"It's probably not going to be a huge deal," Janet said. While she knew the groom would want to do something special for his future wife, there was a difference between special and turning the whole thing into a spectacle. That was why he had reached out to her and the rest of his colleagues in the first place. They could take his imagination and ground it in reality.

"But it's something that's probably a few years overdue, and so I'd like to do my part to make it as great as we can. The friend of mine who's getting married doesn't get a lot of attention nor does he have a lot of family, so I feel like he deserves it."