In the chap­ter “The Last One at the Wed­ding,” the nar­ra­tor reflects on the events dur­ing a wed­ding week­end, begin­ning with a chaot­ic lunch involv­ing Abi­gail, the nar­ra­tor’s sis­ter. Unfazed in her food-con­sum­ing fren­zy, Abi­gail finds her­self over­whelmed, lead­ing to a mess that the nar­ra­tor, Frankie, pre­dicts. This behav­ior sparks a debate between Frankie and Tam­my, where Tam­my express­es frus­tra­tion at Frankie’s irri­ta­ble demeanor. Fol­low­ing the lunch deba­cle, ten­sions ease when they head upstairs to unpack.

Frankie describes their accom­mo­da­tions at a lav­ish venue and express­es delight at the spa­cious mas­ter suite which fea­tures a king-size bed, a pri­vate bath­room, a large flat-screen TV, and a bal­cony with a view of Lake Wyn­d­ham. Mean­while, Tam­my is in a sim­i­lar­ly grand suite next door, and Abi­gail occu­pies a whim­si­cal room adorned with nau­ti­cal themes, express­ing her excite­ment over the bunk beds.

As Frankie unpacks, they note an event sched­ule for the wed­ding week­end, which high­lights var­i­ous activ­i­ties includ­ing a wel­come din­ner, a group hike, and the main wed­ding event, mak­ing it sound both engag­ing and intim­i­dat­ing. Feel­ing anx­ious, par­tic­u­lar­ly about meet­ing the Gard­ners, Frankie opts not to explore and instead focus­es on craft­ing a toast for Mag­gie, the bride.

Despite attempts to per­fect the toast, Frankie strug­gles with self-doubt and finds it chal­leng­ing to artic­u­late gen­uine sen­ti­ments with­out sound­ing cheesy. Instead of giv­ing into frus­tra­tion, they reach out to Vicky, a friend, for help. She encour­ages Frankie, promis­ing to review the toast and pro­vide con­struc­tive feed­back, alle­vi­at­ing some of the pres­sure. As they send the toast to Vicky, a sud­den scream from Abi­gail sig­nals that all is still not calm in their event­ful week­end .