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* In ''Series/TheNanny'' Jocelyn was going to marry Nigel, but Fran realizes that she is really in love with her chauffeur, Lester. Eventually, the two of them realize it on Jocelyn's wedding day- and Jocelyn marries Lester instead.
* The ''LifetimeMovieoftheWeek'' "With This Ring" uses this trope when Vivian and Sean marry after Trista decides (at the altar) that she doesn't want to settle for marrying her college boyfriend.
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] on ''Series/{{Shake It Up}}'' when after Jeremy and Georgia broke up at the alter, [=CeCe=] and Rocky tried to make this an opportunity for [=CeCe=]'s parents back together after they kissed the night before the wedding. However, the parents refuse.

* Kind of inversion in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': Harry Osborne interrupts the very happy wedding of Peter and MJ, and tries to force MJ to marry him. Liz shows up as a LastMinuteHookup, confessing that she's always loved Harry. This ends up neutralizing him as a threat, because it makes him harder to manipulate by his evil father (who's currently trapped in another dimension, along with the ''real'' MJ, [[ItMakesSenseInContext but I digress]]).

* On ''Series/OneDayAtATime'', Julie ends up marrying the best man.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] on ''Series/{{Shake It Up}}'' when after Jeremy and Georgea broke up at the alter, [=CeCe=] and Rocky tried to make this an opportunity for [=CeCe=]'s parents back together after they kissed the night before the wedding. However, the parents refuse.

* [[SubvertedTropes Subverted]] on ''Series/{{Shake It Up}}'' when after Jeremy and Georgea broke up at the alter, [=CeCe=] and Rocky tried to make this an opportunity for [=CeCe=]'s parents back together after they kissed the night before the wedding. However, the parents refuse.

* ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory''. The female love interest (Creator/KatharineHepburn) and her DisposableFiancee call the wedding off, so she re-marries her ex husband (CaryGrant), instead.

#everyone just have a big party

* In ''Literature/{{Zemsta}}'' the wedding cake has letters M and H (Maciej - Cześnik, and Hanna - Podstolina) on it. But after all the hijinks, it's [[spoiler: Waclaw and Klara]] who end up married.

The guests have arrived, the priest is waiting at the altar, and the organist is playing "Here Comes the Bride". There's only one problem: the happy couple isn't getting married after all. A resourceful character suggests that one of the following occur:
#another couple get married in their stead (alternately, an older married couple may choose to renew their vows)
#the original bride (or, less frequently, groom) marry her (or his) true love

The guests have arrived, the priest is waiting at the altar, and the organist is playing "Here Comes the Bride". There's only one problem: the happy couple isn't getting married after all. A resourceful character suggests that one of the following occurre

The guests have arrived, the priest is waiting at the altar, and the organist is playing "Here Comes the Bride". There's only one problem: the happy couple isn't getting married after all. A resourceful character suggests that (a) another couple get married in their stead (alternately, an older married couple may choose to renew their vows), (b) the original bride (or, less frequently, groom) marry her (or his) true love, or (c) everyone just have a big party. The important thing is that the wedding paraphernalia won't go to waste.

* ''Film/HighSociety'' (which is TheMusical of ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory''), though the leads are Creator/GraceKelly and BingCrosby.

* Creator/DaveBarry mentions a friend of his who was in the mood to have a wedding, but all but one of her children were already taken. So she decided to have one between her son and an inflatable pool toy. The son got fianceed sowmewhere along the line, but "you had to feel bad for the pool toy".

* in ''Series/KingOfQueens'', Arthur almost marries a 'famous' singer, Eva, but it turns out she only marries gay men, for companionship. Once she realized Arthur wasn't gay, she ran out on the wedding. Arthur, ever the penny-pincher, up and proposes to Spencer's mother. The marriage apparently lasts only a year.

* Possibly played straight in ''TheWestingGame''. [[spoiler:While it's uncertain how early Angela decides against marrying Doctor Deere, everyone still holds a wedding for Crow and Otis Amber instead]].

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In the episode "June Bride". Mr. Leblanc's proxy wedding gets cancelled. Mr. Boynton suggest they don't waste the arrangements, nor the judge. Does he finally propose to, and marry, Miss Brooks? No. [[FacePalm It's a great opportunity for a square dance!]]

* Subverted in the radio/television episode of ''Series/OurMissBrooks'', "June Bride." When the French Teacher's "proxy wedding" gets cancelled, Mr. Boynton tells everyone that he has no intention of wasting the opportunity or the minister. Naturally, everybody, especially Miss Brooks, believes that he's finally going to propose. Instead, Mr. Boynton sees this as the perfectly opportunity for a square dance as he's ObliviousToLove.

* On "Series/{{Felicity}}", Elena and Tracy decide not to get married, realizing they're not ready yet. However, Meghan and Sean end up taking advantage of the ceremony all set up to get married instead. When the series does its infamous time travel storyline, the marriage was wiped out with Meghan telling Felicity (the only one who remembered the wedding) how crazy her and Sean getting married like that was.

* On "Series/Felicity", Elena and Tracy decide not to get married, realizing they're not ready yet. However, Meghan and Sean end up taking advantage of the ceremony all set up to get married instead. When the series does its infamous time travel storyline, the marriage was wiped out with Meghan telling Felicity (the only one who remembered the wedding) how crazy her and Sean getting married like that was.

* ''Film/MammaMia'': When Sophie and Skye decide to delay their wedding to travel the world, [[spoiler: Sam reveals that he's always loved Donna, is now divorced, and proposes to Donna, using the trope name.]]

* ''Bollywood/KuchKuchHotaHai'':
** This was relatively common in pre-90s Bollywood films; usually the rationale was that the local astrologer had gone to a lot of trouble to find the most auspicious possible date, and postponing the wedding [[UpToEleven could be even more disastrous]] than playing eeny-meeny-miney-moe in search of a replacement [[AlwaysMale groom]].

* ''Foolin' Around'': when Annette O'Toole decides to marry the protagonist (Gary Busey), her mother (Chloris Leachman) 'saves face' by marrying her butler (Tony Randall).