Aaron Tracy

Neither Dahl nor Neil invite their families to the wedding.

They want to keep it small.

From personal experience, I think the wedding industrial complex is practically criminal, especially in New York, and I don't blame anyone who chooses to abstain from it.

But why no loved ones?

It's not like this is each of their third or fourth marriages or something.

This is the first marriage for both.

At least Charles Marsh is invited.

He did provide the ring, after all.

He's Dahl's best man.

It's also a bad sign that neither bride nor groom remembered to arrange for any music.

And then, in a really bad sign, here's what we know Neil was thinking during the ceremony when asked the big question, do you take this man?

We know because she writes about it later.

She says she thought to herself, I had been through my great passionate love.

Life was more than that.

That night, they go home, bags of leftover food under their arms, smiles still plastered to their faces, both a little drunk.

They take off their fancy clothes, climb into bed.

Dolph switches off the light and softly says to his new wife, I love you.

Neil feels tears come to her eyes.

They roll down her cheeks in the dark silence.

I could feel my heart breaking, she later writes.