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{{trope}}
Heroes' lives are incredibly busy, to the point where they can hardly get anything done for all the villains popping up and blowing things to Hell. Since your average hero can't even cash his paycheck without getting caught up in a bank robbery, it's hardly any surprise when their special occasions get similarly derailed -- and one of the worst victims of explosive violence is the wedding.
There's no denying it -- a lot of heroes (and, being fair, villains too) have to put up with having their "special day" interrupted with a battle. They just can't catch a break.
But, hey - if this is your life, this is your life, and you might as well get on with it instead of rescheduling. Your pluckiest protagonist will persevere, and utter their vows amidst clashing swords, sprays of gunfire or falling shells. Whether that makes it more or less romantic is dependent on the viewer.
Perhaps this would happen less if heroes brought it up when delivering the [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies]] speech. "Honey, I can't keep seeing you -- we'd have to have a weapons check at the door to the church!"
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Gundam Seed Destiny]] has Kira performing an epic example of this trope, crashing the wedding with the Freedom and "kidnapping" the reluctant bride Cagalli, while her groom hides behind her, before running in cowardice.
* The last chapter of the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' manga. The wedding that Ranma was bribed into going through with turns into a battle (but what doesn't in that story?). In the end the wedding is cancelled. {{spoiler|And there the story ends.}}
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' has {{spoiler|Xing Ke}} perform quite possibly the most epic Wedding Crash of all time. {{spoiler|And then, Lelouch, true to form, upstages him ''fabulously''.}}
** "Oh, really?" ''cue [[Evil Laugh|maniacal laughter]]''
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|New Titans]]'' comic, Nightwing and Starfire had their wedding interrupted by supervillains frying the minister.
** Averted in the wedding of Wonder Girl and Terry Long, however; a mysterious disturbance is teased and then revealed to be Donna's foster mother Queen Hippolyta come to give her blessing to the pair.
* Almost every comic-book wedding ever, to the point that the wedding of [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Cyclops and Jean Grey]] was notable because it ''didn't'' employ this trope. Probably started in comics by Reed and Sue's wedding in ''FF Annual #3''.
** I'm pretty sure the Cyclops/Jean Grey example was lampshaded by somebody observing that any supervillains attacking would have to be complete idiots, given the sheer volume of super-people present- the wedding party ''alone'' had enough firepower to reduce the area to a mile-wide glassed-over crater.
*** [[Axe Crazy]] Villain Sabretooth was going to attack....but Wolverine, who did not attend the wedding, managed to keep him at bay. Sort of Wolverine's way of saying [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]
** Johnny Storm's marriage to Alicia Masters, or rather the Skrull spy Lyja impersonating her, proceeded uninterrupted, but behind the scenes the Puppet Master was on the verge of wrecking the wedding by making Ben crush Johnny's skull. At the end he had a change of heart.
** Rather hilariously, ''[http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2009/08/24-hours-with-jack-kirby-hour-4.html Stan Lee and Jack Kirby]'' try crashing Reed and Sue's wedding, threatening vengeance (i.e. writing up new FF threats) as they are turned away from the door.
* [[Black Canary]] and [[Green Arrow]]'s wedding was invaded by numerous villains. During the commotion, the bridegroom was kidnapped, and the actual ceremony carried out with an imposter. After Green Arrow's rescue, they had a second, much quieter ceremony, which was not crashed.
* ''[[Incredible Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]]'': Averted, subverted ''and'' played straight during Rick Jones's wedding to Marlo Chandler. The wedding party already filled with heroes, {{spoiler|Mephisto }} arranges for invitations to get to Drax the Destroyer, the Frightful Four, and just about every named Kree and Skrull, hoping that mayhem would ensue, but it didn't (except for a little smack that the Hulk laid down on him). Plus a special guest appearance by [[DC Comics]]' version of Death. (Bear in mind that ''Hulk'' is a Marvel comic.)
** Don't forget the attack on Rick's bachelor party by the sinister Ecdysiast! {{spoiler|Ecdysiast is a fancy term for "stripper". She's armed with a hair dryer. Apparently, [[Captain America (comics)]] hired her under the impression she did card tricks}}.
** Actually, the false invitations were sent out by {{spoiler|[[Great Gazoo|Impossible Man]]}} because he wasn't invited. {{spoiler|Mephisto}} just took advantage of the situation.
** Furthermore, the hen party for the bride visited a male strip club, which was promptly robbed. The perps kinda regretted trying to rob [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|the most powerful women on Earth...]] (though [[She Hulk]] claimed they were "Hillary Clinton's fan-club!")
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== [[Film]] ==
* A villainous example occurs in ''Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'' when the Sheriff of Nottingham forcibly wed Maid Marian (and [[Attempted Rape|tried to rape her]]) in the middle of total Merry Men-sponsored anarchy.
* In the 1964 film ''Father Goose,'' Cary Grant and Leslie Caron marry while their Matavala shack is being shot at by Japanese fighters.
* At the start of ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: Dead Man's Chest'', the wedding of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann is interrupted by the beginning of the plot. Inverted in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'': Will and Elizabeth interrupt the ''battle'' with their ''wedding'', after figuring that if they keep waiting until there's time to hold the wedding properly it'll never happen.
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** {{spoiler|Made even funnier by the fact that a quick bout of [[Fridge Logic]] on the part of the audience shows that the event (Venice is sinking) isn't actually that much of a disaster, in the fact it's happening in real life, albeit over the course of many years/decades/centuries.}}
* ''[[Kill Bill]]'' centers around the revenge-seeking Bride, who is out for blood after a variation of this trope: it was her wedding ''rehearsal'' that was broken up by a squad of assassins.
* ''The Jewel of the Nile'' features a [[Dream Sequence]] wedding interruped by a pirate attack.
* The opening of ''[[Spy Kids]].''
* In ''[[Fiddler On the Roof]],'' the wedding ceremony goes ahead but the reception is halted by a "little unofficial demonstration" spearheaded by the local sheriff.
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* ''[[Beetlejuice]]'': "Sandworms. You know I hate 'em."
* The partnership of ''[[Nate and Hayes]]'' starts after Hayes' arch enemy attacks the island where Nate's wedding is being held.
* In the third movie [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]] crashes her own wedding. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
== [[Literature]] ==
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{{quote|'''Scorpius''': What did you expect?}}
* Honorable mention: In ''[[Star Trek]]'', the legend of Kahless and Lukara--an example of this trope--became such an important part of Klingon culture that the traditional Klingon wedding ceremony involves a mock mid-ceremony attack.
** In the original ''[[Star Trek]]'', Kirk was officiating a wedding between two of his crew when it got interrupted by Federation business. Specifically, an invisible enemy blowing up Federation bases on the Neutral Zone. The groom didn't survive to finish the wedding, alas...
* In the [[Whoniverse]]:
** ''[[Torchwood]]'': Gwen gets impregnated with an alien baby pre-wedding, and the mother alien shows up at the wedding to claim it.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Happens in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]] And The King Of Thieves'', when the Forty Thieves raid Aladdin's wedding. (Semi-justified in that they were there to steal a wedding gift.)
* Happens in the the '90s Animated ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]''. Harry Osborn as the Goblin crashes Peter and Mary Jane's wedding with the intent of taking Mary Jane for himself.
** Notably averted in the orginal comics version of their wedding, which was suprisingly mundane.
* Apparently [[Ben 10|Ben Tennyson]] can't even be in someone ''else's'' wedding without being caught in the crossfire between the bride's family of sludge aliens and the groom's family of Plumbers.
* In the second season finale of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', the Monarch's wedding to Dr. Girlfriend is interrupted by the Phantom Limb and his Guild army.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* At one [[Society for Creative Anachronism]]-themed wedding, the priest's ceremony included the line: "If anyone present has any reason why these two should not be joined in holy matrimony.... they must defeat the Best Man in hand-to-hand combat!". (Allegedly, this is where the position of "Best Man" originally came from.)
** Indeed - this is also why, despite the church traditionally being in the bride's home parish, it's controlled by the groomsmen for the duration of the ceremony. Back in the day the groom stood a reasonable risk of having to ride deep into the territory of people with whom relations were, at best, shaky to seal a diplomatic marriage (to say nothing of the guys who effectively ''kidnapped'' their brides). To do this he needed to kneel, with his back to the door, only a few feet away from men who had been trying to kill him until very recently. Small wonder then that he would be expected to take a retinue with him, that they would control the church and its grounds and that his 'best man' would be standing within a sword's length of him. This is also why the bride always stands to the left of the groom, in case things really went to hell and he needed his sword arm free.
*** Just look at the Red Wedding in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' ... and I'm pretty sure this was based on something that happened in real life Scotland.
**** Not exactly on the weddingday, but they were gathered for a wedding: the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre&oldid=347806790 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]
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