
* Garth Nix's ''[[Old Kingdom|Sabriel]]'' has the main characters getting together after roughly a month of knowing each other. Then again, it was a very intense month....
** It happens quicker than a
* At least five Nora Roberts books have main characters who get engaged after about three weeks. The longest two relationships were probably ''Montana Sky'', which had two that had known each other since childhood, and two who dated for a year before marrying.
* Played several times in Stephen King's [[The Stand]] where a number of couples become committed (though not technically marry, since there aren't any churches or officials around...unless you count Judge Farris)within weeks to a month of the plague. Or six weeks in Stu and Frannie's case.
* In Heian Japan, the setting of the ''[[The Tale of Genji
* In ''[[Rose Daughter]]'', it takes seven days for Beauty to fall in love with the Beast and tell him she wants to marry him. Compare that with [[Robin McKinley]]'s previous ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'' [[Twice
* While Karl Oskar and Kristina have known each other for a few years by the time they get married in ''[[The Emigrants]]'' they've only actually met a handful of times. Kristina points this out the first time he proposes and once more the second time.
* In ''Tales of the Frog Princess'', it took a total of three days for [[Naive Everygirl|Li'l]] and [[Ladykiller in Love|Garrid]] to fall for each other.
* The couples in most [[
* ''Blind Waves'' by Steven Gould: When Thomas proposes to Patricia, it happens to be right in front of her mother. Patricia was in disguise (she's a witness the bad guys want to murder), and her mom didn't recognize her, but Thomas saw through it at first glance. So once he pops the question, Mom asks how long they've known each other; Patricia replies truthfully, "Four days now." Thomas points out that, "They've been a very ''intense'' four days."
== Live-Action TV ==
* In the sitcom ''[[Becker]]'', John's friend Jake marries a woman he met the day before. Throughout the season their marriage has been on the rocks.
* A ''[[Sex and
* ''[[
* Ross and Emily from ''[[Friends]]''. The marriage lasted about as long as the courtship.
* Don't forget Matt and Sarah's first date marriage on ''[[
* The final episode of ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]''.
* The main plot of ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'' is that the [[Odd Couple]] got married after only ''one'' date. If you want to be technical, they got married while ''on'' their first date!
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** They were once surprised to meet another couple that got married the same day they met. It turns out she was a [[Mail Order Bride]].
* Subverted in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' when {{spoiler|Ted gets engaged to Stella after only a few months of dating, and very few visible dates, but then Stella calls off the wedding at the last minute. Multiple episodes leading up to the wedding call attention to the rush to the altar.}}
* Kind of played with in a Venezuelan telenovela. The mismatched couple of a [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!|pampered architect]] and a construction worker meet and fall in love with passion and true honesty, then get a quick marriage using the looophole of "legalizing" a long concubinary relationship, although they have known each other less than a month, so she can get away from her family. Unfortunately they get in an accident which not only separates them, but also gives her [[Easy Amnesia]] and puts her in the custody of a millionaire who finds her. The [[Love Triangle]] ensues when she falls in love with this second man, and then her husband (now a rich man) finally finds her.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' has "The Wedding of Sarah Jane", where the title character is about to marry a man she's known for at best a few months, and a single episode. Of course, [[Genre Savvy]] viewers immediately know that things can't possibly be right.
* A literal example occurs in [[
* In [[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys|Hercules the Legendary Journeys]], Hercules meets his love Serena in one episode and the two share a kiss by the end of that episode. By the middle of the very next episode he proposes marriage to her and marries her in same episode.
* In ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', Earl is playing pool at the Crab Shack with his brother. Not far away, looking at them, is a pregnant Joy and her two friends. She's telling them how she got thrown out of her parents' house because of her premarital pregnancy, and how she needs to find a husband to provide for her and the kid ASAP. The women scope out the men at the bar, initially choosing Randy, but Joy rejects him because he's rather a [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. She is, however, attracted to Earl, but she is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know most men won't marry a woman who's six months pregnant with another man's baby. So she enlists her [[Girl Posse]] to get him drunk, which they do, and she introduces herself to Earl. Joy drives him to [[Viva Las Vegas|Las Vegas]], where they have a quickie-wedding.
* In ''[[True Blood]]'', each episode takes place over the course of about 24 hours, and each one follows right after the other with a two-week time skip at the end of Season 1. This means that Bill and Sookie have sex for the first time about a week after meeting. Then, when Bill proposes to Sookie at the end of Season 2, they had known each other for a total of 43 days.
* Often seen in soap operas, most notably [[The Bold And The Beautiful]], which will have characters planning a wedding within a month of meeting.
* The first scene of [[
* In ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'', Hikaru and Urara marry on ''the same day'' they first confess their feelings for each other, although they'd had half a season of [[Ship Tease]] in advance.
** Plus, {{spoiler|N Ma had revived and proclaimed that he would destroy all life in a matter of days, so it's not like they had a lot of time to devote to the courtship.}}
* On ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', April and Andy decide to get married out of the blue after a season of [[Ship Tease]] and [[Will They or Won't They?]] and about a month of actual dating. Played with in that Leslie spends a whole episode trying to convince them how wrong their decision must be and that they're rushing into it, and finally realizes that maybe she should just give them a chance and let them do what they want.
* On ''[[
* Fourth date near-marriages are fairly common in ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' with each of the women having at least one man propose to them within a week of meeting them. They almost always consider it a strong possibility, and get angry with their friends for not being happy for them. The only time it's completely [[Played Straight]] is in the season finale, when Dorothy actually goes through with it.
* In ''[[My Family]]'', a psychic tells Janey she will meet her true love at a wedding she's due to attend. She does meet a guy there, and marries him ten days later. {{spoiler|She runs off with ''another'' man at the reception for her own wedding, and asks her husband for a divorce on the same day.}}
* In the classic ''[[Star Trek:
* In the first episode of ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]'', Robin and Marian meet while Robin is trying to escape from the Sheriff of Nottingham (Marian is his ward). He bursts into her bedroom, looking for a place to hide, and they [[Love At First Sight|immediately fall in love]]. Marian helps him escape, and when he later he saves her, she decides to stay in Sherwood Forest with him and his band. They get married at the end of the second episode.
== Oral Tradition ==
* A lot of [[Fairy Tale
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** Depending on how it's performed, there's also the justification on Johanna's side that she's desperate to escape the depraved [[Wife Husbandry|Judge Turpin]].
* [[William Shakespeare]] was fond of playing this trope straight in his comedies and deconstructing it in his tragedies:
** Famously [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]] in ''[[
*** Played somewhat straighter in the musical adaptation ''[[West Side Story]]'', though with a similar message at the end.
** Like everything else, played with ''and'' played straight in ''[[A Midsummer
*** The play does hint that Demetrius and Helena had a relationship before he started pursuing Hermia, which explains why Helena is so convinced that he really loves her. It still has him thrown back into love with her, though.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* Possible in [[The Sims]]. Heck, it's possible to have a ''first-date'' marriage, if you're so inclined. With enough hacking, two Sims that don't even know each other can be married.
** Sort of necessary in The Sims 2, since the sims' lifespans are measured in days.
* [[Neverwinter Nights 2]] has no way of showing the passage of time in most of the main campaign, but it seems like it takes place over maybe a month. And in the space of a month, you can get an elf (notoriously patient species) for males or a paladin (very cautious about this sort of thing) for females to be declaring undying love for you by the end. Then again, [[Stalker
** Mask of the Betrayer takes place over around three weeks, given its internal traveling time estimates. Then again, both of the possible love interests have a [[Reincarnation Romance|decent]] [[Ladykiller in Love|excuse]].
* It is ambiguous how long you spend wandering around the Underdark with Nathyrra (or Valen if your character is female), but somehow it doesn't seem long enough for what results. The timeframe for the player character and either Aribeth or Arin (depending on gender) in the original campaign is a lot more feasible.
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* Potentially averted in [[Dragon Age]], as the events of the Blight take place over roughly a year. This allows the Warden to make a move immediately, or spend fairly good span of time to develop their relationship with Alistair/Morrigan/Leliana/Zevran. The characters each take a different span of time to fall in love, even if their approval is very high; "love" requires their personal quest to be completed, which for Alistair ''could'' be done the first time you enter Denerim, but for Zevran requires the Landsmeet to have been called, approaching end-game.
** Completely averted in [[Dragon Age II]]. The events of the game take place over ten years, and it takes three for Hawke's relationship with his/her chosen significant other to move to a physical level. The end of the game takes place ten years after the beginning, and {{spoiler|Hawke's love interest is the sole companion to remain by his/her side after the events of the endgame.}}
* Mostly averted in [[
* You can invoke this in certain ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' games due to [[Good Bad Bugs]]. Arguably, a lot of ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' games feature this unless you believe all events involving you two romantically are dates.
** If one figures out what items the various love interests like, it can be ridiculously easy to get them to love you in very short periods of time, with minimal interaction.
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'', in which all marriage requires is having completed a quest for a given NPC and then speaking to them while wearing an amulet that signifies you're available and looking. Some require you complete whole questlines, which presumably would give you time to get to know each other (not much, but some time) while others require only a simple fetch quest, and some require only that you beat your potential spouse in a bare-knuckle brawl. The priest of Mara who explains this to you points out that this is not unusual at all in Skyrim, as, well, its ''[[Death World|freaking]] [[Grim Up North|Skyrim]]'', one of the most dangerous regions in the world, and people don't involve themselves in long courtships when death is literally right down the road.
== Webcomics ==
* Hasting's long string of divorces in ''Ugly Hill'' is partly due to him marrying new women at the drop of a hat.
* [[Happily Married|Fred and Faye]] in ''[[Something
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== Web Original ==
* In [[
* From a chain letter in [http://www.snopes.com/luck/chain.asp this Snopes article]: "Richard S. Willis sent this letter within 45 minutes of reading it. Not even 4 hours later walking along the street to his new job interview with a really big company, he ran into Cynthia Bell, his secret love for 5 years. Cynthia came up to him and told him of her passionate crush on him that she had had on him for 2 years. Three days later, he proposed to her and they got married."
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** Plus the relationship fell apart by the end of the episode, with a definite implication that he never loved her that much anyway. They ''are'' teenagers, after all.
* In ''[[Thumbelina]]'', the titular character falls in love with a fairy prince after ''half an hour'' and goes on a quest to find him and marry him. This is all ''just because he's the same size as she''.
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** Incidentally, this is a step up from the [[Hans Christian Anderson]] fairytale, which has Thumbelina meet the prince for the first time, fall in love with him, and marry him ''at the very end of the story''.
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* French president Nicolas Sarkozy: get divorced in October 2007, find a new girlfriend in December of the same year, get married in February 2008: the whole process took little more than 100 days.
** Of course, he ''is'' the president of France and she ''is'' Carla Bruni.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''{{'}}s Fred Armisen and ''[[Mad Men]]''{{'}}s [[Elisabeth Moss]]: SNL does a ''[[Mad Men]]'' sketch. Amy Poehler is supposed to play Moss' character but she goes into labor a few hours before showtime. Moss happens to be in New York, so they bring her in at the last minute to do the sketch. She meets the cast members, and when she meets Armisen, in the words of someone else, "it was like a bolt of electricity. Everyone in the room felt it." They start dating and three months later announce their engagement; they married in October 2009 and have since separated.
* The infamous 2000 [[Reality TV]] show ''Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire''
** The makers of the show, being a bit [[Genre Savvy]] about the whole thing, had them sign ''annulment'' agreements before they got married.
* Happens a lot in the Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community where people believe that engagement comes after three dates. There is a teacher whose daughter met a man on the second day of Passover and married him the day after Shavous, a holiday that takes place exactly seven weeks after the second day of Passover.
* In the 1950s, if you were dating someone for longer than a few months without getting married, it was usually considered improper, as they were "trying to have it all."
* David Duchovny and Tea Leoni got married after dating for about nine weeks, which is even more amazing when you consider that for much of that time Duchovny was in Canada shooting ''[[The X
* [[
* Writers harvey Pekar (of ''[[
* Reality staple [[Kim Kardashian]] met New Jersey Nets player Kris Humphries on the opening game of 2010 and was engaged to him by the end of the season. After a massively hyped (and expensive) wedding in August 2011, Kim dropped divorce papers on him after only 72 days.
* While marriage is not expected immediately, the premise of the series ''Millionaire Matchmaker'' is that the matchmaker sets up a millionaire and a girl or guy who fits what said millionaire is looking for in a partner out on a series of dates. The matchmaker asks both how they felt the dates went and gives advice on how to make the relationship work better. Generally, the idea is at least for the couple to continue to see each other after the first few dates.
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