The lineup includes an exuberant weddingcouple (Noa Knoller and Gera Sandler) who turn gloomy when the bride breaks her leg and they spend their honeymoon in an oppressive hotel, and a Filipino caregiver (Ma-nenita De Latorre) who yearns for the son she left behind.
"(Years ago) I would get calls from (engaged couples of different cultural or religious traditions) who were desperate and sad ... and after a ceremony I would secretly hear a family member or maybe the florist say (about the weddingcouple), 'Oh, that's not going to work, ' " Macomb says.