Basic Trope: Multiple characters get married at the end of the story.
- Straight: The story ends with the weddings of Alice and Bob, Charlie and Diane, and Eve and Fred.
- Exaggerated:
- Every character in the story pairs up and gets married by the end of the story.
- Every single (unmarried) person in the planet gets married at the end of the story.
- Downplayed: Just Alice and Bob & Charlie and Diane get married at the end.
- Justified:
- The story has been about the characters' courtships, and marriage is the point towards which they've all been working.
- The story is about Rev. Theodosius Gregorio Clarksen's wedding chapel. note
- Inverted: The story ends with married couples getting divorced.
- Subverted:
- Just as it looks like the characters are going to get married, circumstances intervene to stop them.
- They haven't really been planning marriage; it just looked that way to the audience.
- The multiple-wedding-ceremony is interrupted, or the characters have a change of heart at the last minute.
- Double Subverted: But then they decide to or are able to marry after all.
- Parodied: The rom-com ends with characters deciding to have a Satanic wedding.
- Zig Zagged: Several couples decide to get married. Then Alice has last-minute nerves and runs away; Bob misses the ceremony in order to find her. By the time they've come back, it turns out Charlie was revealed to have a Madwoman in the Attic, so his wedding is off. Then Bob and Alice are back on track to get married, but Eve's parents have just died so she calls off her wedding to go into a period of mourning, then Charlie's first wife dies in a fire so he's free again, and then...
- Averted: Nobody gets married.
- Enforced: "Everybody will feel cheated if this doesn't end with a wedding."
- Lampshaded: "Of course they'll all get married, what else can you expect?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice and Bob decide that this trope is tiresome and decide to remain unattached.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- The sequel shows that all the characters' relationships began to deteriorate after the wedding and they all hate each other now, so they all get divorced again.
- The story is set in a time and place where divorce is not an option, so they are all stuck in miserable loveless marriages.
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