Ugly Betty Episode 207 Recap: “A Nice Day for a Posh Wedding”

Wilhelmina makes this absolutely stunning entrance in her wedding dress, which you do have to give Ms. Wang props for. But then Posh makes her own grand entrance, leading everybody to ditch La Slater to go gush over Les Vicks.

Wili throws her arms up in an exasperated “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” pose, saying, “Hello? Anybody? Bride over here.” She finally gets Marc’s attention, although he’s pretty besotted himself.

Marc: Sorry. Looking at her in that dress made me feel tingly where no girl has ever made me feel tingly.

Really? Not even Madonna in Dick Tracy? What kind of gay man are you?

Wili takes charge, throwing Vera out of the room and announcing they’re going in a new direction with the dress. Then she spins Posh around, and we next see her in a hideous sack-cloth of a dress that looks like she should also be wearing a beret, holding a paintbrush, and doing a watercolor of a mime in front of the Eiffel Tower.

Cut to Betty lugging her suitcase around Mode. She and Daniel bond over how much their fathers have pissed them off, each deciding at the exact same time to skip their respective wedding/citizenship ceremonies.

Mode Closet. Christina and Stuart, all chummy, seem to have gotten over their issues pretty quickly. Stuart’s gone on the wagon and has come back to apologize for being such a McCrappy McHusband back when he was hitting the grog. Christina says she’s sorry too.

Christina: I guess it was just easier to secretly put money away for two years, hide in a neighbor’s bar overnight, and then wait at the airport for four days for a standby ticket to New York … than it was to speak to my husband.

Frankly, I’m not at all surprised she found all that preferable to speaking with McHubby, given the fact that neither one ever has anything particularly interesting to say. Or even comprehensible.

Cut to the inside of Henry’s apartment, which we’re seeing for the first time. It’s a surprisingly sleek-looking studio without any hint of the geek about it. Where’s the Darth Vader mask on the shelf? Or the hanging model of the Enterprise? Or the pin-up poster of that Cylon babe? No matter, though, because the space is decent for New York. Betty should totally keep this place after he leaves; a broken heart is a small price to pay for exposed brick and direct sunlight.

He gives Betty her own key, and surprised, she asks what it means. He replies that all it really means is that she can now open the door. Because like all straight guys, he can’t understand the simple concept that in a relationship nothing is ever that simple.

They’re all kissy and giddy to be together, although it’s kind of a downer when they realize they can’t even make plans for the spring, given he’ll have gone back to his ’ho and her bastard spawn. Actually, I think it’s more likely he’s just saying he’ll be gone to get out of Betty’s plans to see Hall & Oates in concert.

Cut to Wili waking up in a hotel room after having enjoyed afternoon-continuing- through-dinner-into-late-night-and-finishing-off-in-early-morning delight with Dwayne. I’m guessing he spent much of the night screaming, “Here comes the bride.”