Father and the Bride

The episode was directed by Amy Heckerling and written by Peter Elkoff.

Similar to previous names in the TV series, the title of the episode references a work on literature.

The title reference is from the 1991 film, Father of the Bride starring Steve Martin.

He teams up with Father Cavalia to do it at the end of the episode saying, "She already thinks I'm a villain, might as well fit the part".

Daniel Humphrey (Penn Badgely): Dan is pretending to date Serena when he really has feelings for Blair.

It is confirmed he does when it revealed that he wrote Louis's vows for him that Blair feels reflect who she is perfectly.

Blair decides to throw herself a bachelorette party, but shady enemies who include Beatrice (guest star Roxane Mesquida), and her co-conspirator cousin Father Cavette, scheme to ruin and humiliate Blair, with an unknowing Chuck as their patsy, in order to prevent Blair's upcoming marriage by any means necessary.

Meanwhile, Nate, with the distant assistance of Gossip Girl, finally discovers that Tripp was responsible for the car accident that affected Blair and Chuck and he contacts William van der Bilt for help to expose Tripp's scheme.

Serena and Dan are walking and she says that her blog is about to launch and it's flourishing with Gossip Girl done.

She expresses that she loves Louis but she can't help think about Chuck.

Nate calls him and sends him a picture with Max in it that suggests he was the one that tampered with the car.

Beatrice asks her if there's anything she wants to do as a single woman but Blair says there's no point in deviating from her royal path.

Serena is yelling at Nate when his receptionist takes a video of them and sends it to Gossip Girl.

He gives Chuck the address to her bachelorette party and agrees to help get him and Blair alone.

Tripp shows up at Serena's and she tells him that she supports him and that he didn't mess with the car.

William says that Maureen was with him the night of the accident consulting with a divorce lawyer.

Blair eventually gets released from jail and accuses Beatrice of trying to get her arrested but Dan says that it was Chuck that did it.

Chuck meets with the Father and tells him that Blair already thinks he's a bad person so he might as well fit the role by helping the priest take down the wedding.