The wedding scene ends in pantomime and freezes in a tableau, while the Stage Manager/Minister talks to the audience.

Soames gossips to the audience about the loveliness of the wedding and how she always cries. Both George and Emily have crises at the thought of taking this major life step, but their elders reassure them and the wedding continues.

Following the Stage Manager's sermon, the wedding begins. He alludes to the sacredness of marriage, saying that the 'real hero' of the scene is God, for whom he is merely standing in. The Stage Manager moves the action to the wedding, in which he himself plays the minister. George concludes, 'So I guess this is an important talk we've been having.' 'I guess new people aren't any better than old ones.' George alludes that if he were to stay he'd want to go steady with her, and Emily says that she 'always been' his girl. Over a shared ice cream, George tells Emily about his plan to attend agricultural college over the course of talking to her, however, he realizes that maybe he doesn't need to leave Grover's Corners and meet new people after all. George is grateful for the honest criticism. Emily says she doesn't like that he's become so caught up in baseball, and he's gotten conceited. While walking home from school, George asks Emily why she's been treating him so funny lately. The Stage Manager then introduces a flashback to the conversation when George and Emily first knew they were meant for each other, when George had just been elected President of the Senior Class and Emily had been elected Secretary and Treasurer. Webb leaves George and his future father-in-law to chat awkwardly. Webb offers that there is sense in some superstitions as Mrs. Webb won't let him inside because a groom can't see his bride on the wedding day. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome.' George comes downstairs and goes next door to visit his girl but Mrs. Gibbs says, 'People are meant to go through life two by two. They reminisce about their own wedding, predicting that the newlyweds will have their rocky times but nevertheless that marriage is for the best: Mrs.

Gibbs sit down to breakfast and talk about how George and Emily seem too young to be out in the world alone. Webb begin fixing their family breakfasts, just as they did at the play's beginning the Stage Manager describes how these women cooked three meals a day for decades, and 'never a nervous breakdown.'Дr. Events are recycled from the First Act to show the continuity of life-for instance, Mrs. It's 1904, just after the commencement at the high school, the time when most of the town's young people get married, and that's just what's about to happen to George and Emily. The second act is 'Love and Marriage,' and the third act, 'I reckon you can guess what that's about.' 'The First Act was called the Daily Life,' says the Stage Manager, in the only place where these titles are identified. The Stage Manager welcomes the returned audience by saying that three years have passed, and 'the sun's come up over a thousand times.' Many young people have fallen in love and gotten married, as nearly everyone does.

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