When the road to marital bliss gets too winding, soap characters take matters in their own hands.

All My Children sweethearts Tara (Karen Gorney(sic)) and Phillip (Richard Hatch), weren't lucky in love. Their first engagement was called off when Phillip got amnesia. Tara turned to Phillip's best friend, Chuck, but just as they were about to wed, the groom collapsed. The calamity drew Tara and Phillip together again, but Phillip got drafted. On the night before his departrure, the lovebirds' search for a justice of the peace was thwarted by a blizzard, so they lit candles and exchanged intimate vows in a roadside chapel. Afterward, they made love for the first time. Phillip left for Vietnam; Tara discovered she was pregnant. Did they ever legally wed? Yes, but it took four years for them to make it to the altar.