#berlagak

it didn’t remind him, but it rather proves more and more that Blair is doing the wrong thing by marrying Louis.

i don't understand why he didn't make it so that only Louis saw the video in private, because the bulk of what happened was Blair getting humiliated. it didn't successfully stop the wedding. Maybe if he had schemed in some way to make Louis see the vid before the proceedings, Louis would have been the one to call the wedding off and everything would have been successfully terminated. i guess, i don't get why he had to make it this big public thing on gossip girl. If somehow Louis had seen the video in private and still decided to go on with the wedding to Blair, i would have understood why his last recourse was to go public. But it wouldn't have been his place anyway. And no such thing happened.

Blair getting humiliated shoud have been something he considered heavily. seeing has he claimed he was doing this for her happiness and so on. Like you said he clearly wasn't thinking about Blair.Then idk who he could have been thinking about, it sure wasn't Chuck or Louis.

And other people writing the vows in weddings? Trust me honey it happened a lot more than you think. Dan didn’t think of Louis, he thinks of Blair. Blair insisted in marrying Louis and lets say Louis loves her at the time but really sucked in writing it down, Dan helping Louis isn’t really condoning a deceitful marriage between them. Because really, I’ve seen husbands who can’t write their vows because words are not their forte, and after awhile, their wives knows it but they don’t blame them if the marriage works

I guess i'm still young and i don't know a lot of things about vows and wedding. But as a girl, i think vows are the most important things you exchange between you and the person you marry, so i think they should come from that person's heart. No man can do another man's heart justice in words. I just don't see why Louis picked Dan to do that for him or why Dan would even agree to this. The thing is, i don't think Louis had anything to do with those vows. I don't think he had a draft for Dan to polish. i think he left everything completely up to Dan. And the vows meant nothing to him like he told Blair. I don't understand why Dan took that responsibility for Louis and Blair, seeing as close as he was with Blair.

i personally feel like i wouldn't want to marry somebody who can't write thier own vows. When somebody speaks from the heart, it should be natural. So i'm not looking for someone to impress me with their literary skills. I'd be looking for someone to express to me their true feelings, which shouldn't take much effort if they are ready to marry me. I wonder how many of those marriages where people don't write their own vows tend to last. I guess i'm different from those women who are okay with it.

On sending the video, I thought of it as Dan’s last chance to stop the wedding. I mean really if that video dropped in Serena or Eleanor’s hands, they would do the same. I’m not saying what he did was right, I’m saying he’s a desperate guy at his last straw.

I don't think either Eleanor or Serena would have sent that video. I know they would have confronted Blair with it but they would not have humiliated her publicly. Serena might show it to Louis or something and Blair would have been upset with her for it, but you wouldn't have been able to argue that Serena didn't have good intentions. Chuck wouldn't have sent that video because Blair made it clear to him that it was her choice to marry Louis even at the last minute when she shook her head from the altar. Chuck turned around to walk away, to let her choice be. Serena and Eleanor gave in earlier, so neither of them would send that video to gossip girl.

Why would Blair run directly into the arm of the person who just humiliated her?

Exactly, which is why he didn’t exactly have an ulterior motive for himself by sending that video. He just wants to desperately stop the wedding.

lol. i meant, why would Blair run into Chuck's arms after the video blast. she would automatically assume Chuck was the one to send it. So i was saying there is no way Dan intended for that video to work in Chuck's favor. He knew that after Blair got humiliated for it, she would only hate Chuck more. I was surprised she even had a conversation with Chuck after the blast. I'm not saying his ulterior motif was calculated or anything, but anything to take the ball out of Chuck or Louis court is a good thing for him --two birds, one stone. And if he thought what he did was justified and understandable, why didn't he tell Blair he was the one to send the video instead of randomly accusing Chuck, even though Blair hadn't brought him up in the conversation. I guess my main problem with this whole thing was the fact that he didn't tell Blair, even though he had a lot of opportunities to do so. Instead he chose to make deals with Georgina to protect him from it ever coming out. He never intended to tell Blair and that seemed to be okay with him. If it was anybody else who did it, he would have been the first one to tell Blair claiming that he couldn't keep it from her because she deserved to know the truth. honesty and integrity are supposed to be a two way street.

(actually, he’s the Prince so why aren’t the wedding in Monaco?)

this is my guess, but i figured that after the miscarriage maybe the royal family wanted to be accommodating to Blair. the original save the date was supposed to happen in Monaco on November 26th as opposed to January 28th of the next year.

About the vows, put away all the dramatic GG scenes, put away all the characters, just think about the words itself like a letter from a boy to a girl, that is what dairshippers liked about it so much, they wanted those kind of letter to be for them. Which is why the reactions were all, “OMG, the vows is so romantic!!!” The words filling inside the vows, that is what make the dairshippers heart flutters so much. It really is that simple.