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* In the [[Margaret Weis]]/Tracy Hickman series ''[[The Death Gate Cycle]]'', the protagonist and miscellaneous refugees are escaping a catastrophe, and two characters ask the protagonist to marry them, citing this tradition. He agrees reluctantly.
* In Golding's "To the Ends of the Earth" trilogy it happens once, and the captain accidentally begins to read the funeral service... (well, the groom was actually dying, but he Got Better)
* In real life, theThe rapid modern steam travel described in Jules Verne's ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'' is the [[Trope Breaker]] that ended the long-standing historic presumption that shipboard weddings in international waters were a matter of practical necessity. Phileas Fogg [[Averted Trope|averts the trope]] by frantically requesting a next-day church wedding as his first order of business on returning to London. [[Technology Marches On]], allowing him this option as what was originally [[wikivoyage:Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation|a three-year voyage]] by sail takes less than a season by steamship and rail.
 
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