Alight the episode just started..so i'll do some live posting..Holy Crap now thats the way to begin an episode...I was freaking out, as they went back and forth between steve/kayla and the wedding...Great stuff...

I really hope Rick, Kirk, Angela, Nubs, Ridge, Kenny, and King are watching today...its old school Days again..

Kev, you know I dont miss a show! I have maybe missed 2 this year. I had finals this week and I also moved back home, so I am watching Monday, Tuesday, and todays show tonight and I cant WAIT!

I don't see the Steve and Kayla's daughter vibe either. Steve was wild and rebellous because of what he went through in his life. Things that Much beloved Stephanie never did...So whatever happened in Dayton better be good. Or at least SH needs to give us little physical hints of vunerability, or hidden pain ...something!

That's the thing with how they play "rebel" these days, it always manages to come off as petulant and spoiled, I feel ... the stories aren't there to back up the angst, and characters are so young that it comes off as really precocious instead of deep-seated. No offense to the younger actors but it's just very unlikely that they'll have the gravitas to really pull off straight-forward rudeness in that really deeply angsty way, nor would they have the honed intuition to inflect nuance into it ... I'm not trying to say she's an significantly bad actress, but it takes a significantly good one to pull off that heavy stuff, and it's not even easy as a seasoned actor much less a newbie. Maybe she'll improve though, but in the meantime she comes off as really indulgent, just another member of the Paris Hilton generation (okay so she's not that bad yet but ... you know what I mean). I think the big thing when a young character feels annoying is precociousness, people just don't like precociousness. If all the fuss and noise outreaches the depth and experience, I think people just don't have the time for it.

And the fact that they keep putting it all down to Dayton cracks me up! But maybe we'll find out more about her mindset as we go on.

Great ending...the montage was excellent..I'm glad they included the "home to me" dance, that could be my alltime favorite lumi moment...I even think i might have that on tape somewhere...I was expecting the picture to show up in the very last scene, not the scene prior...So that surprised me...I loved the end with Sami crying, can't wait for tomorrow..

I will say the stephanie, chelsea, and nick scenes were kind of out of place...Everytime they showed Stephanie's legs, i wondered if Nick was looking up her dress....And did Stephanie fall out the car???? I couldn't really tell..

I am the opposite of Kirk. I've maybe watched 25 full episodes so far in 2007, and 15 of them were probably in January!

But, yeah, Kev, I will definitely watch! The show has been great all week.

Definitely starting the summer off with a bang! Let's get those college kids hooked now. Ratings, por favor!

Great ending...the montage was excellent..I'm glad they included the "home to me" dance, that could be my alltime favorite lumi moment...I even think i might have that on tape somewhere...I was expecting the picture to show up in the very last scene, not the scene prior...So that surprised me...I loved the end with Sami crying, can't wait for tomorrow..

I just saw that clip on you tube thanks to a LUMI fan...It was really sexy and touching...I loved it!

Young Will was adorable!

I will say the stephanie, chelsea, and nick scenes were kind of out of place...Everytime they showed Stephanie's legs, i wondered if Nick was looking up her dress....And did Stephanie fall out the car???? I couldn't really tell..

Yes he did! and...Yes she did....IDIOT!

I am the opposite of Kirk. I've maybe watched 25 full episodes so far in 2007, and 15 of them were probably in January!

But, yeah, Kev, I will definitely watch! The show has been great all week.

Definitely starting the summer off with a bang! Let's get those college kids hooked now. Ratings, por favor!

Hopefully all those important Nielsen viewers tuned in this week as well, and are getting back into it. Fingers crossed they can maintain this storyline pace and exictment through the summer.

As a Hogan believer from Day 1, I'll just say this...

You didn't let me down.

What a superb episode from start to finish. Can't wait for Thursday.

This is MAY SWEEPS !

God, every episode this week has been amazing but today was just phenomenal. I can't take it anymore.

I just hope this pace and excitement keeps up throughout the rest of sweeps and into the summer.

I LOVED Today's episode. I cannot wait for tomorrow, and to be honest, it's been a long while since ANY soap has left me feeling with such a craving for more. I've been trying to keep away from spoilers as much as I can lately, hoping not knowing what's to come will peak my interest, so I really have no idea what's instore for us tomorrow. I just pray it won't be a let down and we don't get the same story where Sami losses it all. If they all just give her the chance to explain, and not only understand, but accept and commend her for the sacrifice she made, I think I just might begin worshipping the God that is Hogan Sheffer.

I thought the wedding ceremony was underwhelming. I hate when they just say the standard wedding vows. I prefer original vows because it makes the wedding more meaningful, more personal, more intimate.

Here are some examples:

http://www.nbc.com/Days_of_our_Lives/featu...lena_vows.shtml

Marlena and Roman's (John) wedding vows-1986

MARLENA: I love you. I got you back. You have no idea what that means to me, Roman...I believe that to have someone come into your life who you love as fully and completelly as I love you...well, that's rare...and special...and something to be cherished. And, oh, how I cherished what we had. When you were gone I held onto that feeling we had and even though the pain from missing you was unbearable, I felt lucky for having had what we did. Some people never find it. But, us...well, we got a chance to have it twice in a lifetime. And knowing what it's like to be without you, for a day, for a month--actually, for seventeen months, three weeks, and two days, because that's how long I hurt, and my heart ached to be with you--but all of that just makes this time, what happens from this moment on; all the more special. We're more than lucky. We're more than blessed. We've been twice blessed. I love you. I love you.

ROMAN: Doc...circumstances have kinda dealt us a funny hand and there are things from my life, which includes our life... I don't remember. But I remember the first time I saw you--after I came back again. You were in the hospital, working. I had no idea of one thing about my past, but there was still a connection...My heart stopped. You can take a human being and do a lot of things to him, but you cannot take away his love. I love you. It is that simple. A lot of the people here might have thought that all that time you were in the hospital, lying in that bed, that I might have thought I was going to lose you--or that I'd already lost you. I didn't. I couldn't lose you. You're my life. Sweetheart, you're my reason to get up in the moring, for laying down at night. But you know wha t I would do? Every day, I would talk to you. I would watch your children grow, looking for some evidence of you in them. And I would cry, for what we were miss ing...We were meant for each other, Marlena. I'm just so happy that we found each other. I love you.

http://www.nbc.com/Days_of_our_Lives/featu...hope_vows.shtml

Bo and Hope's wedding vows

BO: Hope, I know it's taken us a long time to get here. We even thought at times that we wouldn't. I know I had my doubts. I never thought I could have someone in my life that could make me so happy or make me feel so alive. You know how hard it is for me to tell people how I feel about them, especially people I care about. But today in front of all these people, I have no problem telling you that I love you. I know our lives aren't going to be sunshine and roses from here on in, but I'm going to try my hardest to keep our love alive. We've got something very special here. It's worth fighting for. I love you Hope.

HOPE: Oh, Bo, I fell in love with you the first time I saw you but it's taken all that time to realize that what I felt then is nothing compared to what I feel now. Remember what we said to each other in New Orleans- "True love is the gift which God hath given to man alone beneath the heavens. The silver link, the silver tie, in heart to heart, and mind to mind, in body and in soul can bind '. I was pretty young when i met you and I'd get so mad when you'd call me "Little One". But knowing you and loving you has made me a woman and I am your woman Bo. Standing her in front of all these people, I give you my life and all my love through all eternity. Oh, Bo I love you and I'm so proud to be your wife.

http://www.nbc.com/Days_of_our_Lives/featu...ifer_vows.shtml

Jack and Jennifer's Wedding Vows

("Marriage" aka "The Journey" by Maura Penders, Days Associate Head Writer)

JENNIFER: Now we will feel no rain

For each of us will be shelter to each other.

And now we will feel no cold

For each of us will be warmth to each other.

Now there is no loneliness

We are two bodies, but there is one life before us and one home.

When evening falls, I'll look to you and there you'll be.

And I'll take your hand and you'll take mine

And we'll turn together and we'll look to the road we travelled to reach this--The hour of our happiness.

It stretched far behind us, and our future lies ahead--

A long and winding road where every turning means discovery

All the hopes, new laughter, shared tears,

The adventure has just begun.

JACK: (His letter to Jennifer that he read.)

Dear Jennifer,

In the past few days I've been something that I've rarely been at any other time in my life - silent. But you're at least partly to blame. From the day we met, you've surprised me, challenged me, and engaged me in a way that no other human being ever has. And I've never been able to tell you what that meant to me. But today, of all days, I have to find a way. Before I knew you, I wasn't living. I was waiting. And hoping. Because even though I've lived my life in a cold and souless city - I've always known that somewhere in the heart of it there is a wall and then there is a door. And if you're lucky enough to get inside, you'll be about as close as any of us are going to get to the Garden Of Eden. I know this is gonna sound ridiculous, but I feel that's pretty much where I'm standing right now, sans snake and the apple tree, of course.

My love always,

Jack

http://www.nbc.com/Days_of_our_Lives/featu...ayla_vows.shtml

Steve and Kayla's Vows

First Wedding--July 1988

STEVE: I'm standing here and I still can't believe that I deserve you. I wouldn't be the man I am right now if it wasn't for you. I thought I was brave, but I found out that it takes more courage to open up to another person. I thought I was strong, but you showed me that it takes more strength to let people see your feelings. And I thought I knew how to love, but now I know that it's much harder to let someone love me. That someone is you. You saw into my heart when no one else could and you believed in me. So I'm gonna' spend the rest of my life livin' up to the faith you have in me. I don't have much baby, but what I have is your's. I'm your's. I love you sweetness.

KAYLA: When I was a little girl, I dreamed of loving a man who was brave and strong and true; and a romantic wedding on the water surrounded by the people I love most. I never told that secret dream to anyone, but some how you found out. You gave me that dream. You made it come true. There's just one thing that's different; it's far more wonderful than I ever imagined. I dreamed of being in love, I never dreamed of sharing my soul. I dreamed of sharing my thoughts, but I never dreamed that someone could hear me without words. In my darkest trouble, in my coldest silence; I looked for you and you were there. I am yours forever. I love you.

^^^^

My favourite. I wonder who wrote it.

It's always a bit funny to me how Maura Penders is credited with Jennifer's vows ... I believe she just tweaked an old Apache wedding prayer. And tweaked it well of course, but still.

I lobster love Jennifer's 1st wedding vows to Jack. And I agree, I would have liked to see them be more personalized. It's kind of a Days staple, or was.

I would've loved long vows but I knew we wouldn't get them. This wedding was very unconventional, as I said in my other posts, and we have been down this road so many times with Sami. It was likew reversing the curse by avoiding thr typical things like a veil, groom seeing the bride, and so on. I think most fans are just happy that it happened. The reception seemed to have more emphasis and I feel that the poem Lucas read and what is coming up will fulfill the void left by not having the long vows IMO.

Alight the episode just started..so i'll do some live posting..Holy Crap now thats the way to begin an episode...I was freaking out, as they went back and forth between steve/kayla and the wedding...Great stuff...

I really hope Andre, Ademption, Rick, Kirk, Angela, Nubs, Ridge, Kenny, and King are watching today...its old school Days again..

Yup, I watched, and I loved it. I am starting to feel the old Lumi magic again. The wedding was unique and simple, yet very nice; plus the montage was a great plus.

However, I was indifferent to the Steve/Kayla stuff…and I was praying that Steph ate pavement.