Colwin has presented the characters in this story perfectly. She first presents Freddie going to a friends wedding and reminiscing about her own wedding. Also how she grew up at the house where the wedding is taking place, she even got engaged only a mile away. This is all-important because she segue's into talking about Freddies life before and after marriage by showing her reminiscing at her eldest friends wedding. Freddies dress is very important to the story because her hate for getting dressed up is symbolized through the dress that she cares so much about not messing up, then finally doesn't care about at all. In showing how she hates to get dressed up the dress also shows her whole personality. It shows how she likes the simple things in life and nature its self.
             Second she introduces Grey Freddies husband. She does this by explaining that he is a lawyer but he loves the outdoors and hates to get dresses up. She stated this sudily at first by telling you that he is wearing the same suit he wore to his own wedding eight years ago. After she tells you that he loves the outdoors she explains how his love has rubbed off onto Freddie. And how she loves animals, espically birds.
             Next in the story comes James who Freddie had apparently cheated on her husband with. He is introduced suddenly This is possibly because freddie is ashamed of what she has done with James. The conflict through most of the story is between Freddie and James, sometimes gray even gets involved.
             After Freddie and Grey get to the wedding the story all of the sudden skips the entire wedding and goes strait to the after it was over. This is because colwin wants to give the impression that neither of the women are happy with their weddings or their spouses and their marriages won't last long. Which is ironic because at the beginning of the story it was talking about how much Freddie and Grey were meant to
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