Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All Dressed In...Blush?
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.09.2006
Luke is putting up chairs at the diner when Lorelai comes in with a huge gold box. "Well," she smiles, "we're done." Luke is astonished when Lorelai goes on to say that all wedding preparations have been completed. She just dropped off the deposit check to the caterer. "I brought you some duck sausage rolls, by the way," she tells him, handing them over, and causing my mouth to water with curiosity. Luke is amazed that everything is done. She gives a big description of the dress and how she found it and how perfect it is -- it even has a cream sash, she says, which is kind of like white, which should make Luke happy. This whole thing makes me renew my rage that Lauren Graham gets the shaft time and again at these award things -- she is absolutely amazing on this show. Lorelai is a complicated mess, and Graham gets the tone right every single time. Scott Patterson might as well not even be in this scene because her joy and excitement totally dominates the screen (though I am glad he is, of course, because I love him like a duck sausage roll). Lorelai describes how, as soon as she got the dress, everything else totally fell into place. The dress is strapless, which made her think summer wedding, which means she can use her favorite flowers (daisies), and she and Sookie found an invitation place that was running a special on invitations. "There were these perfect daisy invitations," she says, "which I know sounds a little girly, but seriously, there are no macho wedding invitations, so please just give me this one, okay?" Luke says okay and she goes on to say that the stationery place was running a special and will print, mail and handle the RSVPs for the wedding. She says that when she and Sookie stopped into a coffee shop, she saw this beautiful picture of a rose-covered church which happened to be right around the corner from the shop. "So," she says, triumphant, "we went in and talked to Pastor Todd." And guess what? The perfect church has a perfect function hall, which Pastor Todd gave them at a discounted rate, and it comes complete with a gorgeous antique working carousel behind in the back which should be fully restored by their wedding date, "which by the way is June 3rd." ["How handy for season-finale purposes." -- Wing Chun] Luke is dumbfounded, but Lorelai says it was like the dress was "a sign or something." Bemused, Luke tells her that there are no signs, but as they are talking, it begins to snow outside, and Lorelai says that that, too, is a sign. "That is not a sign," Luke answers. "That is weather." No, Lorelai insists, it's fate. They smile at each other, and Lorelai actually giggles at one point and kisses Luke before running out to get the dress home before the snow gets too bad. Luke is left to ponder his big secret, and I am left to ponder why the writers of this show would torture us with the perfect wedding arrangements plus the Secret Daughter. Ugh.