History Main / FourthDateMarriage

* A running theme in ''Film/TheLastPictureShow''.

* Deconstructed in ''Fanfic/{{Fairest}}''. Snow White's husband regrets marrying her so quickly after seeing her [[BestServedCold vicious side]] come to light.

* Narrowly averted by the ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' fifth season episode "Storm Front". As noted in [[http://comicsalliance.com/the-x-men-episode-guide-5x08-storm-front-part-two this review]], Storm agrees to marry Arkon, the man who essentially abducted her, after knowing him for 20 minutes. She does have her doubts, though, which are confirmed when [[spoiler: Arkon is revealed to be a tyrant who is enslaving people from a neighboring planet, so they don't end up getting married.]]

* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'': Hulk and Caiera hit it off pretty fast in Planet Hulk. The exact amount of time is hard to pin down but it doesn't seem more than a few weeks, though they are engaged in some fairly intense flirting during their second meeting. [[DroppedABridgeOnHim It didn't last long, though.]]

* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': After an episode where he is considered to be dead, at the end of said episode, Brittas returns to his wife's home only to find her preparing for a wedding to a man she met at his cremation (they cremated the wrong man) only three days ago. He is understandably a bit shocked.

* Creator/PaulBettany and Creator/JenniferConnelly got engaged without having even gone on ''one'' date. They'd met and befriended one another while filming ''Film/ABeautifulMind'', and kept in phone contact afterward. When 9/11 happened, he spent hours trying to get ahold of her; once she'd assured him she was okay, he said, "Let's get married." 17 years later, they're still together.[[note]]As if their relationship wasn't enough like a movie already, she was his first teenage crush.[[/note]]

* Suggested but ultimately avoided in ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub''. The two elder Pastel Princesses, Maria and Lorena, are eager to speed up their {{Arranged Marriage}}s to their Plaid Prince fiancés, Blaine and Lance. So is Plaid King Leland, who in Episode 28 suggests planning their wedding for the following week (the princesses and princes had only first known about and met each other the ''previous'' week). [[OverprotectiveDad Pastel King Jack]], despite being one of the two fathers to arrange the marriages, is starting to get hesitant about rushing things because he's getting uncomfortable seeing his little girls getting all lovey-dovey, to the point of telling the very put-off Maria and Lorena that he wants the wedding postponed indefinitely. But the following day, youngest daughter [[FaceOfAThug Gwendolyn]] declares that she and Plaid Prince Frederick want to call off their engagement because "there's no attraction between us." While Gwen (and no one else in her family) had overheard Frederick calling her ugly soon after they first met, the rest of her family had recently seen the two of them sharing an unexpected romantic moment on a couch, so they're not convinced by her claim of a lack of attraction. But they ''do'' figure that, as the youngest sister, she's probably really confused by all the new emotions she's been feeling lately. So Maria and Lorena agree with their father to slow things down with their own engagements for Gwen's sake. Which turns out to be a good idea in the long run, as the two elder sisters gradually discover various unforeseen points of tension with their betrotheds that would have been more difficult to overcome if they ''had'' rushed things along as they originally wanted.

* Suggested but ultimately avoided in ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub''. The two elder Pastel Princesses, Maria and Lorena, are eager to speed up their {{Arranged Marriage}}s to their Plaid Prince fiancés, Blaine and Lance. So is Plaid King Leland, who in Episode 28 suggests planning their wedding for the following week (the princesses and princes had only first known about and met each other the ''previous'' week). [[OverprotectiveDad Pastel King Jack]], despite being one of the two fathers to arrange the marriages, is starting to get hesitant about rushing things because he's getting uncomfortable seeing his little girls getting all lovey-dovey, to the point of telling the very put-off Maria and Lorena that he wants the wedding postponed indefinitely. But the following day, youngest daughter [[FaceOfAThug Gwendolyn]] declares that she and Plaid Prince Frederick want to call off their engagement because "there's no attraction between us." While Gwen (and no one else in her family) had overheard Frederick calling her ugly soon after they first met, the rest of her family had recently seen the two of them sharing an unexpected romantic gaze, so they're not convinced by her claim of a lack of attraction. But they ''do'' figure that, as the youngest sister, she's probably really confused by all the new emotions she's been feeling lately. So Maria and Lorena agree with their father to slow things down with their own engagements for Gwen's sake. Which turns out to be a good idea in the long run, as the two elder sisters gradually discover various unforeseen points of tension with their betrotheds that would have been more difficult to overcome if they ''had'' rushed things along as they originally wanted.

* Suggested but ultimately avoided in ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub''. The two elder Pastel Princesses, Maria and Lorena, are eager to speed up their {{Arranged Marriage}}s to their Plaid Prince fiancés, Blaine and Lance. So is Plaid King Leland, who in Episode 28 suggests planning their wedding for the following week (the princesses and princes had only first known about and met each other the ''previous'' week). [[OverprotectiveDad Pastel King Jack]], despite being one of the two fathers to arrange the marriages, is starting to get hesitant about rushing things because he's getting uncomfortable seeing his little girls getting all lovey-dovey. But the following day, youngest daughter [[FaceOfAThug Gwendolyn]] declares that she and Plaid Prince Frederick want to call off their engagement because "there's no attraction between us." While Gwen (and no one else in her family) had overheard Frederick calling her ugly soon after they first met, the rest of her family had recently seen the two of them sharing an unexpected romantic gaze, so they're not convinced by her claim of a lack of attraction. But they ''do'' figure that, as the youngest sister, she's probably really confused by all the new emotions she's been feelinng lately. So Maria and Lorena agree to slow things down with their own engagements for Gwen's sake.

* In the 2016 Chinese film ''Mermaid'', Xuan proposes to Shan on the second day they meet. Shan incredulously replies that this is coming far too soon, but Xuan insists that this qualifies as going ''slow'' for him because he spent an entire night agonizing over the decision instead of following his impulses right away. It ends up taking quite a bit longer for them to marry.

* ''Film/{{Notorious}}'': HoneyTrap Creator/IngridBergman gets the villain to propose to her after a couple of dates, although they had met before and it's implied he'd been carrying a torch for years.

* Taken UpToEleven in ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner'', where the female lead falls in love with the hero by reading his letters and considers getting engaged [[LoveBeforeFirstSight without having even seen him once]].
* In ''Film/{{Notorious}}'', HoneyTrap Creator/IngridBergman gets the villain to propose to her after a couple of dates, although they had met before and it's implied he'd been carrying a torch for years.
* In ''{{Film/Titanic 1997}}'', right before the ship hits the iceberg, Rose tells Jack that when the ship docks, she's getting off with him. Somewhat justified, as transatlantic cruises such as the ''Titanic'' and her sister ship ''Olympic'' were known for people meeting and falling in love during the six or so day voyage; the only unrealistic bit is this happening between people of different social classes. Also, she's desperately unhappy, and looking for ''any'' way to get away from Hockley - she was about to ''kill'' herself earlier, it's no surprise she'd grab onto Jack like that. And of course, we don't know how it would have turned out long-term anyway.

* ''Series/{{Shtisel}}'': Marriage after only a few dates is the norm in Haredi communities. Many couples don't even have four before getting engaged. Giti knew she wanted to marry Lippe after one date, though it took a while for her parents to approve, and [[spoiler:her daughter Ruchami]] takes it UpToEleven by [[spoiler:[[{{Elopement}} skipping the dates and engagement and getting married]] (at 15!) to Hanina, who she'd only met a week or two ago, and ''had only spoken to in person for the first time that morning''! Note that her parents don't know he exists until they're already married, and she doesn't even know if he ''has'' living parents]].

** In ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsTrioOfTowns'', the DLC candidates Stephanie and Woofio are unusual in they completely skip dating and are married during their final (and coincidentally fourth) love event. While the player can choose to stay friends with them in the last event instead of marrying them, [[PermanentlyMissableContent this will lock them out of being married again for the file]]. [[UpToEleven This can be taken even further]] taking advantage of their special items and other friendship boosts, allowing a player to marry them in less than a ''full in-game season''.

* In Heian Japan, the setting of the ''Literature/TaleOfGenji'', three nights of sex and eating some cakes together constituted a legal marriage.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "[[Recap/KingOfTheHillS5E15LuanneVirgin20 Luanne Virgin 2.0]]", the stressed out and hormonally charged Rhett impulsively proposes to Luanne after two dates after seeing up her skirt during a very sexually charged swing dance. This was so the two of them could have sex without it seeming immoral. Thankfully they don't go through with it.

** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War]]'' doesn't do this in gameplay; it takes a buildup 500 love points for two characters to marry and the chapters explicitly span months or years. Plotwise, however, Deirdre and Sigurd take LoveAtFirstSight to a new level. After she hears about him from Aideen and he saves her from a ruffian, they part ways for a few turns (i.e. a few days at best, depending on your interpretation of ingame time) and wind up saying things like "I tried so hard to forget you!" to each other as though they were lovers separated for months, rather than strangers who ran into each other for ten minutes.

* In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'', you can have a ''third'' date marriage -- while it can take more than that, the base requirements to get hitched are to have a double bed, an engagement ring, and three dates with your lover. In fact, if you're playing as a female, you don't even need the ring; your boyfriend will propose to ''you'' after a minimum of three dates. [[AvertedTrope You can turn him down, though, and propose later. Presumably after going on a few more dates]]. However, this trope can also be potentially subverted by the way time passes in the game, as depending on how much you speed through days, it's possible to have only gone on only three dates but have been romantically involved with your eventual spouse for ''years''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "[[Recap/KingOfTheHillS5E15LuanneVirgin20 Luanne Virgin 2.0]]", the stressed out and hormonally charged Rhett impulsively proposes to Luanne after two dates after seeing [[PantyShot up her skirt]] during a very sexually charged swing dance. This was so the two of them could have sex without it seeming immoral. Thankfully they don't go through with it.

* Czech fairy tale movie ''Tři oříšky pro Popelku'' ("Three nuts/riddles for Cinderella") has the prince propose on the ''first'' date, as far as he knows, seeing as he's unaware they have met twice before. When he meets her again she is wearing a wedding dress.

* Kind of played with in a Venezuelan telenovela. The mismatched couple of a [[WellExcuseMePrincess pampered architect]] and a construction worker meet and fall in love with passion and true honesty, then get a quick marriage using the looophole of "legalizing" a long concubinary relationship, although they have known each other less than a month, so she can get away from her family. Unfortunately they get in an accident which not only separates them, but also gives her EasyAmnesia and puts her in the custody of a millionaire who finds her. The LoveTriangle ensues when she falls in love with this second man, and then her husband (now a rich man) finally finds her.

* The whole point of the Creator/{{Netflix}} RealityTV show ''Series/LoveIsBlind'', where the contestants have to fall in love with someone without seeing them and then marry them after 30 days.

* ''Series/LoveIsBlind'': The premise of the show is built upon couples proposing marriage within 10 days and getting married within four weeks (although they do have the option of ending the relationship at any time). As of this writing, only two out of the six couples from season 1 are still married.

* In the U.S. military it's common for personnel who aren't even old enough to drink [[note]](In fact, [[https://www.military.com/spouse/relationships/young-military-marriage-right-choice.html more than half]] of active duty military are married by 25)[[/note]] get married to the first person they can tolerate in order to receive better living conditions (singles are quartered in a barracks, where they will often share communal living and bathroom facilities with upwards of 30 other people, while married personnel receive apartments or houses for them and their families) and better pay (married soldiers will get extra money if separated from their families for an extended period, alongside the added financial benefits that come with marriage such as filing joint taxes and reduced insurance costs).

* In the U.S. military it's common for personnel barely out of their teen years[[note]](Teenagers were rushing into marriage so often that the Army raised the minimum age for soldiers to marry to 21)[[/note]] to get married to the first person they can tolerate in order to receive better living conditions (singles are quartered in a barracks, where they will often share communal living and bathroom facilities with upwards of 30 other people, while married personnel receive apartments or houses for them and their families) and better pay (married soldiers will get extra money if separated from their families for an extended period, alongside the added financial benefits that come with marriage such as filing joint taxes and reduced insurance costs).