The wedding goes on, with Joey reporting over the phone to Phoebe. Rachel, tearfully and sadly congratulates Ross and cries a little as they hug. Rachel spots Ross and Emily sharing a kiss before the wedding, and Rachel decides to congratulate Ross instead of telling him how she feels about him. Phoebe phones Joey to tell him he must warn Ross that Rachel is coming, but she gets straight to him in Montgomery Hall.

When she gets depressed and drunk, thinking her mother is right and she'll never get married, Chandler tries to comfort her by telling her 'Who wouldn't want you?' Next we see of Chandler and Monica, the next morning they are interrupted by Ross running in to celebrate, before it's revealed Monica slept with him. Monica tries to be happy for her brother, but her mother is driving her crazy and, even worse, a drunken man mistakes her for Ross' mother. Rachel misses her flight having forgotten her passport, having to run back home and get it, and on next annoys the gentleman sitting besides her to death with talk about Ross, to the point he tells her not only does he consider her planning to stop the wedding to be a horrible thing to do, but that as far as he's concerned she and Ross were definitely ' on a break.' Joey is terribly homesick, despite playing best man jointly with Chandler, but gets over it when Emily's bridesmaid starts hitting on him.

At the rehearsal dinner, Ross' and Emily's parents meet and prove quite antagonistic Stephen and Andrea Waltham are quite happy that the Gellers have agreed to pay for half the wedding, against their tradition, but Jack feels the list of expenses at their house is highway robbery, so Ross tries to mediate.

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