Summary
Charlotte, veiled in tulle as delicate as a lie, glides down the aisle toward Eddie, whose grin quivers like a guilty verdict. Suddenly the chapel doors slam open: Lee, the jilted lover, storms in, tears ricocheting off the stained glass. Each expulsion only refuels his operatic desperation; he re-enters disguised as verger, flower girl, even as the bride’s own reflection in a hand-mirror. The ceremony becomes a comic danse macabre—rings catapult, vows stutter, the organ belches funeral chords. Finally a phalanx of bobbies sweeps altar, bride, groom, and obsessive interloper into a paddy wagon. Behind iron bars, Lee watches the law itself finish what ecclesiastical ritual could not: the knot tied with bureaucratic ruthlessness while he sobs into the sleeves of a borrowed jacket.
Synopsis
Eddie is about to be married, and while he is facing the altar with his prospective bride, Charlotte, Lee, the rejected suitor, bursts into a fit of weeping. He is ejected, but returns and time and time again attempts to break up the ceremony so that he can make the girl his wife. After being tossed out for attempting in different ways to put an end to the wedding, Eddie, Lee, Charlotte and the preacher are escorted to jail. Lee has to look on while the matrimonial knot is tied.
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