It was a hard cut to make, not only because it was a sweet moment but also because I know people are going to wonder why Mee-Maw didn’t get mentioned, but at the end of the day we had to make the best episode we could and a 30-second phone call was going to be 30 seconds less wedding we got to see.
I know that CBS is planning to post some bonus content online after the episode airs, and I think Mee-Maw’s phone call will be one of the things they put up.
Unfortunately this episode came in very long and we had to start making hard decisions about what was serving the story and what we could lose.
We had recorded a phone message from Mee-Maw explaining why she couldn’t be there (she is in her 90s after all), and sadly we had to cut it for time.