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Perfectly Arranged Marriage

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“Yesterday, my mom and dad told me I was getting engaged to the grandson of my grandfather’s best friend. We’re Japanese-American so it wasn’t that unusual. So today I met my new fiancee and realized that it was the same guy that I spent 3 hours with on Facebook, debating whether was better than I think it’s fate.”

No one likes an Arranged Marriage, especially those so betrothed. They’ll rip their clothes, gnash their teeth and swear to… was that them necking in the atrium?

Despite their initial opposition, the couple who have been betrothed discover they not only like each other, but each other, and make it perfectly clear that even if they weren’t in an arranged marriage they’d still choose to marry or at least start dating. Drama being what it is, you can expect their earlier attempts to undo the arranged marriage will mature and succeed, and their parents set them up with a new fiancée or fiancé that they hate. Expect one or the other to be have to swallow their pride and come out and say they do love the other.

Another variant is that both meet outside of the home environment (before or after the declaration) without immediately recognizing each other. Maybe they ran away from home entirely, only to happily embrace “a fellow in misery” — and commiserate about their bossy parents. Eventually, once they recognize one another their shared common ground helps them fall in love.

Sometimes this perfectly arranged marriage doesn’t come about randomly, but intentionally by parents. One or more of the parents involved who knows both well enough has arranged the marriage since both are highly compatible and could naturally fall in love. In fact, this is kind of the of an ‘arranged marriage’ in the first place. It is akin to a matchmaking service, and the couple will generally have some sort of courtship before tying the knot, and it’s very rare for someone to be forced to marry a person they despise (unless dowry is involved, of course).

This trope is frequently used as a justification for the use of the Arranged Marriage trope to audiences with Western sensibilities. It’s not an imposition or violation of free will if both to get married, after all.

If the marriage does not start as happily but becomes a better deal afterwards, it’s Marriage Before Romance instead.

Examples of Perfectly Arranged Marriage include:

Anime and Manga

Comics

  • Karolina and Xavin of Runaways end up like this.

    Before Xavin got Put on a Bus

  • Crystal and Ronan the Accuser during . Kind of. Crystal starts off hating Ronan and eventually begins to admire him and understand that he’s in basically the same situation that she is.
  • Doctor Strange‘s manservant Wong was betrothed as a child to a girl who wasn’t even born yet. Nevertheless, he has no problem falling in love with Imei once they meet, though she dies before they can get married.

Fanfiction

  • The main characters of have this. Saito realizes how perfect the match is when he finds out his fiance Tokio has spent the fic

    disguised as two different people, secretly terrorizing him and his best friend, running a spy ring and executing a Batman Gambit

  • Chapter 10 of a Detective Conan fic, . In a slight variation, they had the Slap Slap part down just fine, but it wasn’t until after they found out about the marriage that they realized the Kiss part sounded pretty nice too. They still freaked out about it immediately upon realization, but calmed down and came to their senses eventually.
  • In Through a Diamond Sky, it’s implied that Tron and Yori were “bundled” as one of these when their Users decided to team them up. Of course, it kinda that their Users became Happily Married.
  • In , a Naruto Fanfic, 99% of arranged marriages with a Hyuga end up this way. How you ask? Well, the bride and groom are told at the age of 3 who they’re arranged to marry but told that the other person doesn’t know. They then have the option of trying to win the other person’s love but have until they are 15 as they have to tell their spouse about the arrangement and when they’re 16 they marry whether there is love or isn’t. Many chose former.

Animated Film

  • In , Victor is apprehensive about being put into an arranged marriage… until he actually meets his bride-to-be, Victoria, and finds her gentle intelligence very appealing, while she quite liked how kind and Adorkable he is.
  • Disney’s . “Father, you’re living in the past. This is the Fourteenth Century!” declares Prince Phillip. Luckily the girl he met in the woods turns out to be the princess he’s promised to.
    • It works with the princess herself as well. Aurora aka Briar Rose is understandably devastated when she finds out about her Arranged Marriage to Prince Phillip (not to mention, well, the poor girl has just found out ), until she discovers that Prince Phillip and that nice guy she met in the forest are the same person.
  • A sort-of example in . Simba and Nala both recoil a bit when they’re told that they were betrothed when they’re children, but neither makes much attempt to foil the marriage as Simba goes into self-imposed exile for unrelated reasons long before that becomes an issue. When they meet again as adults, however, they follow the rest of the trope to the letter. Plus Simba’s initial reaction has nothing to do with not Nala (they’re best friends, after all), and everything to do with him apparently being at the Girls Have Cooties age.
  • toys with this. Prince Derek and Princess Odette, the heirs of two neighboring kingdoms, are betrothed to each other by her widowed father and his widowed mother, who are good friends and want to unite their realms. The arrangement annoys them because they’re kids and hate each other. Then one day they meet each other after puberty, and it’s Love At First Sight! Derek demands that the wedding be arranged, but when Odette asks him why, he replies that she’s beautiful…and when she asks “What else?” he replies, “What else is there?” (cue the mass Face Palm from the guests) Odette promptly refuses to marry him until he is able to find a reason he loves her besides her looks; he does, and they are happily married in the end, so the trope is ultimately played straight.
    • They’re not actually stated to be betrothed, though; the arrangement is just that they’ll spend the summer together. William, Uberta and the citizens of both kingdoms Derek and Odette will fall in love and get married, but there doesn’t seem to be any legal agreement.

Live Action Film

  • The movie depicts this between Lady Jane Grey and Guildford Dudley. a case of Truth in Television, unfortunately for the ill-fated Jane.
  • starts with the arranged couple feeling very awkward in each other’s company, and there’s some complications with her old flame, but by the end the two of them are taking quite a liking to each other.
  • Jodhaa Akbar focuses on this. Being married to someone who looks like Hrithik Roshan or Aishwarya Rai probably doesn’t hurt their mutual love, however.
  • The first of the infamous movies with Romy Schneider and Karl Boehm describes Sisi and Franz’s love deals as this, as the Lonely Rich Kid Emperor is fascinated by the Manic Pixie Dream Girl lead female who comes as her Ojou sister his betrothed’s travel companion, so he plays a small Batman Gambit to get her engaged to him instead. In Real Life however, things weren’t exactly that way.
  • In the fantasy film , the hero Colwyn and his girlfriend Lyssa are the children of rival kings who come together to form an alliance against the movie’s Big Bad. The princess gets kidnapped during the wedding and the hero goes off to save her.

    Their love actually turns out to be the final weapon that offs the main villain.

  • Emperor Pu Yi and Empress Wang Rong in , since Pu Yi’s dream girl was “a modern wife who could follow the new dances and was educated outside China” and she fitted in perfectly.

    It didn’t last, though.

  • Not exactly marriage, but in the male lead puts off his aunt’s attempts to introduce him to her late son’s former girlfriend because he is already interested in the female lead. The female lead meanwhile has been putting off meeting her dead boyfriend’s cousin at his mother’s request because of her budding interest in the male lead. At the end of the movie it’s revealed that the male lead’s aunt the female lead’s dead boyfriend’s mother. This startling coincidence convinces the pair to give their romance another chance.

Mythology

  • The Chinese myth of Yue Lao, the God of Love and Marriage, involves. An ambitious civil worker named Wen Gu is told by his boss, a high-ranked governor, to marry said boss’ daughter; she’s a young woman who walks with a limp and has a scar on her back, and therefore cannot find a suitable husband despite having a noble lineage and being otherwise the perfect bride. Wen Gu quite likes his new wife and she likes him back, but later he asks her what happened to her… As it turns out, as a little girl she had been attacked by a madman with a knife – one hired by a then-teenaged Wen Gu, who had been told by Yue Lao that the girl would be his future wife and wanted to get OUT of it. Wen Gu breaks down crying and explains everything, and seeing that he’s sincerely reformed, his lady forgives him.

Literature

 “Magrat”: It was all arranged! It was all set up before I even got here! I never had a chance to say yes or no!

“Nanny”: Well, what would you have said if you had had the chance?

“Magrat” : Well, I…

“Nanny”: You’d still be marrying the king today, would you?

“Magrat”: Well…

“Nanny” : You do *want* to marry the king, don’t you?

“Magrat” : Well, yes, but…

“Nanny” : That’s nice, then.

  • In by Patricia Hallowell the eponymous Princess Felicity is arranged to marry the very handsome prince of a neighboring country but he rejects her insultingly at first sight breaking her heart. Not because she’s fallen in love but because he’s destroyed her self image. Later while on his way to court another princess he is attacked by Felicity’s animal friends and she nurses him back to health. Why does he find himself thinking of Felicity constantly while courting the incredibly beautiful princess? And what is he going to do about that grinning fool of a Prince Harry who thinks going to marry Felicity?
  • King Kelson of Katherine Kurtz Deryni series has truly rotten luck with his brides. His first marriage is a politically important match to a princess of a rival house who, better still, has been raised to regard him as hellspawn. Needless to say Kelson is incredibly nervous but the girl is young and beautiful – and he is seventeen – so by the time the wedding day rolls around he’s convinced he’s falling in love and there are indications that the girl may be too. Unfortunately Kelson is widowed before the ceremony ends. In the next book he falls in love with a perfectly acceptable princess – who due to convolutions of plot is rendered politically impossible as his wife. It is she who arranges for Kelson to marry his final prospect, a cousin who is a really ideal match from the political point of view. At first Kelson, still desperately in love with the other lady, can hardly bear the thought of marrying elsewhere but as he gets to know Araxie better the marriage becomes less and less distasteful to him…
  • In Chronicles of Amber, this happens to Random and Vialle–where Random was forced to marry Vialle as punishment for past peccadilloes. When he is arrested for attempting to assassinate his brother, she asks to join him in prison.
  • : Prince Ulrik of Denmark and Princess Kristina of Sweden are headed this way. They aren’t in love yet (something to do with him being in his thirties and her being only nine), but they are very close.
  • The book has this with the main character and his love interest; they met and fell in love before her father started looking for a husband for her, and so she intentionally became cold and unpleasant to all other potential suitors to put them off. Mention is also made of another prince whose family refused to let him marry until he was thirty and then betrothed him to a six-year-old girl; ten years later, he is the most envied man on the continent.
  • Arranged Marriage is the rule for the Political and Officer classes in W.C. Dietz’s trilogy. Usually friendly enough but neither party minds much when circumstances require a divorce so one or both can make a better match. This is the case with Allison Spencer and Bethany Windsor. They are in love and blissfully happy – until Pact politics tear them appart giving Bethany to her Senator uncle’s new military ally General Anson Merikur. At first she hates him – though she knows it wasn’t his doing. Then she finds herself drawn to him…
  • In , Duke Leto Atreides’ bound-concubinage to Lady Jessica is arranged by the Bene Gesserit as a means to get to the Kwisatz Haderach; Jessica was supposed to have a daughter who could be bred to a Harkonnen son and take the throne from there. However, Jessica and Leto do fall in love, and Jessica chooses to bear him an heir, Paul, who as it turns out the Kwisatz Haderach–and that kicks off the whole epic.
    • Additionally, the marriage of Count Hasimir Fenring to the Bene Gesserit Sister Margot, seems to have been quite happy despite having been arranged for political reasons (not genetic ones, however, as Hasimir is a “genetic eunuch”–probably means he got snipped).

Live Action TV

Theater

  • The song from is about this, although the couple have been married for decades, with several children.
  • In Tom Robbins‘ , Kudra’s first husband turns out to be awesomer than expected

    and then promptly dies

    .

  • . Although other complications happen.
  • The Moliere play .
  • In Prospero’s plan is for Ferdinand (his rival’s son) and Miranda to fall in love at first sight so that they’ll marry and reconcile a dispute between their families. Which they do. He makes sure Ferdinand means it by pretending to oppose the match.
  • Similarly, the fathers in intend for their children to marry, so they fake a feud and forbid the boy and girl to speak to each other. It works… at least at first.
  • Arthur and Guenevere have a moment like this in though given what happens later, it counts as dramatic irony.
  • In by Marivaux, Silvia and Dorante are engaged without knowing each other. They disguise themselves as servants, meet and fall in love, without either one knowing that the other is their betrothed.

Video Games

Webcomics

  • may be subverting this; the arranged marriage was actually an assassination plot on one side. Both principals skipped, and they look like they’re in the process of developing Belligerent Sexual Tension .
    • As of page 379 , they have reached this trope. Probably.

  • uses the “arranged couple meet without recognizing each other variant” before it turns out

    the arranged marriage was set up by the boy’s mother so he’d at least have the chance to marry a spirited normal girl instead of a stuffy socialite as per his father’s wishes. Then his father called it off.

  • There’s one of these in the backstory of the comic .
  • : The main character had one of these, but her fiance got kidnapped, and her current quest is to find him again.

Western Animation

Real Life

  1. Ce’Nedra knew she had to be presented as the bride of the Rivan King on her sixteenth birthday, but not that said King would actually show up or that Garion was he. Garion, for his part, knew absolutely , which was quite intentional.

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