Wedding

This article is about the ceremony. You may be looking for the soundtrack theme, "The Wedding".

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

"A wedding. I love weddings! Drinks all around!"

―Jack Sparrow

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

"Hector Barbossa! Who invited you to my wedding?"
"I always knew you’d settle down eventually."
"Did you bring me a present?"

―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa

Aboard the HMS Dauntless, when Governor Weatherby Swann refused to save Will Turner from the cursed 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. Witnessing this, Jack Sparrow then loudly proclaimed how much he loved weddings and drinks.

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. 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. 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. Within months into Lord Beckett's war against piracy, 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.

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

About 20 years later, 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. Henry 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.

Behind the scenes

"Come! You’ll be late to your own wedding! Now or never!"

―Marty to Hector Barbossa

• Weddings would first be mentioned in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, through Elizabeth Swann suggesting a "wedding gift" from Commodore James Norrington, who had previously proposed marriage to her, as well as Jack Sparrow saying "I love weddings! Drinks all around!" Though Dead Man's Chest began with Elizabeth and Will Turner's wedding day interrupted by Lord Cutler Beckett, the two were married by Captain Hector Barbossa aboard the Black Pearl in At World's End.
• With section titles "Wedding Bells" and "Wet Wedding", both Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide and The Complete Visual Guide cover Will and Elizabeth's interrupted wedding plans in Dead Man's Chest.
• 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. According to the Director of Photography Nic Sadler, Wedding Belles was one title.
• In Terry Rossio's 2012 screenplay draft for 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.
• In Jeff Nathanson's 2013 early screenplay draft for Dead Men Tell No Tales, Jack Sparrow and Beatrice's wedding occurred in Port Royal, not in Hangman's Bay. There was also no priest involved.
• In Tim Powers' novel On Stranger Tides, which was used as the basis for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film, 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.

Appearances

• Jack Sparrow: Silver (Mentioned only)
• Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean (Mentioned only)
• Tales of the Code: Wedlocked (Mentioned only)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Mentioned only)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003 junior novelization) (First mentioned)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2006 junior novelization) (Mentioned only)
• Banshee's Boon (Mentioned only)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization) (First appearance)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (video game) (Mentioned only)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (junior novelization) (Special Edition)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Penguin Readers)
• The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Movie Graphic Novel

Sources

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide

External links

• Wedding on Wikipedia