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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.
* ''[[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.}}
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* 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.
* In ''[[1632]]'', Jeff rescues Gretchen at the Battle of the Crapper. They get engaged that night, and married four days later. Despite not having a common language. Nevertheless, their relationship works, and is still going strong five years later.
* ''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."
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* 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: The
* 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.
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* 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
{{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]].}}
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