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== Plan First, Elope Later ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* In ''[[Wild Rock]]'', Emba takes Yuuen away in the middle of their ceremony to make their own vows of eternity alone.▼
=== [[Fan Works]] ===
* 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.▼
=== [[Film]] ===
* In ''[[Grumpier Old Men]]'', Gustafson's daughter and Goldman's son are planning a wedding, but it falls apart under pressure. In the end they show a wedding ceremony, which turns out to be for Goldman and Maria Ragetti. The kids reveal they eloped.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* Played with in book 2 of ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', where {{spoiler|the characters ''claim'' to have eloped in advance of the big day, so that they can claim to have a baby on the way without, presumably, offending anyone's moral standards}}.▼
* An unusual variant occurs in ''[[The Time Traveler's 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 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.▼
* Played with in Patricia Briggs' [[Mercy Thompson]] novel ''[[River Marked]]'': Mercy and Adam are planning a big wedding, but it's getting out of hand and all the pressure is starting to drive Mercy nuts. So they decide to have a quiet advance wedding at Mercy's church, but she wears her dress anyway since she already has it... {{spoiler|All her family and friends are there, because Adam knew she would regret doing it without them, and they basically have the wedding they'd planned in the first place, just without the performance anxiety and scaled back a bit.}}▼
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Mad About You]]'' - After days of meddling family members and one disaster after another, Paul and Jamie "escape" the night before their wedding and end up getting married by a ConEd worker who also happens to be a licensed minister (played by Lyle Lovett) in a construction zone in the middle of the night. They go through with their big ceremony the next day, and the family never finds out.
* The [[True Companions|close-knit group of friends]] on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' sneak off before the big day and have a secret and special wedding for Lily and Marshall when everything starts to go wrong with the elaborate affair planned by Lily's mother.
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* The American version of ''[[The Office (2005 TV series)|The Office]]''. {{spoiler|Pam is frustrated by the way their friends are behaving at their big Niagara wedding. She and Jim run off to get married on a boat under the waterfall
* On ''[[Martin (TV series)|Martin]]'',
* On ''[[Scrubs]]'', Turk and Carla's planned big wedding fails to materialise when Turk gets held up in surgery and then goes to the wrong church. They still have the reception, but only get actually married the following day at the hospital.
* In the [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[The Latest Buzz]]'', the stress of planning an enormous wedding (mostly to please D.J.'s mother) causes D.J. and Mr Shepherd to split up. When the kids at ''Teen Buzz'' find out, the arrange a private ceremony on the roof of the building and trick D.J. and Shepherd into turning up under false pretenses. They realise they really do love each other and go through with the ceremony.
* ''[[Boston Legal]]'': Shirley and {{spoiler|Carl}} end up doing this when her priest and his rabbi nearly come to blows about how the wedding will run. They have a rather nasty fight - and then Shirley walks in, apologises, tells him that the only truly important thing is that she's marrying him, and agrees enthusiastically when he suggests eloping. They end up having a double ceremony with {{spoiler|Alan and Denny}} in Nimmo Bay. Viewers [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|pulled out]] [[Tear Jerker|hankies]]. They don't elope, but their wedding is ''much'' quieter than originally planned, blending the two halves of this trope.▼
▲* Played with in book 2 of ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', where {{spoiler|the characters ''claim'' to have eloped in advance of the big day, so that they can claim to have a baby on the way without, presumably, offending anyone's moral standards}}.
▲* [[Boston Legal]]: Shirley and {{spoiler|Carl}} end up doing this when her priest and his rabbi nearly come to blows about how the wedding will run. They have a rather nasty fight - and then Shirley walks in, apologises, tells him that the only truly important thing is that she's marrying him, and agrees enthusiastically when he suggests eloping. They end up having a double ceremony with {{spoiler|Alan and Denny}} in Nimmo Bay. Viewers [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|pulled out]] [[Tear Jerker|hankies]]. They don't elope, but their wedding is ''much'' quieter than originally planned, blending the two halves of this trope.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
▲* An unusual variant occurs in ''[[The Time Traveler's 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 ''[[Wild Rock]]'', Emba takes Yuuen away in the middle of their ceremony to make their own vows of eternity alone.
▲* 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.
▲* Played with in Patricia Briggs' ''River Marked'': Mercy and Adam are planning a big wedding, but it's getting out of hand and all the pressure is starting to drive Mercy nuts. So they decide to have a quiet advance wedding at Mercy's church, but she wears her dress anyway since she already has it... {{spoiler|All her family and friends are there, because Adam knew she would regret doing it without them, and they basically have the wedding they'd planned in the first place, just without the performance anxiety and scaled back a bit.}}
== Miscellaneous/Other ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
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