SST: Luis and Maria's Wedding

SESAME STREET TUESDAY

For many people (around 30 million, to be more specific), General Hospital's Luke and Laura had the ultimate 80's TV wedding. However, for those of us who were seven in 1988, that wedding's cultural impact was completely eclipsed by the wedding of Luis and Maria on Sesame Street. They built up to the wedding for months and I remember having an incredible sense of anticipation leading up to the actual event. It's weird to think of Sesame Street pulling something akin to a ratings stunt, but I was definitely glued to my TV, so it must have worked. You can see the wedding ceremony here - I couldn't figure out how to shorten this super-long clip when embedding, plus that clip has far too much Elmo to slide past my usual no-Elmo policy (although Elmo's fear of dropping the rings was the only part of the wedding that I actually remembered, aside from the general rooftop setting).



Still, Luis/Maria is only my second-favorite Muppet-related wedding of the 80's:



Note: I may or may not have sung that song to Amy when I proposed to her :)