Obsessing over TV and movie weddings when you’re engaged is a real rite of passage, but let’s face it, queer weddings on screen are still frustratingly few and far between. While straight couples get their fairy-tale endings (and then some), LGBTQ+ love stories are often relegated to subplots or ‘very special episodes’. But progress is happening so, we’ve rounded up ten of the most memorable LGBTQ+ weddings in movies and TV that prove love (and drama) always wins.
Schitt’s Creek
David and Patrick’s wedding in the series finale of Schitt’s Creek was the perfect bow on one of the most joyful, queer-positive love stories ever to grace our screens. Yes, it rained. Yes, the officiant cancelled. But yes, Moira showed up dressed like a bejewelled space pope to marry them in the town hall. A classic chaotic queer wedding if there ever was one . It was an absolute tearjerker and the happy ending we all wanted to see!
Jenny’s Wedding
Katherine Heigl and Alexis Bledel as brides? Yes please. Jenny drops the bombshell that she’s marrying a woman, and her conservative family has a meltdown. The message is strong – love deserves to be celebrated, even when it disrupts the status quo.
Love Is Strange
Alfred Molina and John Lithgow as long-time lovers finally tying the knot after 39 years? Our queer elder hearts can’t take it. When George loses his job at a Catholic school for marrying his partner the couple is forced to navigate a whole new chapter and find a new place to live.
Steven Universe
Cartoons aren’t just for kids and Steven Universe proved it by giving us one of the first same-sex weddings in animated history. Ruby and Sapphire’s love story culminates in a beautiful ceremony that took creator Rebecca Sugar literal years to get on screen due to censorship. “We are held to standards of extremely bigoted countries,” they said. “It took several years of fighting internally to get the wedding to happen. There are people who see what we’re doing as insidious and… they’re ignorant.”
Friends
There’s a lot about Friends didn’t age that well, but back in 1996, Carol and Susan’s wedding marked the first lesbian wedding on mainstream U.S. TV. Sure, it was overshadowed by Ross being a whiny ex, but for queer viewers at the time it was revolutionary.
Sense8
If your wedding doesn’t end with a telepathic group orgy, did it even happen? In Sense8’s gloriously queer finale, Nomi (a trans woman) marries Amanita (a woman of colour) on the Eiffel Tower. It’s sexy, spiritual, and celebratory – everything a queer wedding should be. “This wedding is proof that for all the differences between us and all the forces that try to divide us, they will never exceed the power of love to unite us,” the officiant says during the ceremony.
A Nice Indian Boy
Bollywood meets boy-meets-boy in this 2025 rom-com starring Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff. Naveen takes Jay home to meet his Indian family, and from there, they work to plan a lavish gay Indian wedding.. Representation matters and this one delivers in spades (and sequins).
Elisa & Marcela
A wedding so forbidden it required a fake male identity and a lot of courage. Based on a real-life love story from 1901 Spain, Elisa disguised herself as a man to marry Marcela, making it the first same-sex marriage in Spain. It’s passionate, dangerous, and a reminder that queer love has always existed, even when the world tried to erase it.
Sex and the City 2
Is this film questionable? Yes. Is the opening wedding between Anthony and Stanford a fever dream? Also yes. There’s Liza Minnelli officiating and performing, swans in a moat, and Carrie in a tux with a fascinator so extra it should have its own IMDb credit. Camp and unapologetically wonderful.
Anyone But You
It’s not their wedding, but the film’s chaotic couple reconnect at their friends’ gorgeously gay nuptials. Halle and Claudia’s ceremony might be a side plot, but it still counts, and we love seeing queer weddings casually integrated into the narrative like it’s no big deal. Because guess what? It shouldn’t be.