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6	->''"I'm sick of this. I don't give a damn who it is, but I'm gonna marry somebody today!"''
7	-->-- '''Minister''', ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''
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9	The guests have arrived, the priest is waiting at the altar, and the organist is playing "Here Comes the Bride". There's only one problem: the happy couple isn't getting married after all. A resourceful character suggests that one of the following occurs:
10	#another couple gets married in their stead (alternately, an older married couple may choose to renew their vows)
11	#the original bride (or, less frequently, groom) marries her (or his) true love
12	#everyone just has a big party (yes, even that "happy couple", if their wedding was under duress)
13	The important thing is that the wedding paraphernalia won't go to waste.
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15	If they already got most of the way through the wedding the first time before it got called off, somebody may suggest they SkipToTheEnd on the do-over.
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17	Compare and contrast WeddingBellsForSomeoneElse.
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19	!!Examples:
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23	[[folder:Comic Books]]
24	* In the [[ContinuitySnarl Post-Zero Hour]] ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', Saturn Girl and Cosmic Boy's marriage gets called off when [[spoiler:it's discovered he's currently ''[[DudeShesLikeInAComa comatose]]'', and she's been subconsciously manipulating his body telepathically for... a while]]. While pretty much everyone else is busy dealing with ''that'', Ultra Boy and Apparition take advantage of the minister being present to get married instead.
25	* In ''ComicBook/XMenGold'', [[spoiler:the wedding between ComicBook/KittyPryde and Colossus gets called off when Kitty ends up getting major cold feet. However, Gambit ends up deciding to finally admit his feelings to Rogue and asks her to marry him. She agrees and, with everything set up, decide to take over the wedding themselves]].
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29	* In ''Literature/PrincessBelleEtoile'', the king had resolved to marry again, but his own children appeared at the wedding feast and told how he had been deceived about his first wife. He takes her back, and rather than waste the feast, marries his daughter off to her [[KissingCousins cousin]].
30	* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/stories/whitewolf.html The White Wolf]]'', the prince's wife had [[TheQuest reached him]] before he married another bride. He marries off his new bride to one of the guests.
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34	* ''Fanfic/HappilyEverAfterSeries'': In ''Happily'', Aggie's fiance dumps her at the alter during the wedding rehearsal. To add further insult to injury, he's dumping her ''for her sister''... and they decide what was meant to be ''her'' preparations as their own.
35	* The ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12920320/1/Runaway-Mermaid Runaway Mermaid]]'' has a variation of this; after reuniting with Ash before her wedding to Rudy, Misty realises that she still loves Ash on the day of the wedding itself and manages to catch Ash as he's about to leave Trovita on the boat. As a result, Ash suggests that he and Misty get married right now as they're both dressed for the occasion and captains can legally perform marriages, even if they don't take over Misty's original ceremony but just have one of their own.
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38	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
39	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', Maria and Joaquin's wedding is [[spoiler:interrupted by the bandits. After the FinalBattle, it resumes with Manolo as the groom instead]].
40	* In ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', this trope happens to Victoria while Victor's trapped in the Land of the Dead with Emily. [[spoiler:Upon learning Barkis is unmarried, the Everglots promptly decide to substitute him in for the groom (unaware, of course, that he plans to kill Victoria in hopes of stealing money they don't have.)]] Mayhew, upon relaying the news to Victor, even jokes that they "didn't want to waste the cake." And a second time [[spoiler:at the very end, when Emily is freed of her curse and lets Victor marry Victoria, in this case the wedding initially was to be Victor and Emily's]].
41	* Implied in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', since the final two scenes skip from Fiona and Farquaad's ruined wedding to her and Shrek leaving on their honeymoon. They even have the same cake, many of the same guests, with the fairy tale creatures included, and even the same minister who performed Fiona and Farquaad's wedding marries Shrek and Fiona.
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45	* A rare example of the C-type, in TheMovie adaptation of ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'', the con artists are thwarted at the end of the film and Jed's wedding to the female con artist is off. They just decide to throw a big party instead rather than waste the wedding.
46	* ''Film/{{Carefree}}'' (1938): Everyone gathers for Amanda and Stephen's wedding, but after a behind-the-scenes scuffle, it turns out to be Amanda and Tony's wedding instead.
47	* ''Film/FoolinAround'': when Annette O'Toole decides to marry the protagonist (Gary Busey), her mother (Chloris Leachman) 'saves face' by marrying her butler (Tony Randall).
48	* ''Film/FourSistersAndAWedding'': In the end, CJ and Princess's wedding doesn't go through after [[spoiler:Princess's grandfather's death]] because according to Filipino superstition, there can't be a wedding if there's a recent death on your side of the family. [[spoiler:Bobbie instead takes the setup, lame "under the sea" theme and all, to finally marry Tristan.]]
49	* At the very end of ''Film/InAndOut'', [[spoiler:after Howard and Emily's wedding is called off, the venue is still used for a wedding and reception anyway - by Howard's parents, who renew their wedding vows]].
50	* ''Film/KuchKuchHotaHai'': This trope was relatively common in pre-90s Bollywood films; usually the rationale was that the local astrologer had gone to a lot of trouble to find the most auspicious possible date, and postponing the wedding could be even more disastrous than playing eeny-meeny-miney-moe in search of a replacement [[AlwaysMale groom]]. Still, very few of those films had it happen the way this film does, [[spoiler:with the groom himself going to pick the male lead from the assists and literally pushing him towards the bride before a speech that could be summarized as "Just get married and spare us the pinning"]].
51	* ''Series/LifeInPieces'' has a variant. Colleen's wedding was cancelled a while ago, but not soon enough to get a refund on her reception. She and Matt decide to take advantage of the empty ballroom, champagne tower, and DJ on their date.
52	* In ''Film/MadeasFamilyReunion'', near the end, [[spoiler:Lisa decides to cancel her wedding to Carlos after he abused her. The wedding planner laments that her lavish Paris-themed wedding will not be used. Lisa's sister Vanessa's boyfriend decides to propose to her right then. She accepts and they get married]].
53	* ''Film/MammaMia'': When Sophie and Skye decide to delay their wedding to travel the world, [[spoiler:Sam reveals that he's always loved Donna and is now divorced; he proposes to Donna, using the trope name]].
54	* ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' at the climax of the film as [[spoiler:Cedric and the children ultimately wreck the wedding to the wretched Mrs. Quickly... but Cedric still needs a wife to meet his former aunt-in-law's deadline to continue her much needed financial support. However, he and Evangeline decide to marry on the spot, thus satisfying the requirement set for Cedric (Adelaide incorrectly jumps to the conclusion that he going marry one of his own daughters to keep getting her money, so Lily also has to quickly explain to Adelaide that Evangeline wasn't ''actually'' Cedric's daughter. Forcing Evangeline to admit she is in fact his scullery maid)]].
55	* ''Film/ANightAtTheRoxbury'': Steve is forced into an engagement with Emily by his father. The wedding is held in the backyard of the Butabi residence, but is interrupted by Doug. The brothers reconcile and leave, but their friend and personal trainer Craig, reveals his feelings for Emily, and marries her.
56	* ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory''. The female love interest (Creator/KatharineHepburn) and her DisposableFiancee call the wedding off, so she re-marries her ex husband (Creator/CaryGrant), instead.
57	** ''Film/HighSociety'' (which is TheMusical of ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory''), though the leads are Creator/GraceKelly and Music/BingCrosby.
58	* At the end of ''Film/ThePrinceOfThieves'', the intended double wedding between Baron Tristan and Lady Christabel and Sir Phillip and Lady Marian instead becomes a triple wedding between Sir Allan and Christabel, Robin and Marian, and Will Scarlet and Maude after Robin and Allan have killed the previous grooms.
59	* ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries 2: Royal Engagement'' ends with [[spoiler: Mia deciding she'll become Queen without having a husband and gets the marriage law abolished while respectfully letting her groom off the hook... and promptly convinces her grandmother Clarisse to take advantage of the moment and marry the love of ''her'' life -- Mia's bodyguard Joe. "I know it is rather sudden, but we were all dressed!"]]
60	* [=LaWanda=] in the movie ''Film/ProblemChild 2'' is Ben Healy's fiancée, but she decides to marry Ben's father instead when the wedding is crashed.
61	* In ''Film/RunawayBride'' the decision (same bride, different groom) is made the night before, but the trope still fits. [[spoiler:Naturally, she ends up running.]]
62	* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' starts with Princess Vespa ditching her wedding to Prince Valium. Unfortunately, since he's the ''only'' prince in that part of the galaxy, she still has to marry him, so at the end of the film they try to marry a second time. [[spoiler:At which point Lone Starr bursts into the chapel, revealing his newly discovered heritage as a prince. Thus Vespa and Lone Starr get married instead. Valium, being a complete narcoleptic, doesn't even notice.]]
63	* In ''Film/WhosThatGirl'', although Louden Trott's wedding to Wendy Worthington was called off when Louden confessed his love for Nikki Finn, the passengers on the bus that Nikki was riding on waste no time taking advantage of the food being served at the wedding.
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67	* Creator/DaveBarry mentions a friend of his who was in the mood to have a wedding, but all but one of her children were already taken. So she decided to have one between her son and [[CompanionCube an inflatable pool toy]]. The son got engaged somewhere along the line, but "you had to feel bad for the pool toy".
68	* ''Literature/FlowerDrumSong'': Just as Sammy and Mei Li are about to get married, Mei Li reveals that [[spoiler:she entered the United States illegally]], rendering their marriage contract null and void. This frees Sammy up to marry [[spoiler:Linda]] instead, while [[spoiler:Ta volunteers to marry Mei Li so she can become a legal resident, turning it into a double wedding]].
69	* ''Literature/MegLangslowMysteries'': In ''Murder With Peacocks'', after [[spoiler:Meg Langslow's mother Margaret's [[GuessWhoImMarrying groom]] is [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace exposed as the murderer during the wedding]]]], the bride marries [[spoiler:her original husband, Meg's father]]. Luckily a spare judge was in attendance to speed things up a bit!
70	** At another wedding in the book ([[WeddingsForEveryone there are three]]!), this is {{inverted\|Trope}} -- after all that work arranging the wedding, the bride goes through with it, before [[spoiler:disappearing with a groomsman in a convertible blaring the Beach Boys' "I Get Around"]].
71	* In ''Literature/OnceUponAMarigold'', [[spoiler:the princess' ArrangedMarriage gets called off once the evil queen is gone, but the princess' true love has just conveniently shown up and she marries him instead]].
72	* Miss Flitworth's backstory in ''Literature/ReaperMan'': When her bridegroom disappeared just before the wedding, she thought "what life expects me to do now is [[Literature/GreatExpectations moon around the place in the wedding dress for years and go completely doolally]]", but instead she buckled down and got on with things, including having the reception anyway because it's a crime to waste good food. [[spoiler:They're reunited in the end.]]
73	* In ''[[Literature/RegardingThe Regarding the Trees]]'', after an AccidentalProposal, Florence Waters travels to Geyser Creek to marry Walter Russ. [[spoiler:They call off the wedding after clearing up the misunderstanding, and a double wedding with both the series' OfficialCouple and a pair of former rivals takes its place (alongside two sixth graders declaring their love for each other).]]
74	* Semi-subverted by ''Literature/ThursdayNext'', because even in her admittedly screwy reality you need to formally advertise a marriage in advance; however, they immediately book the same church for a month hence, and the festivities are repurposed as an engagement party.
75	* Possibly played straight in ''Literature/TheWestingGame''. [[spoiler:While it's uncertain how early Angela decides against marrying Doctor Deere, everyone still holds a wedding for Crow and Otis Amber instead.]]
76	* ''Literature/WhateverAfter'': In ''Sink Or Swim'', Prince Mortimer's wedding to Lana runs aground when she changes her mind at the last moment. All of the attendees are irritated to learn that they'd traveled all that way only for the big event to be canceled, so the prince finds ''another'' princess to marry instead.
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80	* When Kate [[RunawayBride does a runner]] from her wedding to Lord ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'', Lord Melchett claims that it is traditional in these circumstances for the groom to marry the bridesmaid. The bridesmaid is ''Baldrick'', who unlike Edmund seems quite happy with this.
81	* PlayedWith in ''Series/{{Bones}}'' where Angela and Hodgins had to leave the altar because [[spoiler:they found out that Angela was already married]], thus leaving Brennan (the maid of Honour) and Booth (the best man) still standing at the altar. They look at each other and Booth even asks something along the lines of "What now?" Sadly, nothing happens, but it certainly amps up their UnresolvedSexualTension and ShipTease.
82	** Turns into a Type C, with Hodgins advising the gathered guests to enjoy the catering while he and Angela run off together.
83	* On one episode of ''Series/{{Bridezillas}}'', one of the 'zillas got [[RunawayBride left at the altar]], but she still went through with the reception.
84	* On ''Series/ADifferentWorld'', Dwayne and Whitley got married at her wedding to Byron. When Jaleesa and Walter decide not to get married at their wedding, they have a big party instead.
85	* Brian and Andrea do this on ''Series/DirtySexyMoney'' after yet another failed wedding for Karen.
86	* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]": Donna mysteriously disappears from her own wedding. When the Doctor brings her back, she's furious to discover that the guests have decided to hold the reception without her.
87	* In ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' ReunionShow when Daisy and Enos call off their wedding, Bubba and Bertha Jo get married instead.
88	-->'''Daisy:''' Who wants a free wedding?
89	* ''Series/{{ER}}'': In the first season finale, when Carol Hathaway's doctor fiance pulls out of the wedding at the last minute, her family goes through with the reception. As Carol put it, "What's a little humiliation when there's free food and drink?"
90	* On ''Series/{{Felicity}}'', Elena and Tracy decide not to get married, realizing they're not ready yet. However, Meghan and Sean end up taking advantage of the ceremony all set up to get married instead. When the series does its infamous time travel storyline, the marriage was wiped out with Meghan telling Felicity (the only one who remembered the wedding) how crazy her and Sean getting married like that was.
91	* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Will and Lisa decide not to get married, so Will's mother and Lisa's father get married instead. Which would have been ''very'' awkward if Will and Lisa had been married...
92	* ''Series/GeneralHospital''. As Mac and Felicia prepare to marry, psycho Ryan Chamberlain (who's been obsessed with Felicia for the past year) shows up to wreak havoc, planning to either kill everyone in attendance or kidnap Felicia. In the ensuing melee, Mac is badly injured and must be taken to the hospital. Not wanting to waste the arrangements, Felicia urges Jenny to trade dresses with her so that she and fiance Paul can marry.
93	* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', after Emma flees from the alter from her wedding with Will, Santana urges him to let the reception happen anyway in the form of a giant party. It does, but Will understandably doesn't join the guests.
94	* In ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', Meredith and Derek seem finally ready to tie the knot, but [[spoiler:opt out so the cancerous and dying Izzy can marry Alex before she becomes too weak to walk down the aisle]].
95	* The 2010 finale of ''Series/HomeAndAway'' uses this. [[spoiler:Bianca runs out on her wedding, and Gina comes up with the idea.]]
96	* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'''s "Shelter Island", Stella's sister cancels her wedding, so she and Ted offer to take it instead, though Stella ends up [[RunawayBride leaving Ted at the altar]].
97	* In ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'', Arthur almost marries a 'famous' singer, Eva, but it turns out she only marries gay men, for companionship. Once she realized Arthur wasn't gay, she ran out on the wedding. Arthur, ever the penny-pincher, up and proposes to Spencer's mother. The marriage apparently lasts only a year.
98	* On ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', Fin and his fiance Phoebe decide at the last minute to stay together, but postpone getting married, but since everyone was already there, the reception still goes on as planned. Type 1 is PlayedWith, since [[WillTheyOrWontThey Rollins and Carisi]] have their RelationshipUpgrade after Carisi reads her the speech he wrote in anticipation of officiating the ceremony. It induces a LoveEpiphany in Rollins so intense she starts to cry, and she kisses him in lieu of saying anything.
99	* The ''LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek'' "With This Ring" uses this trope when Vivian and Sean marry after Trista decides (at the altar) that she doesn't want to settle for marrying her college boyfriend.
100	* Revealed to have happened at the end of ''Series/TheMoodys''. When Bridget's pregnancy interferes with Terry and Yvonne's wedding, Terry sends Dan and Cora to cancel the hot air balloon he was planning on exchanging his vows in. The balloon handler and the celebrant refuse to budge on the issue due to working for a discount, so Dan and Cora take the balloon ride themselves and get married. Despite this, Terry and Yvonne are able to salvage their wedding day.
101	* ''Series/TheNanny'': In "Stop The Wedding, I Want To Get Off", Maxwell Sheffield's sister Jocelyn was going to marry Nigel, but Fran realizes that she is really in love with her chauffeur, Lester. Eventually, the two of them realize it on Jocelyn's wedding day - and Jocelyn marries Lester instead. Unfortunately, the marriage doesn't last.
102	* On ''Series/{{One Day at a Time\|1975}}'', Julie ends up marrying the best man.
103	* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': {{Subverted\|Trope}} in the episode "June Bride". When the French Teacher's "proxy wedding" gets cancelled, Mr. Boynton tells everyone that he has no intention of wasting the opportunity or the minister. Naturally, everybody, especially Miss Brooks, believes that he's finally going to propose. Instead, Mr. Boynton sees this as the perfectly opportunity for a square dance as he's ObliviousToLove.
104	* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Turk misses his and Carla's wedding ceremony due to a mix up with directions. They end up going ahead with the reception, and stopping by the hospital later and getting a patient to officiate.
105	* {{Subverted\|Trope}} on ''Series/ShakeItUp'' when after Jeremy and Georgia broke up at the alter, [=CeCe=] and Rocky tried to make this an opportunity for [=CeCe=]'s parents to get back together after they kissed the night before the wedding. However, the parents refuse.
106	* On ''Series/{{Sisters}}'', the women's mother and her fiance abruptly decide that they don't want the lovely garden ceremony that has been planned for them and decide to go off to the courthouse. Oldest sister Alex reluctantly decides to accept her daughter's recent elopement and give the couple her blessing by allowing them to use the arrangements.
107	* ''Series/SpinCity'': Paul and Claudia don't get to have a wedding ceremony because Mike mistakenly booked their wedding for the following week, and the Priest only agrees to marry them in the short time before a funeral is to take place in the same church, which is impossible for them. As a result they hold their reception and the Mayor, who has the legal authority to do so, marries them there.
108	* ''Series/ThreesCompany'': After Larry's gold-digger bride runs off when she finds out he's not rich, the gang convinces Roper (who paid for the whole thing) to use it as an opportunity to renew his vows with his wife.
109	* In the third-season finale of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', Charlie and Mia travel to Las Vegas to get married. Just before the ceremony, Mia tells Charlie that he'll have to kick Alan out of his house after they are married. Charlie refuses to do so and the wedding is off. Then, Alan and Kandi get married instead... which leads to Alan moving out of Charlie's house.
110	* In ''Series/WhiteCollar'' Peter went undercover and had to plan a wedding with a BlackWidow. After the arrest is made, he uses the decorations and things to give his wife the wedding she'd always wanted.
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114	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In the episode "June Bride". Mr. Leblanc's proxy wedding gets cancelled. Mr. Boynton suggest they don't waste the arrangements, nor the judge. Does he finally propose to, and marry, Miss Brooks? No. [[FacePalm It's a great opportunity for a square dance!]]
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118	* ''Theatre/LaFilleMalGardee'': The widow Simone wants her daughter Lisette to marry the much younger son of a rich widower. However, Lisette already has a boyfriend. At the rehearsal dinner he hides in her room, but the two of them get caught by the guests together with Lisette in her underwear (she was changing for the dinner). A humiliated Simone calls the wedding off, to the delight of the young people. The show ends with Simone chatting up the prospective groom's father.
119	* In ''Theatre/MammaMia'' this is said word for word when [[spoiler:Sophie decides she doesn't want to get married to Sky quite yet, and Sam decides that this would now be a good time to propose and get married to Donna instead]].
120	* In ''Theatre/SideShow'', when Violet's big publicity event of a wedding fails to go off, her (conjoined twin) sister Daisy proposes to the man she's in love with on these grounds. He turns her down.
121	* In ''Theatre/LaSylphide'' on the day of his wedding to Effie, James chases after the mysterious Sylph. A WickedWitch tricks him into killing the Sylph and he wanders out of the forest to discover Effie leaving the Church married to another man.
122	* In ''Theatre/{{Zemsta}}'' the wedding cake has letters M and H (Maciej - Cześnik, and Hanna - Podstolina) on it. But after all the hijinks, it's [[spoiler:Waclaw and Klara]] who end up married.
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126	* ''Franchise/DragonQuest'':
127	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'': Rodrigo Briscoletti set up an EngagementChallenge for his daughter Nera -- one that TheHero ''has'' to complete, as one of the dowry items is the Zenithian Shield. However, Nera picks up on the fact that your ChildhoodFriend Bianca has feelings of her own for the protagonist, and offers them the chance to select somebody else to marry. Whether you opt to marry Bianca, Nera, or even Nera's older sister Debora, her father is more than happy to let you use the venue he'd been preparing. And he's only ''slightly'' [[PassiveAggressiveKombat passive-aggressive]] about it in the DS version, implying that he blames ''Debora'' if you chose Bianca.
128	** May be implied in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'': the rulers of Argonia and Trodain had [[ArrangedMarriage made a pact]] for their heirs to marry and unite the kingdoms. Unfortunately, while Princess Medea [[ProperLady turned out well]], Prince Charmles... [[PrinceCharmless wasn't a good match]]. This leads to Medea pulling a RunawayBride during [[MultipleEndings both endings]]; in the better one, however, the King of Argonia learned that the hero [[spoiler:is the son of his long-lost brother]] and is utterly devoted to Medea, and reveals this to those gathered for the wedding ceremony. Instead of fleeing the chapel, the happy couple end up walking out together, arm-in-arm.
129	* The "Crime at the Wedding" case of ''VideoGame/HiddenCity'' opens with the upcoming wedding of the very wealthy Abner Old and the much younger Mirel Dunn. However, someone is threatening the groom's life, and the wedding is briefly suspended. Among the main suspects is Rory, Mirel's former beau. Later, it is revealed that Mirel had been forced to marry Mr. Old because her father practically sold her to the businessman to pay his debts. After [[HeelRealization seeing the error of his ways]] and realizing that Mirel loves Rory and not him, Mr. Old gives the wedding preparations he's set up to let [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Mirel marry Rory]].
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133	* In ''WebAnimation/DodoAirlines'', after the wedding between [[spoiler:Bill and Miranda]] gets called off, Scoot tries to invoke this trope in order to hook up with Audie. She immediately points out that they don't know each other and refuses.
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137	* ''Literature/ThaliasMusings'': After Hephaestus and Aglaea failed to show up to their own wedding, Helios and Rhoda decided to tie the knot instead.
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141	* There was a variation in an episode of the [[WesternAnimation/CareBears1980s 80s DiC]] ''Franchise/CareBears'' cartoon. Two of the villains were [[UnholyMatrimony supposed to get married]], but because they were villains, that didn't work out so well. Nonetheless, the Care Bears had agreed to host the wedding for them, and decided to just throw a party with the leftover food and decorations.
142	* In the finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'' both Bean and Mora decide to ditch their wedding, since Bean's last three weddings didn't end well. So Odval and Sorcerio get married instead.
143	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Zapp Dingbat", Zapp Brannigan falls in love with Leela's recently divorced mother, Munda, and they nearly get married. The ceremony is interrupted by hostile aliens, who were supposed to sign a peace treaty on that very day. The wedding is canceled when Munda discovers that Zapp was tricking the aliens, who then attack. Luckily, her ex-husband Morris arrives to save the day, and in the end they decide to remarry, taking advantage of all the preparations already in place.
144	* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': PlayedForLaughs in "Fibber", where Pleakey tries to escape an ArrangedMarriage by insisting he's already engaged -- first to Nani, then to "Jumbina". After the ShamWedding falls apart, his brother Bertley suggests that ''he'' could marry Nani instead. Nani and David simultaneously protest, sharing a [[ShipTease loving glance]] afterwards.
145	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "Papa's Wedding Day", the intended wedding of Papa Smurf and Flowerbell the woodnymph was called off because she was revealed to be the infiltrator intending to have Papa Smurf fall in love with her so he could be captured by Balthazar, only to soon have a HeelFaceTurn and help the Smurfs rescue Papa Smurf from Balthazar. With a big wedding cake going to waste, Papa Smurf decides that they should all enjoy it together.
146	* In the cartoon special ''WesternAnimation/SnoopysGettingMarriedCharlieBrown'', Snoopy is all set to get married to a dog named Genevieve when Lucy soon arrives with news that [[RunawayBride the bride-to-be has just run off with a golden retriever]]. Snoopy is heartbroken at first, but soon lightens up at the prospect of remaining a bachelor, and enjoys the wedding cake with Woodstock.
147	* Kind of inversion in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': Harry Osborne interrupts the very happy wedding of Peter and MJ, and tries to force MJ to marry him. Liz shows up as a LastMinuteHookup, confessing that she's always loved Harry. This ends up neutralizing him as a threat, because it makes him harder to manipulate by his evil father (who's currently trapped in another dimension, [[spoiler:along with the ''real'' MJ]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext but that's a whole other story]]).
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