Bostonian bride Amanda, 27, has waited nine long years to marry Chris, 26, a construction worker with an accent. Amanda also has an accent, but hers is a bit milder – although, when combined with her sometimes-annoying voice, it makes for times I wish I could hit the mute button. (But when you recap a TV show, that’s not so much an option.) The two met on a blind date when they were 17 and have been together ever since. “It was love at first sight when we first met,” Chris says. Amanda also had positive feelings about the whole thing. “I thought he was a hottie,” she says.

But Amanda got fed up with waiting to hear those longed-for words: “Will you marry me?” So she took matters into her own hands, by coming home with his wedding band and the ring she designed for herself. “When Amanda came home, she basically just came home and said, ‘I bought my ring. Surprise – we’re engaged!’” Chris says. He went along with it, and now the two will soon tie the knot. Amanda’s father is paying for the wedding, budgeted at $10,000 ... but they’ve gone over by about $3,000. In the “previously on” segment, we remember when Amanda drafted her mom to help her weasel out of a bill, the late-night pizza craving that ended in a big cheesy mess, and Amanda harassing her sisters when they wouldn’t end their phone calls with “I love you.”

With two days until the wedding, Amanda heads to the venue to get things squared away. She calls her dad to ask him to withdraw money from his account, but she’s not-so-secretly hoping he won’t pick up. “If he doesn’t answer, then that means I get to pick my own amount,” Amanda says. That’s super shady. She arrives at the bank, feeling free to withdraw as much of daddy’s money as she likes. Impressively, she goes for $800, even though she thinks she only owes the venue $80. Always conniving, Amanda plans to tell her dad that she took out $500, since he won’t find out the truth until he looks at the statement. [“That ... is appalling. Screwing over the florist last episode, and now this? Is she really so dishonest? And how does she have access to her dad’s bank account in the first place? Ugh.” – Cylon Bride]

One major problem? Amanda doesn’t just owe $80 – she owes $80 plus the $3,057.54 she never sent in. When the venue gave her the last balance, it was contingent on her check being in the mail. Amanda says she never promised a check was in the mail and feels she should only need to pay what the last statement sheet said. In the car, she calls her mom for advice. We find out that Amanda knew she owed the $3,000-plus and had a check for it the last time she met with the venue. But since they didn’t ask for it, she didn’t give it to them. Did she think they’d just forget? Now she wants to know if there’s any legal action she can take, and her mom wisely tells Amanda that she’s full of it.

In New Orleans, we meet 22-year-old full-time student DeShawn, and her 28-year-old police officer fiancé, Albert. DeShawn refuses to call him Albert, though, opting instead for his childhood nickname of “Tigger.” “His mom used to call him ‘Tigger’ when he was young ’cause he was a bouncy child,” DeShawn says. They met at DeShawn’s college, where he was a campus police officer and she was on the cheer team. She cooked and cleaned for him, which he says tricked him into liking her. Okay, then. After a two-year engagement, the two are ready to get married. DeShawn’s biggest fear is someone objecting when they’re at the altar. If that should happen, she plans to go under her dress, get her gun, and shoot someone. That’s one way to resolve conflict, I guess, although not the one I’d hope she’d choose.