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* [[X Wing Series|Corran Horn and Mirax Terrik]] quietly got married in a small ceremony by Wedge Antilles, acting as captain of the ''[[Cool Starship|Lusankya]]'', in order to head off an outburst by Mirax's dad (since Corran's father had been the officer who sent Booster Terrik, a notorious smuggler, to prison). They later had a more traditional ceremony once it was too late for Booster to do anything.

** [[Star Wars Union|Luke and Mara]] do much the same, partly on Corran's advice--they have a private Jedi wedding, and a public wedding after that.

* Michael and Deanna in ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' secretly got married before they moved in together, but later had a big fancy wedding for Deanna's mother to plan.

* ''[[The Wedding Banquet]]'': Wai-tong and Wei-wei have a low-key wedding, but a chance encounter with an old friend of Wai-tong's father leads them to organize a by-the-book traditional wedding ceremony, complete with lavish banquet and dozens of guests.

* In ''Abie's Irish Rose'', Abie and Rose Mary ultimately have ''three'' weddings: a Methodist wedding before their feuding parents get involved, a Jewish wedding to please Abie's father, and a Catholic wedding to please Rose Mary's father.

* On ''[[Dharma and Greg]],'' the title couple elope [[Fourth Date Marriage|on their first date]], getting married in Vegas. Naturally Greg's conservative parents are shocked, and the two wind up having a more traditional ceremony a few episodes later.

 

=== Plan First, Elope Later ===

* An unusual variant occurs in ''[[The Time Travelers Wife]]'', where the fancy wedding goes off without a hitch -- except that it's the titular groom's future self, rather than his present self, who ends up standing at the altar. When his present self gets back to the present, he and his wife stop by a justice of the peace just to make sure that ''this'' version of him is officially married as well.

* In [[Rocko's Modern Life]], when Filburt and Dr. Hutchison get married, they have a big, traditional wedding planned. But because their families (cats and turtles) don't get along, and because Dr. Hutchison's mother was too involved, the couple have a Drive-Thru wedding before appearing at the park where the ceremony was to be held.

* In one of [[The Dresden Files]] side stories, [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Billy and Georgia]] have their wedding, but it ultimately gets screwed up, largely in part to Georgia's (evil) stepmother, and a faerie hitman with a grudge against Billy. Legally, they were married during ''that'' ceremony, but afterwards, they have a proper (if smaller) ceremony at the local church with just them, Father Forthill, Dresden, and Murphy.

* In the Tales of Symphonia fanfiction [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7037669/1/Worth_It Worth It], (the last in a series of eight) Zelos and Sheena find themselves facing two weddings in order to keep the peace - a huge, pretentious, overly-extravagant wedding held by the King in Meltokio and a long, boring, stuffy, traditional wedding in Mizuho. Neither wedding appeals to the couple, and as they are bound and determined to enjoy their own wedding, they grab Lloyd and Colette as witnesses and have a private ceremony at the hot springs.

* On ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' Lane and Zach's weddings put an interesting twist on this pattern. The first wedding is a Buddhist wedding to satisfy Lane's grandmother from Korea, the second wedding is a proper Seventh Day Adventist wedding for Lane's mother and extended family in America, and then the reception is done in a style more appropriate to the couple themselves.

* In ''Papa Married a Mormon'', precursor to ''[[The Great Brain]]'' books, Tom,Sr. and Tena marry four times. Tom whisks Tena away to Salt Lake City, where they get married by a justice of the peace a few days before her eighteenth birthday. When she turns eighteen, they go back and marry again. Shortly before the birth of their first child, the bishop agrees to marry them in a private Mormon ceremony and even fudges the date so no one will say anything about the child. Years later, they have small Catholic ceremony when Tom, Sr is on his deathbed.

** [[Naked People Are Funny|It was quite]] [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|a shame that we didn't]].

* In [[Night Court]], Bull Shannon - noting that most of his friends and family are at each other's throats regarding the plans for his upcoming wedding - winds up improvising a ceremony on the courthouse roof while insuring that everyone's complaints get addressed.

** He stops the fight between his fiancee Wanda and his mother over Wanda's refusal to wear a family heirloom wedding dress by having the dress tailored into a formal jacket for himself.

** He stops the fight between Harry and Art over who will be the Best Man by asking Harry to perform the ceremony, having Art give the bride away and choosing Roz as his [[Best Woman]].

* In the novel ''Breach of Promise'' by Perri O'Shaughnessy, Mike and Lindy Markey are revealed to have had their own private "I do," at a small church in Mexico. However, unlike most examples of this trope, they never do get around to having a "real" wedding, and their ceremony in Mexico has no legal force. This causes some serious problems for Lindy, when Mike has an affair with a younger woman and wants to kick her out of his life... {{spoiler|They eventually do get back together and get married legally.}}