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Bleah! We really [[Dead Horse Trope|don't need to see this one again]]. Little wonder it's hardly ever played straight anymore, [[Undead Horse Trope|though if handled correctly]], may be the setup to a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] or [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
It's not even played straight in [[Real Life]] these days; the officiant's words and the couple's vows are different for every wedding. Many weddings exclude this line altogether, but it's still legally in some
See also [[The Graduate Homage Shot]].
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== Advertising ==
* The Volkswagen television commercial "Big Day" features this as the ''only'' line of dialogue. The rest of the commercial is a man [[Race For Your Love|frantically driving cross-country]] in a race against his beloved's wedding to another, and throwing the church doors open right as the priest says, with dramatic reverberation, "speak now or forever hold your peace". The commercial ends with the caption "fasten your seatbelts".
* A twist on the trope was used in a series of Christian-themed commercial spots about doing the right thing, where someone is just about to declare his/her intentions before someone arrives, interrupts and presents evidence on why the protagonist should reconsider or do something else. One example was a city council that was about to vote on a lucrative development project, which would involve the razing of a building used as a community center for troubled teen-agers; just before the mayor was about to call for the
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Junior.
*sigh* Very well. }}
* Lampshaded in ''[[The Batman Adventures]]'' at Joker and Harley's wedding. Joker keeps pressing the justice of the peace to speed up the
{{quote|'''Ivy''': I object!
'''Joker''': [[Genre Savvy|I knew it! I KNEW IT!]] }}
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* Owen Wilson's character does this in ''[[Wedding Crashers]]''.
** Although this one is a bit different in that he doesn't want to stop the wedding, just talk to one of the bridesmaids.
* Averted in ''[[What About Bob]]?'', where the titular Bob is marrying his psychiatrist's sister. The good doctor, having been driven insane by his patient, is only able to gurgle at the critical
* Spoofed in ''[[While You Were Sleeping]]'', in which the main
* The climactic scene of ''Rugrats in Paris'' was one of these, and doubles as a [[Big No]] and a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] since it {{spoiler|is Chuckie's first word: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"}}.
** After knowing first-hand that the woman was [[Rich Bitch|a mean and nasty-tempered tyrant]], would you blame the kid?
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* Spoofed in the ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]'' movie. Divatox wants to marry the demon Maligore, and tells anyone who objects to ''SHUDDUP'' before she even busts him out of his prison. ''She'' starts having second thoughts once she gets a good look at him.
* Combined with [[Wedding Smashers]] in ''[[The Castle of Cagliostro|The Castleof Cagliostro]]''. Lupin, via recording, interrupts the Archbishop right after he says the trope name.
* In ''The Best Man'', Olly rushes across London to get to his beloved's wedding before she marries {{spoiler|Olly's best friend (who turns out to be a cad)}} in time for The
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Subverted in the wedding of Edge and Lita on ''[[WWE]] Monday Night Raw'', as the minister said the famed line, only for (the recently fired) Matt Hardy's entrance music to fill the arena. The whole proceedings stopped for several seconds... only for Edge to start laughing uproariously at the joke he had just played on the [[Smart Mark
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* In the second [[Dream Sequence]] in ''[[Lady in the Dark]]'',
{{quote|The murmurings of conscience do increase
And conscience can no longer hold its peace.
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* Sorta-kinda subverted, rather touchingly, in the finale of the obscure musical ''Side Show'' - Violet, one half of a Siamese twin pair, is marrying a man who can't cope with her 'other half' in order to preserve everyone's careers. There's a man who loves and accepts her who she has turned down (because she can't bear the stigma of marrying a black man), but "if there is anyone who thinks these two should not be joined together..." is meant to refer to Violet and her sister Daisy, who have just affirmed that no matter what happens, they are (literally and figuratively) bonded forever and love each other. No one stops the wedding.
* Pulled by Claudio in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''....at his own wedding. When he's led to believe that Hero was banging another dude the night before, he begins the wedding by revealing everything that he had appeared to see, leading to Claudio and Don Pedro berating and insulting her as she sits crying, Don John pretending to be sympathetic for them, and Leonato completely flipping out and [[I Have No Son|demanding Hero's death]].
* In bare: a pop opera, this line is said at Peter and Jason's wedding. Surprisingly, no one objects, even though most of the attendees are
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* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' has Yuna being forcibly hitched to [[Big Bad|Seymour]]. Cue [[Big Damn Heroes|Tidus and the rest of the party]] ''[[Gunship Rescue|crashing in on an air ship]]'' [[Big Damn Heroes|and cutting down the guards]] on their way to save Yuna.
** And, as it turns out, {{spoiler|Yuna manages to save herself (after the wedding is finished), and all Tidus and company manage to do is get themselves captured.}}
* Apparently played straight in the final scene of ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]''. You get to choose what to yell
** Alas, your heroism is all for naught, since Elaine has long-since freed herself and the 'bride' under the flowing veil is actually a pair of monkeys.
* In the [[Hentai]] [[RPG]] ''Brave Soul'' Hero Rudy has to bust into the wedding of [[Cloudcuckoolander]] [[Rebellious Princess]] Karen to keep her from getting married to some prince she doesn't want to marry. He disguises himself by wearing a pair of ''spectacles''. Then the two of them run off and have sex (it IS a h-game after all). The twist is that he gets away with it because the prince didn't really want to marry Karen either- he's actually gay and finds Rudy ''much'' more attractive...
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