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The marriages are often announced, but the marriage ceremony is rarely depicted, as it would be blasphemous to depict a sacrament onstage.

  1. The Two Gentlemen of Verona ends with the betrothals of Valentine to Silvia and Proteus to Julia.
  2. In The Merry Wives of Windsor, Anne and Fenton come in at the very end to announce that they have eloped.
  3. In Measure for Measure, in the last scene, Angelo is quickly married to Mariana, weddings are announced for Claudio and Juliet and for Lucio and a Prostitute he impregnated, and the Duke proposes marriage to Isabella (her answer is not given).
  4. Much Ado of course ends just before the delayed marriage of Claudio and Hero, and the newly announced marriage of Beatrice and Benedick.
  5. The whole last act of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the entertainment following three weddings: Theseus and Hippolyta, Lysander and Hermia, and Demetrius and Helena.
  6. As You Like It ends with an actual depiction of the non-Christian wedding of four couples: Rosalind and Orlando, Celia and Oliver, Phoebe and Silvius and Audrey and Touchstone.
  7. Lucentio marries Bianca and Hortensio the widow in the last scene of The Taming of the Shrew.
  8. Olivia and Sebastian marry in the second last scene of Twelfth Night, but it is not until the last that the past marriage of Sir Toby and Maria and the future one of Orsino and Viola are revealed.
  9. The Winter's Tale ends with a betrothal, rather surprisingly, between Paulina and Camillo.
  10. Almost the last line of Henry V is "Prepare we for our marriage".
  11. Henry VI Part I ends with the announcement of the engagement to marry of King Henry and Margaret of Anjou.
  12. The Two Noble Kinsmen ends with both a funeral and a wedding: they are to prepare for the funeral of Arcite, followed by the wedding of Palamon and Emilia.
  13. At the very end of Pericles, Marina becomes engaged to Lysimachus and Pericles promises to shave off his beard for the wedding.
  14. In The Tempest the betrothal of Ferdinand and Miranda is announced in the last scene.
That's about fourteen plays. Some of the comedies (All's Well, Love's Labour's Lost, Comedy of Errors, Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida), eight of the histories and all of the tragedies do not end in weddings.
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