Weddy or not...

2015 A Bostonian trudges out of a skyscraper in mid-town Manhattan, rejected from his dream job. 104 blocks north, a Jersey Girl receives the phone call she's been waiting for and gleefully accepts that job. Three months later, he scores a different position at the same company and they meet to discuss promotional activities for a Broadway show. 2016 The Bostonian and the Jersey Girl are now friends. They pop by each other’s desks to share a joke. They instant message like it’s 2002. They walk around Bryant Park and tell co-workers “we’re just friends.” 2017 The Bostonian decides to grow a pair. He offers the Jersey Girl a spare ticket to Shakespeare in the Park. So indirect is his approach that she doesn’t realize she’s being asked on a date. Lucky for everyone, she’s the direct type. She asks him if he’d like to make out in the park during work hours. He would like to. They do. 2018 The relationship is going so well that the two decide to move in together. Never ones to do things the easy way, they undertake this life-changing decision with the following caveats: 1) The move will be out of state. 2) He will quit his job with no immediate prospects. 3) They’ll shack up with his parents for an undefined period of time. 2019 No one’s getting younger. But love is getting stronger. So strong that they return to Bryant Park— where they first fell in love and where now a group of tourists gabs loudly as one-eyed pigeons jockey for the best breadcrumbs and a man pees into a fountain 15 feet from where a Bostonian gets down on one knee to ask a Jersey Girl who once took his job to take his heart in her hands. 2020 You’re wearing a mask, but you can smell love in the air. You smell something else, too: theatricality. It occurs to you that this wedding might be one for the books, filled with grandeur, hilarity, and enormous dance circles. 2021 It is the future. Roads teem with self-driving cars. TikTok is a way of life. You step out into the dusk, ready to dance.