I hadn't thought about this at all for about 20 years until I saw a photograph of the wedding party and its guests on Pinterest in about 2023. Scanning the actors in the shot, I am sure Ed Bryce was present in a suit and tie, which made me exclaim, "Oh! I forgot Bill Bauer popped up at Hope's wedding!"
Was I wrong about the identity of the actor whom I identified as Ed Bryce? Possibly. Was I outright hallucinating? Also possible, ROTFLMAO.😝 But I've always been obsessive about rare references to, or appearances by, beloved characters no loner on the canvas. Mart Hulswit's Ed made a brief reference to Meta during a telephone conversation during the Dobson's tenure, and I zeroed right in on it, just like when Nancy Hughes once answered the phone at the end of an ATWT scene after Rosemary Prinz left, and explained happily, "Penny!" Jim and Mary Matthews talked about getting a postcard from a departed Uncle Dru, after Geoffrey Lumb had been let go from AW. I remember quirky things like this.
If people clearly remembered the wedding, I'd be more likely to accept their thoughts as definitive. I'm not prepared to die on this hill since my own memory is hazy. But folks are going on theories or speculation which are logical to them. This is perfectly valid, and I understand/respect why they believe what they believe, but the nagging feeling, based on my cloudy memory of the wedding and recollection of the picture on Pinterest remain.
Fortunately, this is not a question which will determination the fate of the world!
Like on so many other subjects, posters' variance of opinions and recollections are to be expected.
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