Fourth Date Marriage: Difference between revisions

'''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?

 

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.

 

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!]]!'' become informally engaged after all but two meetings, and this was after they tried to kill each other when they first crossed paths. Of course, much of this can be attributed to Claire's unorthodox flirting strategy, which consists of [[Engaging Conversation|proposing to complete strangers that he thinks are cute]] and hoping one of them eventually says yes. {{spoiler|Chane, meanwhile, was raised as an experiment by her emotionally manipulative father, and [[Defrosting Ice Queen|wasn't accustomed to genuine affection]]}}. On the flip side of the spectrum, we have [[Living Forever Is Awesome|Firo]] and [[Artificial Human|Ennis]]—a relationship which involved a ''fifty year'' courtship before they got serious.

* 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 ==

* [[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 on Him|It didn't last long, though.]]

 

* 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.

* ''[[Through a Diamond Sky]]'': It's stated that Flynn and Jordan hit City Hall within three months of meeting. [[Altar the Speed|Yes, Sam was a factor]]. The author did the math on the ''[[Tron: Legacy|Flynn Lives]] ARG'' and realized that there was less than two years between their meeting and [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|her death]]...

* ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'': Prince Naveen and Tiana seem to spend a couple days together before Naveen proposes and they get married some unspecified time after. Unlike the ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' example above, there's no way this could actually take place over a long period because of time framing with Mardi Gras which, accurately in this movie, is not [[It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans|always]].

* {{spoiler|Subverted}} in ''[[Tangled]]''. Flynn and Rapunzel are clearly smitten with each other nearly as soon as they meet, with Rapunzel saying "I think he likes me!" less than 24 hours after they start to travel together {{spoiler|but the ending of the movie implies that Flynn and Rapunzel actually had a decently long courtship before they got married}}.

 

== Film ==

* She knows ''[[How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days]]'' but he can make a woman fall in love with him that same length of time.

* ''Failure to Launch''

** 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.

* ''[[Speed]]'' - Subversion {{spoiler|Because they cited statistics that indicated that how their relationship started meant it wouldn't last. And indeed, it didn't.}}

* ''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.}}

** 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}}.

* ''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.

* ''[[27 Dresses]]'' - Two subversions done two different ways. The first couple plays it straight at first, but doesn't end up marrying. The second couple {{spoiler|falls in love within a matter of weeks, but doesn't marry until a year later.}}

* ''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 ''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 [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]] stories--[[Justified Trope|justified]], of course, in that that's exactly the way it was done at the time. Couples didn't really go steady unless they were engaged, so it wasn't uncommon for young men to propose to girls that they'd only met recently.

 

 

* 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 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.

 

== Webcomics ==

* Hasting's long string of divorces in ''Ugly Hill'' is partly due to him marrying new women at the drop of a hat.

{{quote|'''Faye:''' When we first married, you asked if I regretted rushing into it after just two months of dating. I said no, but I do ... Two months was too long. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|I'd have married you after the first date]].}}

 

* 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.

* The infamous 2000 [[Reality TV]] show ''Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire''—which saw 50 contestants try to win the heart of a millionaire whom they had never even seen, let alone met—resulted in a woman marrying a stranger in front of 22 million people. The total length of the marriage? About a month and a half.

** The makers of the show, being a bit [[Genre Savvy]] about the whole thing, had them sign ''annulment'' agreements before they got married.

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