A Nice Day for a Dry Wedding
I'm sure you're all wondering what's going to happen after last week's "Men in Trees" cliffhanger. "Nice Day For A Dry Wedding" was designed to be the grand finale of our first season, so I can promise that it contains some pretty dramatic developments, and will also satisfy some long-standing questions. Will Marin be devoured by wolves, or will she be rescued? Jack won't be around to save her this time. Will Annie still insist on calling off the wedding? Will the Chieftain survive being shut down?
In this week's episode we finally come to the big day of Annie and Patrick's wedding. I had so much fun on this episode because it was almost like getting married, but without the hassle of the Jordan almonds and annoying In Laws. (Now that "Men in Trees" has enabled me to finally buy my Cuisinart stand mixer and also get me in a wedding dress, there is no longer any reason for me to actually get married.) Our costume designer, Susan De Laval, consulted with me every step of the way, just as if I was a real bridezilla. I even had final approval over Anne Heche's maid of honor dress! We perused bridal magazines together to try and find all the elements of the perfect Annie wedding dress. Annie is never conventional in her wardrobe, so I knew she wouldn't want the standard, strapless, poufy princess number. There was a preview of the dress in last week's episode, but it was drenched in the rain, so I'm looking forward to seeing it in all its splendor this week. We actually had three identical dresses made just in case, which was a good thing, because by the end of the day that wedding dress train was dragging some serious debris.
As anyone who's attended a wedding knows, the love and emotion can be infectious. In my opinion, it's not a real wedding until two guests who just met are randomly making out on the dance floor. In the past, I have selflessly taken it upon myself to fulfill that responsibility, but that is a story for another blog. Could the love in the air finally bring Jack and Marin together again? Remember that he's about to leave for an expedition on the Bering Sea for nine months. I'm sure you're all hoping that Jane and Sam will catch some of the love bug as well. This is the first time they'll see each other since their break up, but Sam isn't attending the wedding alone. Meanwhile, Sara and Pastor Eric already got swept away last week when they threw his vows out the window, and that could spell trouble for the morning after.
When the wedding ceremony finally begins, it looks like a storm is a brewing. (Remember the dream sequence from last week? Another portentous omen may be coming to pass.) Of course the day that we shot the wedding was possibly the ONLY sunny day that we've had in Vancouver since we started filming, so we had to manufacture a storm with lots of large fans and filters over the camera lens. A storm is also brewing in the O'Donnell family as well. Danny, Annie's brother, seems to have fallen pretty far off the wagon since we last saw him at his intervention. Annie's dad is late as usual, leaving her mother lots of time to spend with a certain Elmo bachelor.
We actually shot the wedding in Squamish, the town that stands in for Elmo, and it was so lovely being back there. We don't shoot in Squamish very often anymore because so many of our sets have been built right on our sound stage. We were all thrilled to return to our little fictional town of Elmo and bunk up at the Howe Sound Inn, where we have all discovered yammer jammers (little pieces of deep fried yammy goodness). As we were all away on location, we also discovered the delicious local home brews. I won't say anymore except that the evening ended with Tim Webber (Jerome) standing on a table and serenading us all with a traditional Nova Scotian sea shanty.
Well I must go and fire this blog over the ether. So now I must make the long trek to the office to bring this news to you.
ABC's Men in Trees
airs Fridays at 8 pm/ET.
