big day vs shotgun wedding

big day

noun
  • The day of one's wedding. 

  • A birding event in which teams compete against one another to see as many different bird species as possible in a certain area over the course of a day or part thereof. 

  • Any day on which something significant or momentous happens. 

shotgun wedding

noun
  • A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant. 

  • Any similarly reputedly forced partnership, between people, organizations, components, or concepts. 

How often have the words big day and shotgun wedding occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )