Or, you could see it as a sly poke at the older Disney movies where this very thing happens (Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Little Mermaid, etc...). In all of those the courtship is minutes/hours/days.
Those silly fairy tales! if they could only take the fairy tale out of them then everyone would live happily every after.
Note, I didn't see it that way, just pointing out that it could be seen that way. It was simply a mechanism to move this story along.
My first great love. I approached a table seating friends and strangers. A stranger looked up at me and my heart did a flip flop. I loved him for three years in an off again, on again romance. Then I left town, but we agreed to contact each other if something significant changed in our lives. About 15 years later I had a strong impulse to try to contact him. Found his address through a professional society and wrote a letter. Three weeks after the initial impulse he phoned me. I asked if anything had happened 3 weeks earlier. He said it was the day his divorce became final. Talking with him I no longer felt a connection.
A few years later I met my second greater love. Feelings were mutual, but being married with children we did not act on it. Eight years ago, my husband died after a long illness. We have been together now for 7 years. Life is good.