History Main / LostWeddingRing

* In ''Insane City'' by humorist Creator/DaveBarry, the groom-to-be loses his wedding ring (and tuxedo) a few days ''before'' the wedding. Getting it back without his BrideZilla fiancee knowing about it involves dealing with a stripper, her greedy Death Star-sized boyfriend, a desperate Haitian refugee and her children, a snake handler, a lusty orangutang, a woman more attractive than his fiancee... Parts of it resemble a KafkaKomedy.

* The short film ''Tangled Ever After'', a continuation of ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', is all about this trope. At Rapunzel and Eugene's wedding, ringbearer Maximus sneezes while carrying ''both'' rings, so he and Pascal have to scramble across the kingdom to retrieve them.

* In ''VideoGame/ThreeTheHardWay'', one of Vance's BountyHunter mission is to find a wedding ring for a guy who's married to a seamstress. Completing this quest would give him the opportunity to get special clothes from the seamstress in order to meet with Duke Salem of Burlington (since commoners can't enter the city).

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Daphne misplaces the engagement ring Donny gave her.

* One episode of the [[Anime/KirbyOfTheStars Kirby anime]] did this. The person who lost the ring was Tiff's father. He got a new one every year, and he lost it every time (though it appears they're married). This time, Kirby accidentally tosses it out of a window, and various mishaps make it fall farther out of the main character's reach, until it gets swallowed by a fish...that Chef Kawasaki was preparing for their anniversary dinner. Kirby realizes its the same fish and retrieves the ring from it.

* I'll see you that and raise you the story of the guy who proposed to his girlfriend on the walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge. Romantic. . .until he dropped the ring while trying to put it on her finger. The good news is that it fell to the roadway below rather than into the water. Determined to get it back (no doubt thinking of how much he spent on it), he jumped down and proceeded to contend with the rushing traffic in order to find it--and he did.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "D.W. Thinks Big", Arthur becomes the ringbearer for his Aunt Lucy's wedding. The ring gets lost ending up in the pipe organ. Arthur is perfectly willing to retrieve it, but is too big to go inside the organ. Fortunately, D.W. is small enough to retrieve it. It also serves to nicely expose Cora's true personality to everyone. She's small enough to go inside, but unwilling to saying the bridal couple can "just get another ring."

* In an early episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', [[SarcasmMode model housewife]] Peggy Bundy takes straight-laced Marcy to a strip club and Marcy loses her wedding ring down the speedo of a male stripper. Marcy cannot go back-stage to ask the stripper to give the ring back thanks to the "[[NoodleIncident Peggy Bundy Rule]]", so she leaves a note for the stripper to send it to Peggy's address. The next day when the stripper shows up to the house Al gets the ring and gives it to Steve- the two plan all sorts of emotional black mail for Marcy. In the end, when Steve sees how guilty Marcy felt about losing the ring he gave it back to her in an envelope saying it was from Peggy and he didn't know what it was. After she goes into the bathroom and shrieks when sees what was in the envelope, they both get into bed and hold hands to look at the rings, Steve asks Marcy "So you lost your wedding ring down a stripper's jock strap?"

* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Frankie and Francesca have lost their wedding ring, and Francesca won't let them leave for the mainland to '''''go see her sick father''''' until it's found. Mario, of course, ends up being the one to have to retrieve it, because they won't stop looking in completely the wrong area. Later, he'll lose it in town, and post a trouble in the Trouble Center asking for help in finding it, lest he be forced to say "I love you!" some insane number of times. A valid fear, as he's already been forced to say it 100 times (as you're forced to stay and listen, A A A A A...).

* [[spoiler: Kei Tsuchiya]] from ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy'' uses this to KickTheDog levels. [[spoiler: When Miki drops either a bracelet given to her by Yuu as a gift (manga) or a Toryo medallion with a picture of Yuu and Miki herself (anime) during work without realizing it, he keeps it to himself for several days, and then ''gives it to Yuu while lying to him about how Miki wants to dump him''. Yuu is GenreSavvy enough to not believe Kei's words, but his and Miki's relationship already was rather troubled, and they break up for a short while.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb,'' "No More Bunny Business": Isabella's mom loses her wedding ring after taking it off to do the dishes. Phineas uses his new X-Ray glasses to find it in the pipes, though she declines their offer to get it out themselves.

* Creator/DorothyLSayers opens ''Busman's Honeymoon'' with an account of LordPeterWimsey's marriage to Harriet Vane, noting that Peter's nephew pretended to lose the ring five times, then really lost it, but as the groom was a detective he was able to find it.

Compare with BrokenTreasure.

* A recently widowed Corday drops her wedding ring down the sink while scrubbing in for surgery on ''Series/E.R.''. Romano retrieves it for her using a surgical scope and forceps.

** Ross's family wedding ring was lost beore his ceremony, but it was actually lost by Joey, the best man who was afraid to tell Ross the groom. At first they thought the stripper stole it, but as it turns out, their pet duck swallowed it.

* On the SoapOpera ''Port Charles'', Karen removes her engagement ring to wash dishes. Her fiance's spiteful ex, who's trying to get him back, steals it, knowing that she will make poor Karen look careless and irresponsible and herself look like a hero when she "finds" it.

* A subplot of the DCComics miniseries ''Hero Hotline'' has Lester "Private Eyes" Lee lose his wedding ring down a sewer grate and has to call in rubber-limbed fellow hero Tom "Stretch" Longacre to fish it out so Lee can marry Melanie Boulder, a Dolly Parton {{Expy}}.

* Happens in a filler episode of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''. A young man loses his engagement ring after a fight with his girlfriend - it gets swallowed by a catfish. Kenshin happens to catch said fish, which coughs up the ring as it's cooked. [[AccidentalMarriage He gives it to Kaoru, not knowing its symbolism...]] And HilarityEnsues.

* Inverted in a ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' {{filler}} anime episode, where Kenshin ''finds'' an engagement ring... which unbeknownst to him, was lost by someone else. [[spoiler: The real owner appears after Sanosuke stops him from killing himself over throwing the ring away during a fight with ''his'' girlfriend, and then Kenshin and Co. [[HilarityEnsues have to recover it from Kenshin's girlfriend Kaoru]], whom Kenshin gave the ring to...]]

* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere''. There is a ring which controls a powerful magical cauldron that the entire world is fighting a war over. At one point, that ring is used basically as a man's wedding ring to his new wife. The wife's father, however, wants that ring very badly, and she wants her father's love very badly. When the husband finds out and is devastated by the betrayal, she rushes off to the get the ring back.

The wedding ring has gone missing -- eaten by an animal, dropped down the drain, accidentally sold in a garage sale -- and [[ASimplePlan convoluted machinations]] are needed for its safe return. A common complication is that the ring loser can never, ''ever'' tell their spouse it was lost, afraid that she/he will get mad at the fact/assumption that she/he took it off in the first place.

* Real life imitated sitcom plots when, in 2009, a man (Reed) proposed to his girlfriend (Kaitlin) by hiding the engagement ring in a Wendy's Slurpee (not quite as romantic as the champagne in the similar ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' episode), which she wolfed down, swallowing the ring without even noticing anything particularly lumpy in her dessert. It took an X-ray showing the ring in her stomach to make her believe what happened. She retrieved the ring a couple of days later, and still married the guy. [[http://krazykaitlin.blogspot.com/2009/02/im-engaged.html (Blog account with pictures and video)]]

* ''Series/BeingHumanRemake'': Sally's rotten fiancé Danny kills her over her losing her engagement ring down the sink.

* In one episode of ''ChisSweetHome'', the mother misplaces her wedding ring. Chi the kitten is the one who ends up (accidentally) finding it.

* FasterThanAKiss's Fumino lost her ring for a short time, much to her distress.

* One chapter of ''FutariEcchi'' is about Makoto losing his wedding ring.
* Cruelly used in SteppingOnRoses, when [[spoiler: Nozomu ''steals'' Sumi's wedding ring.]]
* [[spoiler: Kei Tsuchiya]] from MarmaladeBoy uses this to KickTheDog levels. [[spoiler: When Miki drops either a bracelet given to her by Yuu as a gift (manga) or a Toryo medallion with a picture of Yuu and Miki herself (anime) during work without realizing it, he keeps it to himself for several days, and then ''gives it to Yuu while lying to him about how Miki wants to dump him''. Yuu is GenreSavvy enough to not believe Kei's words, but his and Miki's relationship already was rather troubled, and they break up for a short while.]]