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* In TheDarkKnight fanfic ''Question of Honor'', Bruce and Grace have to get married to help her escape her war-torn homeland. They plan on staying together for a few years and then getting a divorce to ensure that Grace can stay in the states. Things take a different turn however...
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* In TheDarkKnight Film/TheDarkKnight fanfic ''Question of Honor'', Bruce and Grace have to get married to help her escape her war-torn homeland. They plan on staying together for a few years and then getting a divorce to ensure that Grace can stay in the states. Things take a different turn however...
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BecomingTheMask. Note that this is a relatively modern trope, since it presupposes that marriages are viewed as done for romantic love in the normal case.
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This is an easy way to turn the normal tension in a {{Romance}} plot on its head, and the trope lends itself very well to RomanticComedy. It is very easy for the people around the newly wedded couple to have, form, and get all sorts of mistaken impressions. Or impressions that are correct when formed, but invalid a few days later. Or receiving mixed messages from the married couple.
Compare PerfectlyArrangedMarriage, which is focused on just one type of marriage and on the result, not on the romantic process. Also compare ItMeantSomethingToMe and BecomingTheMask. Note that this is a relatively modern trope, since it presupposes that marriages are viewed as done for romantic love.
Compare PerfectlyArrangedMarriage, which is focused on just one type of marriage and on the result, not on the romantic process. Also compare ItMeantSomethingToMe and BecomingTheMask. Note that this is a relatively modern trope, since it presupposes that marriages are viewed as done for romantic love.
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This is an easy way to turn the normal tension in a {{Romance}} plot on its head, and the trope lends itself very well to RomanticComedy. It is very easy for the people around the newly wedded newly-wedded couple to have, form, and get all sorts of mistaken impressions. Or impressions that are correct when formed, but invalid a few days later. Or receiving mixed messages from the married couple.
Compare PerfectlyArrangedMarriage, which is focused on just one type of marriage and on the result, not on the romantic process. Also compare ItMeantSomethingToMe andBecomingTheMask. Note that this is a relatively modern trope, since it presupposes that marriages are viewed as done for romantic love.
BecomingTheMask.
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* Proponents of ArrangedMarriage loop in this trope to justify the practice to their MarryForLove-minded friends. Most studies on the subject paint it as TruthInTelevision. Indeed, this trope seems to have been the norm for much of human history.
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* In ''[[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma ½]]'' the title character is betrothed to Akane while they are both teenagers, however subsequent romance is constantly derailed by, Akane's hatred of men, the frequent appearance of other fiancees as well as Ranma's curse that causes him to change into a woman whenever he is splashed with water.
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* In ''[[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma ½]]'' the title character is betrothed to Akane while they are both teenagers, however subsequent and although it's clear that there is a potential for romance between them, romantic progress is constantly derailed by, Akane's hatred of men, the frequent appearance of by NotWhatItLooksLike situations, other fiancees as well as Ranma's fiancees, a curse that causes him to change makes Ranma turn into a woman whenever he is girl when splashed with water. cold water, other martial artists coming after Ranma and/or Akane and, most often, the two's own egos. Although the relationship never developed beyond AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther moments and a denied AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, the ending does imply that they will get married of their own will eventually.
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* Simona Ahrnstedt has Illiana and Markus in "Betvingade". Due to some unfortunate circumstances, they're forced to marry each other. But it turns out well enough, as they start falling in love with each other...
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* Simona Ahrnstedt Creator/SimonaAhrnstedt has Illiana and Markus in "Betvingade". Due to some unfortunate circumstances, they're forced to marry each other. But it turns out well enough, as they start falling in love with each other...
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* Simona Ahrnstedt has Illiana and Markus in "Betvingade". Due to some unfortunate circumstances, they're forced to marry each other. But it turns out well enough, as they start falling in love with each other...
** And another Swedish writer, Elisabet Nemert, has a very similar plotline in her novel "Ödets hav". Aurora, the story's female protagonist, is forced to marry her uncle's friend's son. But she and Roland learn to love each other...
** And another Swedish writer, Elisabet Nemert, has a very similar plotline in her novel "Ödets hav". Aurora, the story's female protagonist, is forced to marry her uncle's friend's son. But she and Roland learn to love each other...
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* ''Sarah Plain and Tall'', a children's book published in 1985, later made into a movie and stage play, is about Sarah. a mail order bride who a widower named Caleb who has two young children. Their courtship happens after they are already living as man and wife.
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* ''Sarah Plain and Tall'', a children's book published in 1985, later made into a movie and stage play, is about Sarah. a [[http://www.mailorderbridesonline.com/ mail order bride bride]] who a widower named Caleb who has two young children. Their courtship happens after they are already living as man and wife.
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* Happens to the secondary characters Sevinna and Dwaen in Katharine Kerr's ''{{Deverry}}'' novel ''Days of Air and Darkness'', and apparently it works out.
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* Happens to the secondary characters Sevinna and Dwaen in Katharine Kerr's ''{{Deverry}}'' ''{{Literature/Deverry}}'' novel ''Days of Air and Darkness'', and apparently it works out.
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* In ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', Teddy marries a patient because he has a chronic illness and cannot afford surgery so that he will be covered under her insurance. She originally has no romantic interest in him, but they fall in love, though he unfortunately dies shortly after.
* In ''Series/WhatILikeAboutYou'', Val spots a former employer in a bar and they wake up married to each other. She wants to annul the marriage as soon as possible, but he refuses since he wants to give it a chance. They eventually get married again.
* In ''Series/WhatILikeAboutYou'', Val spots a former employer in a bar and they wake up married to each other. She wants to annul the marriage as soon as possible, but he refuses since he wants to give it a chance. They eventually get married again.
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* The premise of ''Series/{{Husbands}}''. When gay marriage is legalized, boyfriends Cheeks and Brady Kelly are the first to get married. But they were drunk when they did that. They can't divorce because it's bad for the cause, and so they figure they'd stay married awhile, try it out, and then they divorce. But as they spend more time together, they realize that they do love each other.
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* In ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' the marriage of Tevye and Golde was arranged and they have been together for years, having already raised all their children to adulthood, but it isn't until one of their daughters wants to marry for love that they start thinking about romance with one another. Their duet 'Do You Love Me?' lampshades, describes and plays out the trope.
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* In ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' the marriage of Tevye and Golde was arranged and they have been together for years, having already raised all their children to adulthood, but it isn't until one of their daughters wants to marry for love that they start thinking about romance with one another. Their duet 'Do {{duet| bonding}} "Do You Love Me?' lampshades, describes Me?" [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]], [[DiscussedTrope describes]] and plays out the trope.
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* The premise of ''Series/{{Husbands}}''. 'When When gay marriage is legalized, boyfriends Cheeks and Brady Kelly are the first to get married. But they were drunk when they did that. They can't divorce because it's bad for the cause, and so they figure they'd stay married awhile, try it out, and then they divorce. But as they spend more time together, they realize that they do love each other.
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* The premise of ''Series/{{Husbands}}'.''Series/{{Husbands}}''. 'When gay marriage is legalized, boyfriends Cheeks and Brady Kelly are the first to get married. But they were drunk when they did that. They can't divorce because it's bad for the cause, and so they figure they'd stay married awhile, try it out, and then they divorce. But as they spend more time together, they realize that they do love each other.
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Maybe it is an ArrangedMarriage, maybe an AccidentalMarriage, maybe it is a marriage of convenience like a CitizenshipMarriage or a MailOrderBride. Or it's just a stupid mistake. Our couple has been married, and they see it as a temporary thing, or a thing to get over with and ignore as much as possible.
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* The premise of ''Series/{{Husbands}}'. 'When gay marriage is legalized, boyfriends Cheeks and Brady Kelly are the first to get married. But they were drunk when they did that. They can't divorce because it's bad for the cause, and so they figure they'd stay married awhile, try it out, and then they divorce. But as they spend more time together, they realize that they do love each other.
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* ''Webcomic/MarryMe''. Pop-idol who doesn't want to go back into the dating scene impuslively accepts a marraige proposal by sign and gets married to him on stage that minute. But the guy who was holding the sign didn't especially want to get married to her - it wasn't even his sign. Eventually they fall in love.
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* ''Webcomic/MarryMe''. Pop-idol who doesn't want to go back into the dating scene impuslively accepts a marraige proposal by sign and gets married to him on stage that minute. But the guy who was holding the sign didn't especially want to get married to her - it wasn't even his sign. Eventually they fall in love.love.
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* In ''TheProposal'', Sandra Bullock's character makes her assistant marry her [[CitizenshipMarriage to avoid being deported to Canada.]] After pretending to friends, family and the INS, they're exposed... only to have him propose so that he they can date.
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* In ''Shadowlands'', the BioPic about CSLewis, he marries Joy in a civil ceremony [[CitizenshipMarriage so that she can live and work in the UK]]. Then he falls in love with her, and [[spoiler:after she develops bone cancer,]] they get married for real. This was TruthInTelevision.
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* In ''Shadowlands'', the BioPic about CSLewis, Creator/CSLewis, he marries Joy in a civil ceremony [[CitizenshipMarriage so that she can live and work in the UK]]. Then he falls in love with her, and [[spoiler:after she develops bone cancer,]] they get married for real. This was TruthInTelevision.
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* The surprisingly non-schmaltzy ''Loving Leah'', a HallmarkHallOfFame presentation, has a couple who marry based on Orthodox Jewish levirate marriage and who fall for each other after the wedding.
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* San and Nagasumi's marriage in ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid''... either they got married, or one of them would have to die.
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* San and Nagasumi's marriage in ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid''... either they got married, or one of them would have to die. One of the very few things the series actually treats seriously is the demonstration of how they grow out of being forced together by circumstance and into people who truly care about each other.
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* Zane and Danica in ''[[KieshaRa Hawksong]]'' by AmeliaAtwaterRhodes. It's a political match -- their peoples have been at war for generations, they're the royal heirs, and they decide that they can make peace via a marriage alliance. It works, and they fall in love later.
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* Zane and Danica in ''[[KieshaRa Hawksong]]'' by AmeliaAtwaterRhodes.Creator/AmeliaAtwaterRhodes. It's a political match -- their peoples have been at war for generations, they're the royal heirs, and they decide that they can make peace via a marriage alliance. It works, and they fall in love later.
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* In ''Fanfic/TheIkaris'', Shinji and Asuka get accidentally married. Although they already knew and liked each other, several misunderstandings and a bunch of emotional troubles had prevented them from becoming a couple before their accidental wedding.
* In ''Fanfic/TheIkaris'', Shinji and Asuka get accidentally married. Although they already knew and liked each other, several misunderstandings and a bunch of emotional troubles had prevented them from becoming a couple before their accidental wedding.
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* GeorgetteHeyer used this one several times, in ''Friday's Child'', ''The Convenient Marriage'', and ''April Lady''.
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* In the short novel ''[[BelisariusSeries Islands]]'' by EricFlint, Calopidius leaves for war shortly after his ArrangedMarriage with Anna.
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* In the novel ''Promised Land'' by Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice the main character, Delanna, returns to her home planet to inherit a large tract of land, but finds out that according to the planet's backward property laws, she has been legally married to her neighbor, and before she can divorce him, she must live together with him for one year. Rom-com ensues.
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''So…how does a fellow ask his own wife to marry him…?''
-->-- Ivan, in ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Captain Vorpatril's Alliance]]''
Maybe it is an ArrangedMarriage, maybe an AccidentalMarriage, maybe it is a marriage of convenience like a CitizenshipMarriage or a MailOrderBride. Our couple has been married, and they see it as a temporary thing, or a thing to get over with and ignore as much as possible.
Instead, they start to fall in love.
This is an easy way to turn the normal tension in a {{Romance}} plot on its head, and the trope lends itself very well to RomanticComedy. It is very easy for the people around the newly wedded couple to have, form, and get all sorts of mistaken impressions. Or impressions that are correct when formed, but invalid a few days later. Or receiving mixed messages from the married couple.
Compare PerfectlyArrangedMarriage, which is focused on just one type of marriage and on the result, not on the romantic process. Also compare ItMeantSomethingToMe, BecomingTheMask and MailOrderBride.
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* San and Nagasumi's marriage in ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid''... either they got married, or one of them would have to die.
* In ''[[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma ½]]'' the title character is betrothed to Akane while they are both teenagers, however subsequent romance is constantly derailed by, Akane's hatred of men, the frequent appearance of other fiancees as well as Ranma's curse that causes him to change into a woman whenever he is splashed with water.
* In ''Anime/PleaseTeacher'' high school student Kei Kusanagi marries the alien who is posing as his home room teacher in order to protect her secret identity. They move in together and quickly fall in love with each other.
* In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' franchise the main character, Keiichi Morisato encounters a goddess who will grant one wish to him. He wishes that she stay with him forever. As far as the universe is concerned from that point on, the two are effectively married. They couldn't leave one another if they tried. In the process of finding a place to live and domestic life they fall in love with one another. (I'm not sure if they ever actually have a wedding.)
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* In ''Film/GreenCard'' Bronte and Georges join in a sham marriage to get a green card to the US and a good apartment. They can't stand each other, and are hunted by the INS, before they realise they love each other.
* In ''Film/FoolsRushIn'' the couple Isabel & Alex have a one night stand in Las Vegas which results in pregnancy. They decide to get married, move in together and then actually get to know each other.
* ''Film/RaiseTheRedLantern'' could be an example of how this sort of trope does not necessarily result in a happy ending. Songlian marries Chen as his fourth wife. Although she is initially indifferent to him, she soon becomes embroiled in the competition between the wives to seduce him and gain his undivided attention.
* In ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'' a mountain man named Adam convinces a townswoman named Milly to marry him, promising an idealistic life in the woods. But when he gets her home she discovers that he failed to mention his six rowdy adult brothers who would also be living under the same roof. Despite her initial anger, she starts to fall in love with him, but their romance is derailed when he decides that since kidnapping one woman worked so well, they might as well head into town and grab themselves six more. Snowed in over winter, all of the girls warm to their captors and when spring arrives and their menfolk come to rescue them, they all manage to finagle shot-gun weddings instead.
* In ''Shadowlands'', the BioPic about CSLewis, he marries Joy in a civil ceremony [[CitizenshipMarriage so that she can live and work in the UK]]. Then he falls in love with her, and [[spoiler:after she develops bone cancer,]] they get married for real. This was TruthInTelevision.
* Columbia Pictures 2006 biodrama ''Film/MarieAntoinette'' starts with the marriage of King Louis XVI of France to Princess Marie of Austria. The two had never met until their wedding, which was made to solidify a treaty between France and Austria.
* The surprisingly non-schmaltzy ''Loving Leah'', a HallmarkHallOfFame presentation, has a couple who marry based on Orthodox Jewish levirate marriage and who fall for each other after the wedding.
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* In ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Captain Vorpatril's Alliance]]'' by LoisMcMasterBujold the marriage was meant to be temporary, to get her out of a [[CitizenshipMarriage deportation]] and him out of a kidnapping charge.
* Zane and Danica in ''[[KieshaRa Hawksong]]'' by AmeliaAtwaterRhodes. It's a political match -- their peoples have been at war for generations, they're the royal heirs, and they decide that they can make peace via a marriage alliance. It works, and they fall in love later.
* In the short novel ''[[BelisariusSeries Islands]]'' by EricFlint, Calopidius leaves for war shortly after his ArrangedMarriage with Anna.
* In Zelazny's ''[[BookOfAmber Chronicles of Amber]]'', Random is forced to marry a woman, to lend her some status even after he deserts her. However, when Corwin sees him later, he has brought his wife with him to the courts. He explains that they had actually fallen in love.
* ''Moonraker's Bride'' by Madeleine Brent: The heroine enters a marriage of convenience with a man who's about to be executed; complications (and eventually romance) ensue when he's not executed after all.
* ''Sarah Plain and Tall'', a children's book published in 1985, later made into a movie and stage play, is about Sarah. a mail order bride who a widower named Caleb who has two young children. Their courtship happens after they are already living as man and wife.
* In the novel ''Promised Land'' by Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice the main character, Delanna, returns to her home planet to inherit a large tract of land, but finds out that according to the planet's backward property laws, she has been legally married to her neighbor, and before she can divorce him, she must live together with him for one year. Rom-com ensues.
* This is a common trope in pulp romance novels, like this one ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Married-Mistake-Harlequin-Super-Romance/dp/0373714149 Married By Mistake]]''.
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* In ''Series/TheOnedinLine'' James and Anne Onedin were their own matchmakers so to speak, having found it useful to marry each other to smooth out the legal details of a business alliance. As a bonus they happened [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther to fall in love with each other]]. [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend But don't tell anyone else]].
* Simon and Katie in ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns''
* Tony and Shelly from ''Series/{{Blossom}}'' is an accidental marriage example.
* Nico and Cecily from ''Series/AllMyChildren'' have a marriage of convenience.
* Robert and Holly from ''Series/GeneralHospital'' have a marriage of convenience, while Scott and Dominique have an accidental one.
* Todd and Tea from ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' have a marriage of convenience.
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* In ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' the marriage of Tevye and Golde was arranged and they have been together for years, having already raised all their children to adulthood, but it isn't until one of their daughters wants to marry for love that they start thinking about romance with one another. Their duet 'Do You Love Me?' lampshades, describes and plays out the trope.
* Averted in ''Theatre/AnneOfTheThousandDays''. The marriage of Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragorn was thorny from the outset, and deteriorated thereafter. One scene shows Henry VIII grousing about this: "I do not love that woman. That was a marriage of state: England married Spain."
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* In ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', the Kim family try to tell the Pale Bride that this will happen.
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* ''Webcomic/MarryMe''. Pop-idol who doesn't want to go back into the dating scene impuslively accepts a marraige proposal by sign and gets married to him on stage that minute. But the guy who was holding the sign didn't especially want to get married to her - it wasn't even his sign. Eventually they fall in love.
''So…how does a fellow ask his own wife to marry him…?''
-->-- Ivan, in ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Captain Vorpatril's Alliance]]''
Maybe it is an ArrangedMarriage, maybe an AccidentalMarriage, maybe it is a marriage of convenience like a CitizenshipMarriage or a MailOrderBride. Our couple has been married, and they see it as a temporary thing, or a thing to get over with and ignore as much as possible.
Instead, they start to fall in love.
This is an easy way to turn the normal tension in a {{Romance}} plot on its head, and the trope lends itself very well to RomanticComedy. It is very easy for the people around the newly wedded couple to have, form, and get all sorts of mistaken impressions. Or impressions that are correct when formed, but invalid a few days later. Or receiving mixed messages from the married couple.
Compare PerfectlyArrangedMarriage, which is focused on just one type of marriage and on the result, not on the romantic process. Also compare ItMeantSomethingToMe, BecomingTheMask and MailOrderBride.
!!Examples
[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* San and Nagasumi's marriage in ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid''... either they got married, or one of them would have to die.
* In ''[[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma ½]]'' the title character is betrothed to Akane while they are both teenagers, however subsequent romance is constantly derailed by, Akane's hatred of men, the frequent appearance of other fiancees as well as Ranma's curse that causes him to change into a woman whenever he is splashed with water.
* In ''Anime/PleaseTeacher'' high school student Kei Kusanagi marries the alien who is posing as his home room teacher in order to protect her secret identity. They move in together and quickly fall in love with each other.
* In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' franchise the main character, Keiichi Morisato encounters a goddess who will grant one wish to him. He wishes that she stay with him forever. As far as the universe is concerned from that point on, the two are effectively married. They couldn't leave one another if they tried. In the process of finding a place to live and domestic life they fall in love with one another. (I'm not sure if they ever actually have a wedding.)
[[AC:Film]]
* In ''Film/GreenCard'' Bronte and Georges join in a sham marriage to get a green card to the US and a good apartment. They can't stand each other, and are hunted by the INS, before they realise they love each other.
* In ''Film/FoolsRushIn'' the couple Isabel & Alex have a one night stand in Las Vegas which results in pregnancy. They decide to get married, move in together and then actually get to know each other.
* ''Film/RaiseTheRedLantern'' could be an example of how this sort of trope does not necessarily result in a happy ending. Songlian marries Chen as his fourth wife. Although she is initially indifferent to him, she soon becomes embroiled in the competition between the wives to seduce him and gain his undivided attention.
* In ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'' a mountain man named Adam convinces a townswoman named Milly to marry him, promising an idealistic life in the woods. But when he gets her home she discovers that he failed to mention his six rowdy adult brothers who would also be living under the same roof. Despite her initial anger, she starts to fall in love with him, but their romance is derailed when he decides that since kidnapping one woman worked so well, they might as well head into town and grab themselves six more. Snowed in over winter, all of the girls warm to their captors and when spring arrives and their menfolk come to rescue them, they all manage to finagle shot-gun weddings instead.
* In ''Shadowlands'', the BioPic about CSLewis, he marries Joy in a civil ceremony [[CitizenshipMarriage so that she can live and work in the UK]]. Then he falls in love with her, and [[spoiler:after she develops bone cancer,]] they get married for real. This was TruthInTelevision.
* Columbia Pictures 2006 biodrama ''Film/MarieAntoinette'' starts with the marriage of King Louis XVI of France to Princess Marie of Austria. The two had never met until their wedding, which was made to solidify a treaty between France and Austria.
* The surprisingly non-schmaltzy ''Loving Leah'', a HallmarkHallOfFame presentation, has a couple who marry based on Orthodox Jewish levirate marriage and who fall for each other after the wedding.
[[AC:Literature]]
* In ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Captain Vorpatril's Alliance]]'' by LoisMcMasterBujold the marriage was meant to be temporary, to get her out of a [[CitizenshipMarriage deportation]] and him out of a kidnapping charge.
* Zane and Danica in ''[[KieshaRa Hawksong]]'' by AmeliaAtwaterRhodes. It's a political match -- their peoples have been at war for generations, they're the royal heirs, and they decide that they can make peace via a marriage alliance. It works, and they fall in love later.
* In the short novel ''[[BelisariusSeries Islands]]'' by EricFlint, Calopidius leaves for war shortly after his ArrangedMarriage with Anna.
* In Zelazny's ''[[BookOfAmber Chronicles of Amber]]'', Random is forced to marry a woman, to lend her some status even after he deserts her. However, when Corwin sees him later, he has brought his wife with him to the courts. He explains that they had actually fallen in love.
* ''Moonraker's Bride'' by Madeleine Brent: The heroine enters a marriage of convenience with a man who's about to be executed; complications (and eventually romance) ensue when he's not executed after all.
* ''Sarah Plain and Tall'', a children's book published in 1985, later made into a movie and stage play, is about Sarah. a mail order bride who a widower named Caleb who has two young children. Their courtship happens after they are already living as man and wife.
* In the novel ''Promised Land'' by Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice the main character, Delanna, returns to her home planet to inherit a large tract of land, but finds out that according to the planet's backward property laws, she has been legally married to her neighbor, and before she can divorce him, she must live together with him for one year. Rom-com ensues.
* This is a common trope in pulp romance novels, like this one ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Married-Mistake-Harlequin-Super-Romance/dp/0373714149 Married By Mistake]]''.
[[AC:Live Action TV]]
* In ''Series/TheOnedinLine'' James and Anne Onedin were their own matchmakers so to speak, having found it useful to marry each other to smooth out the legal details of a business alliance. As a bonus they happened [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther to fall in love with each other]]. [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend But don't tell anyone else]].
* Simon and Katie in ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns''
* Tony and Shelly from ''Series/{{Blossom}}'' is an accidental marriage example.
* Nico and Cecily from ''Series/AllMyChildren'' have a marriage of convenience.
* Robert and Holly from ''Series/GeneralHospital'' have a marriage of convenience, while Scott and Dominique have an accidental one.
* Todd and Tea from ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' have a marriage of convenience.
[[AC:Theater]]
* In ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' the marriage of Tevye and Golde was arranged and they have been together for years, having already raised all their children to adulthood, but it isn't until one of their daughters wants to marry for love that they start thinking about romance with one another. Their duet 'Do You Love Me?' lampshades, describes and plays out the trope.
* Averted in ''Theatre/AnneOfTheThousandDays''. The marriage of Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragorn was thorny from the outset, and deteriorated thereafter. One scene shows Henry VIII grousing about this: "I do not love that woman. That was a marriage of state: England married Spain."
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* In ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', the Kim family try to tell the Pale Bride that this will happen.
[[AC:WebComic]]
* ''Webcomic/MarryMe''. Pop-idol who doesn't want to go back into the dating scene impuslively accepts a marraige proposal by sign and gets married to him on stage that minute. But the guy who was holding the sign didn't especially want to get married to her - it wasn't even his sign. Eventually they fall in love.
