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Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann's arrest and interrupted wedding.

Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann's arrest and interrupted wedding.

"A wedding. I love weddings! Drinks all around!"
―Jack Sparrow[src]

A wedding was a ceremony where two people are united in marriage. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, races, religions, denominations, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of marriage vows by a couple, presentation of a gift (offering, rings, symbolic item, flowers, money, dress), and a public proclamation of marriage by a religious official like a priest, a government official or an authority figure like a captain of a ship. Special wedding garments were often worn, and the ceremony was sometimes followed by a wedding reception. Music, prayers, or readings from religious texts or literature like the Bible are also commonly incorporated into the ceremony, as well as superstitious customs.

History[]

"You. Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue. You come for the wedding?"
"Clearly."
"You shouldn't have. And by that, I mean, you shouldn't have."
"You are getting married? How far along are you?"
"Ha! My groom has dreamy eyes and speaks fancy words, with lots of syllables."
―Giselle and Scarlett[src]

By the Age of Piracy, it was believed that a captain of a ship could perform a marriage or wedding ceremony.[1][2]

About ten years after Hector Barbossa led the mutiny on the Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow met wenches who he would trick into being wedded only to be deceived and auctioned at Shipwreck City. Scarlett and Giselle were the most notable of the "brides" Sparrow was to marry in a wedding, only for both wenches to figure it out once the auction started with various wenches. According to Oona, one wench who sported an eyepatch, "It's the 'appiest day of a girl's life."[3]

Aboard the HMS Dauntless, when Governor Weatherby Swann refused to save Will Turner from the pirate crew of the Black Pearl at Isla de Muerta, Elizabeth Swann then begged Commodore James Norrington to rescue Turner as a "wedding gift" for her, accepting his marriage proposal.[4] At Elizabeth's affirmation, Jack Sparrow then loudly proclaimed how much he loved weddings and drinks.[5]

In the year following Jack Sparrow's escape from Fort Charles, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann remained on Port Royal and made preparations for their wedding.[6] White lace, flowers, a flowing dress, and an altar, everything was in place to make Elizabeth's wedding day perfect, except for one detail—the groom. As if being stood up at the altar wasn't enough, a rainstorm wrecked Elizabeth's wedding plans. Arrested as he dressed for his wedding in the blacksmith shop, Will arrived at the chapel in chains. Finally, as tropical rain soaked her bridal gown, their marriage was interrupted as Elizabeth saw her husband-to-be in chains.[7][8] Lord Cutler Beckett and the East India Trading Company forces arrived to Port Royal and disrupted the wedding of Turner and Swann with warrants for their arrest. By the power vested in him by the King himself, Beckett had both the groom and bride accused and charged with the crime of aiding Sparrow's escape.[1] Within months into the war between the Brethren Court and the East India Trading Company, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann declared their undying love and were married by Captain Hector Barbossa as the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman engage in battle. Amidst the melee, at Elizabeth's request, Captain Barbossa performed a wedding ceremony in which Will and Elizabeth were joined in holy matrimony as on deck of the Pearl as, between thrusts and parries of their swords, they said their vows.[2]

One summer, when young Carina Smyth lived as an orphan in a children's home in the English countryside, she and other children from the home were sent into town to purchase trinkets for the upcoming wedding of Miss Esther, one of the keepers' friends.[9]

Jack Sparrow's forced wedding to Beatrice at Hangman's Bay.

Jack Sparrow's forced wedding to Beatrice at Hangman's Bay.

By 1751, a sperm whale skeleton doubled as a beautifully bizarre wedding chapel at Hangman's Bay,[10] where a wedding day would be arranged by Pierre "Pig" Kelly and his gang holding Jack Sparrow, Henry Turner and Carina Smyth at gunpoint, in which Sparrow was forced to marry Pig's sister, Beatrice. In front of the priestHenry claimed the wedding was not legal and when Carina asked who objected to the nuptials, Jack said "I do." After the priest misinterpreted Jack's words, the forced wedding was interrupted by the arrival of Hector Barbossa, who shot Pig Kelly as a "gift" for Jack.[11]

Behind the scenes[]

"Come! You'll be late to your own wedding! Now or never!"
―Marty to Hector Barbossa[src] (2012 screenplay draft)

Weddings as well as marriage were first mentioned in media relating to the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,[5] notably Irene Trimble's junior novelization.[4] Though the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest began with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann's wedding day interrupted by Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company,[1] with "Wedding Bells" and "Wet Wedding" as section titles in both Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide,[7][8] the two were married by Captain Hector Barbossa aboard the Black Pearl in the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.[2]

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay for The Curse of the Black Pearl, Elizabeth Swann begged Commodore Norrington to rescue Will Turner as a "wedding gift" aboard the HMS Dauntless, though Norrington questioned if his marriage proposal was accepted on the condition he rescue Turner, and Jack Sparrow told Norrington, "Congratulations, sir."[4] By the final version of the film, Sparrow said "I love weddings! Drinks all around!" And while the scene with Norrington and Elizabeth talking about the "condition" was deleted from the film,[5] it was retained in the junior novelization.[4]

There were many proposed titles for the short film Tales of the Code: Wedlocked, which opened with Scarlett and Giselle getting ready for their weddings, in which they each (separately) intend to be married to Jack Sparrow. Wedding Belles was one title, according to the director of photography Nic Sadler.[12]

In Terry Rossio's original 2012 screenplay draft for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Hector Barbossa would have married the beautiful Nadirah (actually the villainous Sea Widow in disguise), only for her to escape right after the wedding ceremony, taking one of the Pearls of Neptune from him.[13]

In Jeff Nathanson's early 2013 screenplay draft for Dead Men Tell No Tales, the wedding between Jack Sparrow and Beatrice occurred in Port Royal.[14] By the final version of the film, the wedding would take place in Hangman's Bay, and with a priest involved.[11]

In Tim Powers' 1987 novel On Stranger Tides, which was used as the basis for the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, at the end of the story the heroes Jack Shandy and Beth Hurwood improvise a wedding ceremony when they are confronted by the resurrected Blackbeard, thus enhancing Jack's magic against Blackbeard's, allowing him to kill the pirate captain once and for all.[15]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  3. ↑ Tales of the Code: Wedlocked
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003 junior novelization)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  6. ↑ DisneyPirates.com - Archived
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide, pp. 42-43: "Wedding Bells"
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide, pp. 42-43: "Wedding Bells"
  9. ↑ The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth, p. 31
  10. ↑ Disney Pirates: The Definitive Collector's Anthology
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  12. ↑ bio - nic sadler - added before October 22, 2009
  13. ↑ Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES by Terry Rossio
  14. ↑ Dead Men Tell No Tales script by Jeff Nathanson, second draft, 5/6/2013
  15. ↑ On Stranger Tides
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