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| 7 | [[quoteright:350:[[Series/CrisisOnEarthX https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flash_wedding.png]]]] |
| 8 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[Series/TheFlash2014 The fastest man alive]] slows down to start a family.]] |
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| 10 | ->'''Serling''': When have ''you'' ever been to a wedding? |
| 11 | ->'''Michelangelo''': ''Been'' to? Never. Seen on TV? All the time! Every series eventually does a wedding episode, dude. |
| 12 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', "Wedding Bells and Bytes" |
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| 14 | This is when a show that isn't normally about marriage sends its characters to a wedding as the premise of an episode. Weddings in the beginning or middle of the work will usually be a supporting character's or a relative stranger's that the cast is roped into attending, while the lead's nuptials are usually [[WeddingFinale reserved for the end]]. The premise of a Wedding Episode also varies with the work's genre and target audience -- a kids' show might have the characters attend their first wedding and learn about marriage, a sitcom wedding will never go smoothly and [[WorstWeddingEver the characters have to scramble around the requisite shenanigans]], a romance story will inject as many twists and turns as it can, while an action-filled work might have it as a BreatherEpisode. Just note that to qualify, the episode has to be '''about''' a wedding. |
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| 16 | Regardless of who's getting hitched, this allows the writers to dress up the cast, put them somewhere fancy and removed from the show's usual setting, and utilize as many hallmark WeddingAndEngagementTropes as they want. [[WithThisRing Mishaps with the ring?]] The bride's panicking because she's missing one of her OldNewBorrowedAndBlue things? The groom's getting cold feet and has to be coaxed to the altar? [[WeddingSmashers Someone interrupts the wedding]]? The Wedding Episode lets the characters experience all this and more, while allowing for the happy, romantic atmosphere associated with the ceremony. |
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| 18 | In the late 20th century, a Wedding Episode was often a RatingsStunt. It may overlap with WeddingFinale if the entire final installment or episode is centered around a wedding. An ending that only features the wedding at the very end, however, does not count as a Wedding Episode. Compare DressUpEpisode, where the characters have to dress fancy for reasons other than marriage. Subtrope of {{Episodes}}. |
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| 20 | !!Examples: |
| 21 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 24 | * In Episode 18 of ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'', two minor characters have their wedding, and the Cures help them out with it. |
| 25 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'' has the episode "[[Recap/PokemonS21E12TheProfessorsNewAdventure The Professor's New Adventure]]". Fresh off a climactic Ultra Beasts-related plot, this lighthearted episode is all about Kukui's proposal to Burnet, and the subsequent wedding the characters throw for them. |
| 26 | [[/folder]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 29 | * ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Issue 60 of ''ComicBook/TheAvengersLeeAndKirby'' focuses on the wedding of Janet van Dyne[=/=]ComicBook/TheWasp and Yellowjacket -- something that baffles the other Avengers, since the latter claims to have recently killed Janet's lover [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] and they barely know anything about him besides that. The wedding ends up crashed by the Circus of Crime, and the ensuing scuffle with them reveals that Yellowjacket was Hank all along, something that Janet had managed to figure out before deciding to marry him. |
| 30 | * ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': The wedding of Reed Richards and Susan Storm quickly went from kink-free and blissful to a disaster of epic proportions when it was crashed by a very-pissed conga line of recurring villains who tore up the Baxter Building and a large portion of New York while fighting over who got to kill the FF, tangled with all the FF's [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avenger]] and X-Men pals who had been invited to the wedding, and turned the event into one of the most famous [[MeleeATrois Battle Royales]] in all of comics history. It took the frickin' ''Watcher'' [[DeusExMachina popping in with a machine that threw all the villains back in time to before the attack began to end the chaos]]. |
| 31 | * ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': One of the annuals revolved around the wedding of Jack Drake and Janet Winters, the rehearsal for which went a bit sideways when the amulet Jack gave Dana as a gift turned out to be a villain's magical artifact. |
| 32 | * ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': Issue #174 focused on the wedding of Antoine D'Coolette and Bunnie Rabbot. While it went off without a hitch, the absence of Chaotix member Espio was noted by several characters; the readers got to see what he was up to at the time alongside the wedding prep, which set up the heavy WhamEpisode coming in the next issue. |
| 33 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': |
| 34 | ** Post-Crisis Clark Kent and Lois Lane's wedding day is chronicled in ''ComicBook/SupermanTheWeddingAlbum''. Superman lost his powers a few weeks before the event, so he was physically equal to a normal man when he got hitched. At the time he was told his powers might never come back (of course, they did) but Lois insisted on going ahead with the wedding anyway. Thus reinforcing the idea that Lois was marrying him for his kind and caring nature, not for his superpowers or the glory of being "Mrs. Superman." |
| 35 | ** Pre-Crisis Earth-2 Superman had his wedding story told in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #484 in 1978, where at the time the Wizard put him under a hypnotic spell that made him forget that he was Superman, and instead lived his life solely as Clark Kent, who made Lois Lane fall in love with him to the point where they married. However, after finding out that Clark Kent was really Superman and having the Wizard restore Superman's memory, Lois was ready to forsake the marriage, but Superman refused to let her, and so the couple married again in his Secret Fortress using a Kryptonian marriage vow. |
| 36 | * ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': The wedding of [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]] and Terry Long in the ''ComicBook/NewTeenTitans'' story "ComicBook/WeAreGatheredHereToday", printed in the [[MilestoneCelebration 50th issue]] of ''Tales of the Teen Titans'', is another example of a fairly mundane wedding which just happens to have a bunch of superheroes in attendance. |
| 37 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': |
| 38 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In the Silver Age there was a whole arc around the upcoming marriage of Wondy and ComicBook/SteveTrevor, with Wondy even traveling to Earth-Two and talking to their happily married Golden Age iterations. She did not take their advice about trust to heart and rather than tell Steve that her secret id was his co-worker Diana Prince she decided to kill off her Diana Prince identity. Steve called off the wedding despite the lavish preparations because of this, and they only finally got married right as their universe was about to end a few years later. |
| 39 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': One issue takes place at the wedding of ComicBook/EttaCandy's brother, the reception of which ended up bombed. |
| 40 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 41 | ** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} made sure ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} and ComicBook/JeanGrey's wedding in ''ComicBook/XMen1991'' #30 was conflict-free. Not to mention Jean's [[PimpedOutDress atypical wedding dress]] was absolutely gorgeous. Jean chose to have the last dance with wheelchair-bound Xavier, and used her telekinesis to lift him up. |
| 42 | ** ''ComicBook/XMenGold'' issue #30 is set on ComicBook/KittyPryde and ComicBook/{{Colossus}}'s wedding day but it ends up becoming ComicBook/{{Gambit}} and ComicBook/{{Rogue}}'s wedding. |
| 43 | [[/folder]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 46 | * ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In “The Rings,” Penny and Joe get married, while a later private marriage-style ceremony officially unites Bolt and Mittens as [[OneTrueLove soulmates]]. |
| 47 | * ''Fanfic/CobysChoice'': After stopping Absalom's attempt to force Nami into marriage, Luffy decides to take advantage of the setup to make his and Nami's relationship official. |
| 48 | * "Empath's Wedding" in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' is about Empath and Smurfette getting married. It takes place at the end of the novel, but the story itself chronicles how it gets to the ceremony part, with the evil witch Chlorhydris crashing it by stealing Smurfette and taking away her heart so that she wouldn't feel any love for Empath. Hefty, the jealous rival who wants to be the one to marry Smurfette, purposely gives his own heart to Smurfette so that she would be able to feel love again. Also in the series is "Wedding Bells For Bigmouth", which shows the Smurfs marrying the two ogres Bigmouth and Bignose. |
| 49 | * ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'': Chapter 68 features Dib and Lor's wedding. It's also a HalloweenEpisode, incidentally, as the two wanted a Halloween theme for the ceremony. |
| 50 | * "Hero's Wedding" from ''Fanfic/HeroTheGuardianSmurf'' has Hero marry his OppositeSexClone and SecondLove Wonder Smurfette -- which makes Smurfette, his first love, jealous and going through the same situation as her cartoon show counterpart did in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' special "Smurfily Ever After", trying to imagine herself with another Smurf as her husband. The wedding gets crashed before it happens when Hogatha and Chlorhydris have both Wonder and Smurfette kidnapped, but Hero with the help of Hawkeye rescues them both from the evil witches' grasp and proceeds with the wedding. Smurfette does get married to Hero years later after Wonder dies in a mini-story. |
| 51 | * Fanfic/TheKedaboryVerse: |
| 52 | ** ''Fanfic/MaFille'': Two chapters are set aside to focus on the boxers' wedding, one about Bear Hugger getting married, and the other about Glass Joe and Von Kaiser getting married. |
| 53 | ** ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/48028756 The Suitest Wedding]]'': While most ''Anime/PrettyCure'' fanfics in the 'Verse are about adventures, this one jumps into the future for [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Hibiki and Kanade]]. |
| 54 | * Chapter 65 of ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' focused on Kurenai and Asuma's wedding reception as a BreatherEpisode. The only actual disaster happens miles away, and it's three days before the cast finds out about it. |
| 55 | * ''Fanfic/TheMLPLoops'': |
| 56 | ** The wedding between Spike and Rarity is the first wedding in ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'' universe of two loopers who were not dating in baseline. Basically every looper in the multiverse is invited, and the ceremony is officiated by the local Admin. Of course, since Spike is a child in baseline, they had to pull out a PlotRelevantAgeUp to justify things to the non-loopers; Spike and Rarity "accidentally" fell through a wormhole that supposedly led to a YearInsideHourOutside dimension where they spent ten years dating when a few minutes passed outside. And Cadance, the local LoveGoddess, has a joygasm from helping plan such an important wedding. |
| 57 | ** On the other hand, Trixie and Chrysalis do not have a wedding; Trixie is simply named Chrysalis' permanent queen-consort. They're for all intents and purposes married, so Cadance is rather annoyed that they managed to loophole their way out of letting her plan a wedding for them. |
| 58 | ** Eventually Nyx Sparkle and Leman Russ (from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'') get married, in an event that's even longer than the Spike and Rarity wedding. |
| 59 | * The ''Fanfic/ThisBites'' version of the anime's Ice Hunter arc is one of these, as the Straw Hats are coerced into helping the Accinos carrying out an ArrangedMarriage with the rival Hiruno clan. |
| 60 | * Chapter 11 of ''Fanfic/TemporalAnomaly'', appropriately named "Wedding of Demons". |
| 61 | * ''Fanfic/TruePotential'' has Chapter 136, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin which is fittingly titled]] "[[spoiler:The Wedding of Naruto and Hinata]]". |
| 62 | [[/folder]] |
| 63 | |
| 64 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 65 | * In an ''Literature/{{Alfie}}'' story, Alfie is asked to be the page at a wedding. His toddler sister Annie Rose follows him. |
| 66 | * One of the early books in ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' has the week-long preparation for Kristy's mother and stepfather's wedding, with the girls working together to look after nearly 15 kids combined. |
| 67 | * ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': Part of the plot of book #15 (''The Cat Who Went Into the Closet'') involves Qwill and Polly attending the wedding of Arch Riker and Mildred Hanstable. It mostly goes smoothly, except for Qwill having to rush back to Pickax early in a dogsled when the Gage mansion gets broken into and the cats are seemingly missing. |
| 68 | * ''Literature/ChocoholicMysteries'': ''Bridal Bash'' is centered around the run-up to Lee's wedding to her second husband Joe Woodyard after the two got engaged at the end of ''Puppy Puzzle''. The wedding itself doesn't happen until the very last chapter though. |
| 69 | * The ''Literature/DirtyBertie'' story "Wedding!" is about Bertie's second cousin marrying a Scottish guy and Bertie having to be the page. He gets the ring stuck on his finger and is embarrassed about having to wear a kilt. |
| 70 | * The fiftieth Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHappyEndings Happy Endings]]'', revolves around the wedding of the Doctor's companion Bernice, with dramas resulting from friction between the guests, an OntologicalParadox, and a series of apparently unrelated disruptions that turn out to be sabotage from the Doctor's archnemesis the Master.[[note]]Not that he's got anything against Benny in particular, but the wedding is coincidentally being held in the same place where the Master is preparing his next evil scheme, and he wants the wedding to fail so everyone will go away and leave him in peace.[[/note]] |
| 71 | * ''Literature/JaineAustenMysteries'': ''Killing Bridezilla'', which revolves around Jaine getting hired to script wedding vows for her old high school classmate and nemesis Patti Devane, only to end up having to solve her murder. |
| 72 | * The ''Literature/JunieBJones'' book ''Junie B. Jones is (Almost) a Flower Girl'' centers on Junie B.'s aunt's wedding. When Junie B. isn't picked as the flower girl, she has to find another way to make an impression at the wedding. |
| 73 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{Maisy}}'' First Experiences'' book ''Maisy Goes to a Wedding'' is about Maisy and her friends attending the marriage of [[InterspeciesRomance Ostrich and Penguin]]. |
| 74 | * ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': In ''Banquets and Other Social Disasters'', the titular party are hiding out in a church, where, coincidentally, there's a wedding being planned. The book then has them create a WeddingSmashers situation as the bride isn't as she seems. |
| 75 | * ''Literature/StickDog'': "Stick Dog Crashes A Party", which involves Stick Dog and Co. sneaking into a wedding reception for ''Stick Cat's'' owner and eating as much food as they can. |
| 76 | [[/folder]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 79 | * ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "June Bride", Miss Brooks agrees to Mr. Leblanc's request the be the proxy for his French bride, so she can move to the United States without a lot of red tape. HilarityEnsues. [[spoiler: Miss Brooks ultimately marries LoveInterest Mr. Boynton at the end of TheMovie GrandFinale]] |
| 80 | * ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'': had "The Wedding", where Major Nelson and Jeannie get married. The fact that Jeannie can't be photographed by the press [[HilarityEnsues results in no small number of complications.]] |
| 81 | * "With Love and Twitches", Maxwell Smart marries Agent 99 in ''Series/GetSmart''. The wedding is complicated by Maxwell Smart ingesting a formula that would make his chest break out in to a rash that was actually a treasure map. KAOS agent disrupt the wedding, but they're beaten and the bride (Agent 99) walks to the altar on schedule. |
| 82 | * ''Series/AllInTheFamily'', episode "[[Recap/AllInTheFamilyS2E24Maude Maude]]" is about Carol's wedding, where Archie and Edith are guests. Alas, this is not the typical happy ending of most previous sitcom weddings, as Carol and David end up calling off the wedding. |
| 83 | * Series/{{Arrowverse}}: |
| 84 | ** In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' Season 3 episode "Suicidal Tendencies", Diggle and Lyla remarry, with Oliver serving as the best man. Diggle comments that his first wedding with Lyla was held aboard an ATV while they were stationed in Afghanistan, so this is the first "real" wedding that they experience. |
| 85 | ** In ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' Season 1 finale, Caitlin and Ronnie marry in front of S.T.A.R. Labs, with only Barry, Cisco, Iris, Eddie, Joe, and Professor Stein in attendance. The marriage lasts less than a day because Ronnie dies afterward, saving Central City from the singularity. |
| 86 | ** Barry and Iris tie the knot in the ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' crossover, with many of their superhero friends and allies in attendance. The wedding is broken up by Earth-X Nazis, who want to kidnap Kara. Their attempt [[EpicFail fails spectacularly]], but Barry and Iris end up having to cancel the white wedding in favor of a low-key one in front of the Central City waterfront, with Diggle as the preacher. Becomes a double wedding when Oliver and Felicity decide to tie the knot as well. |
| 87 | ** Sara Lance and Ava Sharpe's wedding forms part of the plot of the ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' Season 6 finale. |
| 88 | ** The GrandFinale of ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' prominently features the wedding of Alex Danvers and Kelly Olsen. |
| 89 | * ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'': The episode "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS9E5Nupitals Nuptials]]" focuses on the wedding between Garth and Kimberly, which is plagued by annoying in-laws and Dorien trying [[DrivenToSuicide to kill herself]]. |
| 90 | * ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': The episode "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS1E4UnderwaterWedding Underwater Wedding]]" begins at the end of a wedding conducted in the centre's pool. On top of this, one of the plotlines revolves around the staff's attempts to free the best man, who has gotten stuck in the pool and is slowly drowning. |
| 91 | * ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': A police sitcom that occasionally has its characters get hitched. |
| 92 | ** "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS2E17BoyleLinettiWedding Boyle-Linetti Wedding]]": Nothing's going right in the wedding for Boyle's dad to Gina's mom, but the Nine-Nine manage to smooth it all out. Holt and Kevin even discuss another wedding ceremony at the end! |
| 93 | ** "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS5E22JakeAndAmy Jake & Amy]]" is the wedding episode for lead characters Jake and Amy, fittingly set at the end of the fifth season. For all of Amy's meticulous planning, nothing goes right for this one either -- her veil is messed up, the whole thing is derailed by a bomb threat, and her ex-boyfriend shows up -- but their squadmates manage to pretty up the precinct, and she and Jake get married right then and there. |
| 94 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'': |
| 95 | ** "Anthropology 101": [[InvokedTrope Abed wants more sitcom shenanigans]], so when he sees Britta and Jeff engaging in a game of 'relationship chicken', he gets them to propose to each other and brings in a wedding troupe. He even calls the situation a Wedding Episode. However, the group gets into a big fight shortly after. |
| 96 | ** In "Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts", Shirley and Andre are getting re-married and invite the characters to the rehearsal dinner. There's a lot of focus on the cast's attitudes towards marriage. The episode is tied up by Shirley and Andre getting married at the end of the rehearsal and forgoing the scheduled wedding. |
| 97 | * The final episode of ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' has the wedding of Renee Perry (who goes all {{Bridezilla}}) and Ben Faulkner. |
| 98 | * ''Series/DogWithABlog'': Doubles as a FlashbackEpisode. While their parents are making plans to renew their vows, the kids tell Stan the story of their first wedding day and the BlendedFamilyDrama that went on. |
| 99 | * ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' has not one, but two episodes in the third seasons revolving around weddings: |
| 100 | ** Episode 3x01 focuses on [[spoiler: Matthew and Mary's long-awaited marriage]], which goes smoothly. |
| 101 | ** Episode 3x03 focuses on [[spoiler: Edith's wedding to Sir Anthony Strallen]]. It doesn't go quite as well--he leaves her at the altar. |
| 102 | * ''Series/FamilyMatters'' has "Mama's Wedding", wherein Estelle marries Fletcher Thomas. |
| 103 | * ''Series/FantasyIsland'' has the aptly titled "The Wedding," where Roarke marries one of the guest stars from the previous season. [[spoiler:[[StatusQuoIsGod She dies of cancer shortly thereafter.]]]] |
| 104 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'' does this several times including multiple season finales focused on weddings. |
| 105 | ** The second season has two. The first is [[Recap/FriendsS2E11TheOneWithTheLesbianWedding "The One With The Lesbian Wedding"]] where Ross' ex-wife Carol marries her girlfriend Susan. The season ends with [[Recap/FriendsS2E24TheOneWithBarryAndMindysWedding "TOW Barry and Mindy's Wedding"]], although only Rachel, Ross, Monica and Richard attend this wedding. |
| 106 | ** The [[Recap/FriendsS4E24TheOneWithRosssWeddingPartTwo fourth season finale]] is a two-parter focused on Ross and Emily's wedding in London complete with sniping in-laws and a venue that's been partially demolished. |
| 107 | ** Season seven ends with [[Recap/FriendsS7E24TheOneWithMonicaAndChandlersWeddingPartTwo "TOW Monica and Chandler's Wedding"]] where Chandler briefly gets cold feet and almost runs out on the wedding. |
| 108 | ** [[Recap/FriendsS10E12TheOneWithPhoebesWedding "TOW Phoebe's Wedding"]] isn't the finale, due to it taking place in the final season of the show, but is still the primary focus of the episode. |
| 109 | * ''Series/FullHouse'': The season four finale is a two-parter about Jesse and Becky's wedding day. The first part takes place the night before, and the second is Jesse's race to get to the church on time after a last-minute last stunt before marriage leaves him stranded in the middle of nowhere. |
| 110 | * ''Series/HappyDays'': |
| 111 | ** "Arnold's Wedding" has Arnold getting married and Fonzie being made the best man, but being scared because he believes his family are cursed and if he attends the wedding, the marriage will end up bad. |
| 112 | ** "The Best Man" is about one of Howard's friends getting married and Howard being the best man. Drama arises when the neighbours are racist due to the groom being black, so the episode concludes with a PrejudiceAesop. |
| 113 | ** The 1984 finale had Joanie and Chachi getting married. |
| 114 | * ''Series/InsideGeorgeWebley'': "Noblesse Oblige" has the Webleys attend a wedding reception, where George is accused by Rosemary of being a snob for being the only one dressed formally while the buffet is in the chip shop! |
| 115 | * ''Series/{{JAG}}'': Bud and Harriet's wedding in the episode [[Recap/JAGS03E23WeddingBellBlues "Wedding Bell Blues"]]. There is still a court case for the main characters to deal with, but even fans of the show could understandably forget about it. |
| 116 | * ''Series/LifeWithDerek'': Casey’s Aunt Fiona is getting remarried, and Casey is chosen to plan the whole shindig, but must deal with her cousin, Fiona’s daughter Victoria, and her attitude and obvious disapproval over her mom’s new marriage, plus her flirting with Casey’s titular {{Jerkass}} stepbrother. |
| 117 | * ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}'': Maze and Eve tie the knot in the Season 6 episode "My Best Fiend's Wedding." |
| 118 | * ''Series/ManhattanLoveStory'': One episode centers around the drama of bringing a new boyfriend to a wedding, when Dana does this with Peter. The whole episode is set at the wedding of Amy and David's friend. Said friend is soon very annoyed as Amy and David dance before her. Then Dana and Peter follow suit, to even more annoyance. |
| 119 | * ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': "How To Marry A Moron: Part 2" featured the marriage of Kelly Bundy to Lonnie Tot (whom she'd met in the previous episode) as its main plot point. The Bundys, ever the social climbers, are very excited at the prospect of becoming part of the ridiculously wealthy Tot family, and Al even makes plans to marry Bud off to Lonnie's more homely sister (much to the guy's chagrin). Unfortunately the whole thing falls apart when Lonnie reveals that monogamy doesn't actually fit into the Tots' definition of marriage when he hits on Marcy Darcy. Naturally this offends one of the few morals Al and Peg hold and they call off the wedding (though Bud is still free to marry the sister if he so chooses). |
| 120 | * ''Series/NCISLosAngeles:'' Season 10's "Til Death Do Us Part" is about Deeks and Kensi's wedding. A recurring minor villain character with a quasi-crush on Deeks crashes the wedding, chased by other criminals after ''him,'' and the team works to deal with that while making sure the wedding goes off without a hitch. It culminates with Hetty crashing through the wall in a stolen vehicle to take out several mooks and then officiating the ceremony. |
| 121 | ** Not to be confused with the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' season 9 episode "Til Death Do Us Part," which is ostensibly about Jimmy's wedding, but is much more about how the team can't go to Jimmy's wedding because of an imminent terrorist attack being planned on the Navy Yard. No wedding is shown. Season 14's "Something Blue" is about [=McGee's=] wedding, but an AltarTheSpeed variety when wedding planning takes its toll on his fiance, who has health issues. |
| 122 | * The roommates of RoommateCom ''Series/NewGirl'' attend a lot of weddings. |
| 123 | ** "Wedding" in season one and "The Last Wedding" in season 4 don't even show the happy couple; these episodes are focused more on the main group dynamics. |
| 124 | ** The season 2 and season 5 finales are about Cece's weddings. [[spoiler:The latter sticks.]] |
| 125 | %%* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' has three. Also, Michael and Holly marry offstage at the end of season 7. |
| 126 | %%** Phyllis and Bob Vance's occurs in the third season |
| 127 | %%** Jim and Pam wed in season 6 |
| 128 | %%** Dwight and Angela marry in the series finale |
| 129 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'': The penultimate episode of Season 6, "The Song In Your Heart", is all about building up to Emma and Hook's wedding. And it's a MusicalEpisode to boot! |
| 130 | * ''Series/{{Outlander}}'': Season 1, "The Wedding" focuses on Jamie and Claire's wedding night interspersed with flashbacks to the wedding preparations and the actual ceremony. |
| 131 | * ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' is a sitcom about a group of government employees. |
| 132 | ** "[[Recap/ParksAndRecreationS03E09 Andy and April's Fancy Party]]" is the titular characters' wedding episode. Instead of classic wedding hijinks, the humor is derived from the fact that this is an impromptu, surprise wedding for a young couple that has only been dating a month. |
| 133 | ** "[[Recap/ParksAndRecreationS05E14 Ben and Leslie]]": The episode is about the characters scrambling to prepare Ben and Leslie's wedding, which they spontaneously decided to hold three months before their set date the previous episode. When bureaucracy and hijinks threaten this, Leslie almost gives up before her colleagues reveal that they arranged the office for a second attempt, and Ben and Leslie get to say their "I Do's". |
| 134 | ** Humorously enough, "[[Recap/ParksAndRecreationS06E0102 London]]" has a Wedding ''ColdOpen'', as the two people involved (Ron Swanson and Diane Lewis) have stopped giving half a crap about weddings about one or two marriages ago, so once the proposal is done they just head directly to the fourth floor to get married with exactly zero ceremony. |
| 135 | * The ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' finale (featuring [[ClipShow clips from previous episodes]]) has a wedding staged for Punky's dog Brandon and a neighbor's female golden retriever, Brenda. |
| 136 | * ''Series/{{Rhoda}}'': The titular character got married in an hour-long episode titled "Rhoda's Wedding". This was the 8th episode of Season 1. |
| 137 | * ''Series/RoyalPains'' did this a few times. |
| 138 | ** "Fight or Flight" deals with Divya and Raj's (first) wedding ceremony. |
| 139 | ** The two-part "Off Seasons Greetings" sees Evan and Paige trying to hold their wedding ceremony during a blizzard. |
| 140 | ** "The Good News Is..." is a MusicalEpisode built around Eddie's wedding to Ms. Newberg. |
| 141 | * ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'': ''The Secret Wedding Of The American Teenager'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously]]. Ben and Amy and their friends get fake [=IDs=] and Ben and Amy use theirs to get married. It goes off without a hitch until their parents crash the reception and inform them that a fake ID marriage is an invalid one. The other weddings in the series (Adrian's parents, Leo and [[FairyTaleWeddingDress Betty]], [[spoiler: Ben and Adrian]]) don't get an entire episode focused on them, but parts of them are shown. |
| 142 | * One ''Series/SesameStreet'' episode is about the characters preparing for Maria and Luis's wedding. |
| 143 | * The finale of ''Series/SchittsCreek'' revolves around David and Patrick's wedding. |
| 144 | * ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'': Episode 6's A-plot sees Jennifer off to an old friend's wedding, away from the show's usual legal shenanigans. She lampshades this. |
| 145 | -->'''Jen:''' Yes, it's a self-contained wedding episode. And if you think this is happening at an inconvenient time in the season, you're right, 'cause that's how weddings always are. But I'm gonna look great, so let's go. |
| 146 | * Watson's wedding to Mary sets the stage for ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode "[[Recap/SherlockS03E02TheSignOfThree The Sign of Three]]", in which Sherlock struggles to get his "best man" act together. |
| 147 | * ''Series/{{Succession}}'' |
| 148 | ** The season 1 finale is set across Shiv and Tom's wedding (the wedding party begins in the penultimate episode). |
| 149 | ** The season 3 finale is set at Logan's second wife's new wedding. |
| 150 | ** Episode 3 of season 4 is a subversion. The episode is titled "Connor's Wedding" and it starts with half the cast rolling up to the occasion. Quirky shenanigans are expected to go on, especially since Connor starts freaking out about the cake. But after Tom calls with news of [[spoiler:Logan's collapse, the episode quickly becomes dominated by the characters reacting to Logan's death.]] |
| 151 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' parodies the trope in [[Recap/SupernaturalS07E08SeasonSevenTimeForAWedding "Season Seven, Time for a Wedding'']] during which an obsessed Sam fangirl uses magic to make him believe he's in love with and wants to marry her. |
| 152 | * ''Series/{{Superstore}}'': A sitcom about exhausted retail workers at a big-box store indulges in letting its characters get married a couple of times, allowing for formally-dressed hijinks. |
| 153 | ** "Cheyenne's Wedding" features the wedding of Cheyenne and Bo, who got engaged in the pilot. Unlike the rest of the other episodes, this doesn't take place in the titular superstore. |
| 154 | ** "Sandra's Wedding" marries Sandra to her longtime love interest Jerry. A lot of humor is derived from the ridiculousness of the setting (a nautical theme at a Western restaurant) and the fact that Sandra's SitcomArchnemesis Carol is secretly attempting to undermine it. |
| 155 | * ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E9SomethingBorrowed Something Borrowed]]" focuses on Rhys and Gwen's wedding, which is complicated when Gwen wakes up suddenly and heavily pregnant with an alien baby. |
| 156 | * ''Series/{{Trigonometry}}'': Episode 4 focuses on Kieran and Gemma's wedding, which is made complicated as Ray had just [[LoveConfession confessed that she loved them both]] right at the end of Episode 3. |
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| 160 | * ''Podcast/TheHistoryOfRome'': Episode 69 "A History of Rome Wedding" is an interesting example. A BreatherEpisode Creator/MikeDuncan put in the feed right before delving into the action-packed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors Year of the Four Emperors]] (69 CE), this episode describes Roman wedding customs and married life. [[RealLifeWritesThePlot It was prompted by Duncan's own wedding]] to [[TheGhost the woman who would be called "Mrs. The History of Rome" for the rest of the series]]. |
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| 163 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 164 | * The final episode of Wrestling/{{TNA}} SpinOff ''Ring Ka King'' featured Wrestling/AngelinaLove getting married to Zoravor, but not before Romeo made a proposition. Despite the competition, the wedding went smoothly once Love made her choice.[[/folder]] |
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| 166 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 167 | * In ''The Thief and the Tinderbox,'' the thirteenth installment of the ''VideoGame/DarkParables'', the Fairytale Detective is on hand to celebrate a royal wedding in the Snowfall Kingdom... after first going through hell and high water to make sure it happens. |
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| 170 | [[folder:Web Video]] |
| 171 | * ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': The review of ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks: Chipwrecked'' is bookended with Hyper Fangirl and Devil Boner's wedding, complete with crowd scenes filmed at a FanConvention. It features their first onscreen kiss. A gag in the episode is everybody referring to the duo as "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Hyper Boner]]," leading to many a DoubleEntendre (which sets up the review, since Critic also finds the title of ''Chipwrecked'' groanworthy wordplay). |
| 172 | * The final one-shot of the Vox Machina storyline in ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' features Percy and Vex having a proper wedding after they had previously eloped during the TimeSkip. Naturally, one past villain is determined to ruin this. [[spoiler:As a surprise wedding gift, Scanlan uses his final Wish spell to bring Vex's deceased brother, Vax, back for long enough to speak with his sister once more.]] |
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| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 176 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': |
| 177 | ** In one episode, Arthur, D.W. and Kate’s aunt is getting married and the ring gets lost. D.W., being able to fit down the space it landed, retrieves it. |
| 178 | ** In "Mr. Ratburn and the Special Somebody", the kids learn Mr. Ratburn is getting married and try to figure out who he's marrying. At the end they attend his marriage to a chocolate maker named Patrick. |
| 179 | * ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'': In "In Search of the Ring Bear", Bobby goes with his family to the wedding of Martha's cousin Maudie. He is looking forward to seeing a "Ring Bear", which he believes to be a bear that does tricks with rings, but becomes extremely disappointed when he finds out that such an animal doesn't exist and that he has instead been given the job of the ring bearer. |
| 180 | * The ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "Something Old, Something New, Something Bob Caters For You" is about Bob catering the wedding of a couple who first met on his restaurant a few months before. The outdoor ceremony at a seaside cliff is a disaster because of the high winds, and then Bob accidentally destroys the wedding cake. Meanwhile, the kids have a side bet over who can get on the most wedding photos, the loser having to clean the restaurant's grease trap. |
| 181 | * ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' has "Love and Marriage" where [=BoJack=] crashes a wedding ''rehearsal dinner'' (with much InsistentTerminology specifying that it isn't the actual wedding), and inadvertently causes one of the brides to get cold feet and run off. |
| 182 | * ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': In the episode "Big Fat Alien Wedding," Ben has to attend his cousin's wedding. Hi-jinx ensues as wedding crashers in a form of mud-like aliens called Sludgepuppies/Lenopan, which includes the bride's parents, wants to disrupt the wedding due to a long-time feud with the Plumbers. |
| 183 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' In the Season 2 episode “I Don’t”, the Morgendorffers get invited to a cousin’s wedding, with Daria and Quinn as bridesmaids. Things go sour quick: Daria gets an ill fitting dress to the point where people think she got a different dress, the priest hits on the underage Quinn, Helen’s issues with her sister Rita (the mother of the bride) boil over to the point of a massive fight, and it becomes increasingly obvious that the marriage won’t work out when Daria and Aunt Amy ditch the wedding for a bowling alley and find the groom there. |
| 184 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace (1986)'' episode, "[[Recap/DennisTheMenace1986S2E9 Menaced Marriage]]", Dennis and his parents attend the wedding of Mr. Wilson's niece. Margaret is the flower girl, and Dennis' pets, Ruff and Willy, cause havoc at the wedding due to the former having followed Dennis and his parents, and the latter having been smuggled in by Dennis. |
| 185 | * In the ''Brand Spanking New WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' episode "Doug's Marriage Madness", Mr. Mayonnaise and Ms. Krystal get married, and Doug is enlisted to deliver the rings. Naturally, things go awry. |
| 186 | * The ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS3E04 Wedding Bell Blues]]" is about the wedding of Jon's cousin Marian. Garfield gets worried when he overhears the news, mistakenly believing ''Jon'' is marrying Marian and proceeding to try to the stop the marriage. |
| 187 | * ''WesternAnimation/HarveyGirlsForever'': |
| 188 | ** In the episode "VHMess", Lotta wants to make a film ending by marrying dogs. Later after she filmed her ending, we find Lotta proving that Blaze's dog likes Kate's dog, and a wedding happens when Lotta makes an evil Billy the Skunk declare the two dogs "puppy and puppy", and the dogs nuzzle. |
| 189 | ** The episode "Whole Lotta Like" has a similar thing where Bloopers the rabbit gets married to Marco the cat. Eventually, the wedding stands off. |
| 190 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Inside Job|2021}}'': "My Big Flat Earth Wedding" focuses on Reagan's mother getting married to...herself (it's either for self-empowerment or just a way to piss Rand off). Of course, Rand hears of this and hijacks the ceremony with members of the Flat Earth society. |
| 191 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' has a version of this: the BigBad of Season 6 has the ultimate goal to marry Nya as doing so will make him all powerful by granting him infinite wishes. He succeeds in the [[Recap/NinjagoS6E63OperationLandHo season finale]] despite the ninjas' attempts to stop him. |
| 192 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': |
| 193 | ** "Lucky's Wedding Suit" features the long awaited marriage between Luanne and Lucky, with Hank and company trying to help Lucky find a way to pay for Luanne's lavish wedding plans. %% Would have counted as a WeddingFinale had the show not been renewed for a few more seasons (much to the surprise of nearly EVERYONE involved in production). |
| 194 | ** "The Wedding of Bobby Hill" becomes this when Peggy and Hank attempt to teach Bobby and Luanne a lesson as a result of an escalating prank war. There's even a faux bachelor party for Bobby. |
| 195 | * The Bakshi ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' episode "Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy" is billed as a cautionary tale of Mighty Mouse marrying Pearl Pureheart. After a dream sequence he'd like to forget, Mighty Mouse is about to make his vows when he gets cold feet. The wedding is averted as the animator himself is unable to go through with it. |
| 196 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'' epiosde, "My Best Toy's Wedding", after Summer tells the other babies about a wedding she went to, the babies get the idea to have their own wedding, where [[CompanionFood Potato]] will be wed to [[CompanionCube Nattie the Narwhal]]. Gonzo and Summer have to learn to compromise when their plans for each of their toys contrast with each other's. |
| 197 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 198 | ** The second season ends with "A Canterlot Wedding", a two-part episode focusing on the wedding between Twilight's brother Shining Armor and her former foal sitter, Princess Cadance. Things take a turn when [[ArcVillain Queen Chrysallis]], the queen of changelings, traps Cadance and disguises as her, hypnotizes Shining Armor, and infests Canterlot with her swarm of changelings. The queen is defeated with Shining and Cadance's PowerOfLove and the second part ends with their official wedding. |
| 199 | ** The 100th episode, "Slice of Life", centers around the citizens of Ponyville planning a hasty wedding for Cranky Doodle Dandy and Matilda after a printing mishap makes them realize they accidentally set the date for that very day, while the Mane Six are OutOfFocus fighting a bugbear out of town. |
| 200 | * The ''WesternAnimation/NinaNeedsToGo'' episode "Wedding" focuses on Nina's auntie Gladys marrying a guy named Walter and Nina trying to find the bathroom during the wedding. |
| 201 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E6TheCommodeEpisodeTyingTheKlopKnot Tying the Klop-Knot]]" revolves around Squidina planning a second wedding for her parents after Patrick's [[TimeTravel travels back in time]] to eat their wedding cake. However, Bunny's hometown of Klopnod has a ''lot'' of bizarre marriage traditions she has to keep track of. |
| 202 | * The cartoon special ''WesternAnimation/SnoopysGettingMarriedCharlieBrown'' has Snoopy all set to get married to a dog named Genevieve when Lucy arrives with news that [[RunawayBride the bride-to-be has just run off with a golden retriever]]. Snoopy is heartbroken at first, but soon lightens up at the prospect of remaining a bachelor, and [[WhyWasteAWedding enjoys the wedding cake with Woodstock]]. |
| 203 | * The episode "Candace's Big Day" of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' concerns Candace planning her Aunt Tiana's wedding to Bob. Unfortunately, her plans get messed up, and she's nervous her brothers will do something ridiculous for the ceremony. However, Tiana ends up loving the ceremony and it ends with Phineas and Ferb singing a song to the newlyweds. |
| 204 | * ''Franchise/{{Rugrats}}'': |
| 205 | ** [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991 The 1991 series]] has the episode "[[Recap/RugratsS2E19DownTheDrainLetThemEatCake Let them Eat Cake]]". In this episode, Tommy and Chuckie go to the wedding for Didi's younger brother, Ben. During the wedding, [[RunawayBride Ben's fiance, Elaine disappears right before she is due to walk down the aisle]], resulting in her panic-stricken husband-to-be searching the large venue for her. Throughout the episode, Tommy and Chuckie pursue the cake that's being served at the wedding, and in their pursuit, they eventually find Elaine in the courtyard, where Ben finds all three of them. |
| 206 | ** "[[Recap/RugratsS2E20TheSevenVoyagesOfCynthiaMyFriendBarney The Seven Voyages of Cynthia]]", another episode of the 1991 series, begins with Angelica trying to wed [[CompanionCube her Cynthia doll]] to Spike, but Spike refuses to participate in the wedding, so she kicks him out of her house. Cynthia is seen in her wedding dress for the rest of the episode, which gets dirtier and dirtier as she makes her way to the dump on a boat that Tommy and Chuckie made for her until she is eventually found by Spike, who returns her to Angelica. |
| 207 | ** "[[Recap/RugratsS6E7ZooStoryIDo I Do]]", yet another episode from the 1991 series, provides a variant; after Angelica returns from a wedding where she was the flower girl, she overhears Chuckie and Lil saying "I do" when Tommy asks them if they want to play hide and seek. She then sets up a wedding for Chuckie and Lil, with her as the flower girl, Tommy as the minister, and Dil as the ring bearer. |
| 208 | ** In the [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats2021 2021 series]] episode "Wedding Smashers", Angelica has a wedding planned for [[CompanionCube Cynthia]] and Cyrus and makes the babies help her make sure everything goes according to plan. |
| 209 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E10TheresSomethingAboutMarrying There's Something About Marrying]]" focuses on Patty's upcoming gay wedding. Springfield legalizes gay marriage, Patty comes out as a lesbian, and Homer becomes to a minister, and the episode builds up to Patty's wedding to Veronica. At the last minute, the wedding falls through, as "Veronica" turns out to be a man in disguise. |
| 210 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' had a cartoon special "Smurfily Ever After" devoted to the wedding of CuteMute Laconia and her beloved Woody. Woody wanted it simple, but the Smurfs were willing to make it a monumental event, which got ruined by Gargamel showing up with his Ghoulliope musical machine. By the special's end, Woody got the simple wedding he wanted all along. |
| 211 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The episode "Reunited" features the wedding of [[spoiler: Ruby and Sapphire]] after choosing to be together for themselves instead of following the influence of others. However, less than half of the episode focuses on the actual wedding, with the rest being about [[spoiler:Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond]] acting as accidental WeddingSmashers. |
| 212 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS5E19HappyEverAfter Happy Ever After]]", Mrs. Kyndley's daughter is getting married, and Mrs. Kyndley tasks Percy with getting the good luck package, which consists of something OldNewBorrowedAndBlue. The four things Percy finds for the package that fit the respective criteria are Old Slow Coach, a set of buffers, a flatbed, and of course, Thomas. |
| 213 | * A variant in the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour'' episode "Niagara Brawls," which isn't about ''real'' marriages, but has a wedding-themed challenge set in Las Vegas, "the honeymoon capital of the world." Contestants are randomly paired up as bride and groom, with the groom directing the bride through an obstacle course to get her dress and then crossing Niagara Falls to get to "customs." [[BelligerentSexualTension Alejandro and Heather]], [[WorkingWithTheEx Duncan and Courtney]], Owen and Blaineley, and [[StalkerWithACrush Sierra and Cody]] are all paired up as couples. Being an ordained minister, Sierra takes the opportunity to legally marry Cody by saying her vows very quickly and then tricking him into saying "I do." |
| 214 | * The Season 4 finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'' has the wedding of [[spoiler:Connor Kent and M'gann M'orzz]], [[EarnYourHappyEnding especially earned after everything the couple went through this season]]. |
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