Accidental Marriage
Characters find themselves legally married through misunderstandings, drunken mistakes, or unusual circumstances. They must decide whether to annul or make it work.
What is Accidental Marriage in fanfiction?
Characters find themselves legally married through misunderstandings, drunken mistakes, or unusual circumstances. They must decide whether to annul or make it work. With over 200,000 works on Archive of Our Own, Accidental Marriage is one of the most beloved tropes in fanfiction.
Why readers love Accidental Marriage
The comedy of the situation, the forced proximity and intimacy, and watching strangers navigate unexpected marriage.
Examples of Accidental Marriage
Vegas wedding chapel mistakes, magical binding ceremonies, legal mix-ups, drunken decisions with consequences.
Best Accidental Marriage Fanfics
The highest-rated Accidental Marriage stories across all fandoms on AO3.
Marital Claims
Completeby yeolinski
Nobody seemed to believe that they’re married, so they just went with the flow. For years.
i thought it make believe
Completeby blinkiesays
Stiles scrolls up on his text message history and sure enough finds "I'm OK, don't worry, I'm going back to the hotel room" with a timestamp of 1:30AM and "I think I'm in love I think he's a werewolf" at 3:00AM.Stiles stares at his phone for a while in horror.Scott: HEY LYDIA WANTS TO KNOW WHY YOU C
Baby Animals, Weddings, And Other Things Not Normally Associated With Uchiha Sasuke
Completeby prettypriestess
In which Konoha needs to upgrade their plumbing to be more resistant. (Or, the one where Sasuke and Naruto get genin and maybe someone buys a house.)
anything, anything
Completeby drunktuesdays
set about 5 years in the future, for a prompt from kalpurna: Stiles wakes up in Derek’s bed in a world where they’re married now, and Derek keeps leaving the room every time he tries to have a conversation about how this happened, since they weren’t even dating. Betaed by giddygeek.
Lifelong partners does not mean lifelong friends, Childe
by RK7200
Childe was chill with this lifelong friends business.Zhongli would like to know why his husband is calling them 'totally great buddies'.or: How one man accidentally got married to a god.
With or Without You
Completeby a1phab3ts0up
“Is it your wedding day?”Shane sputters. “Sorry?”“The tuxedo,” she points out. “You look like you just got married.”“Oh,” Shane says dumbly, glancing down at his rumpled suit. “No,” he adds.-Or the one where that one night in Vegas gets a little out of hand for Ilya and Shane and a marriage by accid
Meet Me At Midnight
Completeby forawhile
AUTHOR NOTE: this fic will remain up online for the time being. My book (At the Mercy of Midnight), published 08 September 2025, is so far removed from this fic in many ways (it is not a rewrite etc), that I feel comfortable leaving this fic as is to stand on its own feet until a time where I no lon
Ineffable Husbands
Completeby ImprobableDreams900
Aziraphale finds an old marriage certificate in one of his books, and it has two very familiar signatures at the bottom...
Turn a Little Faster
Completeby skoosiepants
He shifts back and forth on his feet and tries to psych himself up. He can do this. He’s a badass werewolf, he can totally tell Stiles that they accidentally got werewolf married because—because Stiles was thinking about him, and happened to give him a token of his, uh, affection under the silvery l
step out into the sun
Completeby plutos
“I gotta talk to you, buddy, real quick,” Poe says lowly, and grabs Finn’s hand to haul him back out of the mess hall. His pilot friends cheer loudly, Karé yelling something about keeping it decent, and Finn barely has a second to process it before Poe’s yanking him away and into a deserted side cor
all that glitters is gold
Completeby MarionetteFtHJM
Jaskier marks his territory (Geralt) in subtle ways and Geralt, being an uncultured dumbass, doesn't realize it until Yennefer points it out to him.
An Idiot's Guide to Wooing Your Husband
Completeby toxik_angel
As far as Affairs of the Heart go, Harry has always floundered.When he's sent to Malfoy Manor to examine various Dark Artifacts Draco Malfoy has uncovered in his home, he finds that the eight years of house arrest plus another two of hermitage have softened his old rival into a pleasant, though conf
Mr. and Mr. Diaz
Completeby jukoist
“Eddie? What’s wrong? There’s no way I missed something, look, we went over everything thrice—” Oh, god, Buck has retrieved his clipboard from wherever in Eddie’s house he’d stashed it last time. He’s waving it around as he speaks. “Information about my spouse,” Eddie says blankly. Buck looks
Hey, Romeo. I want a divorce.
Completeby impravidus
“So you’re telling me,” Jason says slowly, “that you just happened to forget to tell me that you’re married and to my brother?”Roy gulps. “In my defense, we were really, really drunk.”
from admiration to love, from love to matrimony
by moongallery
"Forgive me, Lord Phainon, I can't help but be curious. How could you possibly not know that Lord Mydei has been your spouse for... four months?" "To be honest, Miss Castorice, I haven't the slightest idea."Through a series of events that may or may not have involved a Kremnoan courting ritual, Phai
Oh
Completeby sunday_morning
“I hope you don’t mind, it's simply elven way to be proud of your marriage” then he continued as if he hadn’t just dropped a bomb shell “however I endeavor to respect your cultural and personal preferences as best as possible”The moment between them sizzled, Gimli felt himself as a kettle, quickly r
What happens in Vegas
Completeby Ididloveyou_once
57 missed calls. Bart_ahhh tagged you and one other in a postThe Gazette (4 hours ago)Bruce Wayne’s youngest eligible bachelor is off the market: Timothy Drake-Wayne eloped in Vegas [EXCLUSIVE pictures] 63 unread messag-Tim jolted upright. His eyes scanned over the headline again. Timothy Drake-Way
Tied to the Wait and Sees
Completeby Mizzy
Johnny Storm's in love. With Spider-man. Except no one seems to even believe Johnny when he tells them. Everyone thinks he's totally joking. What a buzzkill. Even his bff doesn't react supportively, which is rude, disrespectful, and completely awkward when Johnny walks into a time anomaly and wakes
Don't Blame Me (It Was All a Blur Last Night)
Completeby nerakrose_hparchive
"Stop moving, Potter," Malfoy mumbled from where his head was buried under a pillow. "You're disturbing my hangover. Also, why are you still here?" "This is my hotel room," Harry told him.
Wandering Star
Completeby Lomonaaeren
Orion Black and Abraxas Malfoy decide to perform a ritual that will bind Tom Riddle to them without his knowledge, so that they will always be his most important and valued servants. Except something goes wrong, and Harry Potter, a time traveler from the future, arrives in the circle—as the third pa
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