 The Wedding Day was started as his third play , but it was not finished until years later and finally brought out on both the stage and in print after his theatrical career ended . After Fielding returned to London from the University of Leyden during the end of 1729 , he brought with him a version of The Wedding @-@ Day . It was refused by John Rich to be staged , and it was not produced until 1743 by David Garrick . The only information on the origins of this play come from Fielding 's preface to the play in his Miscellanies ( 1743 ) . In it , Fielding says that he intended the leads , <unk> and Charlotte , for Robert Wilks and Anne Oldfield . However , Oldfield died before the play could be produced , and Fielding and Wilks got into a fight , which made it impossible for Fielding to convince him to join the production . 
