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* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E23Reunited Reunited]]", Ruby and Sapphire get married as a means of solidifying their bond after [[spoiler:the person that encouraged their relationship - Rose Quartz - was secretly their enemy]]. Unfortunately, this is occurring with the impending assault of Homeworld hangign over them. [[spoiler:These worries are confirmed when Blue Diamond and Yellow Diamond show up at the reception with the intent of activating the Cluster and taking revenge for Pink Diamond's death.]]

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** Before [[spoiler:William]] leaves to fight in the trenches, he asks [[spoiler:Daisy]], whom he has always loved, to marry him. She wants to turn him down because [[JustAFriend she doesn't love him in the same way]] (or at least she thinks she doesn't; Mrs Patmore, Mrs Hughes, and later the Dowager Countess are convinced that she didn't know what she felt was real love), but eventually accepts so he won't have to go to war heartbroken, intending to break off the engagement after it becomes appropriate. However, after [[spoiler:he is mortally wounded and brought back home, he insists that they marry before he dies so she can have a widow's pension. She concedes, and they are married for a few hours, but it takes her a while to come to terms with the shame she feels in believing she lied to him about her feelings.]]

*** [[BetaCouple Rom and Leeta]] have a first type wedding, immediately before the outbreak of the Dominion War.
*** Worf and Jadzia Dax get married shortly after retaking the station from the Dominion. [[spoiler:Unfortunately she's killed off at the end of the season.]]

* In ''Film/IndependenceDay'', Steve and Jasmine marry at Area 51 the morning before the FinalBattle. Her son Dylan acts as ring-bearer.

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* In the '''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''' episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E23Reunited Reunited]]", Ruby and Sapphire get married as a means of solidifying their bond after [[spoiler:the person that encouraged their relationship - Rose Quartz - was secretly their enemy]]. Unfortunately, this is occurring with the impending assault of Homeworld hangign over them. [[spoiler:These worries are confirmed when Blue Diamond and Yellow Diamond show up at the reception with the intent of activating the Cluster and taking revenge for Pink Diamond's death.]]

* Eliza and Alexander's wedding in ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}''. They meet when Alexander attends a ball hosted by the Schuylers (presumably near where the Continental Army is encamped), and are married not long after, with Alexander's war buddies serving as his groomsmen and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Hercules Mulligan as the flower boy]].

* Type II for Jazz and Prowl in ''[[Fanfic/ThingsWeDontTellHumans Things We Don't Tell Humans]]''. Interesting because of the chances of survival element: Jazz has already died once.

* In ''Film/FatherGoose'', Cary Grant's character marries Leslie Caron's after some truly inspired SlapSlapKiss while being strafed by the Japanese. The wedding night isn't any better

* Worf and Dax got married during the Dominion War in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.
** [[BetaCouple Rom and Leeta]] have a first type wedding, immediately before the outbreak of the Dominion War.

The StarcrossedLovers are subject to this a lot of the time in war stories. Expect the couple to AltarTheSpeed. Compare MarriedAtSea. Beware the possibly unmarked spoilers!

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But for just one day, let's only think about love! ♪''

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* ''GoneWithTheWind'' has quite a lot of engagements and weddings going on before, during, and after the war. It averts all three above.

* A B-plot in the Literature/GauntsGhosts novel ''Salvation's Reach'' involves the marriage of Captain Ban Daur and his girlfriend Elodie Dutana. At first, she thinks he is having second thoughts [[GreenEyedMonster because of a new arrival]], an officer from his homeworld of Verghast that [[NewOldFlame he knew once upon a time]]. When confronted, he explains that he never felt anything for the other officer, aside from reminisces about his old home, but he was hesitant to go through with it because "a Guardsman who [[GenreSavvy gets married before a mission]] only does it for one reason" (to provide for his wife in case he dies by ensuring she gets his pension) and he didn't want her to think that he wasn't coming back. He realizes [[PoorCommunicationKills he could just]] ''explain'' that, and they are married on the troopship by Gaunt, with the entire regiment as witnesses. [[spoiler: During the mission to Salvation's Reach, Daur ''is'' seriously wounded, but recovers.]]

* Weddings right prior to war breaking out or right in the beginning of it: These marriages are usually rushed and can represent calm before the storm. It can be particularly ominous {{Foreshadowing}}. Often ends in the fresh husband going off to war. [[RedShirt These bridegrooms seem to have a fairly low chance of survival]], and if they do come back, [[ShellShockedVeteran they're not the fresh-faced soldier who got married anymore]].

* Weddings right prior to war breaking out or right in the beginning of it: These marriages are usually rushed and can represent calm before the storm. It can be particularly ominous {{Foreshadowing}}. Often ends in the fresh husband going off to war. [[RedShirt These bridegrooms seem to have a fairly low chance of survival.]]

The Wartime Wedding is a great way to put a HopeSpot in the middle of a story in order to lighten the mood, considering that among other things, a marriage symbolizes love and unity, reminding the characters in the universe that things such as happiness still exist.

War is a brutal, tragic thing. Expect plenty of {{Cruel And Unusual Death}}s and {{Tear Jerker}}s. The atmosphere of a lot of war stories is generally saddening and depressing, if not outright horrifying and peppered with NightmareFuel. That said, when a writer thinks that enough is enough and that these poor characters need a bit of happiness in their lives without deviating from the somber war genre, then what better way to show that than to have two characters get married?

* Weddings right after war: When the wartime sweethearts have HookedUpAfterwards, they're very likely to get married to show that, somehow, the characters are moving on with their lives. This type of wartime wedding generally symbolizes the beginning of recovery. Oftentimes used as a BittersweetEnding.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': So much. Considering that pretty much the whole story is set in war, it makes sense.
## The Red Wedding
## The Purple Wedding
## [[spoiler: Tommen and Margaery]]'s wedding
## [[spoiler: Daenerys and Hizdahr]]'s wedding
## Going back a generation and war, Ned-and-Catelyn and Jon-and-Lysa's double wedding

* While less prevalent in the present day, soldiers who marry immediately before a deployment often do so for the very pragmatic reason that spouses may be entitled to benefits if the soldier should die on duty, while girlfriends, boyfriends, sweethearts, fiancé(e)s, and "live-in friends" get nothing.

* While less prevalent in the present day, soldiers who marry immediately before a deployment often do so for the very pragmatic reason that spouses may be entitled to benefits if the soldier should die on duty, while girlfriends, boyfriends, sweethearts, and "live-in friends" get nothing.

* There's a villainous twist to this in ''[[Literature/ElementalMasters Phoenix and Ashes]]''. Alison intends to bespell Reggie into a Wartime Wedding to one of her daughters, magically ensure that an heir is conceived, then [[UriahGambit get Reggie back to the front to be killed]], leaving Alison controlling the Fenyx estate and its wealth through her daughter.

* In ''Literature/DeepLove'' Granny and her husband married during WW2. Their marriage lasted one night.

** [[spoiler:Bill's and Fleur's]] wedding in the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows seventh book]].