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* An ''[[ComicBook/TheBeano Ivy the Terrible]]'' strip where Ivy tries to get the four things for a friend's wedding. First she goes into a fish and chip shop to ask for something really ancient and gets chased out. She later gets a vase from an antique shop for something old, and borrows a baby blue whale as something new, borrowed, ''and'' blue.

* Factors into the first installment of the FanFic/ElementalChessTrilogy. [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Winry]] decides to carry her wrench as her "something old", and it later turns out to be a ChekhovsGun.
* When Lydia gets married in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' fanfic series [[Fanfic/{{Cinderjuice}} Contractually Obligated Chaos]], this gets discussed after the fact. While her new dress and blue shoes cover those aspects nicely, the other two are a bit stranger; the ''groom'' is her 'something old,' and for 'something borrowed,' she has a ''library book.''
* In the ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2686557/1/Making-It-Right "Making It Right,"]] the hobbits are shocked that the four things were not present at Aragorn and Arwen's wedding, so they remedy the situation by presenting the things as wedding gifts. 'Something old' is Merry's map of the city, 'something new' is a song Pippin wrote (and sang), 'something borrowed' is a collection of recipes Frodo "borrowed" from Aragorn's mother, and 'something blue' is a bird feeder Sam helped Gimli make.

--> "There's your Something Blue... here's your Something Borrowed."

* In the ''Film/Titanic1997'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11953189/1/Onward-and-Upwards Onwards and Upwards]]", when Rose is preparing to marry Jack, she receives the following; Rose's wedding dress is new, Molly Brown gives Rose a bracelet Molly received from her own mother, a new friend of Rose's lends her a veil (the bracelet is also borrowed but it was considered cheating for one item to count for two things), and Rose wears the Heart of the Ocean as her "something blue" so that there will be a happy memory linked to the Heart.
* At [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Bethany's]] bridal shower in the ''Skyhold Academy Yearbook'' series, the trope is played straight. Her something old is also something borrowed (an antique hair ornament on loan from [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Josephine]]), and she gets something new (a sun-shaped pendant from her sister). However, while they do remember to give her a silver coin for her shoe, they completely forget about something blue.

* In the film ''Literature/InHerShoes'', Rose's grandmother lends her - big surprise - a pair of shoes: old, but not to Rose (new), not given to her (borrowed), with little blue decorations on the inside.

* In the episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' guest-starring Marisa Berenson, Miss Piggy attempts to trick Kermit into marrying her in a wedding 'sketch' that was actually legit. She insists that the wedding be traditional: "Something old, something new, something borrowed... ''and something green.''"

-->'''Huxley:''' Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, things that once belonged to you, like this plastic telephone? I love this traffic cone, this wedding cake for Jill and Jake, this rake, this giant rubber snake, this Chippendale, don't let it ''breaaaak!'' ''[Crack!]''\\

* While not quite a wedding ceremony, a magical ritual in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' calls for the participation of a ''old'' mage, a ''young'' witch, a powerful psychic in a ''borrowed'' body, and somebody whose name is ''Cerulean''.
* Occurs in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' in the Twilight Highlands zone, where Alliance players must help along a dwarven marriage for political reasons. Of course, being [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]], the gifts are slightly different, being "something [[RummageSaleReject bold]], something [[TheAlcoholic brewed]], something [[KleptomaniacHero stolen]], something [[BigEater stewed]]".
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' DLC ''Mad Moxxi and the Wedding Day Massacre'', Moxxi and the Vault Hunters make a love potion using the recipe "Something new, something old, something borrowed, something gold." They end up using the tears of a baby they kidnapped (something new and borrowed), an aged whiskey (something old), and parts from a [[BlingBlingBang golden robot]] (something gold). At one point, Ellie questions whether the recipe is actually meant to include something blue, referencing the real-world saying, but Moxxi shoots her down, arguing that blue doesn't rhyme with gold; ultimately, it's left ambiguous which of them is correct, since while the potion does rekindle the romance between the bride and groom, it ''also'' causes the wedding to go spectacularly off the rails.

* The Passing campaign in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' parodies this with the Bride Witch by having Rochelle comment "Something new, something old, something borrowed, something about to rip your guts out."

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' episode "Rules of Engagement", we learn that Tetramand brides have to collect four items to present to the groom's parents: something conquered, something bruised, something severed, and something blue. Princess Looma Red Wind, with whom Ben got into an AccidentalMarriage in a previous episode, returns and collects Ester (proving she conquered the Kraaho), Julie (who was bruised during the fighting), Fistina's forearm (a robotic arm), and Rook (who has [[BlueIsHeroic blue on both his armor and fur]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': As shown in "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E6TheCommodeEpisodeTyingTheKlopKnot Tying the Klop-Knot]]", Klopnodian wedding dress traditions are for something old, bruised, stuffed, and confused. This winds up being ''Patrick's grandfather'', who had been eating a sandwich and locked in the trunk where Bunny keeps her actual nice wedding dress.

The final line "...And a silver sixpence in her shoe" is all but forgotten nowadays, at least in part because sixpence pieces aren't used anymore in Britain and never were in the USA. Some people buy antique coins especially for the purpose (and for considerably more than 6p); whether that also counts towards their Something Old is up for debate.

* ''Literature/BabysittersClub'':

** When Dorothy's son Michael elopes with his much-older and pregnant fiancée Luanne, the mothers and friends make it in time to give them these items. But when they get to "something new," Luanne proudly rubs her belly and says Michael has already given her that.

* ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'': In ''Breaking Dawn'', Bella gets roped into a fancy traditional wedding as a favor to Alice. "Something old" and "Something blue" are the sapphires that Charlie and Renee have put into a set of her grandmother's hair combs, "Something new" is her dress, and "Something borrowed" is Alice's garter.