No, we talked about it back in June when we first started planning… We did a firehouse wedding in tuxedos for Boden, and the little wedding at Molly’s for Mouch and Platt, and so Michael was like, “Wouldn’t it be cool if they got married in their turnout gear, coming from a call, and put everybody in the uniforms they were wearing when this show opened in 2012?” So that was the catalyst of, like, how can we do it differently, and yet be organic and germane to the show, and still make it sweet and loving and all of those things? Was there any temptation to go all out and give the characters a big wedding? TVLINE | It was a very moving but low-key ceremony. But yeah, when showed up at her door at the end of last season, we were saying to the audience, “We’re going to stabilize these two for a while.” I don’t know that this quickly he certainly was a catalyst. TVLINE | If Louie hadn’t come into their lives, would they have still gotten married? I think with the addition of Louie into their lives, solidifying them as a family, and the longing for Casey to be not just Mom and Matt to Louie, but Mom and Dad, it felt right. You can only do that so many times before you start upsetting people. Well, we certainly hinted at it through the course of not only this season, but the previous two seasons.
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