Happiness is too much to ask for Weddings on VD! (My 6x21 Thoughts)
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Alright so here is a jotted recap of the episode with my initial thoughts included throughout and after the episode. I do it this way because my memory sucks when it comes to recalling things that don't revolve around my OTP for the series.
SEASON 6
Don't forget: light blue are thoughts, red is sneak peek parts
Once again, I apologize for the format if its out of alignment...again -_-
**MAJOR SPOILER ALERT**
"Vampire Diaries" - ep. 6x21 ("I’ll Wed You in the Golden Summertime") [wiki page here] [Extended Promo]
[Producer's Preview] [My Tumblr page for 6x21]
Synopsis: ALARIC AND JO’S BIG DAY - It’s Alaric (Matt Davis) and Jo’s (guest star Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) wedding day and Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Bonnie (Kat Graham) do their best to help a stressed out Jo with the last minute preparations. After uncovering some life-changing news that Damon (Ian Somerhalder) has been keeping from him, Stefan (Paul Wesley) takes his brother on a road trip to give him some perspective on his future with Elena. Elsewhere, when Caroline (Candice Accola) returns to Mystic Falls after dealing with the fallout of her humanity-free rampage, she begins making amends with her friends and comes to a realization about her and Stefan’s prospects of being together. Finally, when Bonnie begins having vivid nightmares that Lily (guest star Annie Wersching) is coming after her, she enlists Matt’s (Zach Roerig) help in taking Lily down.
Michael Trevino (Tyler) and Michael Malarkey (Enzo) also star.
Jolaric Wedding!! Jeremy better attend!
Previously on the Vampire Diaries:
- Caroline's voice for the intro
- Damon's offer to take the cure with Elena
- Elena takes the cure
- Engagement between Alaric/Jo
- Caroline's No-Humanity Stunt
- Heretic Hybrids
- Lily's Ripper Spiral
NOW
Girls' Dorm
- Bonnie struggles in her sleep
- Bonnie groggily wakes up and believes she sees Elena up
- Bonnie notices the fire burning
- Lily visits Bonnie
- Bonnie thought Stefan captured Lily
- Lily escaped
- Lily wants her friends back
- Bonnie refuses to help
- Lily vamps out
- Bonnie tries to use her magic
- Lily attacks
- Bonnie stabs Lily with a fireplace poker
- Bonnie runs and knocks into Kai
- Kai taunts Bonnie
- "Wow, you are no good at running." -Kai
- Lily appears again and attacks Bonnie
- Elena wakes Bonnie's up
- Wedding is in 10 hours
TITLE CARD
Boarding House
- Jo freaks out about her missing shoes
- Bonnie offers to do a locator spell
- Jo wonders if that will work
- Elena brings Jo a non-alcoholic mimosa (just orange juice)
- Jo refuses and wants Elena to have one
- Elena refuses since she has a human tolerance again
- Elena gets a call from Jo's phone...the wedding planner is sick
- Jo freaks out
- Caroline walks in and offers to take the position
- Elena and Caroline hug
- Caroline thanks Elena for bringing her back
- Caroline hugs Bonnie
- Caroline gets things going on the wedding-front
WEBCLIP #2 -- Groom's Room (Boarding House?)
- Alaric, Matt and Tyler gathered everything today (suits, rings, vows)
- "Okay, we got suits." -Matt
- "I got the rings." -Tyler
- "And the vows." -Alaric
- "So. What do we do now?" -Tyler
- Shots are poured for a toast
- Matt and Tyler tease Alaric
- "To Alaric Saltzman, who after today will have sex with only one woman for the rest of his life." -Tyler
- "Seriously, just one. You can't even look after this." -Matt
- Alaric brings up how Matt and Tyler were fighting before
- "Yeah, you ever remember how it great it was when you two were fighting?" -Alaric
- "Sorry. Full moon tonight. Feeling extra dickish." -Tyler
- Matt and Tyler get simultaneous texts
- Alaric worries that something is wrong
- Matt reveals that it's Caroline
- "Wedding day chores." -Matt
- "Courtesy of Caroline!" -Matt and Tyler
- "Karma. Sweet, sweet karma." -Alaric
WEBCLIP #1 -- Damon's Bathroom
- Elena puts her makeup on
- Caroline arrives with a wedding update
- Caroline freaks when Elena gets too close to the curling iron (why the iron if she is gonna have straight hair?)
- "I'm human now. I'm not blind. I'm not fragile either. You don't have to walk on eggshells around me." -Elena
- "Uh, I do actually, because if you walked on them, they could cut you, you get infected and probably die." -Caroline
- "You know what? Given my luck, that actually seems possible." -Elena
- Caroline asks how Elena feels as a human ("So. What's it like now in world of the living?)
- "It's different. I'm slower, I look both ways before crossing the street, but it's nice to not--" -Elena
- "Be a monster like me?" -Caroline
- Caroline brings up her humanity-switch stunt
- Elena corrects Caroline's assumption ("I was gonna say I don't have to wear a daylight ring all the time.")
- Caroline apologizes to Elena for what she said while without her emotions
- "Look, I'm so sorry, Elena. I was trying to hurt you when I said that you would never truly be happy with Damon
- because you weren't human, now you are, and I just hope that it's not because I made you think that you would
- miserable for eternity." -Caroline
- Elena tells Caroline that she wanted to be human
- Elena thinks that Caroline has someone more important to apologize to than Elena
- Caroline thinks apologizing to Elena was the easiest one
- Stefan is brought up
- Caroline is avoiding Stefan...she wants to apologize to friends first
- Elena wonders why Stefan isn't a friend anymore
- "Stefan is...complicated." -Caroline
- Elena tells Caroline that Stefan is busy with Damon
- Caroline learns that Damon wants to be human for Elena
- Caroline is stunned...she can't picture Damon as a human
- Elena thinks that Damon hasn't thought it through either
- Suburbs
- Stefan takes Damon for a drive to a suburban neighborhood...it's one of Stefan's old homes
- Stefan wants Damon to think the human experience through
- "Might not be your thing." -Stefan
Boarding House
- Enzo visits
- Bonnie refuses to let him in
- Enzo wants Bonnie to give Lily an Ipod that has 1900s songs
- Bonnie goes to the basement and hears Lily talking to herself
- Bonnie checks the cell but doesn't see Lily
- Lily gets her hands on Bonnie through the barred window
- Bonnie breaks free
- Lily freakily stares at Bonnie
- Bonnie runs off
COMMERCIAL
Boarding House
- Elena uses makeup to cover Bonnie's bruises
- Bonnie talks about Lily's hallucinations
- Elena chalks it up to dessication delusions
- Bonnie worries about Lily getting her 'family' back (through a loophole)
- Jo wakes in and worries about her dress
- Elena brings up Lily's dessication state
- "Did she do something to the dress?" -Jo
- Bonnie assures Jo that nothing happened to her wedding dress
- Matt walks in with news of a delivery truck arriving because he needs to pick up flowers
- Bonnie offers to help
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Caroline tells Tyler how to set up the location
- Caroline apologizes to Tyler about her behavior
- Tyler understands
- Liv arrives => Caroline leaves
- Tense words between Tyler and Liv
- So Liv transfered out of Whitmore?
Flower Shop
- Matt and Bonnie pick up the flowers
- Bonnie tells Matt about her nightmares of Lily and Kai
- Matt shows Bonnie his supernatural weapon stash
- "When Bonnie Bennett has a hunch, you don't ignore it." -Matt
Suburbs
- Stefan gives Damon the picture of microwave dinners and paperwork
- Damon thinks he can handle it
- Stefan won't want to know where Damon is because he doesn't want old foes to find Damon
- Damon has the cure in his veins so his old enemies could track him down
- Elena would have to run with Damon
- Damon points out that he found a place that Elena pictured for them
- Damon did his research!
- Stefan calls Elena with news that Damon has thought his plan through
- Elena wants Stefan to push further on Damon
Boarding House
- Jo walks in and notices Elena's binge drinking
- Elena doubts her decision to take the cure
- Elena told her ex to convince her current boyfriend to give up on their relationship
- That's messed up!
- Jo offers to make Elena some coffee before the wedding
- Jo collapses
- Elena rushes to Jo's side (she's unresponsive)
- Oh if only Elena had vampire blood with her now...
COMMERCIAL
Hospital
- Jo waits for results
- Elena comes back with test results that Jo and the babies are fine
- Jo asks Elena to keep things from Alaric
- Elena rushes out to stop Alaric from seeing her
- Elena tells Alaric the diagnosis (stress)
- "She can't self-medicate like you bourbon breath." -Elena
- Elena tells Alaric what vampire instincts she was used to before she remembered that she was human again
- Alaric asks how Elena is taking being a human again
- "How amazing it feels to be human again." -Elena
- Elena feels connected to the world again...alive even
- Alaric agrees
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Caroline returns with drinks but finds Tyler alone
- Tyler tells Caroline that Liv left
- Caroline tries to give relationship advices
- Tyler refuses to listen and calls Caroline on her own issues with Stefan
Suburbs
- Damon is ready to leave
- Stefan has their suits ready
- Stefan brings up breakups to Damon
- Damon refuses to believe that outcome
- Stefan forces Damon to see
-
- Damon drinks as he waits up for Elena
- Elena is tired as a med student
- Elena has a wedding ring!
- Damon isn't pleased by the mind-trip
- Stefan comments on that being the two year jump
- Stefan forces Damon to see seven years from now
-
- Elena worries about her bills
- Damon gets back from the bar
- Elena tells Damon to stop drinking
- Damon knows he can't sell the bar like Elena suggests
- Damon comments on many things he did as a vampire that he can't do now
- "I can't because of you." -Damon
- Elena gets angry of what Damon's trying to say
- "This was a damn mistake." -Damon
- Elena agrees
- Damon retaliates against Stefan ("Get out of my head!")
- Damon calls Stefan out on him being alone with Damon and Elena
- Stefan brings up how as a human, Damon is less in control of life and death
- "What is your life gonna look like without her?" -Stefan
- Stefan forces Damon to see a life without Elena
- Damon returns home and raids the fridge for a microwaveable dinner
- Damon pours himself a drink...from the bottle
- Damon watches TV without a care
- Damon doesn't fight Stefan as he pulls out from the mind-trip
- Damon can't believe Stefan would show him such scenarios
- "That's harsh brother." -Damon
- "She wanted me to be harsh." -Stefan
- Damon hates how sadistic Stefan and Elena were to force him to live those scenarios
- "The two people closest to me, are the two most sadistic." -Damon
- Tough love?
- Stefan tells Damon that being human is a one-way trip for him
- Damon asks Stefan what he should do
- Stefan can't answer that
- "You have to want to be human for yourself." -Stefan
COMMERCIAL
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Guests are arriving
- Caroline continues as a wedding planner
- Elena joins her with news about Jo
- Elena spots Stefan approaching => Caroline rushes off
- "I'm not use to scaring people away." -Stefan
- Elena wonders about Damon
- Stefan tells her that Damon needed alone time to think
- Elena knows that Stefan doesn't want Damon to become human
- Stefan talks about how Damon was before he became a vampire
- Damon thinks back at the suburban house...taking in the surroundings
- Damon pops the kid's soccer ball when its kicked towards him again
- Damon grins at the damage
- "He loves being a vampire and I just don't think he'll ever give it up." -Stefan
Boarding House
- Bonnie and Matt get ready to kill Lily
- Lily is gone
- Bonnie thinks it's Enzo who broke her out
- Bonnie wants to warn the others
- Matt starts to choke out of the blue
- Bonnie starts to choke too
- How is that possible?
Mystic Grill
- Enzo drinks at the bar
- Lily approaches him
- Lily knows that Enzo tried to visit him and she appreciates the gesture
- Enzo wonders how Lily is out
- Lily claims to be resourceful
- Enzo wonders if he has to worry about Ripper!Lily making an appearance
- Lily isn't worried as she's determined she'll get her family back that day
- It can't be that easy to switch that Ripper hunger off!
COMMERCIAL
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Jo gets ready
- Alaric calls Jo
- Alaric comments on all the Gemini members at the wedding
- "Who knew there was so many of you." -Alaric
- Jo wonders if Alaric saw her father
- Alaric is surprised that Jo invited the man that tried to kill her
- Jo gets a surprise visit from her father
- Joshua asks if he could walk Jo down the isle
Outside
- Caroline is confronted by Stefan
- Stefan knows that Caroline is avoiding her
- Stefan wants to talk to Caroline about Damon
- Caroline doesn't blame Stefan for wanting to have Damon as a vampire
- Caroline brings up how she forced Stefan to turn his humanity off
- Stefan takes Caroline's hand
- Caroline wonders if Stefan hates her
- Stefan doesn't
- Caroline tells Stefan about the list she made of all the things that happened since she fell for him
- Caroline fell for Stefan during the summer that Damon and Bonnie were gone
- Stefan forgives Caroline for her non-humanity actions
- Caroline can't forgive herself...the old her wouldn't
- Stefan tells Caroline that feeling out of control is part of being in love
- "It's being vulnerable." -Stefan
- Caroline isn't ready to give her control freak nature up...not right now in her life
- Caroline walks away
Inside (Altar)
- Elena looks out
- Damon joins her
- "Isn't a bridesmaid's dress supposed to make you look like a freak of nature?" -Damon
- Elena brings up her talk with Stefan about Damon
- Damon isn't surprised that he told her
- Damon brings up Stefan's dirty tactics
- Damon has made a decision
- Flashback to Damon compelling the kid to get his mother's car keys
- Damon sees an old married couple together...fighting and making up
- Damon wants to take the cure ("I'm taking it.")
- Damon tells Elena that he'll give up being a vampire if it meant being her husband, her partner
- "I've been a vampire for a long time Elena, it's been a blast. I'd give it up in a second to be your husband." -Damon
- OMG!!! Beautiful speech that I wasn't fast enough to type up
- Elena doesn't want Damon to take the cure for her
- Damon corrects her...he wants to take the cure for them
- "I can take it for us." -Damon
- Damon is willing to risk being human if it meant he had a chance at a perfect life with Elena
- "The smallest chance at a perfect life with you is infinitely better than a mortal life without you." -Damon
- "I love you, and I will love you until I take my last breath on this earth." -Damon
- Elena smiles
- Damon kisses Elena
- BEAUTIFUL CONFESSION!
COMMERCIAL
Wedding Ceremony Site (Night)
- Caroline tries to get a hold of Elena
- Bonnie and Matt are MIA
- Elena and Damon are now missing
- Caroline is furious with the delays
- Jo finds it all amusing
- Stefan walks in
- Caroline tells Stefan to give the cue to start the ceremony
Barn
- Damon and Elena are having sex in the barn
- Damon hears the ceremony starting
- Elena gets her phone and sees all the missed calls from Caroline
- Damon and Elena rush to get dressed
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Damon and Elena join Caroline
- "I hope it was worth it." -Caroline
- "Actually..."-Damon
- Caroline push Damon and Elena to walk down the aisle
Boarding House
- Matt wakes up and rushes to Bonnie's side
- Bonnie is bleeding
- How did Bonnie start bleeding?
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Damon stands by Alaric and shares his news
- "Looks like I'm joining the human club." -Damon
- Alaric is pleased
- "I'm proud of you." -Alaric
- "You too buddy." -Damon
- Jo walks down the aisle with her father escorting her
- Alaric is smiling
- The ceremony begins
- Vows are shared
Warehouse
- Lily and Enzo arrive to an empty place
- Lily was given the address
- Enzo looks worried
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Alaric gives his vows first
- "You inspire me. You showed me that happiness is something I can actually have in my life." -Alaric
- Damon and Elena smile at each other...relating to Alaric's words
- Alaric puts her ring on Jo's fingers
-
- Jo gives her vows
- Jo starts to spasm and her stomach starts to bleed
- Jo collapses and Kai is revealed to have stabbed her from behind
-
- Kai uses magic on everyone...causing them to grip their heads
- "Miss me?" -Kai
- Kai uses magic to blow the windows up, causing a backlash of glass shattered
- Elena and Damon are thrown from the altar platform
- Elena is knocked unconscious
- I KNEW IT WHEN IT CAME TO KAI!!!
CREDITS
See you next week for the season finale!
Alright so here is a jotted recap of the episode with my initial thoughts included throughout and after the episode. I do it this way because my memory sucks when it comes to recalling things that don't revolve around my OTP for the series.
SEASON 6
Don't forget: light blue are thoughts, red is sneak peek parts
Once again, I apologize for the format if its out of alignment...again -_-
**MAJOR SPOILER ALERT**
"Vampire Diaries" - ep. 6x21 ("I’ll Wed You in the Golden Summertime") [wiki page here] [Extended Promo]
[Producer's Preview] [My Tumblr page for 6x21]
Synopsis: ALARIC AND JO’S BIG DAY - It’s Alaric (Matt Davis) and Jo’s (guest star Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) wedding day and Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Bonnie (Kat Graham) do their best to help a stressed out Jo with the last minute preparations. After uncovering some life-changing news that Damon (Ian Somerhalder) has been keeping from him, Stefan (Paul Wesley) takes his brother on a road trip to give him some perspective on his future with Elena. Elsewhere, when Caroline (Candice Accola) returns to Mystic Falls after dealing with the fallout of her humanity-free rampage, she begins making amends with her friends and comes to a realization about her and Stefan’s prospects of being together. Finally, when Bonnie begins having vivid nightmares that Lily (guest star Annie Wersching) is coming after her, she enlists Matt’s (Zach Roerig) help in taking Lily down.
Michael Trevino (Tyler) and Michael Malarkey (Enzo) also star.
Jolaric Wedding!! Jeremy better attend!
Previously on the Vampire Diaries:
- Caroline's voice for the intro
- Damon's offer to take the cure with Elena
- Elena takes the cure
- Engagement between Alaric/Jo
- Caroline's No-Humanity Stunt
- Heretic Hybrids
- Lily's Ripper Spiral
NOW
Girls' Dorm
- Bonnie struggles in her sleep
- Bonnie groggily wakes up and believes she sees Elena up
- Bonnie notices the fire burning
- Lily visits Bonnie
- Bonnie thought Stefan captured Lily
- Lily escaped
- Lily wants her friends back
- Bonnie refuses to help
- Lily vamps out
- Bonnie tries to use her magic
- Lily attacks
- Bonnie stabs Lily with a fireplace poker
- Bonnie runs and knocks into Kai
- Kai taunts Bonnie
- "Wow, you are no good at running." -Kai
- Lily appears again and attacks Bonnie
- Elena wakes Bonnie's up
- Wedding is in 10 hours
TITLE CARD
Boarding House
- Jo freaks out about her missing shoes
- Bonnie offers to do a locator spell
- Jo wonders if that will work
- Elena brings Jo a non-alcoholic mimosa (just orange juice)
- Jo refuses and wants Elena to have one
- Elena refuses since she has a human tolerance again
- Elena gets a call from Jo's phone...the wedding planner is sick
- Jo freaks out
- Caroline walks in and offers to take the position
- Elena and Caroline hug
- Caroline thanks Elena for bringing her back
- Caroline hugs Bonnie
- Caroline gets things going on the wedding-front
WEBCLIP #2 -- Groom's Room (Boarding House?)
- Alaric, Matt and Tyler gathered everything today (suits, rings, vows)
- "Okay, we got suits." -Matt
- "I got the rings." -Tyler
- "And the vows." -Alaric
- "So. What do we do now?" -Tyler
- Shots are poured for a toast
- Matt and Tyler tease Alaric
- "To Alaric Saltzman, who after today will have sex with only one woman for the rest of his life." -Tyler
- "Seriously, just one. You can't even look after this." -Matt
- Alaric brings up how Matt and Tyler were fighting before
- "Yeah, you ever remember how it great it was when you two were fighting?" -Alaric
- "Sorry. Full moon tonight. Feeling extra dickish." -Tyler
- Matt and Tyler get simultaneous texts
- Alaric worries that something is wrong
- Matt reveals that it's Caroline
- "Wedding day chores." -Matt
- "Courtesy of Caroline!" -Matt and Tyler
- "Karma. Sweet, sweet karma." -Alaric
WEBCLIP #1 -- Damon's Bathroom
- Elena puts her makeup on
- Caroline arrives with a wedding update
- Caroline freaks when Elena gets too close to the curling iron (why the iron if she is gonna have straight hair?)
- "I'm human now. I'm not blind. I'm not fragile either. You don't have to walk on eggshells around me." -Elena
- "Uh, I do actually, because if you walked on them, they could cut you, you get infected and probably die." -Caroline
- "You know what? Given my luck, that actually seems possible." -Elena
- Caroline asks how Elena feels as a human ("So. What's it like now in world of the living?)
- "It's different. I'm slower, I look both ways before crossing the street, but it's nice to not--" -Elena
- "Be a monster like me?" -Caroline
- Caroline brings up her humanity-switch stunt
- Elena corrects Caroline's assumption ("I was gonna say I don't have to wear a daylight ring all the time.")
- Caroline apologizes to Elena for what she said while without her emotions
- "Look, I'm so sorry, Elena. I was trying to hurt you when I said that you would never truly be happy with Damon
- because you weren't human, now you are, and I just hope that it's not because I made you think that you would
- miserable for eternity." -Caroline
- Elena tells Caroline that she wanted to be human
- Elena thinks that Caroline has someone more important to apologize to than Elena
- Caroline thinks apologizing to Elena was the easiest one
- Stefan is brought up
- Caroline is avoiding Stefan...she wants to apologize to friends first
- Elena wonders why Stefan isn't a friend anymore
- "Stefan is...complicated." -Caroline
- Elena tells Caroline that Stefan is busy with Damon
- Caroline learns that Damon wants to be human for Elena
- Caroline is stunned...she can't picture Damon as a human
- Elena thinks that Damon hasn't thought it through either
- Suburbs
- Stefan takes Damon for a drive to a suburban neighborhood...it's one of Stefan's old homes
- Stefan wants Damon to think the human experience through
- "Might not be your thing." -Stefan
Boarding House
- Enzo visits
- Bonnie refuses to let him in
- Enzo wants Bonnie to give Lily an Ipod that has 1900s songs
- Bonnie goes to the basement and hears Lily talking to herself
- Bonnie checks the cell but doesn't see Lily
- Lily gets her hands on Bonnie through the barred window
- Bonnie breaks free
- Lily freakily stares at Bonnie
- Bonnie runs off
COMMERCIAL
Boarding House
- Elena uses makeup to cover Bonnie's bruises
- Bonnie talks about Lily's hallucinations
- Elena chalks it up to dessication delusions
- Bonnie worries about Lily getting her 'family' back (through a loophole)
- Jo wakes in and worries about her dress
- Elena brings up Lily's dessication state
- "Did she do something to the dress?" -Jo
- Bonnie assures Jo that nothing happened to her wedding dress
- Matt walks in with news of a delivery truck arriving because he needs to pick up flowers
- Bonnie offers to help
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Caroline tells Tyler how to set up the location
- Caroline apologizes to Tyler about her behavior
- Tyler understands
- Liv arrives => Caroline leaves
- Tense words between Tyler and Liv
- So Liv transfered out of Whitmore?
Flower Shop
- Matt and Bonnie pick up the flowers
- Bonnie tells Matt about her nightmares of Lily and Kai
- Matt shows Bonnie his supernatural weapon stash
- "When Bonnie Bennett has a hunch, you don't ignore it." -Matt
Suburbs
- Stefan gives Damon the picture of microwave dinners and paperwork
- Damon thinks he can handle it
- Stefan won't want to know where Damon is because he doesn't want old foes to find Damon
- Damon has the cure in his veins so his old enemies could track him down
- Elena would have to run with Damon
- Damon points out that he found a place that Elena pictured for them
- Damon did his research!
- Stefan calls Elena with news that Damon has thought his plan through
- Elena wants Stefan to push further on Damon
Boarding House
- Jo walks in and notices Elena's binge drinking
- Elena doubts her decision to take the cure
- Elena told her ex to convince her current boyfriend to give up on their relationship
- That's messed up!
- Jo offers to make Elena some coffee before the wedding
- Jo collapses
- Elena rushes to Jo's side (she's unresponsive)
- Oh if only Elena had vampire blood with her now...
COMMERCIAL
Hospital
- Jo waits for results
- Elena comes back with test results that Jo and the babies are fine
- Jo asks Elena to keep things from Alaric
- Elena rushes out to stop Alaric from seeing her
- Elena tells Alaric the diagnosis (stress)
- "She can't self-medicate like you bourbon breath." -Elena
- Elena tells Alaric what vampire instincts she was used to before she remembered that she was human again
- Alaric asks how Elena is taking being a human again
- "How amazing it feels to be human again." -Elena
- Elena feels connected to the world again...alive even
- Alaric agrees
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Caroline returns with drinks but finds Tyler alone
- Tyler tells Caroline that Liv left
- Caroline tries to give relationship advices
- Tyler refuses to listen and calls Caroline on her own issues with Stefan
Suburbs
- Damon is ready to leave
- Stefan has their suits ready
- Stefan brings up breakups to Damon
- Damon refuses to believe that outcome
- Stefan forces Damon to see
-
- Damon drinks as he waits up for Elena
- Elena is tired as a med student
- Elena has a wedding ring!
- Damon isn't pleased by the mind-trip
- Stefan comments on that being the two year jump
- Stefan forces Damon to see seven years from now
-
- Elena worries about her bills
- Damon gets back from the bar
- Elena tells Damon to stop drinking
- Damon knows he can't sell the bar like Elena suggests
- Damon comments on many things he did as a vampire that he can't do now
- "I can't because of you." -Damon
- Elena gets angry of what Damon's trying to say
- "This was a damn mistake." -Damon
- Elena agrees
- Damon retaliates against Stefan ("Get out of my head!")
- Damon calls Stefan out on him being alone with Damon and Elena
- Stefan brings up how as a human, Damon is less in control of life and death
- "What is your life gonna look like without her?" -Stefan
- Stefan forces Damon to see a life without Elena
- Damon returns home and raids the fridge for a microwaveable dinner
- Damon pours himself a drink...from the bottle
- Damon watches TV without a care
- Damon doesn't fight Stefan as he pulls out from the mind-trip
- Damon can't believe Stefan would show him such scenarios
- "That's harsh brother." -Damon
- "She wanted me to be harsh." -Stefan
- Damon hates how sadistic Stefan and Elena were to force him to live those scenarios
- "The two people closest to me, are the two most sadistic." -Damon
- Tough love?
- Stefan tells Damon that being human is a one-way trip for him
- Damon asks Stefan what he should do
- Stefan can't answer that
- "You have to want to be human for yourself." -Stefan
COMMERCIAL
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Guests are arriving
- Caroline continues as a wedding planner
- Elena joins her with news about Jo
- Elena spots Stefan approaching => Caroline rushes off
- "I'm not use to scaring people away." -Stefan
- Elena wonders about Damon
- Stefan tells her that Damon needed alone time to think
- Elena knows that Stefan doesn't want Damon to become human
- Stefan talks about how Damon was before he became a vampire
- Damon thinks back at the suburban house...taking in the surroundings
- Damon pops the kid's soccer ball when its kicked towards him again
- Damon grins at the damage
- "He loves being a vampire and I just don't think he'll ever give it up." -Stefan
Boarding House
- Bonnie and Matt get ready to kill Lily
- Lily is gone
- Bonnie thinks it's Enzo who broke her out
- Bonnie wants to warn the others
- Matt starts to choke out of the blue
- Bonnie starts to choke too
- How is that possible?
Mystic Grill
- Enzo drinks at the bar
- Lily approaches him
- Lily knows that Enzo tried to visit him and she appreciates the gesture
- Enzo wonders how Lily is out
- Lily claims to be resourceful
- Enzo wonders if he has to worry about Ripper!Lily making an appearance
- Lily isn't worried as she's determined she'll get her family back that day
- It can't be that easy to switch that Ripper hunger off!
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Wedding Ceremony Site
- Jo gets ready
- Alaric calls Jo
- Alaric comments on all the Gemini members at the wedding
- "Who knew there was so many of you." -Alaric
- Jo wonders if Alaric saw her father
- Alaric is surprised that Jo invited the man that tried to kill her
- Jo gets a surprise visit from her father
- Joshua asks if he could walk Jo down the isle
Outside
- Caroline is confronted by Stefan
- Stefan knows that Caroline is avoiding her
- Stefan wants to talk to Caroline about Damon
- Caroline doesn't blame Stefan for wanting to have Damon as a vampire
- Caroline brings up how she forced Stefan to turn his humanity off
- Stefan takes Caroline's hand
- Caroline wonders if Stefan hates her
- Stefan doesn't
- Caroline tells Stefan about the list she made of all the things that happened since she fell for him
- Caroline fell for Stefan during the summer that Damon and Bonnie were gone
- Stefan forgives Caroline for her non-humanity actions
- Caroline can't forgive herself...the old her wouldn't
- Stefan tells Caroline that feeling out of control is part of being in love
- "It's being vulnerable." -Stefan
- Caroline isn't ready to give her control freak nature up...not right now in her life
- Caroline walks away
Inside (Altar)
- Elena looks out
- Damon joins her
- "Isn't a bridesmaid's dress supposed to make you look like a freak of nature?" -Damon
- Elena brings up her talk with Stefan about Damon
- Damon isn't surprised that he told her
- Damon brings up Stefan's dirty tactics
- Damon has made a decision
- Flashback to Damon compelling the kid to get his mother's car keys
- Damon sees an old married couple together...fighting and making up
- Damon wants to take the cure ("I'm taking it.")
- Damon tells Elena that he'll give up being a vampire if it meant being her husband, her partner
- "I've been a vampire for a long time Elena, it's been a blast. I'd give it up in a second to be your husband." -Damon
- OMG!!! Beautiful speech that I wasn't fast enough to type up
- Elena doesn't want Damon to take the cure for her
- Damon corrects her...he wants to take the cure for them
- "I can take it for us." -Damon
- Damon is willing to risk being human if it meant he had a chance at a perfect life with Elena
- "The smallest chance at a perfect life with you is infinitely better than a mortal life without you." -Damon
- "I love you, and I will love you until I take my last breath on this earth." -Damon
- Elena smiles
- Damon kisses Elena
- BEAUTIFUL CONFESSION!
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Wedding Ceremony Site (Night)
- Caroline tries to get a hold of Elena
- Bonnie and Matt are MIA
- Elena and Damon are now missing
- Caroline is furious with the delays
- Jo finds it all amusing
- Stefan walks in
- Caroline tells Stefan to give the cue to start the ceremony
Barn
- Damon and Elena are having sex in the barn
- Damon hears the ceremony starting
- Elena gets her phone and sees all the missed calls from Caroline
- Damon and Elena rush to get dressed
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Damon and Elena join Caroline
- "I hope it was worth it." -Caroline
- "Actually..."-Damon
- Caroline push Damon and Elena to walk down the aisle
Boarding House
- Matt wakes up and rushes to Bonnie's side
- Bonnie is bleeding
- How did Bonnie start bleeding?
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Damon stands by Alaric and shares his news
- "Looks like I'm joining the human club." -Damon
- Alaric is pleased
- "I'm proud of you." -Alaric
- "You too buddy." -Damon
- Jo walks down the aisle with her father escorting her
- Alaric is smiling
- The ceremony begins
- Vows are shared
Warehouse
- Lily and Enzo arrive to an empty place
- Lily was given the address
- Enzo looks worried
Wedding Ceremony Site
- Alaric gives his vows first
- "You inspire me. You showed me that happiness is something I can actually have in my life." -Alaric
- Damon and Elena smile at each other...relating to Alaric's words
- Alaric puts her ring on Jo's fingers
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- Jo gives her vows
- Jo starts to spasm and her stomach starts to bleed
- Jo collapses and Kai is revealed to have stabbed her from behind
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- Kai uses magic on everyone...causing them to grip their heads
- "Miss me?" -Kai
- Kai uses magic to blow the windows up, causing a backlash of glass shattered
- Elena and Damon are thrown from the altar platform
- Elena is knocked unconscious
- I KNEW IT WHEN IT CAME TO KAI!!!
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See you next week for the season finale!