A Knight in Shining Armor (Joanne's response)

Those who produce their wedding day as a Tony-worthy theatrical production leave little room for the sheer humanity of brides, grooms, their families and those who officiate at weddings.  Weddings are better understood as improvisational theater akin to ComedySportz in which whatever happens has to be integrated in the forward flow of the day.  For Celia, the decision to get married at all has been an exercise in dealing with the human limitations of her parents, herself, and Rob, and she has feared that those limitations will prevent the marriage from being successful.  However, successful weddings and successful marriages are not those in which everything goes according to plan.  They are the ones for which a loose blueprint of dreams and goals can flex to accommodate the unexpected and return to healthy equilibrium afterward.  Rob, bless him, rose to this challenge when Celia had her feet swept out from underneath her.  At some point in the future, Rob can say to Celia, "What do you need from me?" and Celia can say, "I need you to handle this for me like you did at our wedding."   Like unity candles and the exchange of rings, they incorporated another symbolic representation, this time of redemption, into their ceremony when Rob acted outside of the script, and Celia received his action.