shotgun wedding

English

From the implication that the groom was forced to the altar by shotgun-wielding relatives of the bride.

shotgun wedding (plural shotgun weddings)

(idiomatic, slang) A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.
- 2012, Charles W. Dunn, American Culture in Peril, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 48:
  If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember a shotgun wedding and even recall the understandings that lay behind that insistence, now seeming quaint, that a couple sleeping together should really be married.
(idiomatic) Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people or organizations.

wedding in which the bride is pregnant

Chinese:
Mandarin: 奉子成婚 (zh) (fèngzǐ chénghūn)
Dutch: moetje (nl) n
Finnish: haulikkohäät pl
French: mariage précipité m
German: Mussehe f, Mussheirat f, Musshochzeit f; (more often expressed verbally:) sie mussten heiraten
Irish: pósadh práinne m
Italian: matrimonio riparatore m
Japanese: できちゃった結婚 (dekichatta kekkon), でき婚 (dekikon)
Korean: 속도위반 결혼 (sokdowiban gyeolhon)
Serbo-Croatian: vjenčanje sačmaricom n, venčanje sačmaricom n, morala se udati (more often expressed verbally)
Spanish: penalti (es) m, casarse de penalti m
Welsh: priodas glec f, priodas orfod f