History Main / WeddingSmashers

* ''Film/TheMasterGunfighter''. The villagers recover gold from a shipwreck and try to smuggle it out on a bridal carriage. The Mexican landowner finds out and--because he wants the gold for his own purposes--has the [[LeaveNoWitnesses entire village massacred]]. As the bride flees she's shot InTheBack, a memory that still haunts the hero years later when it looks like history will repeat itself.

* ''Film/TheJewelOfTheNile'' features a DreamSequence wedding interrupted by a pirate attack.

* In the Four Emperors saga of ''Manga/OnePiece'', one of the Straw Hats's goals is to crash the {{arranged|Marriage}} wedding of [[spoiler:Vinsmoke Sanji]] and [[spoiler:Big Mom's daughter Charlotte Pudding]]. It's such a serious circumstance that not only the Straw Hats are involved: [[spoiler:one of Big Mom's sons-in-law (Capone Bege) and Jinbe from the Sun Pirates (whose first mate's married to another daughter of Big Mom) see this wedding smash as ''the'' chance to '''assassinate Big Mom''', and have established an alliance with the Straw Hats for it.]]

** Johnny Storm's marriage to Alicia Masters, or rather the Skrull spy Lyja impersonating her, proceeded uninterrupted, but behind the scenes, the Puppet Master was on the verge of wrecking the wedding by making Ben crush Johnny's skull. At the end, he had a change of heart.

** One of the WWF's earliest televised weddings depicted the marriage of Paul Vachon and a woman named Ophelia, aired during a 1984 episode of ''Tuesday Night Titans''; the only {{face}}s invited were [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]]and "Lord" Alfred Hayes (the two hosts, who were both face-leaning in their commentary). The wedding crasher was dastardly villain "Dr. D" David Schultz, who insulted Ophelia and later started a huge food fight.

* This ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'' place, [[https://www.roblox.com/games/106681846/Crash-a-Wedding-for-Fun-MASSIVE-UPDATE#!/leaderboards Crash a Wedding for Fun]], where you can ''literally'' crash a wedding and destroy the chapel and everyone[[note]]Don't worry, no one gets killed actually.[[/note]]

** Rather hilariously, ''[[http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2009/08/24-hours-with-jack-kirby-hour-4.html Stan Lee and Jack Kirby]]'' try crashing Reed and Sue's wedding, threatening vengeance (i.e. writing up new FF threats) as they are turned away from the door.

* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'': [[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Kate Bishop]] made her debut as a character when her sister's wedding was attacked. Kate proceeded to [[ActionDressRip tear a slit in her bridesmaid's dress]], then start [[DamselOutOfDistress kicking ass]] alongside the ComicBook/YoungAvengers, earning herself a spot on the team.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': Beckett and Castle's wedding is interrupted when [[spoiler: Castle's]] flaming car is found empty on the side of the road just before the start of the ceremony. They aren't found until several months later, with convenient amnesia regarding the intervening period. When a makeup ceremony does happen, it's spur-of-the-moment and involves only the bride and groom, preventing another interruption.

* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', when the Forty Thieves raid Aladdin's wedding. (Semi-justified in that they were there to steal a wedding gift.) Princess Jasmine herself punches out one of them for daring to spoil her special day.
* In the third ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' movie, ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'', Cinderella crashes her own wedding. ItMakesSenseInContext, it's really Anastasia disguised as Cinderella marrying Prince Charming.

* ''Westernanimation/Shrek1'' has Farquaad's wedding to Fiona first interrupted by [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace Shrek entering]], and when the bride turns out to be an ogre, chaos ensues, [[spoiler:ending with Farquaad being SwallowedWhole by a Dragon. Though then the actual love story is solved, [[WhyWasteAWedding leading to the wedding just moving to Shrek's swamp]].]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', Sgt. Calhoun's wedding was crashed by a Cy-Bug that swooped in and ''ate her fiancé'' right in front of her. [[spoiler:At her second wedding, everybody on her side of the chapel came packing heat, because it ''wasn't'' gonna happen again.]]

* ''{{Film/Tombstone}}'' opens with outlaws attacking a Mexican wedding and horrifically slaughtering everybody there. The bride is one of the last to die and has to witness everyone else getting it, starting with her new husband, and making a very BloodSplatteredWeddingDress. The slayers then cheerfully sit down to the wedding banquet.
* The otherwise farcical softcore porn film ''Film/ToTheLimit'' has a tragic example when a gang of MalevolentMaskedMen carry out a wedding massacre - and yes, there is a BloodSplatteredWeddingDress prominently featured.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', the party has to stop the forced wedding between Princess Toadstool/Peach and Booster, which involves helping breaking down a few goals and gathering the princess' dropped accessories. The real difficulty comes when the [ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext caterers attack and the wedding cake comes to life...]]

* The story of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' revolves around Bowser kidnapping Peach, intending to marry her, and Mario has to stop him. When Mario finally catches up to Bowser in the wedding hall, the Koopa King and the Princess are seen endlessly tugging on the huge wedding ring, but they both stop, and the FinalBoss fight begins shortly thereafter.

* In ''Videogame/SleepingDogs'', [[spoiler:Winston Chu's]] wedding is violently interrupted by assassins sent to kill all the attendees, including [[TheDon Uncle Po]]. [[spoiler:Sadly, neither the bride nor groom get out alive, but Wei acting quickly to rescue Uncle Po greatly improves his standing in the Sun On Yee.]]

* John Crichton and Aeryn Sun of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' ''really'' couldn't catch a break when it came to tying the knot – they had two or three false starts derailed by invasions or combat before finally getting hitched [[strike:under siege]] under ''fire'' and during the ScreamingBirth of their son.
** Notably, in the third-season finale, Crichton keeps on seeing visions of returning to Earth along with Aeryn and getting married there, only for Scorpius and a platoon of {{mooks}} to crash it and kill ''everyone''.
--->'''Scorpius''': What did you expect?

* In the Four Emperors saga of ''Manga/OnePiece'', one of the Straw Hats's goals is to crash the [[ArrangedMarriage arranged]] wedding of [[spoiler:Vinsmoke Sanji]] and [[spoiler:Big Mom's daughter Charlotte Pudding]].]] It's such a serious circumstance that not only the Straw Hats are involved: [[spoiler:one of Big Mom's sons-in-law (Capone Bege) and Jinbe from the Sun Pirates (whose first mate's married to another daughter of Big Mom) see this wedding smash as ''the'' chance to '''assassinate Big Mom''', and have established an alliance with the Straw Hats for it.]]

* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'': ComicBook/KateBishop made her debut as a character when her sister's wedding was attacked. Kate proceeded to [[ActionDressRip tear a slit in her bridesmaid's dress]], then start [[DamselOutOfDistress kicking ass]] alongside the ComicBook/YoungAvengers, earning herself a spot on the team.

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In "Exes and Ooh", Moxxie's {{abusive|parents}} [[TheDon mafioso]] [[ArchNemesisDad father]], Crimson, tries to [[ArrangedMarriage forcibly marry him off]] to a new-rich sleazebag. Upon realizing this, Blitzo pulls Moxxie's wife, Millie, with him into a car, switches the radio station to "Wrath's #1 'F*ck You Up' Hits" and declares that "We're doing a Shrek!" What Millie then proceeds to do to Crimson's [[SharkMan Loan Sharks]]/wedding guests is perhaps a bit too graphic to describe in detail here without using the word "sushi" so let's just say that the wedding was indeed ''thoroughly'' smashed.

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Many types of conflict can occur at a wedding, some ''only'' happen at the wedding itself, like when the guards prevent the hero from reaching the bride to make their SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace line. Other common reasons for a fight are FeudingFamilies that get provoked during the ceremony, or the wedding is being [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe forced by a villain unto a helpless damsel]].

* In ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers Unplugged]]'' #4, the good guys crash the Wedding of Crusher Creel and Titania. Because of the high concentration of super-criminals that attended it.

* Thomas Harris's 2019 novel ''Cari Mora'' has the [[IronWoobie titular heroine's]] wedding turned into a bloodbath by remnants of the [[{{UsefulNotes/Colombia}} FARC cell]] she abandoned [[ChildSoldier as a teenager]] after killing their [[GeneralRipper ruthless leader]].

* In ''Fed Up'' by Jessica Conant-Park and Susan Conant, the murderer discovers that the wedding's videographer has footage of the poisoning of someone murdered at the beginning of the book, leading to a fight for the camera and its evidence, not to mention the footage of the wedding.