Kerry and Tony are meeting with the production team to gear up for the filming of Season 5 finale, Episode 22, "You're Cordially Invited…" to the wedding of Ms. Olivia Carolyn Pope and President Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III.

Production Designer:
In the script, Fitz and Olivia decide to only let the print media to cover the wedding and no media coverage of the reception. Although there is no television coverage of the wedding and there is a complete black-out of the reception, they have agreed to post YouTube video clips of the wedding and reception on the White House YouTube Channel.

While the actual wedding ceremony is part of the show but there are no actual dialogue scenes during the reception as per the script. Nonetheless, we still need to "set-up" a reception to film footage to be used as the YouTube video clips which we will show the audience.

The script makes references to Olivia and Fitz having their first dance, Olivia and Fitz having a "fun" dance, cake-cutting, kissing during the reception, etc.

So, the visual effects team will be working on creating a large scale wedding reception using computer graphics so that we don't have to hire hundreds of extras to be guests. We will use the computer graphic image of the wedding reception as background for the film footage for the mock YouTube clips.

Set Designer:
The wedding scene is going to take place in the mock Rose Garden set. With the wedding, we are going to needing tons of flowers for the floral arrangements. But we are going to use a combination of real and artificial flowers. It's not practical to only be using fresh flowers. The artificial flowers can help to mask the real flowers when they start to wilt during filming. However, we shouldn't protract the shooting of the wedding scene because of the fresh flowers – once they fade, even the artificial flowers won't be able to do the job of covering up dead flowers.

Kerry:
I think you should take that a hint, Tony once we start shooting.

Tony:
I'll keep it in mind.

Kerry:
How are we doing with wedding wear for the bridal party?

Costume Designer:
We can thank the network and the studio for upping the budget for costumes for the wedding. They want Olivia to have a designer wedding gown. We don't have time to commission a designer wedding gown but my assistants and I are visiting various bridal salons in the city to purchase designer dress samples. We are also covering the dresses for Abby, Quinn, and Karen who are going to be Olivia's bridesmaids as well as for Ella as the flower girl.

For the men, the network and the studio asked me to talk with Brooks Brothers on having a tuxedo designed specifically for the wedding. So Fitz, Cyrus, and little Teddy will be wearing a one-of-kind tuxedo.

Kerry:
I know Darby and Katie are looking forward to trying on dresses for the wedding but go easy with me. I don't think I can handle trying on hundreds of wedding gowns.

Tony:
Come on, Kerry. You don't think Olivia should look for the absolute perfect gown for her wedding to Fitz. Where is your sense of romance?

Kerry:
I lost it where Olivia had to propose to Fitz three different ways numerous times.

Tony:
Oh, admit it, Kerry, you loved doing all those proposal scenes.

Kerry just shakes her head and rolls her eyes at Tony's comment.

All right, it looks like the wedding of Olivia Pope and President Fitzgerald Grant III is shaping up. We'll meet tomorrow.

The production team leaves the meeting room and Kerry and Tony are alone.

Kerry:
Hey, Tony, remember my comment when we were filming the proposal scenes – about getting a guest director to do the wedding episode. I really think we should get one.

Tony:
Oh, you don't trust me to direct the wedding episode?

Kerry:
Trust isn't the issue. Your obsessiveness is the issue. Speaking frankly, you are going to make me crazy, especially when we are filming the wedding scene with all the multiple takes you will be insisting on.

Why don't we have a compromise – you direct all the other scenes in the episode while the guest director oversees the wedding scene and the film footage of the reception.

Tony:
Oh? All right. I'll agree to your suggestion – a guest director for only the wedding scene and film footage of the reception.

However, we are going to be scrambling to find a director since we are close to schedule with shooting. I'm not sure who we are going to find.

Kerry:
I'll talk to the studio about finding a guest director. I think they could find someone on short notice for us.

Tony (with a gleeful smile):
Ok.

Kerry notices the gleeful smile and realizes that something is up with Tony.

Kerry:
Tony, why are you smiling? Have I been set up?

Tony:
In a manner of speaking.

Tony takes his copy of the Episode 22 script and run through the pages of the script with his fingers until he gets to the page he is looking for. He points to something on the page to Kerry for her to read.

Kerry:
Oh, damn! I should have known better when you agreed to the idea of a guest director so readily.

Tony (burst out laughing):
So, Ms. Washington, even though I don't get to direct you for the Olivia-Fitz wedding and reception, I get to direct you for the wedding night love scene.

Tony continues on laughing while Kerry looks like she is in pain.

Will Kerry and Tony regret their decision to bring in a guest director to help them film the Season 5 finale?

Will Tony make Kerry crazy when they film Olivia and Fitz's wedding night love scene?

Stay tune…