Marriage Marriage was the union of persons . It was usually made formal by a wedding service . Donna Noble ' s marriage to Lance Bennett was prevented when the huon particle s within her caused her to vanish while walking up the aisle . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) She later married Shaun Temple and received a lottery ticket from the Tenth Doctor as a wedding present . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) After Amy Pond and Rory Williams were married , Amy remembered the Eleventh Doctor back into existence . ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) The Trickster arranged for Sarah Jane Smith to meet and fall in love with Peter Dalton . Once they were married , she would forget about defending the Earth and the Trickster could feed on the chaos . Peter revoked his deal with the Trickster , thus defeating it . ( TV : " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith " ) Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint described themselves as married . ( TV : " The Snowmen " , " Deep Breath " ) Jack Harkness married at least one woman in his long lifetime , Lucia Moretti . ( TV : " " ) During a shared dream with the Twelfth Doctor , Clara Oswald once stated that other than Danny Pink , she could only imagine marrying one other man , " but he was impossible " . ( TV : " Last Christmas " ) Earlier in her travels with the Doctor , Clara received a wedding proposal from Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI ( a . k . a . " Porridge " ) , but she declined his offer . ( TV : " Nightmare in Silver " ) Several of the Doctor ' s companions are known to have married following their travels with him . Examples include Peri Brown marrying King Yrcanos ; ( TV : " The Ultimate Foe " ) Martha Jones and Mickey Smith ; ( TV : " The End of Time " ) Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright ; ( TV : " Death of the Doctor " , COMIC : " Hunters of the Burning Stone " ) Ben Jackson and Polly Wright ; ( TV : " Death of the Doctor " ) Jo Grant and Clifford Jones ; ( TV : " The Green Death " , " Death of the Doctor ) " ) and Vicki Pallister to Troilus . ( TV : " The Myth Makers " ) By the time he encountered the Seventh Doctor in the 1990s , Brigadier Lethbridge - Stewart had finally married his longtime girlfriend , Doris . ( TV : " Planet of the Spiders " , " Battlefield " ) The Doctor was known to have been married at least four times . ( TV : " Death in Heaven " ) This list included Scarlette , Elizabeth I , Marilyn Monroe , Cleopatra and River Song . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " , TV : " The Day of the Doctor " , " A Christmas Carol " , " The Husbands of River Song " , " The Wedding of River Song " ) The Ninth Doctor once implied he married Lady Mary Wortley Montagu for love , but left it ambiguous . ( PROSE : " Only Human " ) River , for her part , engaged in polygamy during her marriage with the Doctor , marrying Ramone , Stephen Fry and King Hydroflax , all while married to the Doctor , though the marriage to Hydroflax was part of a scam to retrieve a rare diamond he contained within his body armour . ( TV : " The Husbands of River Song " ) Behind the scenes . Although there have been many occasions in which married couples have been involved with " Doctor Who " and related productions in front of and behind the lens or microphone , a few real - life marriages worth noting include Jon Pertwee and Jean Marsh ( who were married in the 1950s , years before either appeared on the series ) ; Tom Baker and Lalla Ward ( who wed during a break in production on TV : " The Keeper of Traken " but divorced a year and a half later ) ; and David Tennant and his TV : " The Doctor ' s Daughter " co - star Georgia Moffett ( also the daughter of Peter Davison ) . Caroline John was also married to Master actor Geoffrey Beevers until her death .