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]].

 

== 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.

* [[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.}}

* ''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 ==

== 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]].}}