"...[It's] not like the telenovelas I grew up watching. The wedding isn't the end. Our story is just beginning."
— Jane Villanueva, Jane the Virgin
For all the drama and mishaps associated with them in fiction, weddings are supposed to be a happy affair. So closing a story with a wedding is common — it's a fun celebration for the characters who have suffered through the show's twists. And since they do, it ties up the Romance Arc for the Official Couple and promises a new life chapter for the newlyweds, especially if children are on the horizon. Happily Ever After!
Though Wedding and Engagement Tropes will abound, the wedding will usually go well in the end, as this is likely an indicator of Happily Ever After, but not always — it may be someone other than the leads getting married, or the wedding may end unhappily. Ending a war story with a Wartime Wedding after all the fighting is usually a Bittersweet Ending. While this trope usually applies to entire standalone works, it can also be used to give closure to seasons (or installments analogous to them).
Supertrope to Weddings for Everyone and Wedding Bells... for Someone Else. A Wedding Finale may overlap with Wedding Episode if the entire final installment or episode is centered around a wedding. May be part of a Grand Finale. Overlaps very often with Sealed with a Kiss. Can also overlap with a Dance Party Ending if they show the characters dancing at the wedding. May overlap with Moving-Away Ending if it either requires moving away from the country or occurs just before the move.
As an Ending Trope, expect unmarked spoilers.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- 2.5 Dimensional Seduction: In-universe, the Ashford's Chronicles manga ends in this fashion, as Liliel and Ashford get married, but Liliel disappears into the light and goes back to the heavens, saying goodbye. As the final step to overcoming Okumura's barriers in being loved, Lilysa and Mikari hope to invoke this reaction by seeing his angel in 3D and say goodbye in the same way.
- The Beginning After the End: Played With. The end of the series has Arthur and Tessia married and expecting their firstborn children. However, they already had a private wedding beforehand with a more public wedding occurring in the next three days. Despite their marriage not being officially recognized by the public yet, Everyone Can See It that the two of them all but are.
- The final chapter of Boarding School Juliet ends with leads Romio Inadzuka and Juliet Perusia getting married. It also gives lances into everyone else's futures as well.
- Citrus ends with Yuzu and Mei's wedding surrounded by their friends and family and with both girls decked out in full bridal gowns. There is also a final bonus chapter that takes the format of a wedding invitation and shows the ceremony and reception in more detail.
- Domestic Girlfriend ends with Hina waking up from a years-long coma and marrying Natsuo at Rui's insistence.
- Dr. STONE has Taiju and Yuzuriha's wedding in the final chapter years after the rest of the final arc.
- Dragon Ball: In the manga (before the transition to Dragon Ball Z), it ended with protagonist Goku and love interest Chi-Chi riding off atop of Nimbus before Master Roshi points out there's more to come. The finale of the anime adaptation adds a few extra Filler Episodes, ending with Goku marrying Chi-Chi.
- Honoo no Alpen Rose: After the war is over, in the year 1945, Jeudi and Lundi get married with Leonhardt, Jean-Jacques, and Martha amongst the guests.
- I Want Your Mother To Be With Me! ends with Ryo and Yuzuki finally getting married, with Asahi as the flower boy. It's a Foregone Conclusion for anyone who saw the cover of the fourth tankobon, which features Yuzuki in a wedding dress.
- The last two chapters of Love Hina covered Keitaro and Naru finally getting married, seen from the perspective of Last Episode, New Character Ema. And since it's Love Hina, there was one last moment of accidental perversion as they were leaving for their honeymoon.
- Naruto: The Last: Naruto the Movie, which is considered to be the Grand Finale of the manga (given that it's the first Canon movie of the franchise), ends with Naruto and Hinata's wedding during the ending credits. Konoha Hiden, an officially sanctioned light novel, deals with their wedding in more detail. The last arc of the Naruto anime adapted Konoha Hiden, with the finale ending on their wedding day.
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: Season 2 ends on a cliffhanger where in the Distant Finale, several photographs reveal that Panty and Brief got married and had a child named Junior.
- Ranma ½: The Grand Finale involved Ranma being bribed with Jusenkyo water and forced to marry Akane, four fiancees, assorted would-be lovers, at least one ninja, many pounds of explosives disguised as Oriental fast food, assorted murder attempts not related to the rest of that, and a pre-adolescent school teacher eating the wedding cake. Among other things. And thanks to status quo, they still didn't tie the knot!
- The last page of the Rave Master manga is a picture of Haru and Elie's wedding.
- The Grand Finale of the manga version of Sailor Moon and the anime adaptation Sailor Moon Cosmos ends with Usagi and Mamoru's long-awaited wedding, with all the main Sailor Guardians in attendance (also in white). It's implied that their Kid from the Future Chibi-Usa has been conceived.
- Downplayed in Sand Chronicles: The final chapter in Volume 10 nearly ends with the wedding day of Fuji and Mariko. It's only shown briefly though, and more emphasis is put on Ann and Fuji's conversation and the gang happily walking together.
- The finale of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has Simon and Nia's wedding day... which takes a sad turn when it's revealed as a result of the death of Anti-Spiral, Nia, formerly their messenger, must die with them. It takes all of her willpower to keep her body alive for her and Simon's special day before disappearing into light after they speak their vows.
- Undead Unluck: The story ends with Fuuko and Andy's wedding, which starts off with the two having forgotten the date due to being busy with others matters at the time. With assistance from their allies, they both arrive dressed for the occasion, exchange vows with a given ring, and ride off Happily Married.
- The last few pages of Whispered Words show the wedding of Sumika's brother Norio and Kinuta-san. The main couple gets to ring the wedding bell as a recognition of their relationship and in the hope that it will one day be legal for them to get married.
Comic Books
- Rat Queens: Violet and Orc Dave get married for creator Kurtis J. Wiebe's final issue.
- Wonder Woman Vol 1: Diana and Steve Trevor get married in the final issue, which took place right before Crisis on Infinite Earths permanently altered the multiverse.
Comic Strips
- The Adventures of Prudence Prim: Overlaps with Fourth-Date Marriage — in the final installment of this serial, Prudence meets, falls in love with, and elopes with the handsome Dicky Dare. All in the course of a single evening. As the caption reads:
He said, "Come, Darling, let's elope!" and drew her close to him.
She said "No, no! My name is Prudence, and my other name is Prim!"
"Come, Sweet— a special license—" and ere she was aware—
Her Christian name was Prudence— but her other name was Dare! - Dimples' Day Dreams: This short-runner from the 1920's ends with Dimples agreeing to give up her wild daydreams (of "careers and other men") to settle down with her faithful boyfriend. As the caption puts it, "THIS is her first TRUE day-dream—sweet 'Love, Honor and Obey!'"
- For Better or for Worse ends with Liz and Anthony being wed, then gives a "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue.
- The Fortunes of Flossie: The last installment of this serial sees Flossie's boyfriend Bill tricking her into a Last Wish Marriage by pretending he's been grievously injured in a car crash. Once they've tied the knot Bill reveals that he's unharmed; Flossie is so overjoyed that she immediately forgives his deception.
"You are a parson, sir?" said Bill. "I am." Bill gave a wink.
"Then marry us two quick, I beg. I'm going to die, I think!"
Flossie agreed, and they were wed, and Bill came to at once.
"Hooray! You're mine now, Flossie! No more fortune telling stunts!" - The Gold Witch: The last comic takes place on the day that the Gold Witch and her sweetheart Tom are married. The pair reconcile with Tom's father, who is also the Gold Witch's legal guardian (after he turned the Gold Witch out of their home and threatened to disown Tom if he went through with the marriage).
Fairy Tales
- Cinderella ends with Cinderella marrying the prince.
Fan Works
- The Coming of the First Ones: Shinji and Asuka get ready for their wedding in the final scenes.
- The Empath: The Luckiest Smurf novel ends with Empath and Smurfette's wedding in the final chapter.
- A Fairly Odd Movie: Remade & Extended: The epilogue has Timmy Turner marrying either Trixie Tang or Tootie.
- Kara of Rokyn: In the final chapter of "Last Waltz with Luthor" story arc, the whole superhero community — including their Earth-Two doppelgangers — attend the wedding of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Clark is so shocked that they finally got married after so long he fears at any time he'll wake up, or Lois will turn out to be a robot, or he'll turn out to be a robot...
A week after that, Clark Kent and Lois Lane tied the knot in a ceremony attended by the Lane family, many relatives of the Kent family, Mr. and Mrs. Danvers, and a good number of super-heroes from three Earths, all in their civilian identities. The last category included a couple from Earth-Two, both of whom had changed their hair color to attend, both of whom were quite a bit older than the marrying couple, and both of whom were told, several times, that they looked a lot like the people getting married. Clark Kent of Earth-Two usually smiled and changed the subject.
- The One I Love Is...: Shinji and Asuka get married in the epilogue. The whole episode covers their wedding until they go on a honeymoon.
- Psychedelic Epiphany Series: The final chapter of Psychedelic, "Discord Inevitably Decides Green Equines Rate Indescribably Desirable On Occupation"
is the wedding of the couple that the story has been building up, Discord and Tree Hugger.
- Relapse ends with Asuka accepting Shinji's proposal of marriage.
- The finale of The Road You Choose features Ash and Misty's impromptu elopement when the battle to determine whether Misty becomes a Water-type Master is postponed.
- The Rock Farmer's Daughters: The epilogue is about Cheese and Pinkamena's wedding.
- Shadow and Rose ends with the royal wedding.
- SMG4: Shatter-Verse Timeline: In the first story, SMG4 Fanfiction: Crystal Splezter, the chapter "Meggy and Tari's wedding" serves as this with Meggy and Tari getting married.
- You Are (Not) At Fault ends with Shinji and Asuka getting married.
- Zootopia: A Tail of Two, and its sequel It Takes Three, both end with Flash and Pricilla’s wedding and Nick and Judy’s wedding respectively.
Films — Animation
- Aladdin and the King of Thieves, which acts as the finale to Aladdin: The Series, starts with Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding being crashed by the Forty Thieves, who were specifically after an artifact that was being given as a wedding present. At the end of the movie, they do the ceremony over (mostly offscreen) and get married for real.
- Anastasia ends with Anya and Dmitri eloping. However, as her grandmother says, it's not a perfect ending - "it's a perfect beginning."
- The early Barbie movies used this ending quite often:
- Barbie as Rapunzel ends with Rapunzel and Stefan's wedding, followed by them moving away to live in their own castle together and Rapunzel's friends tagging along.
- Barbie of Swan Lake ends with Odette and Daniel's wedding being celebrated in the Enchanted Forest.
- Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper has an epilogue where Anneliese and Erika marry their respective love interests, Julian and Dominick, in a double wedding. It ends with both couples going off on the honeymoon in the same carriage.
- Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses ends at Genevieve's wedding to Derek, with everyone present dancing to celebrate.
- Barbie as the Island Princess ends with Rosella and Antonio's wedding, followed by them leaving for their honeymoon on the island Rosella grew up on.
- Cinderella ends with Cinderella and the Prince leaving for their honeymoon immediately after the wedding.
- Despicable Me 2 ends with Gru and Lucy getting married.
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World ends with Hiccup and Astrid getting married.
- The Little Mermaid (1989) ends at Ariel's and Eric's wedding.
- Robin Hood (1973) ends with all of the title character's friends celebrating his wedding to Maid Marian, and their departure in a coach with a banner reading "Just Married."
- Rugrats in Paris ends with a Time Skip to Chas and Kira's wedding reception. This doubles as Bookends as the movie begins with a wedding reception as well, between Lou and Lulu.
- The original Shrek 1 ends with Shrek and Fiona's marriage ceremony, set to "I'm a Believer" being sung by Donkey as everyone else at the wedding dances.
Films — Live-Action
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Subverted as it ends with Astrid marrying a boy she meets at Dracula's Castle and gives birth to a baby that turns out to be Betelgeuse's inner child. Then Lydia wakes up from her nightmare.
- The Birdcage ends with the parents all attending Val and Barbara's interfaith wedding.
- The final scene of Bridesmaids is Lillian's wedding to Doug.
- Degrassi: School's Out!: The film ends with several characters attending the wedding of Simon and Alexa. Ten years later at their class reunion, they are still Happily Married and expecting their third child.
- Doctor Detroit: The last scene in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue is the wedding of Clifford and Karen.
- Ella Enchanted: Ella and Char's wedding at the end provides the trope page image shown above.
- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore ends with Jacob's and Queenie's wedding in the former's bakery, attended by their friends and family, as Dumbledore watches them from the outside.
- Played with in The Graduate, which builds towards a wedding of the hero's love interest with some other guy. At the end, the bride runs away from the altar with the hero.
- Guys and Dolls. At the end of the movie, Sky Masterson marries Sarah Brown and Nathan Detroit marries Miss Adelaide in a double wedding.
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The film ends with Indy and Marion getting married.
- Innerspace ends with the hero and his love interest getting married.
- Kaamelott: First Installment: Not the main characters but still, Karadoc's two daughters marry their suitors at the end.
- Kimmy vs. The Reverend: Played for Laughs. This is the comedic interactive finale to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt where the overall goal is to get Kimmy her catharsis and get her back in one piece for her wedding to Prince Charming despite the many mishaps along the way. If you get the Good Ending, Kimmy has the wedding of her life.
- Mamma Mia!: The end is supposed to be Sophie and Sky's wedding, but they call it off so rather than let it go to waste, Sam and Donna marry instead.
- Marry Me! Marry Me!: 20 minutes or so are devoted to the traditional Jewish wedding of Claude and Isabelle in the climax, although there's also a short Distant Finale with their kid and Isabelle pregnant with another.
- Les Misérables (1995) ends on Salomé's wedding to Marius at Chez Jean Valjean.
- The Muppets Take Manhattan ends with Kermit and Miss Piggy walking down the aisle together. Kermit had assumed it was just a fake staged for the film, but Piggy swapped Gonzo for a real minister behind his back. Word of God has it that the subsequent argument over whether or not the ceremony counted was why frog and pig are estranged at the start of The Muppets (2011).
- Our Miss Brooks: The Movie Grand Finale ends with Connie Brooks and Phil Boynton leaving to get married. This is Miss Brooks' Happily Ever After, as marrying the shy Mr. Boynton had been her Series Goal from the start.
- Overboard (2018): The movie ends with Leonardo and Kate's wedding, for real this time, officiated by a Norwegian ship captain on Leonardo's yacht.
- Promising Young Woman ends at Al and Anastasia's wedding. They get married, with Al appearing a Karma Houdini, but Cassie comes through at the last moment with her posthumous text, circulating the video of Al raping Nina and getting arrested for Cassie's murder.
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves ends with Robin and Marian marrying in a beautiful ceremony in the woods - which King Richard interrupts (right before Friar Tuck declares that they are husband and wife) on the grounds that he should be permitted to Give Away the Bride. No one objects; Marian is delighted.
- Sense and Sensibility ends with a double wedding for the Dashwood sisters.
- Spaceballs ends with what was to be the wedding of Princess Vespa and Prince Valium, until Prince Lone Star arrives, declares his parentage, pushes Prince Valium aside, and gets "the short, short version" of the wedding: "Do you?" "Yes!" "Do you?" "Yes!" "Good! You're married. Kiss her!"
- The Tree of Wooden Clogs: Near the end of the movie Maddalena and Stefano get married in the village church.
Literature
- Animal Inn: The series' Grand Finale in book 12 sees Doc and Mrs. Sparks marrying, holding a small ceremony in the Taylor family living room (despite the efforts of the mayor, who wants to turn the entire thing into a big to-do because of Doc being one of the family's most respected citizens) and the reception at Miss Maggie Rafferty's estate.
- The Chronicles of Prydain ends on what turns out to be Taran and Eilonwy's wedding day. It being medieval fantasy, however, the wedding is a simple matter of them joining hands and pledging their troth in front of some witnesses. It takes up approximately three sentences of exposition on the next-to-last page.
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The climax of The Ugly Truth takes place during Uncle Gary's fourth wedding.
- Discworld:
- Mort ends with the wedding of Mort and Ysabell.
- Lords and Ladies ends with the wedding of Magrat and King Verence.
- I Shall Wear Midnight ends with the wedding of Roland and Letitia.
- Dr. Greta Helsing: The third novel ends with Greta and Francis Varney tying the knot on a sunny autumn day, attended by their Family of Choice and all the friends they've made throughout the books.
- Earth's Scariest Monsters!: The final chapter, and thus the story as a whole, ends with Isabelle and Jermaine getting engaged and later marrying.
- King Arthur's Daughter ends with Ursulet and Ambris marrying and vowing to carry on King Arthur's legacy by having descendants together, keeping his memory alive until his prophesied return.
- The King's Damosel: Inverted. The story begins with sisters Lynette and Lyonesse's double wedding to the brothers Gaheris and Gareth, and then goes into flashbacks to show what happened up to that point and why Lynette is so miserable about being forced to marry Gaheris.
- The Ordinary Princess: Well, the wedding occurs at the end, but is followed after by the honeymoon before "The End" is said.
- Red Lotus: The novel ends with Siu-Sing marrying Toby Hyde-Wilkins and living happily at the Villa Formosa.
- The Shadowhunter Chronicles:
- City of Heavenly Fire, the last book in The Mortal Instruments, ends with Luke and Jocelyn's wedding. They were supposed to get married in City of Fallen Angels , but the marriage got postponed due to Jace's possession by Lilith and subsequent disappearance.
- The Dark Artifices ends with the marriage of Alec and Magnus. They had been engaged for several years at that point, but marriage between a Shadowhunter and Downworlder was illegal, so they couldn't get married. However, after the war with the Cohort Alec became the new Consul and he immediately made it legal.
- The Ship That Sailed to Mars ends with the wedding of the Martian Princess and her beloved Prince, who has just been rescued from the clutches of Thunder City by the cunning Old Man who designed and built the titular ship.
Then the Prince and the Princess were married, and the bells rang out afresh, and on the scene shone the Double Moons the Old Man had so longed to see.
- A Tall Order: The story ends with Bonnie and Jermaine getting engaged and later marrying.
- The Three Sillies ends with the young man marrying his girlfriend Liza after he succeeds in finding three people sillier than her.
- Averted by The Water-Babies, which explains why Tom and Ellie won't get married: "Don't you know that no one ever marries in a fairy tale, under the rank of a prince or a princess?"
- World's Greatest Animals: The final chapter, and thus the story as a whole, ends with Crystal and Jermaine getting engaged and later marrying.
Live-Action TV
- Choujin Sentai Jetman ends with a bittersweet version. In the epilogue after the final battle, Ryu and Kaori get hitched and Gai attempts to attend the wedding, but comes across a mugger who ends up stabbing him after he rescues a woman. He misses the wedding ceremony but manages to make it to the reception and give his blessing to his friends before dying.
- The final episode of The Crown (2016) culminates in Prince Charles's wedding to Camilla in 2005.
- The last episode of Dad's Army "Never Too Old" featured the wedding of Corporal Jones and Mrs. Fox.
- Mixed with And the Adventure Continues in the final scene of Descendants of the Sun, which ends on the wedding of Daniel and Ye Hwa. The reception is interrupted by news of a volcanic eruption, which the main characters gear up to deal with.
- The final episode of Desperate Housewives has the wedding of Renee Perry (who goes all Bridezilla) and Ben Faulkner.
- The Flash (2014) uses Barry and Iris' wedding as the backdrop to the yearly Arrowverse crossover, Crisis on Earth-X. Everything's going fine when suddenly all the superheroes in town for the occasion have to stop an invasion from the Nazi dimension. Once that's dealt with, they decide not to do the ceremony over and just exchange vows and rings with Diggle officiating. Oliver and Felicity decide to jump in at the last minute, and they elope as well.
- The finale of the second season of The Flight Attendant ends with Annie Mouradian and Max Park getting married after Annie had spent most of the first season insisting that Max was not her boyfriend and most of the second insisting he was not her fiancee.
- The finale of Happy Days had the wedding of Joanie and Chachi.
- Hold the Sunset: The final episode of the series features the long-awaited marriage of Edith and Phil.
- How I Met Your Mother:
- The entire final season took place during the weekend that led to Barney and Robin's wedding.
- The alternate ending of the last episode ends with snippets of Ted's own, long-awaited, wedding.
- Jane the Virgin:
- Given that this is a show steeped in the drama and romance of telenovelas, every season finale involves one of the Villanueva women getting married. This includes the Grand Finale, which is Jane's own Happily Ever After.
- Discussed in the finale episode, where many of Jane's childhood telenovelas ended with a wedding.
- Kamen Rider Kiva ends with The Lancer Nago getting hitched to Megumi, though the series plays with this by seguing it into And the Adventure Continues when Wataru's Kid from the Future Masao arrives to warn of the new Neo-Fangire threat.
- In the Grand Finale of The Latest Buzz, the stress of planning an enormous wedding (mostly to please D.J.'s mother) causes D.J. and Mr Shepherd to split up. When the kids at Teen Buzz find out, they arrange a private ceremony on the roof of the building and trick D.J. and Shepherd into turning up under false pretenses. They realize they really do love each other and go through with the ceremony.
- Married... with Children: The final episode, two-parter "How to Marry A Moron"note , involved a wedding between Kelly and Lonnie, a former ex-con who's likewise the son of the makers of Weenie Tots, meaning he's rich. Al initially approves but ultimately calls it off when Lonnie appears unfaithful.
- The Middle:
- The third-season finale, "The Wedding," is built around Mike's brother Rusty's wedding at the Hecks' house.
- The final episode shows Sue and Sean's wedding.
- The fifth-season two-part finale of Modern Family centered around Cam and Mitchell's wedding. After a series of mishaps, including changing venues multiple times and Sal's water breaking, it's Jay who ends up saving the wedding by relocating it to his country club. The show even averts the "But Not Too Gay" trope by actually showing the gay couple kiss each other on-screen.
- Mr. Belvedere: The Grand Finale has Mr. Belvedere getting married and preparing to accompany his new bride to Africa.
- The second and fifth seasons of New Girl wrap up with episodes about Cece's weddings. The former ends with her and the Disposable Fiancé calling it off at the last minute, while the latter, to Schmidt, goes through after many mishaps.
- Never Have I Ever: The show's penultimate setpiece is at Nirmala's wedding to her American boyfriend. It is attended by Devi's family, friends, and members of the community. There is an added layer of sentimentality as she's also going off to college the next day; an auntie points out that it's emblematic of the end of her childhood.
- 9-1-1: Lone Star: The last segment of the fourth season finale features the wedding of TK Strand and Carlos Reyes.
- NUMB3RS: The sixth season (and series) finale had Charlie and Amita's wedding.
- Our Miss Brooks: The Movie Grand Finale ends with Connie Brooks and Phil Boynton leaving to get married. This is Miss Brooks' Happily Ever After, as marrying the shy Mr. Boynton had been her Series Goal from the start.
- The final episode of the Soap Opera Passions was of Ethan and Theresa's wedding.
- Peep Show:
- Season 2 ends with Jeremy and Nancy's wedding.
- Season 4 arc is centered around Mark and Sophie's wedding. Naturally the actual ceremony happens in the last episode.
- Season 6's finale is set at Gail and Elena's wedding.
- The final season (not the final episode though) features Super Hans's wedding.
- Pride and Prejudice (1995) ends on the double wedding day of Jane and Elizabeth.
- Punky Brewster: The final episode of the series revolves around a wedding staged for Punky's dog Brandon and a neighbor's female golden retriever, Brenda.
- The Red Green Show: Harold and his fiancee Bonnie get married in the series finale, with Red Green himself officiating. The wedding turns out to be the final segment in the series' run.
- The Righteous Gemstones: The last episode ends with Kelvin and Keefe getting married.
- Schitt's Creek: The Series Finale centers around David and Patrick's Wedding, which includes many mishaps. Patrick gifts David with a massage and inadvertently requests a happy ending for his fiance. Rain threatens to wash out the festivities. Alexis wears a wedding dress, which she insists is simply a full-length white gown that happened to come with a tulle headdress she chose not to wear. Thankfully, all of these are minor setbacks and the wedding comes off beautifully and everyone lives happily ever after.
- Sesame Street's 19th season finale features the wedding of Luis and Maria.
- Sky Med: The Season 3 finale, "Chasing Sunsets", heavily focuses on Austen and Madison's wedding.
- Spoofed in Stargate-SG1's episode "200" with Imagine Spot of Jack and Daniel having a double wedding with Sam and Valla.
- The Season 5 finale of Star Trek: Discovery was originally meant to end with Saru and T'Rina's wedding. Alas, that episode was not originally meant to also be the Series Finale. As production on Season 5 had already finished by the time it was confirmed there wouldn't be a Season 6, the wedding scene stayed in, but an unrelated Flash Forward sequence featuring Burnham, Booker and their grown son was quickly written, filmed and tacked onto the end of the episode, to serve as as a coda for the series. So, technically the wedding scene doesn't mark the end of the episode, the season, or the series; however, as far as Saru and most of the other main characters are concerned, it still marks the (unplanned) end of their rolesnote .
- Supergirl (2015): The series finale ends with Alex and Kelly's wedding.
- Following the resolution of the case in "Bite Club" from Turner & Hooch (2021), Xavier and his fiancee Olivia get married on Cypress Beach.
- Veronica Mars: The series finale ends with a wedding between Veronica and Logan, right off the heels of catching the Neptune Bomber and Logan almost being late due to a therapy appointment. And then the episode continues to the next day, where the location of the last bomb is finally discovered to be Logan's car. He's killed by it, ending the series on a much darker note than the wedding implied.
- The Vicar of Dibley:
- Hugo Horton and Alice Tinker get married in the second season finale episode, "Love and Marriage".
- The Grand Finale, "The Vicar in White", sees Geraldine get married to accountant Harry Kennedy.
- When Calls the Heart: Lee and Rosemary wed in the season three finale, "Prayers From The Heart".
- Wynonna Earp: The series finale is built entirely around Waverly and Nicole's long-awaited wedding.
Professional Wrestling
- On the season finale of Ring Ka King, Angelina Love was given the choice between marrying Romeo and Zoravor. She picked the latter and the wedding went off without a hitch.
Radio
- The Navy Lark: Series 3's Season Finale, "The Surprise Wedding", sees Lieutenant Commander Stanton invite the rest of the crew to his last-minute wedding before they're all due for leave.
Theatre
- & Juliet: The entirety of the cast end the show celebrating Lance and Angelique's wedding to the tune of "Can't Stop the Feeling".
- Cirque du Soleil
- KÀ ends with not just one but three weddings, on top of a coronation. At the coronation of The Twins, Twin Brother marries the Chief Archer's Daughter, joining the Archer's Village to the Empire, Twin Sister marries the Firefly Boy joining the Forest Tribe to the Empire and the Nursemaid Marries the Chief of the Mountain Tribe, adding his people to the Empire as well.
- La Nouba ends with the Cleaning Lady's wedding to the Frog Prince.
- Varekai ends with Icarus marrying The Betrothed.
- While not the last song in the actual musical (which has more of a Bittersweet Ending), the in-universe musical in The Drowsy Chaperone, which centers around a wedding, ends with three different weddings all happening at once in the song "I Do, I Do In The Sky."
- At the end of Guys and Dolls, Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown have just been married and Nathan Detroit is about to marry Miss Adelaide.
- William Shakespeare likes this trope:
- As You Like It ends with a quadruple wedding, uniting the four couples who have come together during the course of the play.
- Played with in Measure for Measure. In theory, the long final scene has Angelo and Mariana get married, but in most productions, they exit for the ceremony. (It also ends with the Duke proposing marriage to Isabella, and it's possible to stage the marriage in Isabella's silence, but this is by no means clear.)
- Much Ado About Nothing: The final scene takes place over Claudio and Hero's wedding, culminating in their marriage and Claudio realizing that Hero didn't die when she collapsed upon being abandoned at their first wedding.
- Para Handy: A Voyage Round the Stories of Neil Munro, which Arc Welds several of Munro's stories into a single plot, ends with the adaptation of "Para Handy's Wedding".
Video Games
- Catherine:
- If you decide to have Vincent stay faithful to Katherine, he manages to reconcile their relationship and eventually propose to her. The two wed at the Stray Sheep with Boss supervising the whole proceedings.
- If the player can achieve Rin's true ending in Catherine: Full Body, Rin and Vincent will also have a wedding in the Stray Sheep, officiated by Rin's Big Brother. Given that Rin is both a man and an Angelic Alien, their legal status is open to interpretation.
- Chrono Trigger: In all versions after the SNES original, the final anime cutscene shows Crono and Marle getting married, as well as Ayla putting a ring on Kino's hand and giving him a look that says he'd better return the favor if he knows what's good for him.
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NES): The good ending shows Dr. Jekyll and Miss Millicent getting married, and getting to the occasion on time was the former's goal. The normal ending only shows the church.
- Fatal Fury: Real Bout 2: Mai Shiranui's ending involves her finally getting married to her longtime crush Andy Bogard. It turns out to be All Just a Dream.
- Final Fantasy IV ends with Cecil's and Rosa's wedding which also serves as their ascension to the throne of Baron.
- Galaxy Angel: The third game of the trilogy, Eternal Lovers, ends every route with a post-credits image for each Angel. For Milfeulle, it shows her and Tact's wedding at the church they'd previously visited during their vacation.
- The 20th and final installment of the Haunted Hotel series, A Past Redeemed, is about James Blackthorne's wedding.
- King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow ends with the wedding between Alexander and Cassima. Depending on the ending the player gets, the number of guests will change, with the long ending having all of the islands united again and their representatives in attendance, along with the resurrected King and Queen of the Green Isles.
- Knight Bewitched: The game ends with Ruth and Gwen's wedding.
- The Creative Closing Credits of the true ending of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV is artwork of the cast attending the wedding of Prince Olivert Reise Arnor and Scherazard Harvey.
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: Provided that the relevant sidequest was completed prior, the game's ending will show the wedding of Anju and Kafei, taking place in the West Gate exit of Clock Town (next to Great Bay).
- Momoko 120%: The game's final level has the now 20-year-old Momoko collect wedding trinkets in a church within 30 seconds. Afterwards, she gets married to an unknown and it is revealed they'll have a baby later on. The game (or at least, one cycle of it) ends.
- Monkey Island:
- The Secret of Monkey Island ends with Le Chuck trying to forcibly wed Elaine.
- The Curse of Monkey Island ends with Guybrush and Elaine setting sail on their honeymoon cruise.
- The final story quest in New Style Boutique 2: Fashion Forward is to design Adelaide's wedding dress. This is followed by a cutscene of her wedding, and then the second credits.
- Story of Seasons (2014) technically "ends" with the player marrying the bachelor/bachelorette of their choice, as the game's credits roll following the ceremony. However, the gameplay can continue as long as the player wishes, including Babies Ever After.
- The Creative Closing Credits of Tales of Arise depict the wedding of Alphen and Shionne, the game's two lead characters.
Visual Novels
- Dies Irae does an interesting dual variation of the trope. After endless trials and tribulations, the main cast finally gets their well-deserved happy ending, closing out with a marriage. And depending on the choices made, it will either show the marriage of Ren and Rea at the present time or the marriage of Lotus and Anna in the past.
- The Perfect Ending of Melody finishes with the wedding of the protagonist and title character.
- In Our Life: Beginnings & Always, if the MC was engaged to Cove by the end of Step 4, and the Wedding DLC was purchased, the final act is setting up and then holding their wedding.
- Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II does a far more disturbing variant. The final chapter, titled “The Departed's Wedding”, concerns both a horrific Human Sacrifice ritual disguised as a double-wedding that created the Departed and the “wedding” that the Departed wants to force Kazuo into. The final boss takes place in a dark; twisted wedding altar, and Kazuo needs to propose to them according to the customs of the village to pacify them.
Webcomics
- The epilogue of Archipelago follows Alice and Riley's wedding day from the moment Credenza (The Protagonist, and a guide/bridesmaid to Alice) wakes up in the morning to around midnight when she steals a moment with her boyfriend.
- The last few strips of Dominic Deegan cover the wedding ceremony of Dominic and Luna.
- Volume 6 of Ennui GO! (and Part 1 as a whole) ends with the wedding of Izzy, Darcy, and Tanya.
- The credits sequence of Homestuck includes Rose and Kanaya's wedding, complete with several characters going Trickster Mode.
- In The Order of the Stick, Elan's Happy Ending culminates in his mother and father marrying each other again. This turns out to be a Victory Fakeout, as the whole thing was a fantasy generated by a Lotus-Eater Machine.
- Princess Princess (2012): Amira and Sadie marry in the epilogue after they had been shown falling in love throughout the story.
Western Animation
- Adventure Time: In the final episode "Come Along With Me", though it's not any of the main characters who get married, but rather Gunther (who has become the new Ice King) and Turtle Princess.
- The finale TV movie of As Told by Ginger involves Lois and Dave marrying each other.
- The Berenstain Bears (2002) episode "The Bad Dream" has Brother and Sister pretending their figurines of Sleezo and Bearbie - a bad guy from the Show Within a Show Space Grizzlies and The Berenstain Bears version of Barbie respectively - get married after Sleezo has a Heel–Face Turn.
- The final episode of BoJack Horseman takes place at Princess Carolyn's wedding to Judah...or rather, her industry wedding shortly after her smaller, more personal wedding.
- The final episode of Brand Spanking New Doug sees Mr. Mayonnaise wedding Ms. Krystal.
- Futurama: "Meanwhile," intended as the series finale before the second revival, focuses on Fry trying to propose marriage to Leela. They do get married, but only after accidentally freezing the rest of the world in time, leaving them alone to travel the globe and grow old together in what Leela calls a "very, very, very long honeymoon." However, the professor's arrival in the final scene retcons most of the episode, including the wedding.
- The Legend of Korra: The Grand Finale includes the wedding of Varrick and Zhu Li as its penultimate scene.
- Little Bear: The episode, The Wedding, in which Mr. Skunk and Miss Skunk get married, is the last in the half hour episode triad, The Painting/The Kiss/The Wedding, which concludes the series' fourth season.
- The second season of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic ends with "A Canterlot Wedding", a two-part episode focusing on the wedding between Twilight's brother Shining Armor and her former foal sitter, Princess Cadance. Things take a turn when Queen Chrysallis, the queen of changelings, traps Cadance and disguises as her, hypnotizes Shining Armor, and infests Canterlot with her swarm of changelings. The queen is defeated with Shining and Cadance's Power of Love and the second part ends with their official wedding.
- The series finale of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes has three weddings back-to-back in the ending montage:
- Carol (K.O.'s mom) and Gar (K.O.'s boss/mentor/father figure), who have been an Official Couple since Season 2, formally tie the knot.
- Nick and Joff, minor characters who have been Those Two Guys (who were also dating) throughout the show's run, also get hitched.
- The third one is a parody; best friends Potato and Colewort are shown having a wedding, but are too young at that point (the same age as K.O.) to actually get married.
- The Princess Power episode "Princess Royal Wedding" unsurprisingly ends with a wedding. In this case, it's between Rita's mother Queen Ryung and Omera's mother Queen Olivia.
- Samurai Jack: The Grand Finale ends with Jack and Ashi getting married after Aku's defeat. However, it becomes a Bittersweet Ending as Ashi ends up Ret-Gone since she is Aku's Half-Human Hybrid daughter from the future, and as a result is never conceived due to the past Aku's destruction.
- Solar Opposites: The final scene of the standalone Valentine's Day special takes place at Korvo and Terry's wedding.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) does this in the series finale "Wedding Bells and Bytes." The Ninja Turtles have finally retrieved Master Splinter from Cyberspace, just in time to attend the wedding of April O'Neil and Casey Jones. Also at the wedding (openly and secretly) are various friends and allies of the Turtles from the past several seasons. However, the Cyber Shredder and his goons manage to hitch a ride on Splinter, manifesting during the wedding. The Turtles get rid of Cyber Shredder for good and April and Casey are officially married.
- Voltron: Legendary Defender: The final scene of the finale shows Shiro getting married to Curtis.
- Winx Club: "Winx Forever", the last episode of the sixth season, ends with Daphne and Thoren getting married.
- Young Justice: The last scene and credits (discounting The Stinger) of the season 4 finale has several characters from across the show arrive at Happy Harbor for the long-awaited and much-anticipated wedding of Conner Kent and M'gann M'orzz.
