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{{quote|"Did you ever hear the old song 'Going to One Wedding Brings on Another?' "
|'''John Thorpe''', ''[[Northanger Abbey]]''}}
After the plot is done, multiple couples are paired off and there's a massive wedding ceremony.
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See: [[Pair the Spares]] and [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]. May result in a [[Babies Ever After]] epilogue.
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== Fan Works ==
* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''[[Other Halves and Other Tales]]'' ends like this for two couples ( {{spoiler|[[Final Fantasy VII|Cloud/Aerith]] and [[Final Fantasy VIII|Leon]]/Yuffie}}.
== Film
* The end of ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]'' features, not surprisingly, a sixtuple wedding. (One of the brothers already got married earlier in the film.)
* The ending of ''[[Saving Silverman]]'' features a three-couple wedding at a Neil Diamond concert.
* The film ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]'' ends this way; of course, how could a movie all about lots of weddings not end this way?
* ''[[Beyond the Valley of the Dolls]]'', of all movies, ends with a triple wedding—witnessed by one of the main villains, who is now a homeless bum. The other villains are all dead, since they were hustlers, Nazis, lesbians, or transsexuals, who are Too Filthy To Live (well, the Nazi ''is'' too filthy to live). Roger Ebert insists that this ending was meant to be a parody of skin-flick moralism. I can't prove otherwise...
* The ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' films end like this, with Aragorn and Arwen's coronation and marriage, followed by the hobbits returning home and Sam and Rosie getting married. In the book Faramir and Eowyn get married too, but this is cut from the films, leaving only a [["Falling in Love" Montage]] in the Extended Edition.
== Literature ==
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* [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' features several marriages after the destruction of the [[Big Bad]], albeit technically spaced over several months: Aragorn and Arwen, Faramir and Eowyn, and Sam and Rosie Cotton.
== Live
* ''[[Boston Legal]]'', of all shows, ends with a double wedding {{spoiler|Denny/Alan and Shirley/Carl}} and the possibility of more.
* Subverted in ''[[Noah's Arc]]''. Just before Chance and Eddie's wedding {{spoiler|Alex comes across a ring and two plane tickets in Trey's jacket, and thinks Trey is getting ready to propose. When Eddie and Chance sign the commitment papers, Alex jumps up to ask if they can do another wedding, and says he'll marry Trey. Turns out the tickets were for him andGuy to go on a six month relief mission in Africa, and the ring is just to remind Alex that Trey loves him}}.
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* Nearly every comedy by [[Shakespeare]]. The most egregious example is ''As You Like It'', which has
* ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'' doesn't exactly marry everyone off, since a lot of the girls are concubines, but just about everyone's paired off in the ending montage.
* [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] liked to marry off multiple couples or even the entire cast. The latter happens in ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' (except the Major-General and policemen), ''Patience'' (except for Bunthorne), ''Iolanthe'' ("'tis death for fairy ''not'' to marry a mortal")
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