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* In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' book ''Exile's Valor'', Queen Selenay gets married to Prince Karath of Rethwellan after having known him only several months. Her fellow Heralds all think it's the worst idea they've ever heard, but they don't protest it, since they know that would just make her more fixated on the idea and an alliance marriage with Rethwellan is a good idea anyway. [[spoiler:Once they're married, the relationship quickly turns sour, because Karath seduced her ''from a script'' and got tired of acting after the knot was tied.]]

** In the first movie, Leela meets a technician at the Head Museum named Lars Fillmore and falls in love with him at first sight. They start dating within the week, and within what appears to be mere weeks, Lars proposes on Xmas Eve and she accepts. Their wedding is also only three days later. This turns out to be subverted in two ways. First, Lars [[LeftAtTheAltar leaves Leela at the altar]] after seeing Hermes' duplicate body severed from his head. Second, [[spoiler:Lars turns out to be a time paradox duplicate of Fry from another timeline, meaning he'd known Leela for several years longer than she'd realized, and it's implied the reason she bonded so quickly with Lars was because he had everything she already loved in Fry without his immature qualities.]]

* In season 5 of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', Mr. Peanutbutter, recently divorced from Diane, begins dating a waitress named Pickles. He ends up cheating on her with Diane, but instead of confessing, he proposes to Pickles due to being terrified of losing her, too.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}},'' while [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] so much else, plays this trope straight: he and Fiona have only two days together before their [[TrueLovesKiss "true love's first kiss"]] at the end, which is more apparent since the passage of time is a plot point [[spoiler:due to Fiona's curse]]. There's a scene skip before they leave for their honeymoon that ''could'' have been a long engagement, but from the context it was probably WhyWasteAWedding if anything.

* This is likely to happen in ''VideoGame/NewStyleBoutique2FashionForward'' due to the way progression works. Story events more or less advance by the number of people served in your shop, while the clock and calendar advance in real time. As a result, if you play for more than a few minutes a day, Adelaide will go from meeting her boyfriend to marrying him within a couple of weeks, both in real life and in-game.

* In ''Manga/FlyMeToTheMoon'', Tsukasa and Nasa get married after their second meeting, essentially making this a ''zeroth'' date marriage. It works out well for them.

* ''Literature/KyouKaraMaoh'' has Shoma proposing to Jennifer on their fifth date. She accepts because it's so "bold" of him, and also because he's a demon and she thought it would be awesome to have kids with wings or little horns.
* In ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'' Rikuo's grandparents have this type of relationship, though in their case it was more like "One Date Marriage".

* Noticeably averted in ''Nexus'' when June tells Jack that his father didn't even like her when they met and only seemed to start warming up to her after a month as she states that's how long it took him to stop calling her 'girl.' Seeing as who the father is though, this implies that Jack's parents knew each other ''way'' before he was born.
* ''Fanfic/ThroughADiamondSky'': It's stated that Flynn and Jordan hit City Hall within three months of meeting. [[AltarTheSpeed Yes, Sam was a factor]]. The author did the math on the ''[[Film/TronLegacy Flynn Lives]] ARG'' and realized that there was less than two years between their meeting and her death...
* ''Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO'': Eleya has only known Gaarra for roughly six months when they get married, and they never traditionally dated because [[InappropriatelyCloseComrades she's his superior officer]]. {{Justified}}: their wedding is stated in one story to have been a spur-of-the-moment decision before the Battle of Iconia, which it's strongly implied they didn't expect to actually survive (the canon version in ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' all but wiped out TheAlliance).
* Lampshaded in ''Fanfic/YandereSumia'', which points out that Chrom has only just met Olivia, a reference to how Olivia canonically joins just before Chapter 11 of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', in which Chrom chooses a bride at the end. It's said that Chrom chooses Olivia because of her "NICE ass," and as a replacement for Maribelle and Sully, whom [[{{Yandere}} Sumia]] had [[MurderTheHypotenuse killed]]. Naturally, Sumia ends up killing Olivia, too, leading Chrom to hastily move on to the Female Avatar and then the "generic village girl."
* ''Fanfic/OverTheRainbow'' is set in 1920s Kansas. Dorothy knows Bud from church, but the two aren't exactly friends and don't talk much. He claims to be in love with her and plans on proposing to her if her uncle agrees. Dorothy doesn't like Bud back, but she doesn't know what to do besides agree to his proposal.

* Downplayed in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8204172/1/Strawhat-Theater-2-Our-Mrs-Monkey Our Mrs. Monkey]]''. Nami almost marries Luffy right after he defeated Arlong (a couple weeks after meeting him at most) but stops the wedding before it starts, claiming it was a FreudianSlip. They later marry just after Enies Lobby, making thier courtship a couple months instead[[note]]Oda confirmed that from the first chapter to the timeskip was only three months[[/note]].
* Deconstructed and subverted in ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost''. [[spoiler:After first meeting each other, Twilight Sparkle becomes engaged to [[EvilAllAlong Prince Jewelius]] (who's partially similar to [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Prince Hans]]) only one week later. Before meeting him, Twilight has heard about him from her beloved foalsitter Princess Cadance who regards him as her younger brother, unaware that [[BitchInSheepsClothing the noble prince is actually a manipulative sociopath]]. He reinforces this good impression and wins Twilight's trust by treating her nicely while she [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass becomes alienated]] from her brother, friends and mentor at the same time. After he [[TheUsurper seizes Equestria's throne]] and [[CorruptTheCutie manipulates Twilight into losing all trust towards her disgraced loved ones]], she accepts his offer to become his student and later his queen to recover from "losing" her loved ones. Jewelius himself [[DarwinistDesire wants the magical prodigy to bear him powerful heirs]] and is open to the possibility of getting rid of her if he finds a more powerful unicorn mare to seduce. Fortunately, as Jewelius [[VillainBall starts showing his true colors to everypony]], Twilight begins acknowledging that he's not behaving like the noble stallion she first met. When he finally reveals to Twilight that he's just as evil as her loved ones [[CassandraTruth tried to tell her]], she breaks off their engagement and turns against him.]]
* Deconstructed in ''Fanfic/WickedWiles''. Snow White and Alexander getting married right away wasn't a good idea. They don't get along as well as they thought they would.

* Seen in "Accidentally in Matrimony," a StoryWithinAStory written by two of the students in ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook''. The sweetly absurd yarn is about two of their teachers, [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Cullen]] and Evvy, who on their first date decide to play a joke on their colleagues and pretend to elope, complete with fake marriage license. Of course, the license isn't as fake as they think it is, and HilarityEnsues. The real teachers, hearing the story read out loud to them, think it's hysterical. (Cullen and Evvy are already married at the time the story is written, so they can afford to be amused.)
* In "A Perfect Disaster" from the ''[[Fanfic/AfterTheJungleSeries After the Jungle]]''-series by [[Creator/Flowerprincess11 Flower princess11]], it's revealed that Olga (Helga's older sister) and Patrick (Olga's husband/Helga's brother-in-law) met when they were in their late-20s/early-30s and got married after only six months dating. While Olga and her husband really do love and care about each other, they're shown to have kind of a rocky relationship and Olga's family aren't really all that fond of Patrick (Bob and Miriam especially).[[note]]Helga's generally more willing to put up with Patrick, especially since (for all of hiw flaws) he loves and cares about his wife and their children, Logan and Lisa--especially since, compared to his wife, Patrick doesn't seem to have distant of a relationship with the kids and is generally more accepting of them for who they are. Miriam (though not to the same extent as her youngest daughter) is also a bit more willing to put up with Patrick, especially compared to Bob--Olga and Helga's dad has made it extremely clear that he hates Patrick and doesn't even bother ''pretending'' to be nice to him.[[/note]]
* ''Fanfic/GoinKABOOM'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} and {{Deconstruction}}. On their first meeting, Katie Kaboom and Danny Fenton are instantly attracted to each other and soon go on a date. While the first date seemed successful, it ends with Katie and Danny having an AccidentalKiss...which soon results in Katie becoming wild, and it ends with Danny being CoveredInKisses, much to his shock. Danny becomes a little wary of Katie but still agrees to a second date with her and even agrees to be her boyfriend after she asks him out, but soon questions himself if it's too soon. It becomes even more complicated when days later, Katie admits she has fallen in love with him, even those they have known each other for a few days. Danny is understandably shocked but tries to make it work, even if Katie soon becomes clingy, smothering and even gives him an EmbarrassingNickname to boot. However, Danny initially tries to make it work due to being genuinely attracted to Katie and genuinely enjoying their dates and making out with her. However, he becomes very uncomfortable with how fast their relationship is going and soon is exhausted by constantly making out and spending time with her, to the point where he ultimately decides to break up with her because he feels the relationship isn't working. However, he is initially hesitant to break up with her due to not wanting to hurt her feelings but is encouraged by Sam to do so, and Tucker and Jazz just advise him to be gentle.
** Things become worse when Danny discovers Katie's powers to transform into a monster (the same one that has been attacking Amity Park and whom he has been facing). Danny becomes horrified to discover Katie's powers and soon just admits that he wants to get as far away from her as possible, even calling her a monster in private. Some reviewers believe that Danny was being too harsh, but Flower princess11 answered a review stating that his reaction, while a bit extreme, is due to stress and shock...after all, it's been less than a week into the relationship with Katie saying she loves him, on top of the recent discovery.

%%* ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' - though somewhat justified in that Joan Wilder is herself a romance novelist and a self-confessed hopeless romantic.
%%* She knows ''Film/HowToLoseAGuyIn10Days'' but he can make a woman fall in love with him that same length of time?
* In ''Film/TestPilot'', Jim and Ann get married after one day together.
* ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'' - Rick and Evie fall in love less than three days after they first met. And it's implied they marry very soon (if not immediately) after the ending, since ''Film/TheMummyReturns'' shows that their son Alex is exactly as old as their relationship.
* The ''Film/TheMarryingKind'' has Chet and Florence getting married very quickly, as per usual in a film from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood.
* ''Film/WhatPriceHollywood'': Mary and Lonnie get married way too fast, and eventually, their marriage falls apart just as quickly.
* ''Film/PracticalMagic'' is another subversion. [[spoiler:The first time one of the sisters falls, we don't know how long it took. The second time the same woman falls, it's her own doing because she sent for him herself.]]
* ''Film/TheSaint1997'' also had this happen. He counted her as a mark, romanced her to get to his target, and found himself falling in love with her. She took longer because she was pissed off at him stealing from her. But by the end of the week, they were in love.
* ''Film/TheSingles2ndWard'': Dallen and Christine get engaged after dating for two days.
* ''Film/{{Splash}}'' - Four or five days is enough for him to [[spoiler:completely abandon his life on land to be with her.]]
* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' at first makes fun of LoveAtFirstSight, but by the end, the main couple ends up with a textbook Fourth Date Marriage and the BetaCouple run off and get married (one of them leaving her entire life behind) after knowing each other for about an hour.
* ''Film/PrincessORourke'': Maria and Eddie have known each for only a day, and Eddie pops the question ''that'' night. He doesn't even know that she's a princess.
* ''Film/{{Heartbreakers}}'':
** Exploited by Max for her schemes; she convinces wealthy men to marry her in the space of three months, and then she sets up her daughter to seduce them so she can catch them cheating and thus clear them out in a divorce. She usually targets shady figures who would be more likely to go for out of court settlements.
** Paige sets up her boyfriend Jack for a similar scheme; they've only known each other a couple of months and she doesn't even meet his mother until the day of the wedding. [[spoiler:This one ends on a MaybeEverAfter]].
* ''Film/TheHeartbreakKid2007'': Subverted in that the girl Eddie marries after around a month suddenly has a disturbingly quick and negative personality shift. Then, it's played straight when [[spoiler:Eddie decides to divorce said wife when he falls in love with a girl after ''two days'']].
* Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese have two days to fall in love and conceive John in ''Film/TheTerminator''. Somewhat justified in that he'd been pining over her photo for years, but she'd only just met him. Well, he did [[RescueRomance make a heck of a first impression]]. There's also a difference between sex between two people in a stressful situation and committing to marriage.
* ''Film/TheSantaClause II'', Scott has all of one month to marry somebody. Technically, he had several years to do this, but nobody noticed the deadline until it was only one month away.
* ''Film/GoldfishMemory'' features one couple meeting, getting together and planning a family in less time then it takes one partner to realise she's already pregnant from a one-night stand just before they met. Multiple other couples manage to meet, break up, get engaged, and all manner of other things in the same period. Notably, one character romances two women, the women themselves get together and then break up, and go on to new relationships. Meanwhile, the man has met a third woman, who's subverted his usual methods (including a spiel which is the source of the TitleDrop) six ways from Sunday. LastGirlWins.

* In ''Film/MadeOfHonor'' (the gender-swapped ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''), Hannah hooks up with Colin, a guy she meets in Scotland on a business trip. They get engaged at ''most'' five weeks later, to be wed a fortnight onward. [[spoiler:She realizes on the eve of the wedding that she has no idea who he is and breaks off the engagement by making out with the titular flirty-best-friend of ten years and Man of Honor in the middle of the ceremony]]
* Charles is quick on his decision in ''Film/TheLadyEve''. He proposes to Jean after a couple of dates on the boat. Later he proposes to Eve after seeing her for a couple of weeks.
* Inverted in the original ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie. Daniel Jackson is given Sha'uri as a gift, but it isn't until a day or so later that he even ''[[AccidentalMarriage realizes]]'' that they're already married. By the end of the movie, he's fallen in love and decided to stay on Abydos with her.
** Further justified in that staying on Abydos would have been his dream come true even ''without'' a beautiful woman involved, since he's an archaeologist with a ruined career and no family to go back to.
* ''Film/{{Hitch}}'' All it takes is three dates to sweep a woman off her feet. Hitch says he can get you past the first three dates, but you're on your own after that. Of the relationships in the movie, only two end up in marriage, and only one of them is a FourthDateMarriage. Maybe.
* Played with in ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', in which Peter dramatically proposes to Lucy despite having properly met her twice, and plans to get married to her what would appear to be a few days later, because he thinks they're ''already'' engaged and he merely has LaserGuidedAmnesia about her (they weren't and he hasn't, but thinks he does due to a rather tangled series of events).
* In ''Film/OneNightWithTheKing'', Esther meets the king face to face only once to [[LoveAtFirstSight fall in love with him.]] It takes a second meeting for the king to propose to her and marry her.
* In ''Film/MonsterInLaw'', Kevin and Charlie had dated for about a month before he proposed to her. Kevin's mother was not pleased.

* ''Film/WhenInRome'' starts out at the wedding of the protagonist's sister. Whilst she and the best man are dancing, they both admit they don't think it'll last 'cause the couple have known each other for ''two weeks''.
* Most of ''Film/LoveActually'' is set during the month before Christmas, with a month-long TimeSkip near the end, so this happens in a couple of the subplots:
** Jamie proposes to Aurelia despite knowing her for roughly a month and not even speaking the same language. Note that he was living with another woman (who cheated on him with his brother) just before meeting her.
** John and Judy are also married at the end. While they seem to have known each other for a while, their relationship was only about a month old.
** In a variant, Daniel and Carol are only dating at the end, having met a month earlier on Christmas Eve... but that meeting came only a month after Daniel's wife died. Kind of rushing it, don't you think?

* This turns out to be the twist in ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer''. [[spoiler:Summer breaks up with Tom and marries another man several months later. She tells Tom that it felt right with her husband.]]

* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' has this happen between Lone Star and Princess Vespa. When they meet, she's the spoiled royal brat, and he the less-than-thrilled mercenary who's only there because her father promised him a bucketload of money. RescueRomance quickly ensues as they first run from, then fight the evil eponymous Spaceballs over the course of perhaps a few in-universe days, and finally they end up getting somewhat spontaneously married at the end. (The last part is actually somewhat justified since finding [[spoiler:another prince]] also allows Vespa to legitimately get out of her arranged marriage to [[PrinceCharmless Prince Valium]] [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace at the very last second]]... and of course it ''is'' a comedy.)
%%* A running theme in ''Film/TheLastPictureShow''.
* ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner'': The female lead falls in love with the hero by reading his letters and considers getting engaged [[LoveBeforeFirstSight without having even seen him once]].

* ''{{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.

* In ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'', the Kranks' daughter Blair leaves to join the Peace Corps, flying out right after Thanksgiving. She is engaged by Christmas Eve, less than a month later.
* ''Film/CarryOnUpTheKhyber'' had the powerful [[TheCaptain CPT Keene]] from the British Army, who finds out that the beautiful Princess Jheli from the [[UsefulNotes/TheRaj occupied Indian state]] of Khalabar is in love with him, and he falls in love with her too. They meet up about three or four times and then they later reveal that they are engaged at the British governors' dinner party.
* The Creator/NicholasSparks offering, ''Film/TheChoice'' has the hero declaring his love for the heroine after only a month and proposing to her in that time. The next scene is of their wedding (in all fairness, there may have been a TimeSkip).
* In ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'', Joanna and John are engaged after ten days.
* In the Chinese film ''Film/Mermaid2016'', 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.
* In ''Film/MoscowDoesNotBelieveInTears'', it's invoked and actively discussed in the second part of the film (although we aren't shown when the actual marriage takes place, it's considered a settled affair in the end).
-->'''Gosha:''' Getting married after two days of knowing each other is simply the height of foolishness. You must think it over very well. Say, for ''five'' days. So don't hurry – you still have time until Wednesday.
* ''Film/BullDurham'': Straitlaced born-again Christian evangelist Jimmy has known EthicalSlut Milly for a grand total of ''twelve hours'' before he asks her to marry him.

* Played with and ultimately subverted in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''. Robin falls in love with [[DatingCatwoman Poison Ivy]] in the short time he met her and believes she loves him enough to [[LoveRedeems switch sides to be with him]]. Their "dates" include, Robin getting into a bidding war with Batman over her after just meeting her, him being seduced by her at Freeze's lair when he was supposed to arrest her and attacking Batman for thinking he's jealous of their love, and meeting Ivy alone in her lair where they finally share their first kiss together. When Robin meets with Ivy in her lair, just their third meeting together and a few days after their initial meeting, he tells her he "wants for them to be together," implying he already wants to marry her. However, this is all justified by Ivy using her [[LoveIsInTheAir pheromone dust]] on Robin, which quickly turned his crush on her into blind love and made him make a lot of [[LoveMakesYouDumb stupid decisions]] under the belief that she loves him. Ivy was also purposely rushing their "relationship" to simply get Robin to [[KissOfDeath kiss her faster]]. [[spoiler:What Ivy didn't know was Robin had snapped out of his blind love state by the time he arrived at her lair, and their kiss was a SecretTestOfCharacter for him to see if her love for him was real. After Ivy failed she quickly "broke up" with Robin by trying to drown him, and after he survived he left Ivy and his love for her trapped in her own lair, finally over his crush and satisfied with the one kiss he got.]]
* In ''Film/IrreconcilableDifferences'', Albert and Lucy knew each other for four days before they got married.
* In ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', the romantic arc unfolds in about a week. George falls for Ursula Stanhope within a day or two of meeting her, while it takes Ursula a couple days longer to realize her feelings. They're even married "on the following new moon," which would be about a month after they confess their love for each other.
* Zig-zagged in ''Film/TheBookOfMasters'', where, technically, Ivan and Katya marry at least a year after their first meeting, except that they only meet three times during said year (not counting a dream that Ivan has) and their actual interactions take several minutes in total. Chronologically: after their first encounter, they are drawn to each other, during their one-year-long separation they realize they are in love, and during the second encounter, they are already willing to get married right away.
* In ''Film/TheGreatHoudinis'', Harry and Bess get married after knowing each other for only ten days. She doesn't even know his real name is Erich Weiss until she meets his mother.
* The 1991 MadeForTVMovie {{Thriller}} ''Film/ThePerfectBride'' (originally aired on Creator/USANetwork, but later picked up for reruns by Creator/{{Lifetime}}) [[PlayedForDrama plays this for drama]]. Ted plans to marry StepfordSmiler Stephanie just three months after meeting her, and his family is all enthused except for his sister Laura (Creator/KellyPreston), who's worried that he's marrying a woman he barely knows, and senses something wrong with Stephanie. She does some digging around and learns that Stephanie murdered two previous fiances, and struggles to warn Ted and the rest of the family, while Stephanie murders other people who seem to have caught on to her secret.
* The 2017 Lifetime movie ''Film/AWeddingToDieFor'' is largely an uncredited remake of ''The Perfect Bride'', but adds an additional twist: [[spoiler:Becca, the skeptical sister, is now the adopted sister of Charlie, the groom-to-be, and Helena, the murderous fiancee, is Becca's long-lost sister who was also given up for adoption, ''and'' Helena specifically got into a relationship with Charlie so she could reunite with Becca]].
* ''Film/BlueValentine'' deconstructs this trope in the harshest way possible. After [[DownerBeginning the opening makes it clear Dean and Cindy can't stand each other and are on the cusp of divorce]], a HappierTimesMontage shows them falling in love and getting married after knowing each other just a few weeks or months. They didn't take any time to ''really'' get to know each other and so, when their conflicting personalities surface, their marriage is strained beyond repair.
* ''Film/KissOfTheDamned'': Although they don't get formally engaged or married, after just a few days Paolo moves in with Djuna and is willing to spend the rest of his ''eternal'' life with her. That's some very intense LoveAtFirstSight.
* ''Film/{{Ajnabee}}'': Priya and Raj have a whirlwind romance and get married very quickly, with the first 10 minutes of the film showing them from the first meeting to their wedding.

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' this is what happens if you're lucky. If you're not, expect to marry someone you don't know at all, and if you are a girl, the husband may even be chosen by your [[BigBrotherBully stupid big sister]], [[ExoticExtendedMarriage for whom it is]] FourthDateMarriage, so you can end up in an abusive relationship even if your sister is not usually a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter.

* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
** In ''Literature/ShardsOfHonor'', Aral and Cordelia have known each other for only a few days when he proposes (he says it was LoveAtFirstSight, despite the unromantic circumstances).
** Towards the end of the series, Miles' marriage proposals were heading for this territory as he became increasingly desperate. Elena, [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend he waited seventeen years to propose]]. Elli, although they'd known each other for several years, he proposed on their first date (and kept on proposing even after being shot down repeatedly). And with Ekaterin, he proposed ''before she even knew she was being courted''. (He panicked.)
** In ''Literature/DiplomaticImmunity'', Lieutenant Corbeau and Garnet Five start making marriage plans after only knowing each other for a few days at most. Miles considers suggesting that this isn't enough time to base such a significant decision on, then reflects on his history with Ekaterin and decides he lacks moral standing on this point.
* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': Zigzagged. Bella begs Edward to turn her into a vampire after exactly 60 days knowing him so they can be in a relationship forever. By that time, they have been officially in a relationship for nine days, and the rest they spent mostly without speaking to each other. Obviously, this is worse than her begging him to just marry her (deciding to ''give up your humanity'' in exchange for being with a vampire you've known for two months?), but Edward decides to turn her if and only if she marries him first, which means she must wait after high school graduation. Their wedding in ''Breaking Dawn'' happens two years after they first met.
* Faulkner's ''Literature/AsILayDying'' - Anse is married again by the end of the novel. This is played as an extreme JerkAss move, however, as he'd only just buried his previous wife.
* In the ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' [[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch relaunch series]], Jake Sisko marries a Bajoran artist that he's known for about three weeks.
* Creator/GarthNix's ''Literature/{{Sabriel}}'' has the main characters getting together after roughly a week of knowing each other. Then again, it was a very intense week...
* At least five Nora Roberts books have main characters who get engaged after about three weeks. The longest two relationships were probably ''Montana Sky'', which had two that had known each other since childhood, and two who dated for a year before marrying.
* Played several times in Stephen King's ''Literature/TheStand'' where a number of couples become committed (though not technically marry, since there aren't any churches or officials around...unless you count Judge Farris)within weeks to a month of the plague. Or six weeks in Stu and Frannie's case.
* In Heian Japan, the setting of ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji'', three nights of sex and eating some cakes together constituted a legal marriage.
* In ''Literature/RoseDaughter'', it takes seven days for Beauty to fall in love with the Beast and tell him she wants to marry him. Compare that with Creator/RobinMcKinley's previous "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast" [[TwiceToldTale retelling]], ''[[Literature/BeautyARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeast Beauty]]'', where Beauty has known the Beast for several months before she decides to marry him.
* While Karl Oskar and Kristina have known each other for a few years by the time they get married in ''Literature/TheEmigrants'' they've only actually met a handful of times. Kristina points this out the first time he proposes and once more the second time.
* In ''Literature/{{Tales of the Frog Princess}}'', it took a total of three days for [[NaiveEverygirl Li'l]] and [[LadykillerInLove Garrid]] to fall for each other.
* The couples in most Creator/PGWodehouse stories--[[JustifiedTrope justified]], of course, in that that's exactly the way it was done at the time. Couples didn't really go steady unless they were engaged, so it wasn't uncommon for young men to propose to girls that they'd only met recently. Of course, fairly few Wodehouse engagements actually make it to the altar; the average [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster Bertie Wooster]] plot, for instance, revolves around his attempts to escape from an unpleasant engagement.
* In ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'', Jeff rescues Gretchen at the Battle of the Crapper. They get engaged that night, and married four days later. Despite not having a common language. Nevertheless, their relationship works, and is still going strong five years later.
-->"This has got to be a record," chuckled Ferrara. "Meet a girl and propose in one day, maybe. But using a dictionary?"
* [[Literature/TalesOfKolmar Lanen and Akhor]] only have to meet twice, over two days, before they realize that they're very in love, and the next meeting has them doing a version of the Flight of the Devoted, which is as binding as marriage. They note, themselves, that this is highly irregular, both because it happened so fast and because one is human, [[InterspeciesRomance one is a dragon]].
* By the end of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresDeathAndDiplomacy Death and Diplomacy]]'', Franchise/BerniceSummerfield and Jason Kane have known each other for maybe a week, including the day or so when she thought he was a creepy alien as well as the later period when she [[BelligerentSexualTension just thought he was a creep]]. The book ends with them announcing their engagement and the wedding is in the next one.
* In ''Literature/SorceryAndCecelia'', the marquis of Schofield proposes marriage to Kate after only week or so of acquaintance—not more than mildly unusual to those around them, given that the setting is [[RegencyEngland the London Season in 1817]]—but it is as a cover-up for his plan to defeat the villain plotting against him. [[spoiler:He later attempts to break off the engagement, but she refuses; by the end of the novel they’re in love and planning to be married within a few weeks, though this trope still kind of applies since it’s only been about three months since they met]]. The same goes for [[spoiler:James and Cecy who, though they never had a sham betrothal, did meet and eventually get married in an almost identical time frame.]]
* In Francine Rivers’ ''Literature/RedeemingLove,'' Michael begins proposing marriage to Angel [[LoveAtFirstSight the first time they meet each other]], though it isn’t until after the third or fourth time that he is actually successful in gaining her consent (more or less). It should also be noted that this is very much a case of HonorBeforeReason, since Angel couldn’t stand the sight of him and he was, far from being in love with her (though he did admit she was stunningly beautiful), obeying a divine mandate.

* Jake Mast asks Lydiann Ebersol to marry him a month after meeting her in ''The Prodigal'', the 4th book in the [[Literature/AbramsDaughters Abram's Daughters]] series by Beverly Lewis.

* In ''[[Literature/TheRiftwarCycle Prince of the Blood]]'', when Jimmy the Hand encounters Gamina it's [[LoveAtFirstSight love at first]]...well, [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic contact]]; he proposes marriage half an hour later.
* In the ''Literature/ElementalMasters'' series, characters have gotten married or engaged in relatively short periods of time. However, all of them are Elemental Masters or Mages, which means they can usually tell in a short amount of time if they are right for each other or not. One character in ''Literature/{{Steadfast}}'' mentions that he's heard of magicians that meet for the first time and then elope in Gretna Green the following week, not having the patience to wait to get a license and post banns.
* In ''Literature/{{Relativity}},'' Sara and Greg get married after knowing each other only [[spoiler:approximately four months]]. This is actually lampshaded by Sara's best friend Madge ''earlier'' in the saga:
-->'''Madge:''' You always do this, Sara. You always get so caught up with a guy. Three dates and you’re ready to get married.
** Actually, they have [[spoiler:only two]] official "dates" before they get married, but they see each other quite often in that time.
* Miss Price of ''Literature/BedknobAndBroomstick'' meets Emelius and within a weeks, most of which time they are [[TimeTravelRomance not in contact with each other]], he proposes to her and she accepts.
* A ''First'' Date Marriage in ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'': Zeb and Deety meet for the first time, have maybe two dances with each other, and are ducking out the side door for a quickie Nevada wedding.
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'': Charles Hamilton falls in love with Scarlett within ''one day'' and they're married two weeks after that. She and her second husband Frank Kennedy have an equally short courtship.

* Batiya and Chunru only know each other for a couple weeks in ''Literature/AcrossAJadeSea'' before deciding that they'd rather get married right away then be separated indefinitely from each other when they reach land.
* The entire ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' trilogy takes place [[ExtremelyShortTimespan over a four and a half month span]]. As seen on the [[http://fiftyshadesofgrey.wikia.com/wiki/Book_timeline Book Timeline,]] Anna meets Christian Grey on May 9, accepts his proposal one month later on June 17 (with a five days break up in between), and they get married at the end of July.
* The lesbian stereotype is mentioned by Kate in ''Literature/YouKnowMeWell'', who struggles with the opposite problem when it comes to commitment.
* Used in several Creator/RobertAHeinlein novels, specifically ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'' and ''Literature/TheCatWhoWalksThroughWalls''. In the former case it is handled "logically" (the two have fights and break up because they don't actually know each other!) while in the latter case, there's *two couples* that fit this trope.
* The cat equivalent of this is common in ''Literature/WarriorCats''. Two cats will interact once or twice and quickly become mates. One example would be Bluefur and Oakheart.
* ''Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit'' has a ''first'' date marriage. Roger jokingly proposed to Jessica on their first date, but she accepted. Their relationship only lasted a year before Jessica left Roger because [[spoiler:Jessica was forced by a genie to marry Roger]].
* ''Film/{{Unbroken}}'' has Louis Zamperini marry Cynthia Applewhite in a short timespan after meeting her. He also expects that being with her will get rid of his trauma of being a POW of the Japanese. His losing money all the time as well as his anger and PTSD makes things so bad that she wants to get a divorce even though they just had a child. But then Cynthia goes to a Billy Graham crusade, and convinces Louis to go, and he ends up realizing that God never abandoned, and not only does this restore his faith, but it also gets rid of his alcoholism and PTSD. This really did happen in real life, and can be read about in the book. The first movie doesn't cover it, but the second movie does. In short, it's at first played straight, then it gets subverted, and then played straight again, as after that they had another child, and remained married until 2001, when Cynthia died. A double subversion.
* In ''Literature/TheMister'', Alessia and Maxim have known each a little under a month and have only been properly dating for about a week when Maxim decides she's the woman he wants to marry. [[spoiler:When Maxim proposes to Alessia at the end, she instantly accepts. Alessia's father then enforces the matter by demanding they marry in four days before leaving Albania]].

* In ''[[Literature/ShanghaiGirls Dreams of Joy]]'', Tao invokes this by proposing to Joy very soon after they meet, and while Joy wants to say yes, she declines to spend a little more time with the biological father that she just reconnected with. When she returns to the village a few months later, Tao asks her again and this time she agrees. The trope is then promptly deconstructed; Joy very quickly learns that committing to life in a commune with someone you barely know is a ''terrible'' idea, even before the impending Great Leap Forward makes everything a hundred times worse.

* Creator/MaryHigginsClark:
** In ''Literature/ACryInTheNight'', Jenny and Erich have known each other ''a week'' when he tells her he wants to marry her. They've only known each other a month by the time they actually tie the knot. A few people express doubts about the marriage because of this, though Jenny insists she knows what she's doing and that she and Erich are only taking things so quickly because they're so sure of their love for each other. [[DeconstructedTrope It doesn't work out]]. ''[[DeconstructedTrope AT ALL]]''.
** In ''Literature/IHeardThatSongBefore'', Kay and Peter get married a little over a month after they started dating. This, in addition to their [[AgeGapRomance seventeen year age-gap]], leads some people to speculate that Kay is a {{gold digger}} or, worse, that Peter married her to avoid her revealing information that may or may not prove he's a murderer, though Kay is convinced it's true love. [[spoiler:It turns out he does truly love her and they're happy together in the ending]].

* ''Series/NinetyDayFiance'': Some of the couples, such as season 4's Melanie and Devar and season 6's Colt and Larissa, got engaged within days of meeting each other. This naturally raises some eyebrows from concerned family members.

* Happens in season 8 of ''Series/Charmed1998'' in a rather rushed effort to get all three leads married off by the series finale. Henry proposes to Paige after knowing each other for only eight episodes (a couple months in the show's timeline) and they marry in the very next episode. Phoebe also ends up marrying Coop in the finale's flash forward after 7 episodes. While a length of time did pass between the finale and their wedding, the comics confirmed it was only a few months. Compare these two to Leo and Cole who took at least a season (two in Leo's case) to marry their respective Charmed One with a fair amount of episodes inbetween the proposal and the wedding.
* Fourth date near-marriages are fairly common in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' with each of the women having at least one man propose to them within a week of meeting them. They almost always consider it a strong possibility, and get angry with their friends for not being happy for them. The only time it's completely PlayedStraight is in the season finale, when Dorothy actually goes through with it to Blanche's uncle Lucas.
** Dorothy and Lucas were actually faking their engagement largely to get revenge on Blanche for lying to them and setting them up on a blind date just so she could get out of her familial obligation to him and so she herself could go on a date. In the two months they kept the ruse going, they ended up falling in love for real.
* In the sitcom ''Series/{{Becker}}'', John's friend Jake marries a woman he met the day before. Throughout the season their marriage has been on the rocks.
* A ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' episode "The Chicken Dance" has Miranda invite a friend to stay at her apartment for a week with the hope of wooing him. He and Miranda's interior decorator hit it off and they got engaged a week later. Their wedding becomes the topic of conversation for the rest of the episode. Among the main cast themselves is Charlotte and Trey, who were engaged and married in a ridiculously short period of time. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs--Trey's impotency aside, the marriage is troubled almost from day one and despite valiant efforts on both parties part to make it work, it ultimately fails.
* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' - It's established in the early seasons of the show that Samantha and Darrin's romance was pretty rapid. Short enough for neither set of parents, nor Darrin's social circle, to know till after the wedding. Administrivia/TropesAreTools, since they stayed together for at least eight years.
* Ross and Emily from ''Series/{{Friends}}'' decide to get married after knowing each other for just six weeks. The marriage lasted about as long as the courtship. Emily gets engaged again shortly after the divorce. Ross justifies their hasty engagement by saying that he dated his ex-wife Carol for four years before getting married and they still ended up divorced.
** When Rachel finds out about the engagement, she impulsively proposes to her boyfriend Joshua even though they actually ''have'' gone on only four dates. At this time he still hasn't even officially divorced his ex-wife, and he gets freaked up and end up breaking up with Rachel.

* The final episode of ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.

%%* 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.
* ''Series/NoahsArc'': Fourth date is an exaggeration, but its revealed early on that Chance and Eddie have only known each other for six months at the start of the series, considering marriage (and get married very soon into the series) and are moving in together. This is also notable for being portayed as a FourthDateMarriage in-universe.
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' has "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS3E5E6TheWeddingOfSarahJaneSmith The Wedding of Sarah Jane]]", where the title character is about to marry a man she's known for at best a few months, and a single episode.
* A literal example occurs in ''Series/GreysAnatomy'': a heart patient is brought in at Thanksgiving and told she has to hold on until the New Year, when she has a good chance of receiving a donor heart. Her very new boyfriend remains by her bedside for weeks, and proposes when they hear a heart has been found. She points out that they have had only four dates, then says yes.
* In ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', Hercules meets his love Serena in one episode and the two share a kiss by the end of that episode. By the middle of the very next episode he proposes marriage to her and marries her in same episode.

* In ''Series/TrueBlood'', each episode takes place over the course of about 24 hours, and each one follows right after the other with a two-week time skip at the end of Season 1. This means that Bill and Sookie have sex for the first time about a week after meeting. Then, when Bill proposes to Sookie at the end of Season 2, they had known each other for a total of 43 days. Since Bill was born in the 19th century this may have been his expectation from the start.
* Often seen in soap operas, most notably ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'', which will have characters planning a wedding within a month of meeting.
* The first scene of Series/ArmyWives has Trevor propose to Roxy having dated her for four ''days''. They marry shortly after that.
* In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', Hikaru and Urara marry on ''the same day'' they first confess their feelings for each other, although in this case they'd already been living together on a daily basis for a while (he'd moved into her family's house as a TokenHouseguest) and had half a season of ShipTease in advance. That said, the actual reason they escalated it so quickly was that Hikaru had good reason to believe [[LastWishMarriage he'd be dead by the next day]] (and potentially [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt everyone else too]]), so it's a [[MetaphoricalMarriage purely ceremonial]] one done at home since there was a real chance they wouldn't have much time to devote to the courtship. [[spoiler:They end up surviving the final battle, and by the time of the epilogue a year later they're going strong enough that they've moved out together.]]
** Houka attempts to pull one earlier in the series with a man named Tetsuya, whom she'd met at work and planned to marry the next day. In this case, her older brother Makito actually ''does'' react as badly as you'd expect (the other siblings are resigned to just letting her do whatever she wants, considering [[ReallyGetsAround this kind of thing is hardly surprising behavior for her]]). It turns out to also be a case of LastWishMarriage since Tetsuya was cursed to disappear in three days due to the MonsterOfTheWeek, so when that issue is taken care of the two immediately call off the wedding. The relationship ends up falling apart at some point offscreen, and the rest of Houka's CharacterDevelopment involves her learning to take things like relationships a little more seriously.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'':
** Abed attempts to invoke this trope with Jeff and Britta. He has a wedding party with a best man and musical performers standing by just in case.
** Pierce married [[SerialSpouse three of his seven ex wives]] after knowing them a month. In one episode, he gets engaged to a chinese student on their first date.
** In her timeline in "Remedial Chaos Theory", Britta gets to fetch the Pizzas and returns announcing her engagement to the delivery guy.
* In ''Series/MyFamily'', a psychic tells Janey she will meet her true love at a wedding she's due to attend. She does meet a guy there, and marries him ten days later. [[spoiler:She runs off with ''another'' man at the reception for her own wedding, and asks her husband for a divorce on the same day.]]
* In the classic ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' episode "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky," the female alien leader is totally ready to marry [=McCoy=] after spending a few hours with him [[spoiler:even though he's dying of a rare disease]], but then, for her, it was LoveAtFirstSight.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', we're made to think that it's customary for Klingons to marry after having sex for the first time, as Worf tries to shout the traditional wedding oath after sleeping with K'Ehleyr, who, being half-human, isn't about to make a lifelong commitment after a single night together. We don't really see it in later pairings involving Klingons.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In the serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]", Jo Grant is PutOnABus by getting engaged to Professor Clifford Jones, a man she met for the first time earlier that story, [[BelligerentSexualTension when he yelled at her]] [[DoppelgangerDating for ruining an experiment]]. (Other companions also left for a man they'd just met, but Jo is the only one where they actually announce their engagement. At least until Franchise/BerniceSummerfield in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresDeathAndDiplomacy Death and Diplomacy]]''.)
** There's parallels to this with the early habit of having female companions PutOnABus by having the Doctor leave them in some godforsaken time period because they've fallen in love with someone. Susan's relationship with David is implied to take place over the course of several months, but Vicki's relationship with Troilus explicitly takes place over the course of two days and is still intense enough that she abandons her life of adventure and her adoptive grandfather in order to live in a time period before modern medicine (when "The Web Planet" had established she was disturbed even by the idea of swallowing aspirin tablets due to how primitive it was) and knowing that there is an AlphaBitch there who detests her to the point she's tried to have her killed.
** The other notorious example is "The Invasion of Time", where Leela suddenly announces she's marrying Andred after barely even showing any sexual tension with him and only knowing him for a couple of days at most. This was RealLifeWritesThePlot, as the showrunners deliberately failed to write a convincing exit for her because they were hoping until the last minute that the actor would change her mind about leaving.
* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': Nathan meets and instantly falls for Marnie in his last episode before the two head for Vegas to get married.
* Taken to ludicrous extremes in a 1985 storyline on ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'': Jim and Anna meet in episode 12, go out to dinner in episode 14, admit that they both love each other by episode 15, get engaged by the end of episode 16, then break up in episode 18 due to the opposition of Jim's daughters. Keep in mind this is a daily, half-hour SoapOpera we're talking about.
* On ''Series/{{ER}}'', Gallant and Neela marry without even really having had a proper date. They were good friends with UnresolvedSexualTension for several months before he was shipped off to Iraq, then corresponded via mail for months.
* On ''Series/{{Taxi}}'', John Burns sees a woman he likes and, with some joking advice from Bobby, the first thing he says to her is "let's get married". She says okay, and over the weekend they do get married. While they both initially think it was a mistake and want the marriage annulled, they end up staying married.
* Sisters Xenia and Series/{{Arabela}} both marry their chosen ones after only a few days (Xenia) or weeks (Arabela), for different reasons. Xenia wants to marry so she can be queen, Arabela wants to marry for love.
* On ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', this is one of Michael's flaws, as he believes in "love at first sight" and tries to rush many of his relationships. He proposes to his girlfriend Carol on only their ninth date, leading to relationship issues. He eventually averts this on Jim's advice by slowly courting Holly.
* In one episode of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'', the school bus driver laments that his girlfriend broke up with him after he decided they should go pick out wedding cakes for their first date. Eventually, he gets over her and asks out one of the teachers for a date - [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike she suggests they go pick out wedding cakes]].
* In ''Series/GoodGirlsRevolt'' Patti considers her sister’s marriage this as she’s only eighteen and wants to get married before her husband leaves for Vietnam.
* Lampshaded on ''Series/HenryDanger'' when Ray announces that he's getting married to a woman he met three hours ago. It's quickly revealed that the woman is a villain who gave Ray a [[LovePotion Love Muffin]].
* Dean Winchester of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' knows something is very wrong when his younger brother Sam excitedly marries ''[[OhCrapThereAreFanFicsOfUs Supernatural]]'' fan Becky almost immediately after a chance meeting in Vegas. The brothers had met Becky before, but while she had shown much interest in Sam, Sam had not previously reciprocated. [[spoiler:[[LoonyFan Turns out she was dosing him with love potion.]]]]

* In ''The Wild House'', Serena falls in love with Orlando, whom she met when he spent a couple of weeks at her house on a foreign exchange. After he goes back to the US, she instantly transfers to a school there to be with him; they get engaged almost immediately, and married a few months later. Her cousin [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Georgina]] successfully pushes for a guy she's known for a very short time to propose so that she can steal the spotlight at Serena's wedding.
** In one episode, the family prepares for Aunt Yvette's wedding to a man she has only just met and barely knows. Subverted when the wedding ends up not going ahead.
* On ''Series/{{Imposters}}'', this seems to be Maddie's M.O. as a professional GoldDigger. She would begin dating people and marry them in a short time, then clean out their bank accounts and leave, and then threaten to blackmail them with some heinous family secret if they look for her.
* There were two examples on ''Series/HaltAndCatchFire'': In season two, Joe [=MacMillan=] meets Sara Wheeler after leaving Cardiff Electrics, within months they are married and decide to [[MyOwnPrivateIDo elope]] shortly after, unsurprisingly the marriage ends right before Joe leaves for California.
** Subverted for Cameron the next season when she married Tom Rendon, despite breaking up with him back in Texas, however the marriage lasts ''seven'' years, even after Cameron cheated with Joe at Comdex 1990.
* ''Series/LifeInPieces'': Tyler proposes to his girlfriend Clementine after just a few months of dating, she says yes, and they're married before the end of the episode. When Tyler's mother Heather is freaking out, his father Tim is unconcerned, saying that Tyler saw an opportunity to "[[UglyGuyHotWife lock that down]]," and that Tim did the same thing with Heather.
* ''Series/MiamiVice'': Crockett meets Caitlin about ten minutes into "Like a Hurricane." The last scene is their wedding. The episode takes place over the course of about a week.
* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' spin-off ''The Brady Brides'' had Marcia engaged to Wally after knowing him for just a week. He even proposes on ''the same day'' they meet when Marcia expresses concern that her younger sister Jan is due to marry first.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS02E02Heat Heat]]", after summer vacation in Smallville, Clark is surprised to find out Lex became engaged to a woman in such a short period of time. Naturally, we later find out she's the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Freak of the Weak]] and has seduced Lex with her LivingAphrodisiac powers and is planning to [[GoldDigger kill him and take his money]].

* In the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "Cry Revenge," a middle-aged woman is getting harassing phone calls. One day her daughter picks up the phone, flirts with the man making the calls, and agrees to meet him in person. Once they meet, she proposes to him on the spot, and they're married that day.

* In the ''Series/BroadCity'' episode "Jews on a Plane," Abbi and Ilana take a Birthmarc flight to Israel, arranged for the purpose of getting Jews to marry each other. One guy proposes to the girl next to him partway through the flight.
* The whole point of the Creator/{{Netflix}} RealityTV show ''Series/LoveIsBlind'', where couples propose marriage within 10 days and get married within four weeks (although they do have the option of ending the relationship at any time). Only two out of the six couples from season 1 remained married when the reunion episode aired.
* Exaggerated by the RealityTV show ''Series/MarriedAtFirstSight'', which is... ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. At the end of the season, typically 5 to 10 weeks later, the contestants are allowed to divorce if they so desire, or stay together if MarriageBeforeRomance has taken hold.
* Downplayed with Detective Megan Wheeler in ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''. She goes on a six-month special assignment in Europe, during which she meets and gets engaged to a man named Colin. [[spoiler:It ends abruptly when he is thrown in federal prison for money laundering and embezzlement.]]
* ''Series/FullHouse'': Joey meets a woman who he hits things off with. Together they agree that dating is awkward and would prefer to skip to the next step, marriage. Joey initially thinks this is a great idea, but after everyone else points out what a terrible idea this is, eventually he realizes he's made a mistake. Fortunatly, the woman came to the same conclusion, and the pair agree to begin dating, rather than skip straight to marriage.
* ''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]] [[spoiler:[[{{Elopement}} skips 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]].
* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': After [[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E1BackFromTheDead an entire episode]] where he is considered to have died, Brittas returns to his wife's home to find her preparing for a wedding to a man that she had met at his presumed cremation only three days ago. He is understandably a bit shocked.
* ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall2020'': James and Helen get engaged maybe six months, if that, after they officially get together. It works anyway, for two reasons; first, they had been growing closer as friends for nearly a year before they started seeing each other, and second, they are obviously perfect for each other, to the point where their engagement comes across as absolutely believable despite the short time frame.[[note]]It also helps that this is very TruthInTelevision for the time period, where shorter courtships were the norm.[[/note]] The real people they're based on also [[TruthInTelevision married within a year or so after meeting]].
* ''Series/TheSandbaggers'', episode "Always Glad to Help". Neil sends Laura to flirt with Prince Hamad to find out what he's up to. He proposes within a week; Laura, flustered, stalls for time by saying she does not fancy living in the desert. Hamad says he does not intend to do so anytime soon, and this is the key clue to his plans.
* ''Series/{{Clarence}}'' begins when Clarence encounters a temporary maid whilst he is doing some furniture lifting. By the end of that very first meeting, Clarence is asking her to marry him, although said maid is understandably a bit shocked and proposes a trial run first.

* Nellie and Emile in ''Theatre/SouthPacific'' have only known each other for two weeks, and Emile has already proposed, though Nellie hasn't said yes or no.

* ''Theatre/MissSaigon'': Kim and Chris are madly in love and planning to move in together after ''one night'' together. After moving in, he declares his intent to take her back to the US with him and officially marry her there. It's explicitly stated several times that their whirlwind courtship has lasted all of two weeks.
* In ''Theatre/{{Carousel}}'', Billy and Julie meet in May and are already married in June.
* In ''Theatre/AlisonsHouse'', Ann the secretary falls in love with Knowles the reporter, and they elect to go away together, over the course of a single afternoon and evening.
* In ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', it's unclear exactly how much time passes between Eliza and Alexander meeting and them deciding to get married, but the song seems to imply it happens only over the course of a few weeks. This is a combination of TruthInTelevision and artistic license: the real Eliza and Alexander did ''want'' to get married after only knowing one another for a month, which was a pretty normal timeframe during that period (sex outside of marriage was frowned upon and most couples didn't want to wait long). However, they weren't able to get married at that time because Eliza's parents wouldn't have been able to be there, and since Angelica had already eloped, they really wanted to be present for Eliza's wedding. (Notably, Eliza was the only one of her father's children who had his blessing for marriage.) As a result, given Hamilton's army commitments, it was a full six months before they actually married.
* Unlike the film, the stage version of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' plays this trope straight. While the film creates the sense of several weeks or months passing, onstage the song "Something There" about their budding feelings for each other takes place directly after the Beast saves Belle from the wolves and she tends his wound, which is still Belle's first night in the castle. Their iconic DanceOfRomance, and later their declarations of love and the breaking of the spell, all seem to take place on the following night.
* ''Theatre/TheMarioOpera'' has Mario and Peach set to be married after knowing each other only a month.

* Possible in ''VideoGame/TheSims''. Heck, it's possible to have a ''first-date'' marriage, if you're determined enough to raise enough relationship in that first day. Justified in all games after the first as those include lifespans and ageing mechanics, with time advancing at very high speed - each "day" is representative of several months (roughly a year per day in ''The Sims 2'', judging from the day age meter without mods), resulting in solid dating history before marriage happens.
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' has no way of showing the passage of time in most of the main campaign, but it seems like it takes place over maybe a month. And in the space of a month, you can get an elf (notoriously patient species) for males or a paladin (very cautious about this sort of thing) for females to be declaring undying love for you by the end. Then again, [[StalkerWithACrush Elanee]] actually makes more sense than most examples, and being thrown into a waterfall of life-or-death situations would tend to make romantic involvement progress rather quickly.
** ''Mask of the Betrayer'' takes place over around three weeks, given its internal traveling time estimates. Then again, both of the possible love interests have a [[ReincarnationRomance decent]] [[LadykillerInLove excuse]].
** It is ambiguous how long you spend wandering around the Underdark with Nathyrra (or Valen if your character is female), but somehow it doesn't seem long enough for what results. The timeframe for the player character and either Aribeth or Arin (depending on gender) in the original campaign is a lot more feasible.
** This trope quite frequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by [[ActionGirl Diana]] on her romance path in the community module ''Sanctum of the Archmage'', which combines this with LoveBeforeFirstSight.
* Justified for a male player character and Bastila in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', due to their force bond. Less so for a female player character and Carth.
* Potentially averted in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', as the events of the Blight take place over roughly a year. This allows the Warden to make a move immediately, or spend fairly good span of time to develop their relationship with Alistair/Morrigan/Leliana/Zevran. The characters each take a different span of time to fall in love, even if their approval is very high; "love" requires their personal quest to be completed, which for Alistair ''could'' be done the first time you enter Denerim, but for Zevran requires the Landsmeet to have been called, approaching end-game.
** Completely averted in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''. The events of the game take place over ten years, and it takes three for Hawke's relationship with his/her chosen significant other to move to a physical level. The end of the game takes place ten years after the beginning, and [[spoiler:Hawke's love interest is the sole companion to remain by his/her side after the events of the endgame.]]
*** Practically inverted in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'''s case, considering how little changes for most characters in the course of what's supposed to be that many years.
* Mostly averted in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII''. The romance dialogues (which there are about 20 for each option) happen roughly every half hour or so in realtime. In game time this usually translates in more than three months.
* You can invoke this in certain ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' games due to GoodBadBugs. Arguably, a lot of ''Harvest Moon'' games feature this unless you believe all events involving you two romantically are dates.
** If one figures out what items the various love interests like, it can be ridiculously easy to get them to love you in very short periods of time, with minimal interaction.
** 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]]. 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 ''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 gone on only three dates but have been romantically involved with your eventual spouse for ''years''.
* In ''VideoGame/BadDayOnTheMidway'', Dixie narrates that it took only two weeks for her and Ike to get married.

* This is likely to happen in ''New VideoGame/StyleBoutique 2: Fashion Forward'' due to the way progression works. Story events more or less advance by the number of people served in your shop, while the clock and calendar advance in real time. As a result, if you play for more than a few minutes a day, Adelaide will go from meeting her boyfriend to marrying him within a couple of weeks, both in real life and in-game.

* Hasting's long string of divorces in ''Ugly Hill'' is partly due to him marrying new women at the drop of a hat.
* [[HappilyMarried Fred and Faye]] in ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' were married after knowing each other only two months. Many years later, [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01262006.shtml Faye talks about this]]:
-->'''Faye:''' When we first married, you asked if I regretted rushing into it after just two months of dating. I said no, but I do ... Two months was too long. I'd have married you after the first date.
** [[spoiler:It was also essentially her last words, for she died in her sleep that night.]]
* Not marriage, but in ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}},'' Ally and Lisa manage to move in with each other ''before'' they start dating. Three weeks after they meet and started an intimate relationship, and three months after they met online, but still some time ''before'' either of them pluck up the courage to finally ask the other out for Date #1. The narrative acknowledges how rash this was and chapter four deals with the consequences.
* ''Webcomic/KnightsOfBuenaVista'' averts this with Bill and Mary, who had known each other over three years before Bill proposed. Yet when he did, Mary [[ComicallyMissingThePoint thought that was was instead]] having his PlayerCharacter propose to hers. Then they decided to actually include that as an InUniverse ThrowItIn.
* Kazumi and Daigo from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' knew each other for a grand total of three and half months before they got married. And Kazumi was already eight weeks pregnant at the wedding.
* Travelling mercenary Ms. ''Webcomic/PoppyOPossum'' says she has to go on at least three dates before she gets married. To a princess. Petunia begins exasperating.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' when Clay and Bloberta got married after one date (and it's really tough to call it a date since they just went to a reception together after attending the wedding separately). It's quite clear both of them regard it as a mistake, but go through with it anyway, since Clay wants someone around to help him and Bloberta just wants to be the one getting married.
** Most poignantly, when asked by her son why they married, all Bloberta could muster for an answer is 'why not?'.
* 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.
* Almost happened to Bolin in Season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' with Korra's cousin Eska, with her declaring they would live together in "icy bliss" after spending all of a few days together, most of which consisted of her using him as a servant, then threatening to feed him to piranhas when he raises his issues. He skips town before going through with it, but she does not take this well. [[{{Yandere}} At all.]] [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale Because Bolin is a guy]], this is PlayedForLaughs.

* In season 5 of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', Mr. Peanutbutter, recently divorced from Diane, begins dating a waitress named Pickles. He ends up cheating on her with Diane, but instead of confessing, he proposes to Pickles due to being terrified of losing her, too.
* Narrowly averted by the ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' 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.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Chemistry" has Veronica Vreeland marrying a man she'd only known for a few weeks beforehand. Then at the wedding, Bruce Wayne meets a woman named Susan and the two hit it off. He ends up proposing to her on the second date and then they get married. [[spoiler:It turns out that both Ronnie and Bruce's spouses were plant people created by Poison Ivy (and thus were irresistible due to secreting high amounts of pheromones) to marry all of Gotham's wealthy bachelors and bachelorettes so that she could kill them and acquire their wealth through their fake spouses.]]

* 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 (while also encouraging Gwen to not back out entirely). 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.

* Zigzagged in ''Literature/WaxAndWayne''. [[NouveauRiche Steris]] and [[ImpoverishedPatrician Wax]] first meet while privately arranging a marriage [[NobilityMarriesMoney between their houses]]. Since it would be scandalous if they got engaged without being seen in public together, Steris outlines an extensive schedule of attending parties and balls that appears to avert this, but gives them little private time before or after marriage, making it impossible for them to get to know each other. [[spoiler:It turns out that Steris doesn't dislike Wax, she's just afraid that he'll dislike her, as she's NotGoodWithPeople and has had broken engagements before. Their eventual marriage averts this, taking place a few years after they meet]].

* Claire Stanfield and [[spoiler:Chane Laforet]] from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' become informally engaged after all but two meetings, and this was after they tried to kill each other when they first crossed paths. Of course, much of this can be attributed to Claire's unorthodox flirting strategy, which consists of [[EngagingConversation proposing to complete strangers that he thinks are cute]] and hoping one of them eventually says yes. [[spoiler:Chane, meanwhile, was raised as an experiment by her emotionally manipulative father, and [[DefrostingIceQueen wasn't accustomed to genuine affection]]]]. For an inversion, we have [[LivingForeverIsAwesome Firo]] and [[ArtificialHuman Ennis]] -- a relationship which involved a ''fifty year'' courtship before they got serious.

* ''LightNovel/KyouKaraMaou'' has Shoma proposing to Jennifer on their fifth date. She accepts because it's so "bold" of him, and also because he's a demon and she thought it would be awesome to have kids with wings or little horns.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'': Eric only barely sees Ariel (and hears her as well) for a couple of seconds, with the sun shining behind her. That's enough for him to decide that he'll marry her. [[http://aitnetroma.deviantart.com/art/Prince-Motivational-6-161853402 No matter if he doesn't know she's not human, her name, or if she wasn't a hallucination.]] It is double subverted by how his adviser talks him out of his fantasy about Ariel and into marrying...well, ''Ariel,'' who he has known for three days. Ursula's disguise doesn't count because brainwashing was involved.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' is a curious case, as it initially [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] the trope, then ultimately subverts it. The law in Agrabah says that Jasmine must marry by her next birthday, which is three days away at the beginning of the movie. Over those three days, she has a grand total of two encounters with Aladdin before she decides he is the suitor she wants. However, the sultan repeals the law at the end of the movie, and while Aladdin and Jasmine are now engaged, they end up having adventures covered in [[WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfJafar a sequel]] movie, [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries a multi-season TV series]] and [[WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves another sequel]] movie until they're finally married.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': This is zig-zagged with Simba and Nala. They were childhood best friends, but when they were told by Zazu that they were [[ArrangedMarriage betrothed to be married]] they were both disgusted, finding the idea of marrying their best friend too weird. Years later, when they reunite as adults after Nala had previously believed Simba had died with his father, they almost ''instantly'' fall in love. Simba ends up taking Nala on a tour around the jungle, that is basically a "first date" between them. This is a FallingInLoveMontage of them playing around and flirting together, such as pulling each other into water, playfully wrestling together, and Nala surprising Simba with a lick/kiss on the cheek and [[HeldGaze gazing seductively at him]]. It is also heavily implied that [[spoiler:they mated together during this, resulting in Nala becoming pregnant with their first child]]. After Simba defeats Scar and becomes king, he and Nala get married as was originally planned for them.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'':

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Faeries|1999}}'' has the Prince and Brigid who marry the same day they meet.

* Inverted in the original ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie. Daniel Jackson is given Sha'uri as a gift, but it isn't until a day or so later that he even ''realizes'' that they're already married. By the end of the movie, he's fallen in love and decided to stay on Abydos with her.

Sometimes TruthInTelevision, especially for shows set in a time period where long relationships before marriage were considered [[ValuesDissonance "absolutely lunatic and idiotic," such as the 1950s]]. Contrast ArrangedMarriage, where the couple may not have even met before the wedding, and PerfectlyArrangedMarriage where it works out just fine anyway.

* In ''Ticket to Paradise'', Wren goes to Bali in her post-graduation trip, falls in love with a local, and 37 days later sends an e-mail to her parents saying she's getting married. This prompts them to [[WorkingWithTheEx form an uneasy partnership]] hoping to changing Wren's mind, as they know rushing into a wedding was what led to their acrimonious split and decades of hatred for each other.

* ''Film/GoldfishMemory'' features one couple meeting, getting together and planning a family in less time then it takes one partner to realise she's already pregnant from a one-night stand just before they met. Multiple other couples manage to meet, break up, get engaged, and all manner of other things in the same period.
** Notably, one character romances two women, the women themselves get together and then break up, and go on to new relationships. Meanwhile, the man has met a third woman, who's subverted his usual methods (including a spiel which is (a) [[CriticalResearchFailure incorrect]] and (b) the source of the TitleDrop) six ways from Sunday. LastGirlWins.

* Claire Stanfield and [[spoiler:Chane Laforet]] from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' become informally engaged after all but two meetings, and this was after they tried to kill each other when they first crossed paths. Of course, much of this can be attributed to Claire's unorthodox flirting strategy, which consists of [[EngagingConversation proposing to complete strangers that he thinks are cute]] and hoping one of them eventually says yes. [[spoiler: Chane, meanwhile, was raised as an experiment by her emotionally manipulative father, and [[DefrostingIceQueen wasn't accustomed to genuine affection]]]]. For an inversion, we have [[LivingForeverIsAwesome Firo]] and [[ArtificialHuman Ennis]] -- a relationship which involved a ''fifty year'' courtship before they got serious.

* ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'': In episode 25, Max Jenius falls for Milia [[LoveAtFirstSight at first sight]] when he meets her in an arcade and narrowly beats her in a Valkyrie simulation game. He gets her to agree to meet him in a park later, not realizing she's a Zentradi pilot who holds a grudge against him for having beaten her in two separate dogfights. There she challenges him to a KnifeFight, which he wins, and then--undeterred by the fact that she's an alien enemy who infiltrated the ship specifically to kill him--he succeeds right then and there in making her fall head over heels for him! Max goes to his best friend Hikaru for advice and tells him they've already decided to get married, and when [[LampshadeHanging Hikaru tells him that he can't marry someone he just met]]--especially since she's a Zentradi whose species' psychology and way of life are totally different from humans--Max insists that love will overcome their differences. Captain Global sponsors a lavish and highly publicized wedding for them because he sees it as a good opportunity to promote the idea that humans and Zentradi can coexist peacefully[[note]]For bonus points, the Fourth Date part is pretty literal, too: Their first meeting was a dogfight in their respective mecha, then the arcade, then the knife fight, and finally the wedding[[/note]].

*** Lampshaded, subverted, and deconstructed with Anna and Hans becoming engaged very quickly, and every character who knows about it (including even Anna and Hans themselves) acknowledges how unusual it is. Rather than this trope being the ''cure'' for [[GirlInTheTower isolation]] [[AloofBigBrother and abuse]], this movie treats it rather as a ''symptom'', for both Anna and Hans. [[spoiler: After years of isolation and neglect (as Elsa was deliberately acting [[AloofBigBrother aloof]] in order to keep her powers controlled and secret), Anna DesperatelyCravesAffection and ThinksLikeARomanceNovel and so confuses companionability for TrueLove, not having much reference for an actual healthy relationship. The engagement ends before the wedding, since Hans turns out to be a GoldDigger, [[FreudianExcuse his own neglect]] as the youngest of MassivelyNumberedSiblings turning him ruthless.]] This is actually lampshaded and vaguely foreshadowed when Elsa provides a real-life warning: "You can't marry a man you just met."

** Paige sets up her boyfriend Jack for a similar scheme; they've only known each other a couple of months and she doesn't even meet his mother until the day of the wedding. [[spoiler: This one ends on a MaybeEverAfter]].

* In ''Film/MadeOfHonor'' (the gender-swapped ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''), Hannah hooks up with Colin, a guy she meets in Scotland on a business trip. They get engaged at ''most'' five weeks later, to be wed a fortnight onward. [[spoiler: She realizes on the eve of the wedding that she has no idea who he is and breaks off the engagement by making out with the titular flirty-best-friend of ten years and Man of Honor in the middle of the ceremony]]

* In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' book ''Exile's Valor'', Queen Selenay gets married to Prince Karath of Rethwellan after having known him only several months. Her fellow Heralds all think it's the worst idea they've ever heard, but they don't protest it, since they know that would just make her more fixated on the idea and an alliance marriage with Rethwellan is a good idea anyway. [[spoiler: Once they're married, the relationship quickly turns sour, because Karath seduced her ''from a script'' and got tired of acting after the knot was tied.]]

* The entire ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' trilogy takes place [[ExtremelyShortTimespan over a four and a half month span]]. As seen on the [[http://fiftyshadesofgrey.wikia.com/wiki/Book_timeline Book Timeline]], Anna meets Christian Grey on May 9, accepts his proposal one month later on June 17 (with a five days break up in between), and they get married at the end of July.

** In ''Literature/IHeardThatSongBefore'', Kay and Peter get married a little over a month after they started dating. This, in addition to their [[AgeGapRomance seventeen year age-gap]], leads some people to speculate that Kay is a {{gold digger}} or, worse, that Peter married her to avoid her revealing information that may or may not prove he's a murderer, though Kay is convinced it's true love. [[spoiler: It turns out he does truly love her and they're happy together in the ending]].

** Funny thing is, the final episode (before the cancellation) reveals that [[spoiler: the boy actually ''is'' Earl's (they hooked up for a one-night stand at a costume party and didn't see each other's faces)]], so in a weird kind of way he ends up making an "honest" woman out of her (if that word can even be applied to Joy).
** Earl's other two marriages were an example of this trope as well. His second marriage was to his friend Ralph's elderly mother, after it was revealed that Earl drunkenly slept with her some years back and Ralph was threatening Earl's life over it. [[spoiler: The marriage was annulled within two weeks, because Earl wouldn't consummate the marriage and she slept with the old man in Earl's GarageBand.]] His third marriage was to his friend Frank's ex-girlfriend Billie, after [[LovingAShadow a coma dream convinced Earl that she was The One]]. He found out the hard way that sometimes WantingIsBetterThanHaving, and ultimately [[spoiler: she divorces him after she found inner peace on Camdenite farmland she was using to hide out from the police.]]

* In the classic ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' episode "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky," the female alien leader is totally ready to marry [=McCoy=] after spending a few hours with him ([[spoiler:even though he's dying of a rare disease]]), but then for her it was LoveAtFirstSight.

* Dean Winchester of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' knows something is very wrong when his younger brother Sam excitedly marries ''[[OhCrapThereAreFanFicsOfUs Supernatural]]'' fan Becky almost immediately after a chance meeting in Vegas. The brothers had met Becky before, but while she had shown much interest in Sam, Sam had not previously reciprocated. [[spoiler: [[LoonyFan Turns out she was dosing him with love potion.]]]]

** After knowing each other for only six months and dating for only a few weeks, Dr. Ehrlich and Roberta Sloan get married in "In Sickness and in Health". [[spoiler: It doesn't last.]]

* Downplayed with Detective Megan Wheeler in ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''. She goes on a six-month special assignment in Europe, during which she meets and gets engaged to a man named Colin. [[spoiler: It ends abruptly when he is thrown in federal prison for money laundering and embezzlement.]]

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV: Hand of the Heavenly Bride'' makes TheHero choose between three girls: [[{{Tomboy}} Bianca]], [[ProperLady Nera]], and [[{{Tsundere}} Debora]]. Of those three, the only one he's spent any time with is childhood friend Bianca [[spoiler: (whom he hasn't seen ''since he was six'')]], and the game seems geared towards her as the "[[OfficialCouple right choice]]".

** Completely averted in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''. The events of the game take place over ten years, and it takes three for Hawke's relationship with his/her chosen significant other to move to a physical level. The end of the game takes place ten years after the beginning, and [[spoiler: Hawke's love interest is the sole companion to remain by his/her side after the events of the endgame.]]

* In ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'', Tom seems to have a very juvenile idea of what love is. He thinks he has a future with [[BestKnownForTheFanservice Porn Girl]], and says he loves her after one date. [[spoiler: It doesn't end well. Mostly because [[PaintingTheMedium Tom asked Zack to film all of their dates]].]]

** This is deconstructed in a later episode where Brian marries a woman with terminal cancer or, [[spoiler: what they thought it was]]. Due to all of the positive attention he got from the town, on top of other things, he has to continue the relationship, dealing with her overly happy attitude, her many cats, her quickly overindulgent attitude, and his obnoxious new mother-in-law, because to end the marriage would not go nicely.

* Narrowly averted by the ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' 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.]]

* In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', Hikaru and Urara marry on ''the same day'' they first confess their feelings for each other, although in this case they'd already been living together on a daily basis for a while (he'd moved into her family's house as a TokenHouseguest) and had half a season of ShipTease in advance. That said, the actual reason they escalated it so quickly was that Hikaru had good reason to believe [[LastWishMarriage he'd be dead by the next day]] (and potentially [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt everyone else too]]), so it's a [[MetaphoricalMarriage purely ceremonial]] one done at home since there was a real chance they wouldn't have much time to devote to the courtship. [[spoiler:They end up surviving the final battle, and by the time of the epilogue a year later they're going strong enough that Urara has even moved out to live with him.]]

* In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', Hikaru and Urara marry on ''the same day'' they first confess their feelings for each other, although in this case they'd already been living together on a daily basis for a while (he'd moved into her family's house as a TokenHouseguest) and had half a season of ShipTease in advance. That said, the actual reason they escalated it so quickly was that Hikaru had good reason to believe [[LastWishMarriage he'd be dead by the next day]] (and potentially [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt everyone else too]]), so it's a [[MetaphoricalMarriage purely ceremonial]] one done at home since there was a real chance they wouldn't have much time to devote to the courtship.

** Houka attempts to pull one earlier in the series with a man named Tetsuya, whom she'd met at work and planned to marry the next day. In this case, her siblings, especially her older brother Makito, actually do react as badly as you'd expect. It turns out to also be a case of LastWishMarriage since Tetsuya was cursed to disappear in three days due to the MonsterOfTheWeek, so when that issue is taken care of the two immediately call off the wedding. The relationship ends up falling apart at some point offscreen, and the rest of Houka's CharacterDevelopment involves her learning to take things like relationships a little more seriously.

* In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', Hikaru and Urara marry on ''the same day'' they first confess their feelings for each other, although in this case they'd already been living together on a daily basis for a while (he'd moved into her family's house as a TokenHouseguest) and had half a season of ShipTease in advance. That said, the actual reason they escalated it so quickly was that Hikaru had good reason to believe [[LastWishMarriage he'd be dead by the next day]] (and potentially [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt everyone else too]], so they wouldn't have had much time to devote to the courtship if so, and the "wedding" itself is a [[MetaphoricalMarriage purely ceremonial]] one done at home.

* In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', Hikaru and Urara marry on ''the same day'' they first confess their feelings for each other, although in this case they'd already been living together on a daily basis for a while (he'd moved into her family's house as a TokenHouseguest) and had half a season of ShipTease in advance. That said, the actual reason they escalated it so quickly was that Hikaru had good reason to believe [[LastWishMarriage he'd be dead by the next day]] (and potentially [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt everyone else too]], so they wouldn't have had much time to devote to the courtship if so.

* In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', Hikaru and Urara marry on ''the same day'' they first confess their feelings for each other, although in this case they'd already been living together on a daily basis for a while (he'd moved into her family's house as a TokenHousegest) and had half a season of ShipTease in advance. That said, the actual reason they escalated it so quickly was that Hikaru had good reason to believe [[LastWishMarriage he'd be dead by the next day]] (and potentially [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt everyone else too]], so they wouldn't have had much time to devote to the courtship if so.

* In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', Hikaru and Urara marry on ''the same day'' they first confess their feelings for each other, although they'd had half a season of ShipTease in advance.
** Plus, [[spoiler:N Ma had revived and proclaimed that he would destroy all life in a matter of days, so it's not like they had a lot of time to devote to the courtship.]]

* The newest Creator/NicholasSparks offering, ''The Choice'' has the hero declaring his love for the heroine after only a month and proposing to her in that time. The next scene is of their wedding (in all fairness, there may have been a TimeSkip).