Frasier gives both Daphne and Niles romantic advice, while Daphne's demanding mother and deadbeat brother complicate her wedding, along with Niles eloping with Mel.
Tropes:
- Close-Knit Community: Mrs. Richman, one of Frasier's neighbors, happens to be in the elevator whenever someone's pulled aside to discuss the Niles-Daphne Unrequited Love Switcheroo. At the end of the episode's first half, she puts down her laundry basket and pulls Daphne into a hug.
- Elopement: Choosing to "live in the moment" after hearing Frasier muse over Morrie's death, Niles and Mel end up eloping on their six-month anniversary, days before Daphne's wedding.
- Establishing Character Moment: We finally meet Daphne's mother, and it turns out she is every bit as unpleasant and overbearing as Daphne's stories over the years intimated. She doesn't get any more lovable.
- Extra-Long Episode: In syndication, the episode is often split into two parts.
- The Ghost: Mr. Moon attends Daphne's would-be wedding, but he doesn't make an appearance because for some reason, he's got a killer headache.
- Hypocritical Humor: When Daphne admits she knows about how Niles felt about her, Frasier declares he'll sock whoever the blabbermouth is. She then reveals it was Frasier.
- Internal Reveal: Daphne admits to Frasier that she knows about Niles' feelings for her after Frasier revealed the secret while on painkillers. After watching them dance together Frasier pulls Niles aside and reveals that Daphne knows and has feelings for him too.
- It's a Long Story: After Frasier reveals to Niles Daphne knows, Niles asks how. Frasier pauses for a moment before saying this... and then lies that it was Roz's fault.
- It Tastes Like Feet: At the end of the episode, the Cranes share the rare bottle of wine Morrie had saved. They take one swig, and are clearly revolted. Turns out Morrie kept it right next to a boiler, for years.
- Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: As Niles and Daphne are trying to talk to one another, Martin blunders into the room. He takes one look, realizes what's going on, and quickly makes himself scarce again.
- Mistaken for Pregnant: Daphne starts eating cookies out of nerves over her situation with Niles. Simon assumes it's actually because she's pregnant, which quickly spreads to their mother who believes it too. Daphne repeatedly insists that she isn't pregnant but nobody listens which just makes her even more stressed out.
- Plot-Triggering Death: The episode begins with mention that the regular doorman for Frasier's building, Morrie, passed away, and willed Martin a bottle of very rare wine that Morrie never had a chance to enjoy himself. This ends up triggering a few "live in the moment before it's too late" revelations that shape most of the episode's plot.
- Runaway Bride: At the end of the episode, Daphne becomes one, as she chooses Niles over Donny.
- Running Gag:
- The usual joke of Frasier interrupting Niles saying or doing something foolish by yelling his name reaches an apex here, when he realizes Niles is about to confess he loves Daphne to her face when she's engaged to someone else, and must bound up the stairs of the apartment to stop him.
- Niles and Daphne's heartfelt conversation being interrupted by someone butting in with something stupid or inane.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Roz is dismayed over having no date to Daphne's wedding and having to go with her boss (Frasier), she compares it to going to prom with a sibling. Frasier is suddenly very defensive that he did not go to prom with Niles...it's just that their dates cancelled at the last minute, and it was too late to refund the horse-drawn carriage. (Niles admits they probably shouldn't have gone together, but "hindsight is twenty-twenty.")
- Sympathetic Adulterer: Niles tells Daphne that he would dump Mel in a heartbeat to be with her, which ordinarily would be a total dick move, especially given they just married... but the audience has seen Niles's feelings for Daphne are entirely sincere, not to mention the pain of him having wanted to tell her dozens of times.
- Unrequited Love Switcheroo: Just when Daphne has realized her true feelings for Niles after the previous episode's epiphany, Niles ends up eloping with Mel during the episode's first part.
- Wham Line: Niles says to his father that he eloped with Mel.
