Frasier accidentally offers to pay for Daphne's wedding, but soon seizes the opportunity to make the wedding he's always envisioned.
Tropes:
- Bowdlerization: Edited versions of this episode leave out all the discussion about what Sabrina's actual profession is, thus neutering some of the jokes about it.
- Brick Joke:
- Roz mentions she hates being a bridesmaid because they always end up wearing hideous dresses, but is swayed into going along because she gets a glimpse at the ones Daphne's got... only for Daphne to reveal she hates them (because Frasier picked them out). Sure enough, in The Tag, Daphne unveils her actual choice of dress, and Roz's reaction is one of grief and despair.
- Among the things Frasier tries out is a harpist. Later on, when Martin begins recounting a story about Frasier and Niles's childhood, the harpist suddenly starts playing, much to everyone's confusion.
- Bridezilla: Played with in that Daphne (the actual bride) is not the Bridezilla (although she eventually snaps and goes on a screaming fury regarding the party arrangements, it's for different reasons than usual) but instead it's Frasier (the party arranger) who is the crazy Control Freak.
- Control Freak: Frasier becomes just as if not even more demanding than Daphne's mother on what should be in her wedding.
- Do Wrong, Right: Donny is disgusted with one of his own clients, a husband whose future ex-wife found credit card charges to an escort service.Donny: Any idiot knows you've gotta pay a hooker in cash!
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: As Niles is unwittingly dating an escort, Frasier tries helping him to a realization. The fact that she claimed to be interested in everything about him, his 18th century Portugese bud vases included, clues Niles in, and he nearly faints from the shock.Niles: Well, if you must know, she was rather aroused. She said she loved a man who collected porcelain, and - oh my God, I'm dating a whore! They have my credit card number! I've been running up a tab!
- High-Class Call Girl: Sabrina is an escort, but Niles thinks she's a paralegal and that "Executive Match" is a regular matchmaking service.
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Referenced by Roz when she tells Frasier about the horrific bridesmaid's dresses she's been forced to wear in the past. Daphne also reveals she wants to put her bridal party in something with poofy sleeves.
- Limited Social Circle: Daphne asks Roz to be one of her bridesmaids, rather than anyone else she must surely know after several years in Seattle. Apparently not.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Roz only agrees to be Daphne's bridesmaid after seeing the tasteful dress Frasier has picked out for the wedding party. She then advises Daphne to stand up for herself and take back control of the plans, and is rewarded by Daphne declaring that the first thing she's going to change is the bridesmaids' dresses.
- Oh, Crap!: Frasier quickly manages to get Sabrina to vamoose by idly mentioning Martin, who she'd been chatting with, was once a cop.
- Poor Communication Kills: Thanks to some overly spicy jerky and a case of the hiccups, it sounds like Frasier asks to pay for Daphne's entire wedding, and by the time the hiccups subside it's too late to say there's been a communication breakdown.
- Rage Breaking Point: Initially, Daphne goes along with Frasier's seizing control over her wedding plans, until he trots out the phrase "you'll thank me for this later." Since Daphne's mom used that line in her childhood, this proves the last straw for Daphne, and she explodes at all the things Fras has done that are upsetting her, putting her foot down.
