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Carrie and Mr. Big’s (Non-)Wedding, Sex and the City

The first iteration wedding technically didn’t happen, but the 200 guests who showed up to the New York Public Library on the date of Carrie Bradshaw’s ill-fated, high-society wedding to Mr. Big didn’t expect that!

This doomed fête, which Racked NY estimated would have set Carrie and Big back a cool $230,000, would have been a memorable and lavish event worthy of Page Six had it gone off as planned. Instead, Carrie and Big’s guests will always remember the fact that Big wasn’t “able to get out of the car.”

Overwhelmed by the media attention surrounding the event, which included a Vivienne Westwood dress worth the cost of a mid-range car and a whopping $40,000 worth of flowers, Big calls Carrie minutes before the couple are scheduled to marry and tells her he “can’t do it.”

And, by the way, it wasn’t only guests who were out whatever they had spent (on couture and otherwise) to attend; though background shots indicate the film’s set designers appear to have decorated the interior of the NYPL to the nines, almost none of it appears on screen.

Sometimes couples are happier in their happily-ever-afters when the wedding is small and intimate. Carrie and Big went astray when their 75-guest, simple, “labelless” wedding ballooned into a 200-person society event. In the end, the couple got it right, marrying privately at City Hall.