History Main / SnowMeansLove

* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'': The song "Something There" shows the titular pair playing in the snow and realizing their feelings for each other.
* The "Once Upon a Wintertime" segment from ''Disney/MelodyTime'' centers around a young couple on a romantic winter outing.

* Lorelai of ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' loves snow and always thinks of it as a meaningful gift for her. In the first season, it snows heavily when her love interest Max Medina goes through Stars Hollow and is forced to stay there while his car is being repaired. Meanwhile, Max and Lorelai share romantic moments.

* In an episode of ''Series/CSINewYork'', a couple arrive in a "winter wonderland" and start kissing. Then an ice castle collapses and they find a corpse.

* In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/AoiHana'', Fumi and Akira share a very important moment in the snow when Fumi finally realizes that [[spoiler:Akira was her first love]].

* In ''Film/WonderWoman'', Diana and Steve share their first dance in a snowy town, during which snow begins to fall.

A person alone is cause for sympathy and especially a SadGirlInSnow.

A person alone is cause for sympathy and especially a [[FragileFlower sad girl in snow]].

* ‘’Series/SchittsCreek’’: It begins to snow during the ChristmasEpisode as Johnny and Moira walk arm-in-arm back to The Rosebud Motel, and it is revealed that Moira and the kids pulled together a last minute Christmas Party for Johnny.

* Lampshaded in ''Manga/SgtFrog'', where snow is explicitly stated to make girls three times more beautiful.

* The Special Feeling [[MemeticMutation meme]], detailed [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/special-feeling-%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5%E3%81%AA%E6%B0%97%E5%88%86 here]]. To wit, when a record snowfall in Japan took place, a news network was interviewing people about it -- someone then said "being in the snow with my lover like this immerses me in a special feeling. I like it.” while his embarrassed paramour was close by -- the pic was posted on Twitter, and the rest was memetic history.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* ''Film/{{Serendipity}}'': The leads Jonathan and Sara meet five days before Christmas. It's winter again when they find each other at the end after years of separation.

* In ''Film/SwingTime'' (1936), Lucky and Penny have a romantic interlude during a snowy daytrip to the country, leading to an AlmostKiss before things degenerate into a QuarrelingSong. Snow is also visible through the windows when they finally reunite at the end of the movie.
* ''Film/HarryPotter'':
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' adds an InnocentInnuendo to a snowy, wintry scene between Ron and Hermione.
---> '''Hermione:''' Do you want to get closer?
---> '''Ron:''' Huh?!
---> '''Hermione:''' To the Shrieking Shack?
---> '''Ron:''' No, I'm good.
** One of the few times we see a picture of James and Lily Potter, the lead character's parents, they're dancing in the snow.
* ''Film/{{The Phantom Of The Opera|2004}}'': As Raoul and Christine romance on the Opera House Roof, it conveniently starts to snow. (The timescale of the movie was adjusted from the original musical as the scene takes place three months before New Year's Eve instead of six.)
* ''Film/GroundhogDay'' features several such scenes with Bill Murray and Andie [=MacDowell=].
* In the film version of ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', snow falls as Mimi and Roger stand outside the cafe after Maureen's protest and finally admit they could have a real relationship together.
* Variation: in the nameless QuirkyTown of ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'', it never snows. But on the night of a Christmas party, Kim finds Edward carving an ice angel and the little bits of ice that fly about as he works create a snowfall of sorts. She's enamored by the sight and, in essence, this is the moment she realizes she loves him as she twirls about. [[spoiler:The lovers are forced to part and never see each other again in the BittersweetEnding, but Edward continues to carve these sculptures up in his castle, and in the process brings snow to the entire neighborhood. Only Kim knows the significance of it, and why he does it. In effect this is a literal take on the trope.]]

* Coincidentally happens in ''Film/{{Serendipity}}'' at the skating rink.
* At the end of ''Film/HouseOfFlyingDaggers'', he holds the girl in the snow as she bleeds out (overlaps with SnowMeansDeath).
* The end of ''Film/YouNeverDreamed'', as seen [[http://kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/804/foto/i3/6678/ here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc49dquBILQ here]].

--> '''Shannon:''' Pretend... you love me.
--> '''Joseph:''' I pretend I love you.
--> '''Shannon:''' I pretend I love you, too.
* Invoked in the end of ''Film/SnowDogs'' When Ted and Barb kiss for the first time (and Demon and Nana reveal their feelings for each other).
* The ending of ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'' when Joel and Clementine are running on the beach and it starts to snow.
* ''Literature/BridgetJones'' film adaptations:
** At the end of the first film, half-dressed Bridget runs after Mark who seemingly left her when it's freezing. They're reunined, he hugs her and they kiss, it starts snowing and he covers her with his coat.
** In the second movie, there's a brief CallBack when Bridget mentions the above when she wants to get back together again. She says that a moment they share might be romantic even without snowing.
* ''Film/LuckyStar'': It's snowing as Tim goes on his climactic RaceForYourLove, which ends with his passionate embrace with Mary at the train station.
* In ''Film/WonderWoman'', Diana and Steve share their first dance in a snowy town, during which snow begins to fall.

* In ''Film/NannyMcPhee'', the phrase "snow in August" is used throughout as a means of expressing something that's supposedly impossible, similar to "when pigs fly." At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Nanny [=McPhee=] magically summons snow in August that cleans up the yard and removes the garish colors for the wedding of Cedric and Evangeline.]]
* At the end of ''Film/{{Cashback}}'', boy gets girl and shares his mysterious power with her. They walk out into a snowfall that is frozen in more ways than one.
* ''A Royal Christmas'', a Hallmark Channel movie: It snows in the fictional nation of Cordinia for the first time in a century after the crown prince marries his commoner girlfriend.

* Lorelai of ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' loves snow and always thinks of it as a meaningful gift for her. In the first season, it snows heavily when her love interest Max Madina goes through Stars Hollow and is forced to stay there while his car is being repaired. Meanwhile, Max and Lorelai share romantic moments.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Jon and Ygritte developed feelings for each other while stuck with each other at the north of the Wall.
* One of South Korea's most successful exports to Japan was the romantic TV miniseries ''Series/WinterSonata'', which featured snow as a repeated visual theme for exactly the reasons listed above.
* KoreanSeries ''Series/PadamPadam'' has the lead character skinny-dipping in a snowstorm with his ladylove, just to see what it feels like.

* In season 3 of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', a providential snowfall prevents Angel from committing suicide-by-sun. He and Buffy then go for a walk in the snow. This is ''southern California.'' Y'know, [[CaptainObvious because snow is]] [[DontExplainTheJoke nearly impossible there.]]
* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "Inconstant Moon", a scientist believing the sun has gone nova and burned off half the Earth's atmosphere tries to distract his longtime love interest by walking downtown. The erratic weather causes a romantic snowfall.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In a season six Christmas episode, Mulder and Scully start unwrapping their presents to one another, just as the snow starts falling. They live in the Washington-Metropolitan area, where snow doesn't usually fall until mid-January, so it's especially meaningful.
* In ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', it is snowing when Matthew proposes to Lady Mary at the end of the Christmas special.
* The second Barney and Robin kiss after becoming engaged in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', it begins to snow. It also continues to snow while they bask in the moment and when Marshall and Lily are reunited with baby Marvin.

* ''Series/TheWhiteQueen'': It conveniently begins to snow just before Richard of Gloucester proposes marriage to Anne Neville. After a LoveConfession, he gallantly wraps her with his cloak to shield her from the colder weather. Once Anne has accepted, a glorious HollywoodKiss follows, and the newly engaged couple are surrounded by snowflakes that almost seem to dance all around them.

** Played Straight with [[spoiler:Naruto and Hinata]] in the {{canon}} movie ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie''. They met on a snowy day [[ChildhoodFriendRomance when they were children]] before they enrolled in the Academy, he confesses his love to her and later [[GrowOldWithMe proposes to her]] during the present-day wintertime, their BigDamnKiss takes place in the snowy sky, and TheStinger shows them playing in the snow with their two children.

[[folder:Anime]]

* Invoked for HoYay value in ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis''. [[AloofBigBrother Tezuka]] finds [[EyesAlwaysShut Fuji]] once waiting for him outside an hospital, and so as they speak about the upcoming tournaments, snow starts falling down on them, so Fuji [[UmbrellaOfTogetherness covers both of them with his red umbrella]] as they go home. Needless to say, the [[YaoiFangirl Tezuka/Fuji fans]] [[ShipTease had a field day]].

[[folder:Fanfiction]]

SnowedIn and UmbrellaOfTogetherness can bring this trope about. If it's raining instead, it's RomanticRain. Contrasts with FlamesOfLove. Western cousin to CherryBlossoms. A subtrope of EmpathicEnvironment.

* Combined with SnowMeansDeath in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', twice. Once when Casca tries to dissuade Guts from leaving his pre-Eclipse TrueCompanions, right before the showdown with Griffith (this also marked the moment when she had her LoveEpiphany). The other one post-Eclipse when Guts fights off snow-demons to protect Casca. They also share a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming in the snow when Guts and Casca depart from Godo's place when [[spoiler: Guts wraps his cape around her and says that he would never leave her behind again.]]

* In [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya]], snow accompanies a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming between Kyon and Yuki, in which Kyon declares that should anything happen to her, he'll set out with Haruhi to save her. It's worth nothing that one reading of "Yuki" (雪) means "snow."
* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Satou gives her boyfriend Takagi a ''very'' happy kiss in the snow of Hokkaido, right after she helps to rescue [[ButtMonkey the poor guy]] from a cruel DeathTrap that ''almost'' invoked SnowMeansDeath on him. [[CrowningmomentOfFunny Cue to them forgetting]] [[IsThisThingStillOn that their co-workers were watching over them through a camera...]]

* Subverted in the final episode of ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'': Literature/SherlockHolmes and [[WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury Beth Lestrade]] are already [[HappilyMarried married]] when London receives her first snowfall of the season. Sherlock looks at his bride, standing enraptured in the snow, and tells her that [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming he's just fallen in love with her all over again]].

* In ''FanFic/TheApprenticeTheStudentAndTheCharlatan'', Nova and Twilight's first [[RunningGag casual event where two best friends can hang out]] [[BlatantLies in a completely platonic manner]] is in Trottingham after a night of snowfall, and they end up going to the local Hearth's Warming Lights festival. It should be mentioned that Nova never expressed romantic interest in Twilight before the night ([[CaptiveDate leading to her literally dragging him kicking and screaming on this date]]), but then there's a moment that he catches her in the right light, and he falls head over heels for her.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Canvas 2}}'':

SnowedIn and UmbrellaOfTogetherness can bring this trope about. If it's raining instead, it's RomanticRain. Contasts with FlamesOfLove. Western cousin to CherryBlossoms. A subtrope of EmpathicEnvironment.

* The Hallmark Channel concludes everyone of its Christmas movies (which are all love stories) this way. In particular, ''A Royal Christmas'', where it snows in the fictional nation of Cordinia for the first time in a century after the crown prince marries his commoner girlfriend.

** Pretty much any ChristmasEpisode of a show is bound to end like this, especially if there's been a romantic subplot, and again, bonus points if it's somewhere where snow is rare.