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A young couple are all ready for the big day. Only the bride isn't who the groom thinks she is. Maybe it's an ArrangedMarriage, and someone else is impersonating the bride he's never seen. Maybe a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting alien]] has taken her place. Or maybe she's simply using a wedding veil as a convenient disguise.

The wedding rarely if ever goes through, with the real bride (or groom, in gender-flipped examples) [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace bursting in at the last moment]]. Very occasionally, the groom may fall in love with the "fake" bride and marry her for real. Legal trickery may establish that the false bride can be treated as the true bride's proxy, and so he really did marry the true bride. In many {{Fairy Tale}}s, the false bride is executed for her attack on the true bride -- sometimes substantially after the wedding took place -- as a complication in the heroine's RagsToRoyalty rise. (This is often a case of SiblingTriangle.)

Note that many of these rules are reversed if it's [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe a villain who's trying to marry our plucky heroine]] for devious and evil reasons. In these cases, the villain often does end up married to the fake bride, usually for the sake of invoking some comedic comeuppance.

Compare BedTrick, which is the less G-Rated version of this trope. Contrast RealFakeWedding.

Has nothing to do with BaitAndSwitch. Necessarily.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Mentioned. When the Giant prince Loki fell in love with Big Mom's daughter Lola, Big Mom pushed the wedding forward to forge an alliance with Elbaf, the land of giants. However, Lola, wanting to find her own love, snuck off. Not wanting to lose the alliance, Big Mom replaced Lola with her twin sister Chiffon, but Loki saw through the deception. Relations between Big Mom and Elbaf soured completely, leading Big Mom to taking her frustrations out on Chiffon for reminding her of Lola.
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[[folder:Ballads]]
* In the Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} "Literature/{{The Lord of Lorn|and the False Steward}}", the young lord has his position stolen by a treacherous servant. Fortunately, although [[ThePromise he promised]] to never tell any human, [[ExactWords he can tell a horse.]]
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'': One issue has a rather unusual example involving the title character: as part of his current plan, Diabolik has disguised himself as Ginko, who is invited to a wedding, and when the wedding gets bombed Ginko's fiancee Altea, who has been wounded, has 'Ginko' marry her. The story ends with Diabolik explaining his lover Eva that [[StatusQuoIsGod neither he nor Ginko is legally married to Altea, as Benglait's laws don't allow for a stand-in and he was there under a false identity]], with a later story making things even stranger by revealing that [[spoiler: Altea's late husband actually [[FakingTheDead faked his own death]] to prevent being discovered as a terrorist leader ([[StatusQuoIsGod Diabolik kills him for real by the end of the story]])]].
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': In ''ComicBook/FantasticFour1961'' #300, Johnny Storm marries Alicia Masters, but a later {{retcon}} made the Alicia he married really a Skrull shapeshifter.
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': In ''ComicBook/TheFlash1959'' #165, "One Bridegroom Too Many", at his wedding to Iris West, Barry Allen is replaced at the altar by his EvilCounterpart, Professor Zoom, who uses future technology to disguise himself as Barry. Luckily, Barry is able to stop the wedding in time and defeat Zoom.
* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Loki obtained his wife Sigyn by arranging the death of her fiancé at the hands of trolls and using his shapeshifting to take his place at the wedding. Odin temporarily banished Loki for his deception. Sigyn for duty's sake stayed married to Loki, making her the goddess of fidelity. Surprisingly, Loki came to somewhat care for her and when one of his schemes put her in danger, he freed Thor to save her.
* ''ComicBook/SubMariner'': In issue #36 (1970s), Llyra tricks the Sub-Mariner into marrying her instead of Dorma, who's been kidnapped. It turns out that Atlantean marriage laws let you use a substitute at your wedding—he is considered to have married Dorma anyway. The official had put Dorma's name down on the wedding document, which is what made Llyra just a stand-in.
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[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
* In Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/german.html Ashenputtal]]'', the stepsisters cut off part of their feet to fit the shoe.
* This is the premise of tale type ATU 404, "The Blinded Bride", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index: the heroine is blessed at birth with the ability to produce pearls from her tears and petals/flowers with her laughter, which fascinates a prince so much he wishes to marry her. In retaliation, the heroine's stepmother, another female relative, or a false bride plucks out the heroine's eyes and takes her place as the prince's true bride-to-be. Fortunately, with the help of a kind old man (or another benevolent spirit), the heroine buys back her eyes with the pearls and flowers she produces, and meets the prince to reveal the deception.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/bushybride.html Bushy Bride]]'', the heroine is tricked into jumping overboard so her stepsister can take her place.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/193drummer.html The Drummer]]'', the drummer is set to marry a local girl even though he has already promised to marry the princess. The princess tricks the girl into sacrificing her time with the drummer, and at the wedding, the drummer marries the princess instead of his intended bride.
* ''Literature/TheGooseGirl'' is actually a princess, whose servant has usurped her place as the bride. Fortunately, things get straightened out before the actual wedding.
* In ''[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/430.htm Maiden Bright-eye]]'' the stepsister pushes the heroine overboard to take her place as the king's bride.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/aulnoy/1892/hindinwood.html The Hind in the Wood]]'', the evil lady-in-waiting Long-Thorn and her mother cut open Desiree's carriage, which turns Desiree into a white doe. Long-Thorn then takes Desiree's place as Prince Warrior's bride, though her disguise does not fool the prince.
* In ''Literature/TheLoveOfThreeOranges'', a slave turns the bride into a bird and then claims to be her and the victim of a ForcedTransformation herself.
* In tale type ATU 408, "The Love for Three Oranges", the hero searches for the fruit maiden as his intended bride, releases her from the fruit and guides her up a tree, while he goes back to the castle to fetch some garments or to bring a retinue to welcome her with pomp. Meanwhile, a slave[=/=]maidservant with dark skin sights the fruit maiden, gains her trust and, depending on the variant, either sticks a pin in her head, turning her into a dove, or shoves her down a well, where she drowns. The slave/maidservant quickly puts on the fruit maiden's clothes and waits for the hero. He comes back and notices the strange woman, who does not look like the maiden he released. The false bride then convinces him the sun tanned her skin and the wind swept her hair, to explain why she looks different.
* In ''Literature/MaidMaleen'', the princess, working as SculleryMaid is asked to substitute herself for the bride by the bride herself, who either wants to hide her ugliness or her pregnancy. Alas for the bride, this means that Maid Maleen can reveal that she's the prince's old love, not actually dead.
* Played with in ''Literature/PrincessBelleEtoile''. The king's mother tries to convince him to annul his marriage to his wife Blondine and marry a young princess to produce an heir. When the king's three children and nephew arrive and tell their story, the king takes Blondine back. He gives the false bride some precious stones as a reward, and marries his daughter Belle-Etoile off to his nephew Chéri.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/aulnoy/1892/princessrosette.html Princess Rosette]]'', Rosette's nurse has her abandoned at sea, and replaces her with her own daughter.
* In ''[[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/pt2/pt235.htm The Sharp Grey Sheep]]'', the stepsister cut off part of her foot to fit the shoe.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/goosegirl/stories/twocakes.html The Two Cakes]]'', the heroine is pushed overboard so that her sister can take her place.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/135whiteblackbride.html The White Bride and the Black One]]'', the WickedStepmother pushes the heroine out of the coach into the water to substitute her own child.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html The Wonderful Birch]]'', the witch whittles her daughter into shape to wear the heroine's things.
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[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
* When Prince Charming overcomes a mind-wipe to wed Cinderella in ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'', Lady Tremaine magically disguises Anastasia as Cinderella instead and sends the real one far away with a cursed coach.
* At the climax of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', Prince Eric schedules a wedding with Vanessa, not knowing she is really the sea witch Ursula in disguise and wearing the voice that Ariel had given up.
* PlayedForLaughs during a montage in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', in which the eponymous ogre dresses as a veiled bride at a man's wedding just to freak him out.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' has Derek proclaim a vow of everlasting love to Odette, because those are the terms that will break Odette's [[ForcedTransformation swan curse]]. However, the Odette that Derek proposes to is really Rothbart's minion in disguise, meaning that since Derek swore his love to another, the real Odette would die.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* In the 1934 version of ''Film/{{Babes in Toyland|1934}}'', Little Bo Peep agrees to marry Barnaby so that he'll settle the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe house. However, he's tricked into marrying Stanley Dum, who had dressed up as the bride and hidden his face with the veil.
* At the end of ''Film/ComingToAmerica'', Prince Akeem returns home to the Arranged Marriage he left in the first place to escape. When he lifts his bride-to-be's veil at the start of the ceremony, it's not his arranged bride, but Lisa, the love interest he'd left behind in New York.
* The ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' movie features this trope at the climax, with Lyle trying to forcibly marry Ursula when they enter a dark tunnel. Upon exiting the tunnel he learns that he actually married an amorous gorilla instead.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* A variant in ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Bastion]]''. [[ArrangedMarriage Marriages had been arranged]] between two sets of twins, but one brother fell in love with his brother's intended wife (and vice versa). Since the four of them were getting a double wedding, they arranged for the grooms to switch brides without their parents finding out until afterwards. Mags is the child of one couple, Bey is the child of the other.
* In ''Book of a Thousand Days'' by Creator/ShannonHale, Lady Saren forces her maid, Dashti, to [[PlayingCyrano act as her when interacting with her fiancé]], Khan Tegus. This goes so far as to go through the betrothal ceremony, and Saren plans to have her go through the marriage ceremony as well. [[spoiler:She does, but as herself, and not Saren.]]
* Towards the end of Creator/SheriSTepper's ''The Companions'', main character Jewel does this to her ex-husband, who is still infatuated with her. She has the identity of the fake bride concealed by telling him that veiling the bride until the wedding night is a tradition of the planet she now lives on. On the wedding night itself, she uses [[AppliedPhlebotinum scent-language shenanigans]] to de-infatuate him with herself and re-infatuate him with his new bride. He doesn't mind, but his mother is not amused. That is to say, she opens fire.
* In the [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Dresden Files]] short story "Something Borrowed", this trope is invoked when [[spoiler: Jenny Greenteeth]] takes the bride's place at [[spoiler: Georgia and Billy's]] wedding. It is noted that this is not uncommon with some malevolent fae. If the mortal spouse goes through with the ceremony not only will it void any True Love the couple might have had and thus potentially damning the swapped spouse to an eternal sleep that needs True Love's Kiss to free them, it will place the mortal in a deep contract with the fae, allowing the fae to warp the spouse and reshape their mind and body.
* In ''Fair Margaret'' by Creator/HRiderHaggard, Margaret [[spoiler:is kidnapped by Marquis Morella]], but her maid (who is in love with him) manages to take her place at the actual wedding.
* [[http://gracelivingstonhill.com Grace Livingstone Hill]] must have loved this trope, because she used it in two separate novels: ''Exit Betty'' (Betty is nearly tricked into marrying the cousin she hates instead of the one she tolerates) and ''Dawn of the Morning'' (where the substitute husband is far better than the original).
* In ''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard'' ''The Hammer of Thor,'' Sam gets engaged to Thrymr III, who has the eponymous hammer, a scenario not unlike the original story with Thor and Thrymr. [[spoiler:Alex pretends to be Sam,]] which is fortunate because Thrymr III learned from his grandfather's mistakes and magically checked the heritage of his bride-to-be to ensure he's marrying [[spoiler:Loki's daughter.]]
* ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' pulls this to stop a forced marriage involving his LoveInterest Helena Justina. The villain says he can just get the marriage annulled, whereupon Marcus grins and points out that he won't live long enough to do so (as he's bleeding from a fatal wound and Marcus is preventing him from getting help).
* In ''Literature/OnFairyStories'', Creator/JRRTolkien discusses the use of this in terms of ''Literature/TheGooseGirl'' and Bertha the mother of Charlemagne -- and points out that without evidence to the contrary or fantastic elements, you can't disprove it of Bertha by showing it's a widespread story.
* ''Literature/TheRedTent'' has a variation - Leah stands in for her sister Rachel on her wedding day because Rachel is young and afraid of the whole sex-and-babies obligation. The groom is well aware of the switch but pretends not to be because he is equally attracted to Leah.
* In the ChivalricRomance ''Roswall and Lillian'', Roswall is forced by a servant to allow the servant to pass himself off as Roswall and never reveal the truth to any human. The servant uses this to woo a princess. But some magical knights reveal the truth.
* In ''Literature/ThornInMyHeart'', Rose and Leona's father, Logan, pulls one on Rose's intended husband, switching Leona in. A storm prevented Rose from reaching her own wedding, so Leona stands in as her proxy. That night, Logan persuades Leona to visit Jamie in his bed-chamber, convincing her that Jamie actually desires her rather than Rose. Leona goes to Jamie and they have sex. Unfortunately, Jamie was three sheets to the wind and thought she was Rose, which Leona doesn't realize until after it's too late. Later, but before Rose arrives home, Logan goes to the Church Council and convinces them that Jamie had changed his mind about which sister he wanted to marry and was simply too impatient to wait for new wedding banns, persuading them to declare him legally married to Leona rather than Rose.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Played with in ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls''. Max and Caroline cater at a wedding, but [[RunawayBride the bride runs off right before the ceremony.]] Since they don't get paid if the wedding is cancelled, Max wears a wedding dress and walks down the aisle as the bride (with the veil covering her face so that nobody recognizes her) until Caroline gets the check for their service.
* One of the '''many''' [[GambitPileup Gambit Pileups]] in ''Series/AlloAllo'' had Rene due to marry the leader of the Communist resistance, who was replaced by his waitress Yvette, who was then replaced by his wife Edith (although Rene at that point was playing his own twin brother). The vicar had also been secretly replaced by Officer Crabtree, so we aren't sure exactly whether ''anyone'' had managed to get married.
* One time on ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'', [[FullNameBasis Ernest T. Bass]] tried to steal a bride away from her wedding but it turned out to be Barney Fife under the veil.
-->'''Ernest T:''' I'm a little mean, but I make up for it by bein' real healthy. Say you'll be mine. Say you'll be my beloved!
-->'''Barney:''' ''(lifts veil)'' I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth!
* In ''Series/TheATeam'' episode "[[Recap/TheATeamS1E12TillDeathDoUsPart Till Death Do Us Part]]", the team is hired to get the bride out of the shotgun wedding she's being forced into. To get the bride out, they put Murdock in her wedding dress. During the ceremony, when asked, "Do you take this man ...", he pulls back the veil and says, "I didn't go through all this just to see how I'd look in white!"
* On ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}},'' Paige's old friend/on-and-off boyfriend is getting married, and having been turned insane by some sort of magic (as usual), she winds up trying to get rid of the bride and turns herself into a copy. Thankfully Leo rescues the real bride and sets everything straight just in time.
* ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'': On Hope Williams' wedding day to Larry Welch, Bo Brady was desperate to stop the wedding and he enlisted the help of his friend, Howie Hofstetter, a private investigator. In order to trick Larry and buy the couple more time, Bo had Howie dress up in a wedding dress and walk down the aisle to perform the ceremony with Larry. When the veil was lifted, it was Howie who stood before Larry, offering up puckered lips for their wedding kiss.
* The ''Series/{{iCarly| 2021}}'' {{revival}} did an unusual version. Nevel invites Carly and friends to his wedding, but Prunella, the supposed bride, is actually an actress; the real bride is actually [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Carly]]. (At least until Prunella announces she fell in love with Nevel for real, and then Nevel realises he feels the same way).
* In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', Clark Kent thinks that he has married Lois Lane the first time they try to marry, only that it turns out he married a frog-eating clone of Lois. The real Lois was kidnapped by Lex Luthor and then for a time lost her memory and was made to believe she was in love with someone else.
* In ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', the good guys do this, the bride to be [[spoiler:Summer, the Yellow Ranger]] is replaced by [[spoiler:Dr. K]] after the bride realises that not only does she really not want to go through with her ArrangedMarriage but that she needs a diversion because the enemy has infiltrated the wedding.
** This happens again in ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' when Mia and [[spoiler:Emily]] pull a BatmanGambit on Dayu, who has been kidnapping brides from their weddings.
* Happens in ''{{Series/Spellbinder}}'', when [[DarkActionGirl Ashka]] is convinced (with some difficulty) to take the place of the princess whom the barbarian leader is forcing to marry him in order to legitimize his takeover of TheEmpire. Just as the bride is expected to say "I do", Ashka lifts the veil and tells the shocked barbarian that she'd rather marry his horse.
* There was a LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek called ''What Matters Most''. At the end of the movie, there is a wedding. The viewers are led to believe that the boy is going to marry an AlphaBitch, per his father's wishes. However, when the bride arrives at the altar, she is revealed to be his {{High School Sweetheart|s}} who is also the mother of his child. The couple marries after the boy's father reluctantly gives his blessing to the young family. Just before the credits roll, his best friend narrates in a voice-over that the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse along with the boy's mother arranged the whole thing.
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[[folder:Religion and Mythology]]
* Literature/TheBible:
** The story of Jacob, who labored for seven years without pay for the right to marry the woman he loved, Rachel. The next morning he discovered that his bride was Rachel's older sister Leah and that the deception was orchestrated by their father Laban because he thought it was improper for the younger daughter to be married before the elder. He did get to marry Rachel too the next week, but then he had to work ''another'' seven years for her retroactively.
*** To avoid this happening again (DefiedTrope) the Ashkenazi [[UsefulNotes/JewishLifeEvents Jewish wedding ceremony]] includes what's called ''badeken'', a Yiddish word meaning "check" or "confirm". A bride wears a veil at her wedding--but her fiance is the one who puts it on her, so he can check that this is indeed the woman he wants to marry.
** Literature/TheTalmud says that Rachel suspected Laban might try this and arranged for her and Jacob to give each other subtle cues at the altar so he would know whom he was really marrying. However, right before the wedding, Rachel realized that Leah would be humiliated if Jacob called the wedding off and revealed the signs to her.
** At least one straight-to-video live-action series drew heavily from both sources in portraying the patriarchs; for this story, it had Leah imitating a certain tongue-clicking noise Rachel and Jacob had regularly used as a means of sounding each other out in the dark.
* In Myth/NorseMythology, the giant Thrymr steals Mjollnir in order to demand Freya as his bride; after Freya refuses, Loki comes up with the cunning plan to dress Thor in women's clothing and a veil. It works, albeit with some fast talking from Loki as Bridesmaid to explain "Freya's" unwomanly gluttony and terrifying DeathGlare during the wedding feast. The giants hand the "bride" Mjollnir, and Thor throws off his veil and kills them all.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* There's a double example in ''Theatre/TheMerryWivesOfWindsor'': Master and Mistress Page disagree on which man their daughter Anne should marry, so they both make arrangements with their preferred candidates to elope with her -- only to find out that Anne and her preferred suitor Fenton have pulled this off ''twice'' and the other two have accidentally married boys.
** Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''Theatre/{{Falstaff}}'', based on this play, has a slightly different variation. Here, [[AdaptationalNameChange Nannetta]] is the daughter of Master and Mistress Ford, and her mother supports her choice of Fenton as her husband. Her father arranges for her to marry his preferred candidate, Dr. Caius, in a pantomime of "the Fairy Queen's Wedding." But Nannetta and Fenton disguise themselves as "an unknown couple" in masks, who ask to join the ceremony and be married as well, while [[DisguisedInDrag Bardolph]] secretly takes Nannetta's place in the Fairy Queen's gown and veil.
* Inverted in ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing''. Claudio has been led to believe that Hero has died of grief over his accusations of sluttery, and to atone he has promised to marry her cousin sight unseen. But it turns out that it really is Hero.
* ''Theatre/TheUglyDuckling'' by Creator/AAMilne (not to be confused with the fairy tale by Creator/HansChristianAndersen) has a double version of this. The beautiful lady-in-waiting is recruited to woo the visiting prince, but the intended bride, the plain princess, will be married in heavy veils. Meanwhile, the prince plots the same thing with his dashing footman and a suit of ceremonial armor. [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage Fortunately]], the prince and princess meet on their own and fall in love.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Done in [[MultipleEndings three of the four prologues]] of ''VideoGame/{{Aveyond}}: The Lost Orb'', where Lydia magically disguises herself as the girl Edward intends to marry. Unfortunately for him and his real bride, Mel reveals the deception too late, and the marriage is considered legally binding.
* Near the end of ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', [[BigBad LeChuck]] is about to marry governor Elaine Marley when pirate-wannabe Guybrush Threepwood burst into the church to stop the wedding. Unbeknownst to both villain and hero, Elaine escaped much earlier, and [[TotemPoleTrench the bride is actually two monkeys in a dress]] armed with a ghost-destroying seltzer bottle, ready to strike at the right moment. Guybrush naturally [[NiceJobBreakingItHero manages to mess that up]].
* In ''[[{{VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves}} Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves]]'', [[{{HeroAntagonist}} Carmelita Fox]] switches herself with Jing King when [[spoiler: she is [[{{BatmanGambit}} tricked]] into thinking Sly is planning to take General Tsao's place and marry her. He was really using her to help them bust Tsao for kidnapping his bride in the first place]].
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Erstwhile}}'', [[https://erstwhiletales.com/comic/maid-maleen-pg18/ the bride orders Maid Maleen to take her place.]]
* In ''Webcomic/FauxPas'', [[http://www.ozfoxes.net/cgi/pl-fp1.cgi?1240 swapping out Dusk for Cindy is suggested -- Randy, having said, "I do", would stick by it.]]
* In ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'', Gren [[ArrangedMarriage has been promised by her parents]] to the Hobgoblin War Minister, but by the time he wants to wed her, Gren has been disowned by her family and moved in with her boyfriend. Her parents offer her younger sister Jalla instead and the Minister accepts. However, since Jalla is absolutely NOT okay with that, being in love with someone else, she tracks down her sister and appeals to her conscience to do her duty. So when on the wedding day armor and helmet are removed from the bride (Hobgoblin traditions), both the Minister and the girls' parents are surprised that it ''is'' Gren after all. [[http://yafgc.net/comic/0355-grens-fate-is-sealed/ Entrance Gren's boyfriend.]]
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[[folder:Web Video]]
* ''WebVideo/AppleTexts'': A recurring plot hook whenever a wedding is central to the plot. Variants range from the groom being in on it (dumping his original fiancée and using the already planned and paid for wedding for his new lover), to the groom's parents supporting and arranging the switch, to the new bride straight up just crashing a wedding in progress with the expectation that the groom will willingly 'trade up'. It actually succeeds more often than it reasonably should, but the aftermath rarely play out well for the antagonist either way.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime,'' Finn and Jake keep the Ice King from [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe forcing a princess to marry him]] by switching her with Jake's finger just before [[strike:the kiss]] the beard-touching makes it official. Unsurprisingly, the marriage doesn't last long.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', Jasmine finds herself forcibly betrothed to a demon due to an enchanted necklace that Aladdin gave her. During the climax, he whisks her away into his dimension...only to find that it's Genie in disguise.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' had him pull this trick on Snidely Whiplash, who was trying to marry Nell, by replacing Nell with his ''horse''. (It worked!)
* In an episode of ''JustForFun/LosDiasYLasNochesDeMonsignorMartinez'', a ShowWithinAShow in the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' universe, Father Martinez, part-time Catholic priest, part-time hitman, impersonates a bride in order to carry out a hit.
* A throwaway gag in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' has the Professor about to marry Ms. Bellum, who is revealed to be Mojo in disguise.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', “Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words”, Homer gets a job helping people break up. For one of his assignments, he disguises himself as the bride at a wedding and lets the groom down easy.
** In their retelling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Huck (Nelson) is forced to marry Becky (Lisa) at gunpoint. Huck escapes his dire situation by substituting a pig in a suit for himself.
* On ''WesternAnimation/SpaceStars'', in the ''Teen Force'' short "Trojan Teen Force", Uglor was about to marry Princess Keena, but it was actually Moleculad in disguise.
* In the second season finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the bride-to-be, Princess Cadence, is replaced by a shape-shifting imposter. (Plus a little brainwashing to make sure the groom doesn't notice his bride-to-be isn't quite herself.)
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