Five Things That Happened On December 30 In Soap History

In 1976, Phil Brent (Nicholas Benedict) and Tara Martin (Karen Lynn Gorney) wed on All My Children. Their romance was a driving force of the show in its early years, and Phil and Tara were considered to be its first supercouple. After an arduous road to the altar, including his presumed death in Vietnam, the duo finally made it official in a church ceremony attended by family and friends.

in 2003, Kate Roberts (Lauren Koslow) and Roman Brady (Josh Taylor) were married on Days of Our Lives. The ceremony was conducted by a Justice of the Peace, and the bride's son Lucas leaped to action to ensure that Roman's daughter Sami would not be able to halt the wedding. Beamed Kate during her vows, "Today I give you this ring, and I give you my heart. Oh, there's so many things that I want to say to you and there's so many promises that I want to make. But right now I can't even think of what they are. Because all I can think about is how much I love you. So the promise that I make to you today is that I will love you always.... all the days of my life."

In 2011, One Life to Live’s Blair Cramer (Kassie DePaiva) and her ex-husband Todd Manning (Roger Howarth) rang in the new year together at at La Boulaie. Blair initiated a New Year's Eve ritual of writing down their regrets on paper, then burning them. Todd shielded Blair from seeing what he had written down ("Killing Victor Framing Tomas"). A black-out then swathed Llanview in darkness, and shortly after the clock struck midnight, Todd drew Blair closer. "What are you doing?" asked Blair. "What I should have done at midnight," he replied, and kissed her tenderly.

In 2013, Ryan Paevey made his General Hospital debut as Nathan West, future husband of Maxie Jones and brother of Nina Reeves. The actor, a daytime newcomer, did his screen test opposite Kirsten Storms (Maxie) and Chad Duell. In his first interview with Soap Opera Digest, Paevey said of his new alter ego, "Nathan is a good guy. He's guided by his moral compass. He's a straight-shooter." He exited GH in 2018, and Nathan was killed off, leaving behind his heartbroken pregnant wife.

In 2015, GH’s Patrick Drake (Jason Thompson) and Robin Scorpio-Drake (Kimberly McCullough) got engaged to remarry. She presented him with a perpetual calendar, which he took to mean she was suggesting they make their reunion official. Patrick told her, "Truthfully, Robin, there's only one person that I want to spend every day with. Robin Scorpio, will you marry me?" "Patrick, are we proposing to each other?" she shot back. "Are you accepting my proposal?" they asked each other, before agreeing to both answer on the count of three. They both said yes, of course! Robin then beamed, "I really like ringing in the new year engaged to you."