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The act of shortening a marriage ceremony due to outside circumstances.

** It's explicitly not a real wedding, just something she asked to be thrown together since she wanted to say the words before giving birth.

* The mid-battle marriage in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'' skips rather a lot of the traditional ceremony and is frequently interrupted in very, very strange ways.

** He's correct either way, especially considering the marriage is never consummated, and thus can be annulled. In addition, the whole deal was made under duress, although if Humperdinck's plan had worked, there wouldn't have been anyone to contest the matter, least of all Buttercup, as he planned to kill her immediately afterwards to foment a war.

* Several of the ''[[Robin Hood]]'' films use this trope.

** ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]''. Particularly notable in that the Sheriff (who's evil and everything) won't "go all the way" with Marion until they are legally married. It even gets a bit of [[Lampshade Hanging]]: the whole way through the wedding, Mortianna is shouting to the Sheriff to just take her now, but he snarls back that, for once in his life, he wants to have something good and pure. Never mind that he's marrying Marian against her will. Of course, he also needs a legitimate child to put on the throne, and while a matter of minutes wouldn't make much difference, one way or the other he has to succeed in marrying her; so it's just as well to do it in that order.

* ''[[Shrek]]'': Fiona asks the vicar to cut straight to the "I do"s so that she can be kissed by Lord Farquaad before the sun sets and so break the spell on her.

'''Minister:''' "Good! You're married. Kiss her!" }}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* During ''[[Boston Legal]]'''s third season, Brad and Denise were engaged, and Denise was also expecting at the time. On their wedding day, Denise went into labor before the ceremony could begin. They go to the hospital, where Brad (rather rudely) insists that they need to be married before the baby is born, so he won't be illegitimate. This is played for laughs, as the baby's birth is shown to be imminent throughout the episode. They do make it just in time, and then about three seconds later, the baby is born.

* Joey does this twice in ''[[Friends]]''. In Chandler and Monica's wedding, he skips ahead because he forgot his notes, and at Phoebe and Mike's wedding, which happens to be taking place outside in the snow, he speeds up due to the cold having spread to his "special place".

* Subverted on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' as Barney speeds up during Marshall and Lily's wedding and they ask him to slow down and he barks out "I can't!" because he doesn't want anyone to know that he's crying.

* In one episode of ''[[Night Court]]'', the judge was delivering a baby and marrying the parents at the same time. Said parents had decided (finally) that they wanted to be officially married before the baby's birth, leading to a race between the two events. The judge: "Inowpronounceyoumanandwifeit'saboy!"

** A similar event happens at the end of ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'', where half of Drew and Kellie's baby is illegitimate because the preacher stopped to get a candy bar from the hospital vending machine.

* On ''[[Stacked]]'', Jenny McCarthy guest stars as a [[Gold Digger]], marrying a rich and senile old man, whose mental and physical state have both deteriorated to an extreme extent. The old man has a heart attack and dies halfway through the ceremony. Poor Jenny starts trying to rush the ceremony when she realizes her groom is dying, but he is declared dead before she could marry him and inherit his fortune.

* Occurred on the 9 September 2010 episode of ''[[The Young and The Restless]]'', which featured the wedding of Billy Abbott and Victoria Newman. They've already skipped, at Billy's insistence, the [[Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace]] bit; a wise decision, given the large number of extended Newman and Abbott family members in attendance. Then the police break up the wedding and arrest Victoria; the minister (played by [[Father Knows Best|Elinor Donahue]]) runs down the aisle after them, quickly pronouncing them man and wife before the cops cart Victoria off.

* Used implicitly in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in the appropriately titled episode, "The Wedding of River Song". It was almost certainly rushed due to time itself dissolving, though it is also certainly possible, though not terribly likely, that a traditional Galifreyan ceremony is simply two sentences long.

** "Implictly"? The Doctor specifically said "we're in the middle of a combat zone, so we'll have to do the quick version."

* The [[Dixie Chicks]] song "White Trash Wedding": ''Say "I do" and kiss me quick, [[Shotgun Wedding|'cause the baby's on its way]].''

 

* Rabbi Bob Alper tells about a sweltering outdoor summer wedding, where the bride asks him to make it short. The ceremony consisted of, "Do you both want to be married?" "Yes." "You are." See it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVRLn1NtBho here], starting about 2:15.