Sun, Oct 27, 1974
It's two days before Rhoda and Joe's wedding. One item still of contention between Rhoda and Ida is the wedding itself. Ida wants a larger wedding than Rhoda has planned, and takes steps to ensure she gets what she wants without Rhoda being able to do anything about it. Regardless of whether Rhoda or Ida gets her way on this item, the wedding may end up being just slightly larger than Rhoda planned if only because beyond Mary and Georgette being invited and coming in from Minneapolis for the festivities, three additional people decide to come from Minneapolis as well: Lou, Murray and Phyllis. There are logistical items to work out with these last minute arrivals. In addition, Rhoda is in excited anticipation about what her two favorite people in world, Joe and Mary, will think about each other. With many of the wedding guests convening at Ida and Martin's place for dinner, there are two conspicuously absent people, namely Rhoda and Joe, who have to do something important on this their final night as singletons.
Sun, Sep 29, 1974
Ida drops by Brenda and Rhoda's apartment on the strong possibility that Joe will be there - based on intel from a reluctant Brenda - Joe who Ida has not yet met. Rhoda, who isn't quite ready for Joe to meet her parents, thwarts Ida's plan of attack as she and Joe are meeting elsewhere for their date. Rhoda later learns the true extent to which Ida will go to meet Joe. When Rhoda and Joe discuss the issue, Joe suggests they make a day out of each meeting the other's parents, they having lunch with Joe's parents, and having dinner with Rhoda's parents that same day. Rhoda agrees, but she urges Ida not to make a fuss. Although nervous about meeting Joe's parents, it's something that they tell her about their own relationship that surprises her. Rhoda is equally as surprised by the Ida who shows up to dinner.
Sun, Oct 20, 1974
Despite the fact that Rhoda doesn't really want one, Brenda convinces Rhoda to let her throw a bridal shower for her. Part of the issue is that all Rhoda's closest friends live in Minneapolis and not New York. So it isn't until the first guest arrives that Brenda tells her who is coming: five of the forty-eight invitees, who were those that wrote anything nice in Rhoda's high school yearbook. Of those five, Rhoda is really looking forward to seeing four of them. The one exception is Linda Monroe, who always purposefully tried to make Rhoda feel inferior, and always succeeded. Rhoda is truly happy to see her first four guests, three of whom have not fundamentally changed since graduation fifteen years ago, but who are at a different point in their life path than when she last saw them. Will Rhoda feel the same about Linda, the last of the guests to arrive?