page_title: Shotgun wedding
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Shotgun wedding / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Another shotgun wedding, with neither party willing / C.J. Taylor. Abstract/medium: 1 print&#160;: chromolithograph.
context_page_description: A shotgun wedding is a wedding that is arranged to avoid embarrassment due to premarital sex possibly leading to an unintended pregnancy, rather than out of the desire of the participants. The phrase is a primarily American colloquialism, termed as such based on a stereotypical scenario where the father of the pregnant bride-to-be threatens the reluctant groom with a shotgun to ensure that he follows through with the wedding.
caption: This 1897 political cartoon portrays the U.S. annexation of Hawaii as "Another shotgun wedding, with neither party willing".
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