Him & Her

- Season 4

(2013)

On the morning of Laura's wedding to Paul Becky and Steve are staying in a hotel and are not happy to be woken up at five to seven by the strident bride. Becky joins her and the other bridesmaids - including Shelly, who has overdone the fake tan - for drinks whilst Steve tries to wake Paul. However the groom is nowhere to be found and everybody blames Steve, who left him in the pub on his own because he found him boring. To make things worse for Steve all the girls prefer Becky's ex-boyfriend Lee to him. Eventually Steve sights Paul, who is topless and kissing another...

As the guests start to arrive Paul confesses to best man Steve that his older lover Graham, the man he was kissing, wants them to run away together. Steve tells him he must do the right thing, whereupon Paul throws the wedding rings in the toilet and prepares to leave with Graham. When Steve gets the blame for losing the rings Paul tries to use this as an excuse to cancel the wedding but Lee has retrieved them, once more putting him above Steve in the general estimation. Just before Laura walks down the aisle Becky confides in her that she is pregnant by Steve - and ...

The wedding ceremony proceeds, punctuated by ghastly poems Laura has written in praise of herself read out by friends and family - Becky's contribution being a particularly insulting offering by her sister. Laura is typically smug and bossy - until she sees that Paul is texting Graham and declaring that he does not love her and wants to run away with him. However she says nothing. Lee, informed by Laura that Becky is pregnant, tells her that he will always be there for her. Steve, unaware of the pregnancy, nonetheless knows that Lee despises him and that he is a rival...

The ceremony over it is time for the speeches. Laura's father Nigel gives a measured, well-received one. Paul is nervous and halting, not helped by Laura's vicious asides about his homosexuality. Last to go is Steve, who tries too hard to be funny and annoys some of the guests. It is also just his bad luck that Laura chooses to walk out of the room during his contribution after making nasty remarks to Paul, who follows soon after.

As the disco starts, Laura, drunk, miserable and more poisonous than ever following her discovery, is up for it with any man in sight and, when Steve turns down her proposition, she tells him that Becky has told Lee of her pregnancy because she really loves him, not Steve. Sneaky Lee is indeed out to steal Becky from Steve whilst Steve himself is asked by Paul whether he should stay with his awful wedded wife or run away with Graham and forfeit access to his daughter. Ultimately Paul makes his decision, Dan defends Shelly from bride's father Nigel's lustful advances ...