All My Children Wedding

From LoveToKnow Soap-Operas

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.

Dixie and Tad's romance included three All My Children weddings.

All My Children Wedding Events

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.

Fairy Tale Wedding of Cliff and Nina

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).

Long-Awaited Wedding of Chuck and Donna

Donna Beck’s true love remained Chuck Tyler for her entire tenure on All My Children, despite other marriages to both Palmer Cortlandt and Benny Sago. Town matriarch Phoebe Wallingford disliked Donna and thought her too trashy for her grandson. While married to Palmer, Donna and Chuck had an affair that produced a baby boy.

When Palmer divorced her, Chuck and Donna pursued a relationship. Unfortunately, tragedy struck when Chuck left the baby in a crib in Donna’s dressing room at her cabaret on a night he got called to the hospital. A fire destroyed the building and killed their young son. A devastated Donna and Chuck broke up. Eventually, they reunited in 1990 after Donna and Benny Sago end things. In August of 1990, Chuck and Donna finally say their I dos, over a decade after they first fell in love. When Donna’s portrayer Candice Earley left the show in 1992, Donna and Chuck were able to live their happily ever after off screen.

Cooneys and Chandlers and Chickens, Oh My

Tad and Dixie are one of the truly great super couples to come from All My Children. Dixie arrived in Pine Valley, a naïve and impressionable girl from Pidgeon Hollow. The niece of Palmer Cortlandt, Dixie was easily caught up in the manipulations and wars between Palmer and his rival Adam Chandler. Adam seduced Dixie to get the son he craved, planning to give the child to his then wife Brooke.

Tad fell in love with Dixie and kept trying to rescue her, despite her own claims to be in love with Adam. When Brooke left Adam, he married Dixie to hang onto custody of his son Adam Chandler, Junior and set out to drive Dixie insane. When Dixie committed herself to Laurel Hills, Tad rescued her and Dixie realized that she was in love with Tad.

His infamous proposal in a chicken suit lives on in AMC history as both zany and romantic. The couple tied in the knot in a beautiful wedding in 1989. Unfortunately, married bliss only lasted a short time before Dixie’s uncle (Palmer) and Tad’s biological mother (Opal) began meddling. They broke up the couple and ended up married themselves. Tad and Dixie’s second wedding in 1990 was aborted when Tad was presumed dead on their wedding day. They finally remarried in 1994 only to break up once again, this time over Tad’s infidelity and the couple married for the third and final time in 1999. When Dixie was presumed dead for several years, she died for real in 2007, ending all hope for a fourth wedding.

The Many Weddings of Erica Kane

Erica Kane is a legend on daytime television and a staple of the daytime drama since its debut. All told, in forty years, Erica’s been married twelve times. Sometimes the marriages are valid and sometimes they are not. She’s been married to six different men, sometimes multiple times. Her full name is Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Roy Roy Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery.

Erica’s fans all have different favorites among her paramours, but none dispute that it is Erica’s daddy issues and abuse as a child (including her rape at age 14 that produced Kendall) that contribute to her constant struggle for love in all the wrong places. The role of Erica made Susan Lucci a household name and Erica’s struggles with love continue to entertain fans as she becomes a grandmother both on the daytime drama and in real life.

Some fans speculate that Erica’s real, true love is the love she feels for her children and other fans argue that the love she had for the much older Nick Davies is the real thing while others support Travis, Jackson or Dimitri. Fans love Erica and they want to see her happy, even if only for a short time.

In 2009, Erica’s daughter Bianca wed her lover Reese in a lavish ceremony. The daytime wedding of two lesbians generated a lot of controversy, but for Bianca, her fairy tale wedding quickly led to anguish as she learned of Reese’s infidelity with brother-in-law Zach Slater. Like many other weddings, Bianca's wedding launched new dramas and layers to other story lines.