all my children wedding

An All My Children wedding is often a major beat of a storyline played out between characters on the daytime drama. On most soap operas, the wedding is hardly the happily ever after moment in a couple’s storyline. On All My Children, as on other soap operas, weddings are an event that brings the town together or tears it apart but provides a launching point for new storylines as well as a tying off point for old ones.

Many weddings over the years qualify as an event wedding. Some couples, like Zach and Kendall Slater, do not have an event wedding, but get married in a quickie ceremony either off screen or in front of judge. These quickie weddings are designed to facilitate the storyline – Zach and Kendall married for business reasons, not love. When they fell in love, they allowed themselves a more lavish ceremony.

Fairy tale weddings, lavish weddings, multiple weddings and weddings from hell are soap staples. For All My Children, weddings are yearly to bi-yearly events on the daytime drama since it debuted in 1970. Cliff and Nina, Erica and Jeff, Erica and Phil, Erica and Tom, Erica and Adam, Jeremy and Natalie, Natalie and Trevor, Tad and Dixie, Opal and Palmer and so many other wonderful couples have enchanted viewers over the years as they met, fought, loved, married, divorced and married again.

Dr. Cliff Warner and heiress Nina Cortlandt are a legacy couple on the daytime soap opera. Their love story unfolded across a decade as numerous forces (including Nina’s controlling father Palmer) strove to keep them apart. They married and divorced multiple times. For two decades, their four wedding relationship marked a daytime record for most marriages between the same two characters. Their first wedding, however, in 1981, remains the fairy tale All My Children wedding that others followed (including Noah and Julia, Edmund and Maria).

all my children wedding