Spring doesn't just mean hay fever and denim bomber jackets: weddings come back in season once the sun comes out to play again. Instantly the passive aggressive mine-was-better social media photo shares start flowing freely, and while for the most part it's lovely to see people celebrate a long-awaited union, sometimes, it can get a little cloying. I'll say what we're all thinking: more than once I've chastized myself for rolling my eyes at a real wedding, but without fail, I've shed a tear at more than a dozen on-screen weddings which don't even concern real people. It's a problem that I'm hoping other people share, because while friends are responding to RSVPs and trying to decide what to wear, I'm still thinking of my top on-screen movie moments instead:
Before Grey’s Anatomy lost its focus, it was a show that took pride in reframing relationships and commitment for strong, career-focused women, and to date, nowhere is that better displayed than in Meredith Grey and Derek Shephard’s quickie post-it wedding. At its root, a wedding is but a symbolic party and a bunch of finely tailored clothes worn on an arbitrary date, and this scene for the ages reminds us that a relationship is whatever you want it to be as long as the other half is by your side. Meredith and Derek survived more than a few tough times on this square blue post-it, constantly referring to it to remind each other of the vows written on it to begin with: characters in the show have often joked that all Meredith and Derek had was a piece of paper, not a real wedding, but it does seem like their paper is stronger than most of the promises their colleagues made to each other.
