Ever After
- Mary Alice ends up getting married in Grandma Dowdel's house, in the last year of World War II.
- Because Joey is off serving in the war and their father is working with Boeing in Seattle, Mary Alice's family can't make it to the wedding.
- And because the groom is also serving in the army, he only has three days of leave to spare.
- The whole affair is quite simple and spare, because of the war. Mary Alice saves up her ration cards to buy a new pair of shoes and a suit, and Grandma Dowdel makes her bouquet and bakes a wedding cake.
- And when the time comes, Grandma Dowdel is the one who walks Mary Alice down the aisle and gives her away…and we find out in the second-to-last sentence that we know the groom quite well. It's Royce McNabb!