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The cart comes way before the horse in the reality series "Married at First Sight." Based on a hit Danish format, "Married..." features people who agree to participate in an extreme experiment: Each covenants legal marriage with a complete stranger. Specialists -- including a spiritualist, a relationship coach and a sociologist -- use scientific matchmaking methods to determine each couple, who will not have met or had contact with each other until the wedding day. The series then documents the relationships, including honeymoons and other relatable events of married life. After several weeks, each couple must decide whether to remain together or go their individual ways.

Quintessential reality star couples are forced to face their personal demons in an extreme relationship boot camp, hoping to fix their broken unions. Raw, unbridled truth ensues when they are pushed to their emotional and physical limits to see if their relationships are worth saving or they should pull the plug.

A group of singles who want to be loved for who they are will have the opportunity to search for their soulmate without the distractions of the outside world and will choose someone to marry without ever meeting them face-to-face. When their wedding day arrives, will real-world realities and external factors push them apart, or will they marry the person they fell blindly in love with?

The Marriage Ref is a TV reality show and panel game hosted by comedian Tom Papa and produced by Jerry Seinfeld, in which a rotating group of celebrities decides the winners of real-life marital disputes. The show premiered on NBC on Sunday, February 28, 2010 on the final night of the Olympics before moving to Thursdays. The show's second season debuted on June 26, 2011. On May 13, 2012, NBC cancelled the series.

Six couples on the cusp of lifelong love are hit with an ultimatum: Get engaged or break up. Before they decide, they’ll swap partners for three weeks.

The reality queen Gina-Lisa Lohfink finally wants to get married. But whom?

In this reality dating series, marriage-minded singles in Japan meet, date and get engaged — before ever setting eyes on each other.

Real couples see the dream of getting married come true. However, all details of the ceremony will be handled by the grooms ... without any contact with the brides! Do they really know the tastes of their brides? Will the brides love or loathe what should be one of the happiest days of their lives?

Celebrate the craziest, most over-the-top brides wreaking wedding day hell with epic meltdowns, family feuds & social media wars! As they take the plunge to the altar, they vow no one will get in the way of their “perfect” day!

A couple rekindles their romance while handling marriage, parenthood, and careers. They face challenges together, showing how love gets a second chance.

Former bride and forever comedian Jamie Lee shares her irreverent yet practical tips and tricks for wedding planning with struggling lovebirds.

By scientists and relationship specialists, some Portuguese singles are placed in couples and meet for the first time in their own marriage. After that, they will go on a honeymoon, they will live together in a house and they are going out together and with their families and friends for the purpose of testing their relationship and discovering if love arises between them. In the end, the ultimate decision will be made: will they continue their lives together and married, or will their ways separate and divorce?

"Don't Tell the Bride" is a British reality television series in which couples are given money to fund their wedding ceremony. However, every detail of the event must be organized by the groom, who has no contact with the bride during the planning process.

Couples in crisis turn to the honorable Judge Lynn Toler for a life-altering decision to get married or break up for good.

Marriage Boot Camp: Bridezillas is an American reality television series that debuted on May 31, 2013. It is a spinoff of Bridezillas that centers on five couples from previous seasons as they move into one house together in order to save their marital bonds.

An engaged couple travels the world for a year to explore marriage customs in diverse cultures. Will the journey bring them closer or tear them apart?

The series revolves around a single bachelor (deemed eligible) and a pool of romantic interests, which could include a potential wife for the bachelor. The conflicts in the series, both internal and external, stem from the elimination-style format of the show. Early in the season, the bachelor goes on large group dates with the women, with the majority of women eliminated during rose ceremonies. As the season progresses, women are also eliminated on one-on-one dates and on elimination two-on-one dates. The process culminates with hometown visits to the families of the final few women, overnight dates, should they choose to accept, at exotic locations with the final three women, and interaction with the bachelor's family with the final two women. In many cases, the bachelor proposes to his final selection.

Singles seek the love of their lives and their mothers seek the ideal daughter-in-law for their sons. Over the weeks, mothers and sons will eliminate the suitors in a process that will bring to light the differences in criteria between the two of them.

Urban romantic drama Happily Ever After? depicts six leading characters – middle-aged nobody Poon Sin-yan; perfect wife Cheung Ming-sum; charming guy Kam Shing-kwan; gold digger Lui Ching-lam; helpless and hopeless romantic Lui Ching-hoi; and kidult-cum-dating app player Ching Tin-fai – in a polyamorous relationship love story. And the four chapters are: Divorce, Infidelity, Misplaced Love and Repair. Each episode’s subject corresponds to the related chapter. And the narration is based on the visual perspective of one or two leading characters so as to show different versions of the plot line. Emphasis is placed on those who are preoccupied by switching between narrator, visual perspective and time and space. Moreover, conflict and suspense in the story reflect certain issues in romantic partnerships in real life.

Married is a half hour comedy about being miserably in love. Russ and Lina Bowman can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt, and suburbia rained on their romance -- but every once in a while, in between the arguments about their declining sex life and who's driving carpool, they are reminded what drew them together in the first place -- they're best friends. The show also features Russ and Lina's friend AJ, who is recently divorced and pretending he's over his wife, and their other friend Jess, who is married to a much older man who can't keep up with her.