Episode Report Card 13 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The Biggest Deal There Is
By Maggie | Season 2 | Episode 23 | Aired on 2000.05.24
Javier walks down the aisle with his mother to the strains of the Wedding March, played on the guitar. The woman playing his mother could really be his mother. They both look adorable. Felicity, a clergywoman, Samuel, and his best man are waiting for Javier at the end of the aisle. The clergywoman begins, "There is no more precious gift than love. There is no more sacred institution than that of marriage, two lives brought together, to form one." Javier says, "I'm not going to make this without crying." The clergywoman continues, "Your commitment must be primary. Know that in the days and years to come, you will laugh together, cry together, go through light days and dark..." [At this point, Richard wells up and has to ask the woman in front of him for a tissue] "...be sick and well, but always you will love." She asks for the rings, then announces that Javier and Samuel have written their own vows. Javier begins, "Dearest Samuel, you are my light, my soul, you are my best friend, my lover, and also my roommate. I feel that it's almost not possible that I met you, but I did. I want to thank you for being so understanding, especially that I didn't tell you until last night that next year, I'm going to be a freshman at the University of New York. And I promise that I will always do everything I can do to make you feel as blessed to be my partner as I am to be yours. I love you." The gang all exchange glances when they hear about Javier becoming a student. Samuel begins, "My sweetheart," and Javier interrupts because he needs tissues. Samuel continues, "I look at you and I see love. I look at you and I see my future. No one who knows you can't consider himself blessed. To be the man who gets to grow old with you, I am truly the most blessed man alive. I thank God for you, and I love you." The clergywoman wraps everything up by saying, "Having proclaimed your profound love for each other, in the presence of family and friends, I now pronounce you partners in life." Samuel and Javier kiss and I feel the need to wipe away a small tear.